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You know I happen to be a little bit
biased for the game of football, and

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I think it's the
greatest game known to man.

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It involves so many people.

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Whether you get in the game or you
don't, whether you're on the scout team,

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whether you're on the ankles,
whether you're bringing water to the guys,

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whether you're a star.

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And what I've always
appreciated about football or

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a great high school environment is
that sometimes you can help make up for

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some of the advantages and some of
the opportunities that a young person didn't

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have.

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And then you really raise it up
another level when you think about Benedictine.

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They embodied the family and the
church and the school and the community.

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Those are all the things
that are what football is about.

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When Benedictine showed up in that
powder blue and white, all of a sudden,

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our throats got a little bit drier.

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Our muscles tightened up a little
bit because we just had that much respect for them.

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They were gonna run the ball
and they were gonna hit cha on defense.

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It was always an incredible game.

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Ray in those games was incredible.

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Benedictine, Ray Williams, Mr.
Football in the state of Ohio this year.

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Thank God I'm just the best like that.

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We had Ray.

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Nobody could lay a hand on him.

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This guy's a freak athlete.

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He could change a game in one play.

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There's one tackle, there's
two tackles, there's a third tackle.

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He almost-

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He did things that nobody
would ever think of on no level.

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He's fast, he's strong, he's physical.

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He's an absolute savage.

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Everything about him, like the
way he played, it was just different.

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We knew he was gonna be a story.

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I never thought and realized
that as a 14 year, 15 year old kid,

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I would form lifelong friendships.

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You know, we were all brothers.

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It was like a brotherhood.

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It doesn't matter where you came from.

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When you stepped into
Benedictine, you guys were all family.

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When you played
Benedictine, you better strap it up,

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because you're gonna get hit.

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Cleveland Benedictine is making
a second straight trip to the finals.

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And this is having a
competition around the city.

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You know who the guys are.

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Raymond over there doing his
thing, you got Bron doing his thing.

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Receiver LeBron James.

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LeBron was recruited by
virtually every school in the country.

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We all knew each other.

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We was high school superstars.

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Yeah!

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And then just to think of
it, about me being 36 right now,

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probably would have
ended up retiring a few years ago.

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You know how you always hear,

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you could throw your
whole life away doing one bad thing.

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And all I could think about is,

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damn, I just threw my whole life away.

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Northeast Ohio, I
think about how we were created.

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Immigrant population, industrial,

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neighborhoods, communities.

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The Benedictines go back to St. Benedict,

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who is a Italian
saint from 480 to 547 AD.

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He founded 12
monasteries, and from those monasteries,

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they spread throughout the world.

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There are only three
monasteries in the states

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that are actually in the
city, and we're one of those three.

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For all these years, it was a
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Slovak neighborhood,

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and it evolved over time.

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Now we are a
predominantly African-American neighborhood.

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As the neighborhood changed,

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it's a possibility of, do we
go where we were originally called for

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to serve the Slovak people?

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Do we stay here to
serve the people that come here?

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So the monks had a big meeting.

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Have the inner city and the suburban kids

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all come together and get educated.

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When other people are walking away,

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they made a
commitment to stay in the city

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and educate those young men.

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You can see the amazing accomplishments

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that people from that school have had.

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You're talking about Rich Paul,

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probably gonna go down as
the most successful sports agent

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in the history of professional sports.

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The Russo brothers who've made
some of the biggest blockbuster films

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in the last 50 years in Hollywood.

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And of course, Najee
Goode, Super Bowl champion.

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A really rich football history.

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Arguably one of the
best NFL coaches in history.

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Chuck Knoll played at Benedictine.

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Without one shred of doubt,

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I would not be a writer
unless I had gone to Benedictine.

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Well I'm John Huddleston,

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class of 2004 from
Benedictine High School.

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Home of champions, the Bengals.

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Kyle Huddleston, Benedictine High School,

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graduating class of 2005.

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Troy Huddleston,
out of the three brothers,

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I'm the youngest of
John, Kyle, and of course myself.

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Me and my brothers had a more
structured life than everybody else.

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We didn't get to
run around and do everything

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that everybody else get to do.

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We had to be at home at a certain
time and all those other things, yeah.

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We always felt like here this
was like an oasis, a haven for kids.

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They could get out of
whatever environment that they were in

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and build an opportunity
for themselves in the future.

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I liked the way it was diverse

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because you had black
kids that were rich and had money.

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And then you had black
kids that came from poverty.

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Same with white
kids, same with any other race.

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Everybody got together
pretty cool and it was a small school,

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so everybody knew
everybody for the most part.

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Everybody was kind of macho,

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but we didn't have the
opportunity to show off our true talents yet.

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Yeah, we weren't
worried about girls' looks.

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We didn't really care about any of that.

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Our main focus was education and sports.

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To me, I firmly
believe high school football

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was one of those testing grounds.

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Five years before that,
we'd won a state championship,

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but the years following
were down years for the program.

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We had to change the
culture back to a winning culture.

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Coach Bortnick, who was
the mastermind behind it all,

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it created an incredible
work ethic from our football team.

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You know, to Coach
Conochan, to Coach Schiavone,

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and Whaley, to Coach Johnson.

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You think of all those guys,

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we all had different
attributes we brought to the table.

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We had a coach of
staff that was very seasoned

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and very direct, to say the least.

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Augie Basso was our coach at
the freshman level by that time.

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He played at Notre Dame for Elmer Layden,

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who was one of the
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And then went on to be probably one
of the greatest high school football coaches

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in the history of this country.

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So by the time we were
freshmen he's in his late 80s...

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This is Augie Bossu.

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This is a living legend.

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And I get here, and what's he doing?

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He's filling up water
bottles and coolers and loading the van.

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And right away it's said,
you know, "this is what you do."

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Nobody is above doing this work.

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He wanted to make a
difference in every student's life.

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And that was a great
lesson for a young coach,

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because that rung in my
ears really my whole coaching career.

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Art Bortnick, the Benedictine coach Ryan.

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He was a blocker for Tony Dorsett.

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We had a new head
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and it was like a new general.

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There was a new sheriff in town.

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Art was very good with that.

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He was very good with managing the team

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and very good with putting us in
position to be successful as coaches,

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as well as the players.

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You know, my dad was a really good coach.

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I could just tell that
it meant more at Benedictine

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than it did anywhere
else that I was a part of

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throughout the time growing up.

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If you want to be
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you're going to be
at every single workout.

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And if you ever miss a workout,

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don't even anticipate
walking on a practice field.

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That's what started the brotherhood.

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The backbone of Benedictine is family

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and picking each
other up and staying together.

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Grew up in Cleveland,
Ohio, 66th and Hough.

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That's where I started playing football.

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Made a kind of little name for myself

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while I was coming up through there.

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Oh, Ray Ray.

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Man, I coached against Ray in Muni.

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Their Muni team beat my team in
the championship at the time, right?

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So I already knew what
I was looking at back then.

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Ray and I was 14.

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I was our last
championship facing each other.

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It's been like a
dogfight since we was about 11, 12.

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It was a natural,
loving, friendly competition.

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And he played defense.

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He played offense.

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He played
quarterback, tailback, linebacker.

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Whatever, it consists of him
playing for him to win that game.

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After that point, I decided
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I fell in love with being a running back

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because, you know,
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you're going to get the ball.

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When Ray came in as a freshman,

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I sat him down with
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And after one practice, Coach Bossu

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said, "Take him right now."

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And I kind of had to pinch myself

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as far as I've been
around a little bit now.

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And I've never seen a talent as
good as I just witnessed right then.

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I will never forget the day
Ray Williams came out of practice.

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So all of us are looking
around like, who is this kid?

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So the coach calls
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we're just going to do a screen pass.

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He caught this pass.

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And he literally bulldozed
every human being in front of him.

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And the second his
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every single one of us were
looking at him like, who is this?

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sophomore year, I
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until like the middle of the season.

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I think we played St.
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with LeBron James.

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He was on the team at the time.

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I ended up getting
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When they gave me a screen, I took an 80.

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And we ended up winning the game.

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Ray was about to
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turned into a wonder dog.

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From there point on, I was getting time

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on both sides of the ball.

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I don't think he even had
the practice if he didn't want to.

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Like, it just came that natural for him.

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Then he'd just come out.

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And he'd just spin on
you, stiff arm you, bring you over.

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Or then he'd come
back and he'd hit you too.

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Anything that
consistent of that sport, he could do.

