Why Ray Rice never stopped chasing his Rutgers diploma: ‘It’s not a redemption story’
Two decades after Ray Rice led Rutgers to its best season ever, the star running back will return to the university to receive his diploma.
Ray Rice made a promise. He told his grandparents, James and Amelia Reed, that he would get his college degree someday. He swore to them that even as he chased his NFL dream, he wouldn’t forget the reason he came to Rutgers in the first place.
That moment has arrived. Exactly 6,692 days after Rice declared for the NFL Draft as a record-setting junior, he will walk across the stage on Tuesday and receive his diploma. The player most responsible for the football program’s ascension will graduate with athletes nearly half his age, and yes, he knows that will lead to more than a few double takes.
Rice took online classes with many of those current Scarlet Knights, and even from the other end of his computer screen, the 39-year-old Super Bowl-winning running back couldn’t exactly keep a low profile. “Listen, I can’t hide. I’m in school, man!
” Rice told NJ. com on Monday afternoon with a laugh. “When the teacher was on a break, I’d hear the guys say things like, ‘Yo, that’s the legend in here, man.
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