Thursday, September 3, 2015

What is the summary of Chapters 8, 9, and 10 of Where Men Win Glory?

Chapter 8 begins with Pat Tillman's incarceration for thirty days after his high school graduation. He was sentenced to serve time because of the fight he was in during his senior year. He also had to finish 250 hours of community service before reporting to Arizona State University (ASU), where he had a scholarship. He missed his girlfriend, Marie, who chose to attend the University of California, Santa Barbara. When the coach told him that he would be redshirted for a year and then stay at college for five years, Pat replied that he would only be at college for four years. While he appeared confident, he was actually very sad about leaving his family and wrote his mother and uncle, Mike, a touching letter thanking them for their help in his transition. Marie says that "he really had these two opposite aspects to his personality" (page 73).
Chapter 9 describes Pat's process of settling in at ASU. His homesickness waned, and Marie visited him once in a while and called him every day. He worked very diligently and eventually achieved a 4.0 GPA; part of the reason he worked so hard was that people assumed football players weren't academically gifted and, in Marie's words, "he liked defying expectations" (page 76). He played on special teams during his first year, and then he came off the bench occasionally in his second year. Pat started the next year, and he played a critical role in an important victory over Nebraska. His team was invited to the Rose Bowl. In the last few minutes of the game, ASU lost to Ohio State, but Pat took the loss in stride.
Chapter 10 describes how an agent named Frank Bauer, scouting another player for the NFL, first saw Pat play and told Pat he could play in the NFL. Pat was able to graduate from ASU after three-and-a-half years by taking summer classes, and then he stayed in Tempe for the draft. In the 1998 draft, he was selected by the Arizona Cardinals, and he played well enough during the exhibition games to start as a safety (transitioning from the position of linebacker that he had played in college).

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