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Many a time in practice, I would see Ray.

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And you know what?

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I got to get him one time.

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I just have to get him.

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I could never get him.

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He was a elusive.

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And if he hit you,
he could melt your shoes.

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He could knock you naked.

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He could bring it, man.

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We played VASJ.

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And I remember they kicked it off to him.

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And Ray Will takes the
kickoff back for a touchdown.

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So we're like, OK, this is amazing.

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It's typical.

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We're not shocked, but that was awesome.

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So then we give them the ball back.

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They kick off to us again.

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Ray Will takes it back again.

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Ooh.

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So after the second time,
we're like, OK, this is incredible.

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But you could see the
other team, like, they're going nuts.

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Like, why are we even
kicking it in the remote direction

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of this kid?

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So then they do it again.

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He takes it back to
the house for the third time.

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And at this point, I almost want to say,

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like, the other team,
we're fighting each other.

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Like, why are we kicking it
off to this specimen of a human being?

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With his size and
ability, we was like, psh, NFL all day.

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His calfs was like little
bombs or like little golf balls.

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I just remember seeing them.

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I'm like, man, this dude look different.

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And Ray kind of had a big head, too.

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So like, we're going to show it fast and everything,
bro. To be able to cut on a dime like that, slow down your speed,

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and then go speed again, I
was like, Ray a freak of nature.

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Everybody knew Raymond
was getting the ball, you know,

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30, 40 times a game.

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39 touchdowns and
3,000 yards as a junior.

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The best running back in
the history of Northeast Ohio

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is Robert Smith.

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And you heard people
talking that, like, this is Robert

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Smith 2.0. This is Robert Smith 2.0.

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He was like one of my brothers.

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Around all the
time, I'll be at his house.

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He come around mine,
like, we used to be out a lot.

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He kind of thought outside the box.

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And I think that opened up
a window for everyone else around

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to think outside the box.

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A lot of people talk
about Ray returning punts

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or returning kicks on people.

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But John Huddleston
returned as many or more than Ray did.

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Because when they
wouldn't kick it to Ray,

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they would kick it to John.

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And John would take
it to the house as well.

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And also John was an
incredible cornerback, too.

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He was a great defensive back for us.

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He was an outstanding player.

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That first game our
sophomore year, you know,

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we might have had
half of our fans in the stands.

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And then, boy,
after that, it was every week.

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Everyone wanted to
know where Benedict was playing,

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who they were playing.

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After that, the cat was out of the bag.

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There was no secret.

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There was no sneaking up on anybody.

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Ended up going all the
way to the state championship.

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We played Columbus Bishop Watterson.

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Don't want to make excuses for it,

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but we played in a snowstorm.

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And we struggled a little bit in finding

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our footing on that field.

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But that state championship game,

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there was a foot of snow on the ground.

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And the greatest show on
turf, it was like our kryptonite.

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It took away our bread and butter.

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At that state championship game, we

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don't have the proper shoes.

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I know I didn't.

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We playing on turf.

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It's like slushy snow.

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So we get out there,
I don't have no traction.

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None at all the whole game.

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Watterson has a
first down and a Division III

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state championship.

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Even though we lost, I
think it was probably the best thing

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that could have
happened to us at that time,

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because it was best for us to be humbled.

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I did not pose for that fucking picture.

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But the camera found me basically crying

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with a towel over my
face as the final seconds unwind.

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My first big time
experience as a high school athlete

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was crying on the
front end of The Plain Dealer

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because we lost the
state championship game.

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That, in my opinion, fueled everyone

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to come back even stronger.

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We turned the page
because we tasted it like blood.

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We tasted defeat.

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Going into my senior
year, that was one of my goals,

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to win this state
championship, because I made it all the way

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there and then lost.

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When we got into the postseason,

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looked at the freshman roster and anybody

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that we felt that we can
bring up to compete and practice.

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00:16:29,780 --> 00:16:32,157
Well, when we brought up Lorenzo and we

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found out they were
better than the guys that we're

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playing in that position.

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Lorenzo Hunter, he was
the heir apparent to Ray Williams.

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The bar that Ray had set,
with everything he did on the field,

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Lorenzo was that next guy.

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He lived in the practice there.

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And I remember watching
him from eight-year-old all the way

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to his time for him to go to high school.

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And I was able to get
him to come over here with me.

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Lorenzo, when he came up in the playoffs

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and a guy that can
stretch to field at six four

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and as a freshman who
was out running everybody,

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just slinging and
watch those guys go catch it.

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00:17:05,566 --> 00:17:07,651
Lorenzo is another
one of those freak athletes.

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He was like the
first tall, lanky dude I saw,

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00:17:10,946 --> 00:17:11,530
but it was fast.

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00:17:12,656 --> 00:17:15,576
Laffey threw fly,
Lorenzo looked up spotted the ball.

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And as soon as he spotted,
seeing the ball was going over his head,

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00:17:18,579 --> 00:17:20,456
he said, ah, ah, ah, ah.

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00:17:20,539 --> 00:17:23,125
And in like three, four
steps, he caught up to the fly.

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But when he caught
it, he didn't catch it.

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Overhand catch it.

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00:17:26,086 --> 00:17:29,298
He actually caught it
like, uh, I'm like, oh, OK.

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00:17:29,923 --> 00:17:31,425
They fake that inside handoff.

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00:17:32,092 --> 00:17:34,595
And going deep is
Cole looking for Hunter.

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He makes the catch.

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00:17:35,679 --> 00:17:39,600
What a catch by Lorenzo
Hunter for another touchdown.

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00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:44,730
I knew that Lorenzo was
probably going to be one of the best

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players in the nation.

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I'm not even going to say
Ohio because he was just gifted.

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He was a walking ball of
just great, progressive, fun-loving enery.

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He was a happy kid.

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00:17:58,076 --> 00:18:00,204
I mean, he was always smiling.

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00:18:01,413 --> 00:18:03,415
He was great to be
around in the locker room.

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00:18:03,499 --> 00:18:04,917
He was great to be around at school.

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00:18:05,542 --> 00:18:07,169
He was funny in the car rides home.

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He just was a really genuinely great guy.

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00:18:10,380 --> 00:18:12,174
He was joking 24-7.

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00:18:13,175 --> 00:18:15,260
Lorenzo was super willing to learn.

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00:18:15,928 --> 00:18:17,679
He was not a real cocky dude.

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00:18:17,888 --> 00:18:19,181
Like, he knew what he could do.

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00:18:19,723 --> 00:18:22,893
Cool as a fan, like one of the
coolest people you ever want to be around.

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00:18:22,976 --> 00:18:25,020
Didn't have no big head attitude at all.

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00:18:25,854 --> 00:18:27,314
We would play tonk with cards.

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00:18:27,856 --> 00:18:29,316
We were playing for dollars.

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I was so excited
because I had beaten Lorenzo.

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00:18:33,821 --> 00:18:36,281
And I might have took
him the $5 or $6 that he had.

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00:18:36,740 --> 00:18:38,200
We got an opportunity to play again.

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00:18:39,034 --> 00:18:42,454
And he took all my
money, a few dollars I had on me.

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00:18:43,705 --> 00:18:47,626
And when it was over, he
gave me two or three dollars back.

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00:18:48,669 --> 00:18:50,838
Even though you just put me through this,

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00:18:51,255 --> 00:18:53,382
I don't want you to
have to kind of go through that.

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00:18:54,383 --> 00:18:56,927
Ray would often
take Lorenzo to his house.

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00:18:57,219 --> 00:18:59,471
And he'd stay and eat dinner with Ray.

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00:19:00,889 --> 00:19:03,058
Once he became a
sophomore and I was a senior,

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I was there.

380
00:19:04,351 --> 00:19:05,352
I was driving then.

381
00:19:06,186 --> 00:19:07,855
So he was always with me.

382
00:19:08,105 --> 00:19:08,981
Stay down my house.

383
00:19:09,189 --> 00:19:10,399
Go to school from my house.

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00:19:11,942 --> 00:19:13,819
Like a little brother
because I ain't had no little brother.

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00:19:13,902 --> 00:19:14,820
I got two little sisters.

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00:19:16,071 --> 00:19:18,574
Always want to be with the upperclassmen.

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00:19:19,658 --> 00:19:23,620
He always felt like he was
older than the guys he was with.

388
00:19:24,454 --> 00:19:27,791
A lot of us will say
when we got to be of driving age

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00:19:28,083 --> 00:19:30,669
after practice, we would
spend a lot of time together.

