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I've always wanted to do is take flying lessons to
become a pilot. There are just a variety of things
that I would like to try.
"Every day is a new challenge for me," Black
says. "I want to make the right decisions about
things and continue to do what I think is right for
me.".
For Black, making the right decisions about the
future and excelling have never been a problem. For
most of his young life, he has stood in the limelight,
both academically and athletically.
"I learned to read when I was 4 years old and,
since that time, it's never really been unusual for me
to sit down and read a book or study," he says of
the need to nurture his intellectual growth. "I was
like a know-it-all when I was growing up. I always
wanted to know more than other people."
Similarly, Black says he had a desire to outshine
% both his teammates and opponents from the first
day he picked up a football.
"My father bouaht me a football when I was
about 4 or 5 years old," he says. "Since then, I
always loved to play football. My brother (Perrin)
and I would play football together and, on Sundays,
we would sit and watch football all day."
By the time he was 10 years old, Black had begun
to play organized football. His orientation to official
football was with the Tiny Greyhounds in the
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local Pop Warner League. His first team won nine 44
games and lost none and was crowned the local ing
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Two later, Black's team was crowned the sa^.
national champion in Pop Warner football, a feat an
Black says will always remember. But what he neV
remembers most fondly aoout his early years play- I
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441 always liked to dominate," he says. 44Even
when I first started playing, I wanted to be the star ^
and get all of the attention. I guess that sort of car- pre
Tie4^over into my high school years. I felt that, one unj
day, it would help me realize some of my dreams."
Despite his relatively small frame (5-9, 165
pounds) Black had an excellent career in high ov<
school football. As a junior at East Forsyth, he
started in the defensive backfield and at wingback. Prc
Before being injured, Black was a mainstay on the
team that was 7-0 and ranked first in state 4-A com
petition before injuries struck. inj
As a senior, Black continued to improve; up
however, the team stumbled to a 4-5-1 record. Still,
Black started at tailback and snared 15 intercep- wl
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recruited him. But the school Black had wanted to be
attend most never talked to him.
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I had been a Wake Forest fan when I was grow- >
up," he says. t4I always liked them and pulled
them because they were the underdog. We used i
;o see them play when I was little and I used to 1
I wanted to play for them. I got a lot of letters 1
talked to a lot of recruiters," says Black, "but I
er got a letter from Wake Forest." I
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eers, Black had another option: to attend college <
an academic scholarship. Shortly after being ofed
a football scholarship by UNC, he was inmed
that he had won a scholarship from the
stigious Morehead Foundation to enter the
iversity on an academic grant. ^
While Black says accepting the Morehead award
:r a football scholarhip was rewarding in terms
his intellectual growth, it did present its share of
>blems.
"Things got difficult for me after a while at
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(hold and 1 began to feel the pressure.
"Whenever I would be interviewed by someone
lile 1 was there, 1 would always say that 1 didn't
el any pressure," he says. "1 think 1 put pressure
i myself to do better than the standards that had
ten set for me." *
Black also says he had more problems dealing
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vith the athletic department than with academics.
4The people in the athletic department treated
ne differently than they did people that were on
football scholarships," he says. 4They knew that I
wasn't dependent on them for staying in school."
Those problems aside, Black says playing football
at Chapel Hill had its share of rewards.
"My first two years there were the most rewarding,"
he says.44My sophomore season I had six interceptions,
blocked two field goals and had a lot of
other big plays in crucial situations. 1 was pretty
certain that 1 would make the all-ACC team."
Although he wasn't selected to the team, Black
says he felt he should have made it. "I know that I
played well enough to make it," he says. "But
things just didn't work out that way."
Equally as disappointing for Black was the fact
that, after starting as a sophomore and junior, he
was relegated to just being a punt returner his senior
season.
"The coaches made a lot of changes that I didn't
understand," he says. "1 thought 1 was better than
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the secondary get hurt in certain key situations."
Black says his college experience was worthwhile
nevertheless. "I'm proud of the things that I was
able to accomplish," he says. "1 enjoyed myself
and 1 got a good education."
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