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It's NFL draft weekend, yet Southern California's Adidas Superstar Femme top draft-eligible quarterback will be one of the few fans not watching the marathon ESPN broadcast.
He and his four roommates can't afford cable television.
"I guess I'm not all that curious," Azusa Pacific's John van den Raadt says with a grin.
It's NFL draft weekend, Nike Air Max BW Dames a celebration of football bling, giant players walking across glittering stages in fancy suits, yet this area's best senior quarterback won't be dressing the part.
He doesn't own a suit. He doesn't even own a sports jacket. He shows up for this interview looking the part of a hotshot Nike Roshe Run Dame quarterback with a black Nike T-shirt and black Nike shorts — until you ask about his Nike deal.
"My deal is I bought the shirt for $6 and the shorts for $10 at an outlet store," he says.
No, he's not being drafted. No, he's not even ranked in the top 500 draft-eligible Adidas Zx 700 Dame players in the country. Every draft geek is spending the weekend talking about the importance of picking quarterbacks, yet nobody seems to have any idea about this guy, who is the two-time national NAIA Independent offensive player of the year.
So why is John van den Raadt so darn happy?
"I never wish I was in those other players' shoes," he says. "I'm on a different journey."
On the weekend when the NFL goes about its annual decadent business making millionaires out of college kids who haven't been inside a college classroom in months, perhaps it's refreshing Nike Air Max 2014 Femme to remember that most student-athletes are, indeed, on a different journey.
John van den Raadt is not going to the NFL armed with a million-dollar contract; he's going to a life armed with a valuable degree and the invaluable perspective that four years of collegiate Nike Free 3.0 Homme sports can bring.
"Adversity, sacrifice, getting up at 6 a.m. for workouts that I hated, all those things have made me a better person, and that's made Azusa football worth it," he says.
For the last four years, van den Raadt has not missed a snap while starting 40 consecutive games in an environment that, to him, was every bit as exciting as the one felt by Matt Barkley at USC. On TV this weekend, all of that will seem worth little as the 6-foot-3, 210-pound quarterback will go undrafted and seemingly unwanted.
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