390
00:19:31,420 --> 00:19:34,923
Raymond, John Huddleston,
Troy Huddleston, Kyle Huddleston,

391
00:19:35,424 --> 00:19:37,217
Chris Austin, Lorenzo Hunter.

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00:19:37,634 --> 00:19:40,304
Those guys all hung together as a group.

393
00:19:45,392 --> 00:19:48,896
I remember the weeks leading
up to the state championship game.

394
00:19:48,979 --> 00:19:51,064
The school was so in the zone.

395
00:19:51,481 --> 00:19:52,232
That was the mood.

396
00:19:53,108 --> 00:19:55,444
May it to the state
championship again at the Hall of Fame.

397
00:19:57,321 --> 00:19:58,280
It was snowing.

398
00:19:59,406 --> 00:20:00,949
It was a slow paced game.

399
00:20:01,283 --> 00:20:03,160
But I was like, If y'all want to play like this.

400
00:20:03,493 --> 00:20:04,077
We got Ray.

401
00:20:05,621 --> 00:20:11,126
346 carries, 2,700
seven yards, and 38 touchdowns.

402
00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:13,420
Like we're not losing this one.

403
00:20:13,503 --> 00:20:14,630
We lost last year.

404
00:20:14,713 --> 00:20:16,173
We're not falling short this year.

405
00:20:16,256 --> 00:20:16,673
Not at all.

406
00:20:17,299 --> 00:20:19,217
Ray Williams on his way to the end zone.

407
00:20:19,301 --> 00:20:19,760
Touchdown.

408
00:20:22,387 --> 00:20:23,347
To the left side.

409
00:20:23,430 --> 00:20:24,431
Can he get around the corner?

410
00:20:24,514 --> 00:20:25,599
He can get into the end zone.

411
00:20:26,350 --> 00:20:28,810
Ray Williams with his
second touchdown of the game.

412
00:20:29,436 --> 00:20:32,105
And the Benedictine
Bengals take a 12 to nothing lead.

413
00:20:32,731 --> 00:20:33,982
And that will do it.

414
00:20:36,944 --> 00:20:41,365
The Benedictine
Bengals didn't win it last year.

415
00:20:41,448 --> 00:20:44,159
They lost to Columbus
Waters in the state championship game.

416
00:20:44,868 --> 00:20:46,912
But time ticking
out here at Fawcett Stadium

417
00:20:47,204 --> 00:20:49,414
and they have their state championship.

418
00:20:58,173 --> 00:20:59,549
Did we just do that?

419
00:20:59,841 --> 00:21:03,428
Like did we really just
kind of come in and just handle

420
00:21:03,512 --> 00:21:04,054
our business?

421
00:21:05,514 --> 00:21:09,559
I've never felt a
highlight that too as far as football.

422
00:21:10,310 --> 00:21:11,895
To see your parents up there.

423
00:21:12,479 --> 00:21:15,023
Everybody just-- I
can't even describe it.

424
00:21:15,107 --> 00:21:16,024
Like it felt too good.

425
00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:21,029
I was finally awarded
Mr. Football my senior year.

426
00:21:21,989 --> 00:21:23,615
Mr. Football Award.

427
00:21:24,116 --> 00:21:25,993
I want to say it's
almost equivalent to the Heisman

428
00:21:26,076 --> 00:21:26,535
in college.

429
00:21:27,536 --> 00:21:30,080
You're the best of the
best in the whole entire state.

430
00:21:30,163 --> 00:21:31,832
You are the best athlete.

431
00:21:32,624 --> 00:21:35,168
So that's a big deal to be considered

432
00:21:35,877 --> 00:21:38,839
as the top player in this state.

433
00:21:39,965 --> 00:21:41,049
Mr. Ohio football.

434
00:21:42,634 --> 00:21:43,719
Pretty special.

435
00:21:44,469 --> 00:21:48,015
My runner up was my
best friend Ted Ginn Jr.

436
00:21:48,932 --> 00:21:51,268
We got picked to play
in the Army All-American game

437
00:21:51,977 --> 00:21:53,270
down in San Antonio, Texas.

438
00:21:54,229 --> 00:21:57,107
The US Army game
was an amazing experience.

439
00:21:57,524 --> 00:21:59,192
You're talking about the
best of the best in the country.

440
00:22:00,402 --> 00:22:01,069
Teddy Ginn.

441
00:22:03,113 --> 00:22:05,032
Felt like we was the best guys out there.

442
00:22:05,323 --> 00:22:07,701
Kind of making a name for us to us.

443
00:22:08,076 --> 00:22:10,078
College scout could see we
could do something different.

444
00:22:10,579 --> 00:22:12,622
Just having a joy
to have somebody with you

445
00:22:12,956 --> 00:22:14,916
that you really
know, that you call a brother.

446
00:22:15,625 --> 00:22:18,170
Of course, two Cleveland
guys coming from where we come from,

447
00:22:18,837 --> 00:22:21,715
our whole mindset was to go
down here and put on for our city

448
00:22:22,549 --> 00:22:24,217
and also give ourself a shot.

449
00:22:24,843 --> 00:22:26,094
And that's what we did every day.

450
00:22:26,887 --> 00:22:28,055
We get in there, I score.

451
00:22:28,889 --> 00:22:30,973
I come over there, I say, "Hey, bro.

452
00:22:30,974 --> 00:22:31,808
time for you to score."

453
00:22:32,309 --> 00:22:34,102
When he come over,
and that's in his mind,

454
00:22:34,186 --> 00:22:35,228
he like, "Ted scored.

455
00:22:35,562 --> 00:22:36,438
I know I can score."

456
00:22:37,898 --> 00:22:40,859
Ted Ginn Jr. ended up
getting the MVP of that game

457
00:22:40,984 --> 00:22:41,902
and we was runner ups.

458
00:22:42,402 --> 00:22:43,945
They just presented myself.

459
00:22:44,446 --> 00:22:46,323
I was getting letters from everywhere.

460
00:22:46,615 --> 00:22:51,578
West Virginia, Ohio
State, Minnesota, Eastern Michigan,

461
00:22:52,329 --> 00:22:54,206
Miami, Florida State.

462
00:22:54,998 --> 00:22:57,542
It's like everything
you watch on TV in the movies.

463
00:22:58,085 --> 00:22:59,669
Everybody's just
getting offered scholarships.

464
00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:01,880
We were ranked
number one as the best class.

465
00:23:02,422 --> 00:23:05,967
It was unbelievable
to how far we were excelling.

466
00:23:06,676 --> 00:23:11,932
I feel like the future for
me had to be no shorter than NFL.

467
00:23:17,020 --> 00:23:20,232
So I'll never forget that phone call.

468
00:23:22,025 --> 00:23:23,944
So the shock, it was during Easter week.

469
00:23:24,945 --> 00:23:28,615
It's like, whew, the
school wasn't in session at the time.

470
00:23:29,199 --> 00:23:30,659
It was fairly late at night.

471
00:23:30,742 --> 00:23:32,077
Finally got a chance to pull out my phone

472
00:23:32,244 --> 00:23:35,330
and I had tons of missed calls.

473
00:23:35,914 --> 00:23:38,917
And right away, you
know something's not right.

474
00:23:39,459 --> 00:23:43,046
My father-in-law, who
was a very involved alumni,

475
00:23:44,756 --> 00:23:45,632
called me on the weekend.

476
00:23:45,841 --> 00:23:48,593
And I'll never
forget that first words were,

477
00:23:49,511 --> 00:23:50,470
"Are you sitting down?"

478
00:23:51,096 --> 00:23:54,808
And he's called me, and
we've talked many times on the phone,

479
00:23:54,891 --> 00:23:57,060
but I could tell the
seriousness in his voice.

480
00:23:57,144 --> 00:23:58,520
When he asked me if I was sitting down,

481
00:23:59,396 --> 00:24:00,480
I knew something bad happened.

482
00:24:01,565 --> 00:24:04,943
And he said, "Lorenzo has died."

483
00:24:05,277 --> 00:24:07,445
And I went silent.

484
00:24:07,779 --> 00:24:09,156
I didn't know what to say.

485
00:24:09,406 --> 00:24:11,074
I didn't know how to say it.

486
00:24:13,034 --> 00:24:15,036
It's bringing up weird feelings.

487
00:24:15,370 --> 00:24:15,579
Sorry.

