Rice, like Golson, was a two-sport star in South Carolina. Their first conversation wasn't so much about football as it was handling the pressures, the attention, the expectations and the disappointments of being a Notre Dame quarterback.īoth seemed to have a handle on it in high school. Rice, who led the Irish to their most recent national title, 26 years ago, had helped Golson before the 2012 season as the latter was ascending toward being the starting QB for UND's run to the national title game. "He's a tremendous runner, tremendous quarterback in his own right," Golson said of Rice. A fleeting thought came to mind about reaching out to former Notre Dame quarterback Tony Rice to get advice on honing his own rudimentary read-option skills. Golson continued to explore his own limits. And by the end of the two weeks, well the sky's the limit." But by the end of the second day, we started getting back into it. "To be honest, there was a lot of rust between us at first. "He has the knowledge and the experience, and he knows this year is a big opportunity. "He knows now it's all about consistency," Golson said of the 6-foot-2, 203-pound senior from Vernon Hills, Illinois. His high ceiling is as tantalizing as the befuddling reasons he only pokes at it intermittently. The latter was readmitted to UND for summer school after academic shortcomings wiped out his spring semester.ĭaniels is Notre Dame's leading returning receiver, and the only player on the Irish roster who's caught more than a single pass in game action from Golson in their respective careers. Everett GolsonHow Golson spent his May "free time" leading up to summer school and the early part of June as summer school began couldn't have fit Kelly's directive any more definitively.Ī native of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Golson, a year removed from his own self-inflicted nightmare brought on by academic misconduct, spent two weeks in the Chicago area reconnecting with deposed wide receiver DaVaris Daniels. The reality of Golson "now" is that a semester full of redemption didn't alter Kelly's public narrative last spring that audacious sophomore Malik Zaire hadn't yet excused himself from the conversation about who the starting quarterback would be in 2014. So I'm aware of that, but it's not my focus. There are guys, Russell Wilson and Johnny Manziel, opening up the gates for quarterbacks like me. You kind of watch the League and how it's transforming and what kind of guys they're looking for. "I'm not going to say I'm oblivious to the NFL. So whether I'm finishing up in two years and going straight into the work force, or I go into the and play 10 or 15 years, I'll be prepared. "So they prepare you for that as much as they can. But plan for if it doesn't," said the 6-foot, now thicker 200-pound Golson, leaning back in a chair in an office right down the hall from UND head coach Brian Kelly's in the Guglielmino Athletics Complex. "At Notre Dame, they teach you that if the happens, fine. It's a flow, almost magical in its expression, paralleling Golson's free-lancing outside the pocket when playing football.Īnd when football ends - and Golson has prepared himself that it might just do so right after college - music will be who he is in some form or fashion, most likely as a music producer. He doesn't pick when the notes arrive, or how they file into his consciousness. This is how inspiration comes to the Notre Dame senior quarterback, whose larger mission is redefining himself every day after a seven-month exile from school, from his team, from his dignity, threatened to do that for him. W ithout warning, without intention, without pragmatic thought,Įverett Golson is suddenly hearing trumpets in his head.
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