DMN: Gary Patterson on why he isn’t excited about his statue, Trevone Boykin’s growth from December arrest
By Adam Grosbard, Staff Writer
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On how Trevone Boykin is handling coming back from his arrest in late December:
“It’s the same you thing you learn here — Â you can do 100 things right, you do one thing that’s really wrong and then everyone forgets the 100 good things. You can’t forget the guy in the wheelchair he came up to. There’s a lot of things that Trevone’s done that have been unbelievable, let alone graduating in December and then all the thing’s he’s done for TCU on a national level. Hopefully we learned from it, understands that if you do that in real life, not just as a football player whether his career goes on or not, everything that you do people are going to judge you and you’ve got to be able to live up to the things you do on an every day basis. That’s one of the lessons we try to teach here before they’re done. Because it’s not about 18-22, it’s about 22-62. Young people, all of us are going to make mistakes. I make mistakes, everybody makes mistakes. The key is do you learn from it, do you move forward, do you become better because of it? And in his case I’m hoping he learned from it and he gives himself an opportunity to get a chance. Because he’s an unbelievable athlete whether it’s at quarterback or whatever position they want him to play. He’s really got a great football IQ and he’s a tremendous athlete so it would be fun for me to get a chance to watch him play some more.” …
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