488
00:24:17,622 --> 00:24:20,959
And when he said it, I dropped.

489
00:24:21,376 --> 00:24:21,751
I did.

490
00:24:21,835 --> 00:24:22,794
I dropped right to the floor.

491
00:24:23,461 --> 00:24:25,255
It was one of the
hardest things I've ever

492
00:24:25,338 --> 00:24:26,882
had to hear over the phone.

493
00:24:28,550 --> 00:24:30,969
I get the call that
never wanted to hear my life

494
00:24:31,261 --> 00:24:33,680
and it was Lorenzo's mom.

495
00:24:35,307 --> 00:24:40,145
And I hear her just screaming and crying.

496
00:24:41,021 --> 00:24:43,899
And I don't know what's going on.

497
00:24:44,357 --> 00:24:46,860
And all she kept
saying is, you know, he's dead.

498
00:24:48,153 --> 00:24:49,196
They killed my boy.

499
00:24:49,279 --> 00:24:49,863
He's dead.

500
00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:53,950
Then it hit me right
away until I got home and, like,

501
00:24:54,034 --> 00:24:55,619
actually saw it on the news.

502
00:24:55,827 --> 00:24:59,831
I'm like, I think I
cried for like, for days straight.

503
00:25:00,957 --> 00:25:03,460
It's not even
something you could imagine.

504
00:25:04,753 --> 00:25:06,504
I think I was 16 at the time.

505
00:25:07,255 --> 00:25:08,798
Kids don't die when you're 17.

506
00:25:09,716 --> 00:25:11,092
Kids don't die when you're 16.

507
00:25:12,302 --> 00:25:14,262
I didn't just lose a player.

508
00:25:14,346 --> 00:25:16,681
I feel like I lost a son.

509
00:25:17,474 --> 00:25:18,183
A son I never had.

510
00:25:19,684 --> 00:25:21,978
That Monday, we go back to school

511
00:25:22,062 --> 00:25:24,397
after being on
break for a week and a half.

512
00:25:24,898 --> 00:25:25,357
Chaos.

513
00:25:25,982 --> 00:25:27,859
When we came back to
school, it was kind of chaotic

514
00:25:28,193 --> 00:25:33,073
because everybody
wanted to know what happened.

515
00:25:33,448 --> 00:25:35,909
A couple guys that was
there know what really happened.

516
00:25:36,284 --> 00:25:39,579
So they know we're not talking about it.

517
00:25:40,705 --> 00:25:41,998
I remember we had a team meeting.

518
00:25:42,499 --> 00:25:43,541
You know, we weren't sure.

519
00:25:43,917 --> 00:25:45,543
You know, there's a
lot of stories out there.

520
00:25:45,627 --> 00:25:47,879
And then we didn't want to
jump to any type of conclusions.

521
00:25:48,255 --> 00:25:49,297
You used to come here.

522
00:25:50,757 --> 00:25:54,511
And this is your outlet to
get away from all your problems.

523
00:25:55,971 --> 00:25:57,472
Not all problems are here.

524
00:25:58,515 --> 00:26:01,935
You can already tell
the student body is just flat.

525
00:26:02,394 --> 00:26:06,064
There's just this
somber feeling in the hallways.

526
00:26:06,898 --> 00:26:09,192
And you know,
there's kids talking about this,

527
00:26:09,276 --> 00:26:10,193
and kids talking about that.

528
00:26:10,277 --> 00:26:11,444
Nobody really knows the truth.

529
00:26:11,736 --> 00:26:12,320
Our friend's dead.

530
00:26:12,821 --> 00:26:15,657
But no one really knows how or why.

531
00:26:16,157 --> 00:26:18,952
We still didn't really
know what happened over the weekend.

532
00:26:19,577 --> 00:26:22,122
And then things start to trickle out.

533
00:26:22,956 --> 00:26:27,335
Found out that Ray was
there and John Huddleston was there.

534
00:26:27,919 --> 00:26:29,212
They really wasn't saying anything

535
00:26:29,296 --> 00:26:31,006
because I was trying to talk to them.

536
00:26:31,131 --> 00:26:33,967
But they really
didn't want to talk to nobody.

537
00:26:34,301 --> 00:26:37,679
And I think for a lot of
us who grew up in the suburbs,

538
00:26:38,054 --> 00:26:41,182
and our families really didn't understand

539
00:26:41,558 --> 00:26:42,475
what we were going through.

540
00:26:47,063 --> 00:26:52,651
That night was a night of a lot of bad

541
00:26:52,652 --> 00:26:53,737
decisions.

542
00:27:03,246 --> 00:27:04,706
How do I see the story?

543
00:27:06,416 --> 00:27:07,417
For one, we were just kids.

544
00:27:11,463 --> 00:27:12,839
After winning the state championship,

545
00:27:13,048 --> 00:27:14,090
you know, we kind of feel--

546
00:27:14,966 --> 00:27:15,967
We were in the limelight.

547
00:27:20,388 --> 00:27:23,516
We decided that this
was what we was going to do.

548
00:27:24,059 --> 00:27:27,812
Go out here and rob some people.

549
00:27:32,108 --> 00:27:36,654
The idea came about to
try to rob one of the guys that

550
00:27:36,738 --> 00:27:38,323
was kind of known to
be a drug dealer over there.

551
00:27:38,573 --> 00:27:39,616
He's going to have some money.

552
00:27:39,699 --> 00:27:42,911
And it could be easy, however it may be.

553
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:43,745
Hell no.

554
00:27:44,287 --> 00:27:44,871
Like, no.

555
00:27:44,954 --> 00:27:46,206
First of all, we know this person.

556
00:27:46,581 --> 00:27:47,290
We grew up together.

557
00:27:47,749 --> 00:27:48,875
You know, he was a childhood friend.

558
00:27:49,542 --> 00:27:51,461
I think we were
just trying to play a role

559
00:27:51,544 --> 00:27:54,047
to act as if we was
somebody we really ain't.

560
00:27:54,422 --> 00:27:55,423
Try to talk him out of it.

561
00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:56,758
I'm like, aw, don't do this.

562
00:27:56,925 --> 00:27:58,218
Lorenzo, it was not a good idea.

563
00:28:01,554 --> 00:28:04,349
Lorenzo got the car,
and I get out the car with him.

564
00:28:04,891 --> 00:28:06,059
Ray's already on the other side.

565
00:28:07,143 --> 00:28:08,395
I said, I'm coming with you.

566
00:28:08,978 --> 00:28:10,939
And he looked at me,
and he was like, Chris, go back.

567
00:28:11,898 --> 00:28:13,733
He said, he looked at me,
and he said, no, I'll just go back.

568
00:28:14,526 --> 00:28:15,276
He said, I got it.

569
00:28:15,693 --> 00:28:16,277
I'm good.

570
00:28:16,611 --> 00:28:17,320
We're going to be good.

571
00:28:19,239 --> 00:28:20,573
And I walk back to the car.

572
00:28:21,449 --> 00:28:23,201
Me and Ray, you know
what I'm saying, jump the fence.

573
00:28:23,284 --> 00:28:24,452
We're like sitting in the yard.

574
00:28:24,536 --> 00:28:26,538
We're like seven, eight houses up.

575
00:28:27,372 --> 00:28:28,665
I can see Lorenzo,
you know what I'm saying?

576
00:28:28,748 --> 00:28:30,375
Like, he walk into
the car, driver's side.

577
00:28:34,087 --> 00:28:35,463
He up on the car
now, you know what I'm saying?

578
00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:37,424
But you see him,
but you don't see anything

579
00:28:37,507 --> 00:28:38,091
that's taking place.

580
00:28:39,384 --> 00:28:41,219
When he reached for
the car door to open the door,

581
00:28:43,304 --> 00:28:45,223
the guy had a gun on his lap.

582
00:28:53,815 --> 00:28:55,524
At this time, I knew he possibly

583
00:28:55,525 --> 00:28:57,610
can't be shooting at
me, because I'm out to clear.

584
00:29:07,662 --> 00:29:08,955
His car scared off.

585
00:29:09,873 --> 00:29:12,041
I come out the
backyard, go back over there

586
00:29:12,417 --> 00:29:13,793
to see Lorenzo on the street.

587
00:29:14,294 --> 00:29:16,296
He was dead right there on the scene,

588
00:29:19,966 --> 00:29:26,931
which was unbelievable
for me being an 18-year-old guy,

589
00:29:27,265 --> 00:29:30,185
actually seeing this with somebody

590
00:29:30,268 --> 00:29:31,686
that I call my little brother.

591
00:29:33,855 --> 00:29:35,231
Scariest moment in my life.

592
00:29:36,983 --> 00:29:37,817
I don't know what to do.

593
00:29:39,569 --> 00:29:43,573
So I leave John there,
I'm getting the car, go home.

594
00:29:44,908 --> 00:29:46,743
Pulling the driveway, I'm in the house,

595
00:29:46,826 --> 00:29:48,912
I'm like freaking out, panicking.

596
00:29:49,162 --> 00:29:50,079
I don't know what to do.

597
00:29:50,872 --> 00:29:55,627
We pulled off and drove
away, went and parked in our driveway,

598
00:29:55,710 --> 00:29:56,419
sat there.

599
00:29:59,172 --> 00:30:03,176
Finally, my
brother called me, and he said,

600
00:30:03,259 --> 00:30:04,844
"Somebody's laying in
the middle of the street."

601
00:30:06,012 --> 00:30:06,471
I know he went
over there, but he was like,

602
00:30:06,554 --> 00:30:09,224
"I know who went over
there, and I'm talking to him."

603
00:30:09,766 --> 00:30:10,934
So it was either Lorenzo or Ray.

604
00:30:11,476 --> 00:30:14,354
I knew what happened,
because considering Lorenzo

605
00:30:14,437 --> 00:30:18,107
didn't have a real gun,
and I kind of knew the person

606
00:30:18,191 --> 00:30:19,359
that we're dealing with.

607
00:30:19,442 --> 00:30:21,486
Like at that moment, I
felt like my heart dropped.

608
00:30:22,070 --> 00:30:24,072
So by this time Ray go back over there,

609
00:30:24,781 --> 00:30:26,074
them saying, "I'm
about to go over there."

610
00:30:26,449 --> 00:30:28,785
I don't know what time
it is, it's later on at night.

611
00:30:28,868 --> 00:30:30,203
By this time, it's
like my mother pulling up.

612
00:30:30,453 --> 00:30:31,246
And she's like, "Where you about to go?"

613
00:30:31,329 --> 00:30:32,038
I'm like, "I'm around the corner.

614
00:30:32,121 --> 00:30:33,498
Lorenzo got shot." She was like,

615
00:30:33,581 --> 00:30:34,415
"Just get in the car."

616
00:30:34,916 --> 00:30:36,251
So she pull up, they been saying,

617
00:30:36,334 --> 00:30:38,044
"Lorenzo is laying on
the street, Ray holding."

618
00:30:38,545 --> 00:30:41,005
When he seen me get
out, he like shocked, scared,

619
00:30:41,089 --> 00:30:42,507
which I feel like
anybody would be in that situation.

620
00:30:43,383 --> 00:30:45,593
And it's sad because
after I heard them shots,

621
00:30:46,302 --> 00:30:50,431
those saved my life,
because I could've been any one of us,

622
00:30:50,515 --> 00:30:51,975
but at the same time, I feel like this.

623
00:30:54,102 --> 00:30:55,979
Maybe if I was
there, we both could've got out.

624
00:30:57,313 --> 00:31:01,192
That's when reality kicked in.

625
00:31:02,193 --> 00:31:05,655
That's when life turned
to a whole new ball game for us.

626
00:31:07,282 --> 00:31:09,659
Not knowing what to
do, we all laid in the car

627
00:31:10,285 --> 00:31:11,786
and just sat there for a second.

628
00:31:13,371 --> 00:31:14,205
We see lights.

629
00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:19,043
And I'm just thinking, "Oh shit."

630
00:31:20,336 --> 00:31:22,046
So we look over in the next yard,

631
00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:24,340
it just cops flowing.

632
00:31:25,592 --> 00:31:28,386
Guns out, lights on
the guns, it's just moving.

633
00:31:31,222 --> 00:31:32,431
I think it was, Kyle that told me

634
00:31:32,432 --> 00:31:33,933
like lean, everybody leaned back.

635
00:31:35,602 --> 00:31:36,894
We ducked down in the car.

636
00:31:37,645 --> 00:31:42,650
They had the police, I
think they forced themselves

637
00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:46,446
in the neighbor's house,
thinking that we were in there.

638
00:31:46,779 --> 00:31:48,364
And they got them out of the house.

639
00:31:49,574 --> 00:31:52,952
And then they told
the police that our house

640
00:31:53,036 --> 00:31:53,578
was next door.

641
00:31:54,495 --> 00:31:57,040
And they came and opened the cars up,

642
00:31:57,248 --> 00:32:00,293
and grabbed a side
of the car, at gunpoint.

643
00:32:01,210 --> 00:32:02,879
And they just yelling, cussing this out.

644
00:32:03,838 --> 00:32:05,340
"Where's John? Where's John?"

645
00:32:06,215 --> 00:32:07,300
That's when they told us, like,

646
00:32:07,383 --> 00:32:09,344
"Hey, well, yeah, your friend's dead."

647
00:32:10,637 --> 00:32:14,098
And at that moment,
it kind of just, you know,

648
00:32:15,850 --> 00:32:16,434
I didn't know what to do.

649
00:32:17,352 --> 00:32:18,603
I know we messed up.

650
00:32:19,312 --> 00:32:19,979
We had messed up.

651
00:32:21,147 --> 00:32:22,106
And asking us questions,

652
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:23,900
I don't know if it was bad cop, good cop,

653
00:32:24,150 --> 00:32:25,401
but this is when I was in the car.

654
00:32:25,860 --> 00:32:26,569
I was by myself.

655
00:32:27,153 --> 00:32:28,196
You guys like to shoot at people?

656
00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:29,697
I said, "I'm not shooting at anybody."

657
00:32:32,241 --> 00:32:34,786
So the squad car he was in,

658
00:32:34,869 --> 00:32:38,414
he literally drove around all crazy. He parked

659
00:32:38,998 --> 00:32:42,043
to where I could see
Lorenzo's body, sitting on the street.

660
00:32:44,003 --> 00:32:45,588
And the officer said this,

661
00:32:46,464 --> 00:32:47,340
said, "You see your friend?"

662
00:32:48,174 --> 00:32:48,966
Said, "That's your friend?"

663
00:32:49,050 --> 00:32:49,801
Said, "Yeah, that's my friend."

664
00:32:51,594 --> 00:32:53,930
You see his
motherfucking brain spatter over the ground?

665
00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:00,978
Not something I
wanted to hear at 14 years old.

666
00:33:02,063 --> 00:33:03,481
And I didn't even think that was even,

667
00:33:03,564 --> 00:33:04,273
now being an adult,

668
00:33:05,149 --> 00:33:07,402
I would never talk to
nobody like that in that situation.

669
00:33:07,777 --> 00:33:08,986
That shit wasn't cool.

670
00:33:10,738 --> 00:33:14,200
And I could just remember
seeing blood all over the street.

671
00:33:15,410 --> 00:33:17,120
And all this cop just kept saying was,

672
00:33:17,203 --> 00:33:18,663
"You see your
motherfucking brain spatter,

673
00:33:18,746 --> 00:33:19,914
his brain just spattered on the ground.

674
00:33:19,997 --> 00:33:21,957
You guys want to do dumb
shit and this and that and that

675
00:33:21,958 --> 00:33:22,667
and this?"

676
00:33:23,459 --> 00:33:24,919
"That's why your friend's dead now."

677
00:33:26,504 --> 00:33:27,338
Sick to on my stomach.

678
00:33:28,339 --> 00:33:29,173
They pulled off.

679
00:33:30,091 --> 00:33:31,467
And I remember I
was just trying my hardest

680
00:33:31,551 --> 00:33:32,760
just to get that last look.

681
00:33:34,804 --> 00:33:36,055
Just to hope like,

682
00:33:37,348 --> 00:33:38,015
see him move.

683
00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:42,979
And they took us to the Homicide Unit.

684
00:33:43,563 --> 00:33:47,233
And that's when I met up
with the rest of everybody else.

685
00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:50,403
I think it was 10
hours they questioned us.

686
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:52,947
Trying to figure out what's taking place.

687
00:33:54,407 --> 00:33:56,784
And we hadn't told them the truth.

688
00:33:58,119 --> 00:33:58,994
Man, you better tell us something.

689
00:33:58,995 --> 00:33:59,828
You know what I'm saying?

690
00:33:59,829 --> 00:34:00,621
Or your brother's going down.

691
00:34:01,205 --> 00:34:02,331
We didn't know what we were doing.

692
00:34:04,041 --> 00:34:07,587
We didn't understand
completely the repercussions of it.

693
00:34:08,671 --> 00:34:11,466
Everybody that was with
us know what really happened.

694
00:34:12,508 --> 00:34:14,385
But we didn't have
no contact with each other

695
00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:15,219
none at night.

696
00:34:16,345 --> 00:34:17,972
Ended up going back
to my grandmother's house.

697
00:34:20,016 --> 00:34:24,896
And I think I
cried for two days straight.

698
00:34:25,396 --> 00:34:26,564
I just sat in my room and cried.

699
00:34:27,815 --> 00:34:30,109
I still cry every time
his birthday coming around.

700
00:34:31,778 --> 00:34:33,738
Because I know what we could have been.

701
00:34:36,365 --> 00:34:39,368
Ray and John was
already shaping the future for us.

702
00:34:40,661 --> 00:34:42,872
And if we never
would have did that night,

703
00:34:44,081 --> 00:34:45,541
we wouldn't even be
having this conversation.

704
00:34:46,334 --> 00:34:47,919
We'd probably be
somewhere on the beach right now.

705
00:34:49,378 --> 00:34:51,297
You know, you realize
that not only did we leave

706
00:34:51,380 --> 00:34:54,717
Lorenzo that night, we
left that whole group of guys.

707
00:34:55,092 --> 00:35:00,473
The Raymond, Troy, Kyle, John, Chris.

708
00:35:02,058 --> 00:35:05,728
Their lives changed in a
matter of minutes in one night.

709
00:35:06,687 --> 00:35:08,064
In just one night.

710
00:35:10,316 --> 00:35:11,901
So many different factors I feel.

711
00:35:13,152 --> 00:35:17,240
And it's truly
hard to pinpoint as to why.

712
00:35:18,157 --> 00:35:21,327
I've racked my brain
trying to figure out why.

713
00:35:24,330 --> 00:35:25,498
And I still don't have an answer.

714
00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:28,417
I felt bad for my parents, yeah,

715
00:35:28,543 --> 00:35:31,546
because they gotta
take all the backlash for that.

716
00:35:33,005 --> 00:35:34,924
They had no idea what was going on.

717
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:36,843
It could have been us.

718
00:35:37,510 --> 00:35:38,761
It could have easily could have been us.

719
00:35:39,762 --> 00:35:42,473
I could have been riding
the car with some of my friends.

720
00:35:42,765 --> 00:35:44,183
Like, well, that's
what we about to go do.

721
00:35:44,809 --> 00:35:46,561
We could have been
easily influenced to do whatever.

722
00:35:48,437 --> 00:35:52,191
Because we didn't know
that being a pro is in front of us.

723
00:35:53,150 --> 00:35:55,528
Different pressures are going to create

724
00:35:55,611 --> 00:35:56,404
different situations.

725
00:35:56,821 --> 00:35:59,407
And we just hope that
everything we've tried to do

726
00:35:59,490 --> 00:36:01,909
is going to be
effective when it counts the most.

727
00:36:03,578 --> 00:36:07,331
For me, it's thinking
that Lorenzo really wasn't coming

728
00:36:07,415 --> 00:36:08,624
back at the funeral.

729
00:36:11,919 --> 00:36:13,336
And I never forget the funeral, Bro

730
00:36:13,337 --> 00:36:14,337
like walking in and seeing him

731
00:36:14,338 --> 00:36:18,551
was just like. Going
back and thinking about it.

732
00:36:19,302 --> 00:36:21,053
And just like now having kids, bro.

733
00:36:21,137 --> 00:36:22,388
And just understanding the opportunity

734
00:36:22,471 --> 00:36:24,682
that like life happens so fast.

735
00:36:26,017 --> 00:36:31,188
The hell of a pivot for
young boys to go through.

736
00:36:32,190 --> 00:36:33,357
That was the first day where I truly

737
00:36:33,441 --> 00:36:34,525
probably became a man.

738
00:36:35,651 --> 00:36:39,238
Because I realized
that life wasn't something

739
00:36:39,322 --> 00:36:41,991
that's just a given anymore.

740
00:36:42,867 --> 00:36:45,077
To me, you know, every
time I've been to a funeral,

741
00:36:45,286 --> 00:36:47,580
it's your morning, the loss of a life.

742
00:36:48,122 --> 00:36:50,666
For Lorenzo's, it
was a celebration of life.

743
00:36:50,750 --> 00:36:51,918
It was a little different for me.

744
00:36:54,378 --> 00:36:55,588
So I had a hard time.

745
00:36:55,838 --> 00:36:57,548
I broke down, I was crying,

746
00:36:57,882 --> 00:36:59,759
and had a hard time keeping it together.

747
00:37:01,010 --> 00:37:02,970
But to me, I thought that was okay

748
00:37:03,054 --> 00:37:04,639
because then it was okay for the kids.

749
00:37:07,141 --> 00:37:09,936
Sometimes you feel
like you failed as a coach.

750
00:37:11,979 --> 00:37:15,274
When something
like this happens, you know,

751
00:37:17,234 --> 00:37:19,904
I didn't know he was
involved in things like that.

752
00:37:19,987 --> 00:37:23,950
And sometimes the
environment is more powerful

753
00:37:24,033 --> 00:37:26,702
than your words.

754
00:37:27,203 --> 00:37:30,414
And I have a hard time with that.

755
00:37:32,166 --> 00:37:33,042
I always have.

756
00:37:34,418 --> 00:37:35,419
Were we too hard?

757
00:37:36,337 --> 00:37:37,380
Should we have been harder?

758
00:37:38,631 --> 00:37:43,803
What could we have done
to prevent this from happening?

759
00:37:44,553 --> 00:37:45,680
Something like this.

760
00:37:46,639 --> 00:37:47,848
Lorenzo has a younger brother.

761
00:37:48,683 --> 00:37:49,934
And I remember his younger brother

762
00:37:51,268 --> 00:37:52,436
going up to his casket,

763
00:37:54,438 --> 00:37:55,272
kissing on the forehead.

764
00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:59,485
I broke down and
started crying right in there,

765
00:37:59,944 --> 00:38:01,529
like a bawling right there.

766
00:38:01,612 --> 00:38:02,905
I think that's when I was able to like ta,

767
00:38:03,489 --> 00:38:04,615
I couldn't hold him no more.

768
00:38:04,699 --> 00:38:06,117
I guess it's better way to put it.

769
00:38:06,575 --> 00:38:07,702
Seeing him doing that and knowing

770
00:38:07,785 --> 00:38:08,869
that he lost his brother,

771
00:38:09,662 --> 00:38:11,914
and I still had mine,
you know, we were all there.

772
00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:15,209
I still can hear his mom crying.

773
00:38:16,377 --> 00:38:17,336
When they had his casket out

774
00:38:17,420 --> 00:38:21,674
and everybody looked
dispersed and left, she didn't leave.

775
00:38:25,177 --> 00:38:27,930
Not only was it gonna be
the hardest day of our lives,

776
00:38:28,306 --> 00:38:31,017
but the rooms floating
around that Lorenzo's family

777
00:38:31,517 --> 00:38:32,184
were out for blood.

778
00:38:33,352 --> 00:38:34,061
They were out for Ray.

779
00:38:35,563 --> 00:38:37,064
Why is he not at the funeral?

780
00:38:37,606 --> 00:38:40,359
And that's when I
was like, what is going on?

781
00:38:40,776 --> 00:38:43,029
Now, none of this makes sense.

782
00:38:43,529 --> 00:38:47,074
It's gonna be some
type of retaliation about that.

783
00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:49,076
And like, if you know how these dudes is

784
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:49,952
out here in the streets,

785
00:38:50,494 --> 00:38:51,704
they don't care about no funeral.

786
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,166
So if I could catch
you wherever I'ma catch you,

787
00:38:55,249 --> 00:38:56,459
like that's what it's gonna be.

788
00:38:56,542 --> 00:38:57,668
And that's how Cleveland is.

789
00:38:58,127 --> 00:39:00,087
So we not knowing what's going on.

790
00:39:00,171 --> 00:39:02,214
We like, we got our heads on the swivel,

791
00:39:02,423 --> 00:39:04,175
like anything could go down here.

792
00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:07,970
So you got some people
there packing pistols, guns.

793
00:39:09,055 --> 00:39:10,765
Everybody is gotta be aware

794
00:39:10,848 --> 00:39:12,224
cause you don't know what might happen.

795
00:39:12,558 --> 00:39:14,393
And a funeral should not be like that.

796
00:39:14,727 --> 00:39:15,603
That's not normal.

797
00:39:17,021 --> 00:39:21,942
I know for a fact
that immediate family hated me.

798
00:39:22,359 --> 00:39:25,696
Cause they felt like
I persuaded him to do that.

799
00:39:25,946 --> 00:39:26,989
I made him do it.

800
00:39:28,324 --> 00:39:30,284
Well, we gonna find out who did it

801
00:39:30,367 --> 00:39:33,078
and whoever did it is gonna pay dearly

802
00:39:33,079 --> 00:39:34,204
for it.

803
00:39:34,205 --> 00:39:35,706
My son was murdered.

804
00:39:37,375 --> 00:39:40,544
My family and my
lawyers that I had at the time,

805
00:39:40,628 --> 00:39:43,214
we came to the conclusion
that I wouldn't be able to go,

806
00:39:43,297 --> 00:39:45,341
which was really messed up for me.

807
00:39:45,424 --> 00:39:47,927
Cause then my last time
seeing him was in the street.

808
00:39:48,135 --> 00:39:51,806
So I didn't get to see
him at the funeral, nothing.

809
00:39:52,890 --> 00:39:54,892
Because if something
would have happened at there,

810
00:39:54,975 --> 00:39:57,686
I know he probably would
have been turned in his grave.

811
00:40:01,941 --> 00:40:02,858
That happened on the weekends.

812
00:40:03,067 --> 00:40:04,360
So we went to school that Monday.

813
00:40:05,611 --> 00:40:07,905
It's in the school now that he gone.

814
00:40:08,864 --> 00:40:10,407
So people not knowing what happened,

815
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:15,162
all they know is
Lorenzo was gone and you were there.

816
00:40:16,205 --> 00:40:19,125
So now you're the bad guy.

817
00:40:20,501 --> 00:40:23,254
So I said, going to school
is like you have a leprosy almost.

818
00:40:23,921 --> 00:40:26,841
We put on a mask
when we came back to school

819
00:40:27,633 --> 00:40:30,219
and walked around
like everything was okay.

820
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,555
We couldn't even
look each other in the eyes

821
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:33,764
cause we knew what happened.

822
00:40:34,390 --> 00:40:37,560
And to see everyone
around us just grieving,

823
00:40:39,812 --> 00:40:40,396
that was tough.

824
00:40:41,564 --> 00:40:42,773
Eventually throughout the day,

825
00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:47,069
the detectives come
to the school to question us.

826
00:40:47,570 --> 00:40:49,113
Walked right into the class

827
00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:51,657
and arrested Ray and John on the spot.

828
00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:53,909
They were taken out in handcuffs.

829
00:40:54,201 --> 00:40:55,703
It's kind of mind
blowing cause you're just like, what?

830
00:40:57,079 --> 00:40:59,039
I mean, we sort of knew it was coming,

831
00:40:59,540 --> 00:41:00,958
but I, it crushed me though.

832
00:41:02,668 --> 00:41:04,587
Like damn, my
homeboy is about to go to jail.

833
00:41:04,795 --> 00:41:06,422
And then you ain't
knowing for like how long

834
00:41:06,505 --> 00:41:07,590
they going to jail for.

835
00:41:08,424 --> 00:41:11,635
I was more so scared for
my brother more than anything.

836
00:41:11,844 --> 00:41:12,761
Damn, they got my brother.

837
00:41:13,304 --> 00:41:14,597
Like what's next?

838
00:41:15,389 --> 00:41:17,600
So with John and Ray being 18 at the time

839
00:41:17,683 --> 00:41:20,853
and we were 14, 15, me and Troy.

840
00:41:21,562 --> 00:41:25,649
And I think Kyle was
16 going on 17 at the time.

841
00:41:25,733 --> 00:41:27,943
It made him in 17
and they couldn't charge us

842
00:41:28,027 --> 00:41:28,736
cause we were minors.

843
00:41:28,819 --> 00:41:30,279
So them being 18, they charged them

844
00:41:30,362 --> 00:41:31,197
cause they were their adults.

845
00:41:31,780 --> 00:41:34,533
Come to find out
the night that it happened,

846
00:41:35,326 --> 00:41:39,872
one of the neighbors
seen me and John out there

847
00:41:40,706 --> 00:41:42,041
before all the police came.

848
00:41:42,374 --> 00:41:43,959
So eventually once they got in there,

849
00:41:44,043 --> 00:41:47,713
we ended up having to
tell a real story of what happened.

850
00:42:03,771 --> 00:42:05,272
We wasn't the best of friends, you know,

851
00:42:05,356 --> 00:42:07,650
me and John and his
brother and stuff like that.

852
00:42:07,733 --> 00:42:09,193
But like we was
cool, you know what I'm saying?

853
00:42:09,276 --> 00:42:11,237
We wasn't kicking it all like that,

854
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,364
but we played basketball together.

855
00:42:13,822 --> 00:42:15,241
I couldn't believe it was them though.

856
00:42:15,699 --> 00:42:18,327
That's because it ain't seem like,

857
00:42:18,661 --> 00:42:20,120
like they would do something like that.

858
00:42:22,414 --> 00:42:25,458
Well of our life was a
whole different roller coaster

859
00:42:25,459 --> 00:42:26,293
from that point.

860
00:42:27,253 --> 00:42:30,756
18 years old and they
threatening you to 18 to life.

861
00:42:31,632 --> 00:42:34,385
I ain't really even live my life yet.

862
00:42:35,636 --> 00:42:38,012
When I tell you now

863
00:42:38,013 --> 00:42:41,016
that they begged the other two not to do it

864
00:42:41,809 --> 00:42:43,352
Ah um.
- does that change anything?

865
00:42:44,019 --> 00:42:45,354
Wow!

866
00:42:45,771 --> 00:42:47,439
Yeah, I didn't know that.

867
00:42:48,190 --> 00:42:51,360
My first time hearing that
and thank you for telling me that

868
00:42:52,069 --> 00:42:55,781
cause you know, for a long, a long time,

869
00:42:55,864 --> 00:42:56,907
I was just like, you know,

870
00:42:58,075 --> 00:42:59,576
why was they targeting me and stuff?

871
00:43:00,911 --> 00:43:06,625
So to hear that, it's
a, you know, it's a relief.

872
00:43:08,460 --> 00:43:10,504
Door's closed and people turn they back.

873
00:43:11,463 --> 00:43:14,717
West Virginia, where I had
my mind set on going to college

874
00:43:14,842 --> 00:43:16,635
at felt that they didn't want to deal

875
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:17,761
with all that attention.

876
00:43:19,263 --> 00:43:21,890
We went to visit them
in jail and talked to them

877
00:43:21,974 --> 00:43:24,601
and just, we were ministering, you know,

878
00:43:24,810 --> 00:43:26,353
to be there for them as well.

879
00:43:27,062 --> 00:43:30,691
Besides being for
Lorenzo's family and, you know,

880
00:43:30,774 --> 00:43:34,320
his family's
experience and the service, et cetera.

881
00:43:35,070 --> 00:43:39,658
There's no playbook
for how to deal with tragedy.

882
00:43:40,826 --> 00:43:43,746
And, you know, we had to
feel our way through the situation

883
00:43:44,121 --> 00:43:46,957
when it happened
because people from the outside

884
00:43:47,541 --> 00:43:49,209
who still didn't understand Benedictine,

885
00:43:49,293 --> 00:43:52,004
we had to lean on
that brotherhood even more so.

886
00:43:53,047 --> 00:43:56,258
Ray was this close and
the streets are still undefeated.

887
00:43:58,552 --> 00:44:00,429
Everybody want to be that gangster

888
00:44:00,512 --> 00:44:02,222
or that drug
dealer or whatever like that.

889
00:44:02,723 --> 00:44:05,017
I wish I made better choices also.

890
00:44:05,976 --> 00:44:10,689
Like, my youngest
son is the same age he was

891
00:44:11,398 --> 00:44:12,358
when it happened, you know,

892
00:44:12,858 --> 00:44:15,819
and I try to stay on my
son, you know, as much as possible.

893
00:44:18,530 --> 00:44:25,162
Um, you know, a lot of,

894
00:44:33,587 --> 00:44:39,218
a lot of choices we made
in our life is because, you know,

895
00:44:40,511 --> 00:44:41,595
Excuse me. Give me a second.

896
00:44:48,602 --> 00:44:52,688
You know, a
lot of choices we make in our life

897
00:44:52,689 --> 00:44:56,151
is because, you
know, we run to the streets.

898
00:44:58,737 --> 00:45:02,908
Just out there doing
dumb stuff, smoking, drinking,

899
00:45:03,742 --> 00:45:04,868
selling drugs, robbing.

900
00:45:06,870 --> 00:45:10,916
So like, a mother could do but so much.

901
00:45:13,377 --> 00:45:16,004
So, maybe that has
something to do with it also.

902
00:45:17,089 --> 00:45:20,217
Went and got a
lawyer and I turned myself in.

903
00:45:21,885 --> 00:45:24,805
People that were
friends or family or riding,

904
00:45:25,389 --> 00:45:28,058
you know, they didn't much care for us.

905
00:45:28,517 --> 00:45:31,603
Some people came around,
you know, flashing their pistols.

906
00:45:32,312 --> 00:45:34,773
People riding on the
street, spitting on the ground,

907
00:45:34,982 --> 00:45:36,442
like they gonna do something to us

908
00:45:36,525 --> 00:45:39,236
and a lot of mugging and a
lot of this and a lot of that.

909
00:45:39,987 --> 00:45:42,406
I'm not even a big fan of guns.

910
00:45:43,323 --> 00:45:44,700
It makes people feel super powered.

911
00:45:45,826 --> 00:45:49,746
And I end up buying
a firearm just for safety.

912
00:45:50,456 --> 00:45:51,999
At 15 years old,
there was no where I can go

913
00:45:52,082 --> 00:45:52,541
without a gun.

914
00:45:53,375 --> 00:45:54,168
My parents didn't know.

915
00:45:55,127 --> 00:45:58,088
I walked, rode bikes, I had a gun on me.

916
00:45:58,505 --> 00:46:01,967
Just knowing that people
felt some type of way about us.

917
00:46:02,468 --> 00:46:05,971
You know, and it was, what can I do?

918
00:46:06,555 --> 00:46:08,849
You know, I can't
let somebody come kill me.

919
00:46:09,808 --> 00:46:11,268
When I would take
some of those guys home,

920
00:46:11,810 --> 00:46:15,689
there would be people
standing out in the neighborhood

921
00:46:16,231 --> 00:46:17,441
and they would have guns on them.

922
00:46:17,524 --> 00:46:20,611
And I would drive up, you
know, scared to death in my SUV.

923
00:46:21,153 --> 00:46:22,738
And they would look
at me and they would say,

924
00:46:22,821 --> 00:46:23,655
"Hey, are you coach?"

925
00:46:24,156 --> 00:46:25,532
And I was like, "Yeah, I'm their coach."

926
00:46:25,741 --> 00:46:27,326
And they're like, "All right, good."

927
00:46:28,952 --> 00:46:32,206
People were highly
upset at what had taken place.

928
00:46:32,831 --> 00:46:34,208
And they wanna hold somebody accountable.

929
00:46:36,084 --> 00:46:39,838
I can still
remember the really mean things

930
00:46:39,922 --> 00:46:42,633
that people would say online.

931
00:46:43,008 --> 00:46:44,968
And this wouldn't happen at St. Ignatius.

932
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,346
This wouldn't happen at St. Ed's.

933
00:46:48,305 --> 00:46:50,390
Well, what do you mean it
wouldn't happen at St. Ed's,

934
00:46:50,474 --> 00:46:51,058
St. Ignatius?

935
00:46:51,767 --> 00:46:52,684
You know what I mean.

936
00:46:53,393 --> 00:46:55,771
You can't build a successful program

937
00:46:56,188 --> 00:46:57,773
with kids like that.

938
00:46:57,856 --> 00:46:58,690
Well, kids like what?

939
00:46:59,525 --> 00:47:00,400
Kids like what?

940
00:47:00,984 --> 00:47:01,735
Tell me.

941
00:47:02,402 --> 00:47:03,320
I think I know what you mean,

942
00:47:03,570 --> 00:47:05,155
but are you saying
it's because we have black kids?

943
00:47:06,073 --> 00:47:07,407
You know, we became a target.

944
00:47:07,783 --> 00:47:10,452
News stations were changing our logo

945
00:47:10,661 --> 00:47:13,038
from being the home of
champions to the home of criminals.

946
00:47:13,747 --> 00:47:16,959
There was handcuffs
put over our school crest,

947
00:47:17,042 --> 00:47:17,709
our school logo.

948
00:47:18,502 --> 00:47:19,920
You know, the thing that hurt the most

949
00:47:20,254 --> 00:47:23,006
was some of the things
that local folks were saying

950
00:47:23,090 --> 00:47:23,840
about the school.

951
00:47:24,383 --> 00:47:25,842
And it, frankly, it pissed me off

952
00:47:25,926 --> 00:47:29,429
because of all the
good that Benedictine had done

953
00:47:29,596 --> 00:47:30,931
over the years in that city

954
00:47:31,223 --> 00:47:33,559
and the impact that
it had made in the community.

955
00:47:34,101 --> 00:47:36,937
To have that
happen, for people to do that,

956
00:47:37,145 --> 00:47:37,980
it was outrageous.

957
00:47:39,106 --> 00:47:41,191
The comments and the
questions for some people were,

958
00:47:41,525 --> 00:47:42,401
you know, how can you go there?

959
00:47:42,484 --> 00:47:43,860
They just had this major tragedy

960
00:47:43,944 --> 00:47:45,696
and it's not a safe school.

961
00:47:46,446 --> 00:47:48,198
Oh, you guys want to state
championship with the murderer.

962
00:47:48,782 --> 00:47:49,866
Oh yeah, you guys kill people.

963
00:47:50,117 --> 00:47:50,826
Yeah, real cool.

964
00:47:51,076 --> 00:47:53,787
But I took pride in working here

965
00:47:53,870 --> 00:47:56,832
and I took pride in
being a part of this school.

966
00:47:57,416 --> 00:47:59,251
You're in Catholic schools growing up.

967
00:48:00,586 --> 00:48:01,962
There's this guy who would come around

968
00:48:02,045 --> 00:48:03,338
and try to sell magazines.

969
00:48:04,047 --> 00:48:06,925
This guy, I see him at a baseball game.

970
00:48:07,384 --> 00:48:09,595
He looks right at me as a 17 year old kid

971
00:48:09,678 --> 00:48:11,513
and he sees that I'm
wearing a Benedictine hat

972
00:48:11,597 --> 00:48:13,015
and he goes, "Do you play football?"

973
00:48:13,265 --> 00:48:16,018
I go, "Yes, sir. State Champions, right?"

974
00:48:17,102 --> 00:48:17,644
Proud.

975
00:48:18,270 --> 00:48:19,980
He looks at me and goes,

976
00:48:20,355 --> 00:48:21,398
"Hey, I heard you guys are running

977
00:48:21,481 --> 00:48:23,150
"the run and shoot offense next year."

978
00:48:26,445 --> 00:48:27,112
You're an adult.

979
00:48:28,447 --> 00:48:29,448
You know what happened.

980
00:48:30,907 --> 00:48:32,409
You know that I just lost a friend

981
00:48:32,659 --> 00:48:35,120
and have lost two more.

982
00:48:35,579 --> 00:48:37,039
You know, their lives are taken away.

983
00:48:38,373 --> 00:48:39,875
And you're making a fucking joke

984
00:48:40,751 --> 00:48:41,877
about a kid being dead

985
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,671
to get laughs by a
couple of your other drunk buddies.

986
00:48:45,964 --> 00:48:49,718
It's one of those
things I'll never forget.

987
00:48:50,344 --> 00:48:54,306
For me, being the
only black coach on staff,

988
00:48:54,931 --> 00:48:56,683
there was some things said about me.

989
00:48:56,767 --> 00:48:59,227
Some things said from other black coaches

990
00:48:59,311 --> 00:49:00,103
from other schools.

991
00:49:00,729 --> 00:49:04,232
You know, I didn't hug the kids enough.

992
00:49:04,775 --> 00:49:06,193
Where was I when this happened?

993
00:49:06,943 --> 00:49:09,571
You know, like I could have just

994
00:49:11,031 --> 00:49:13,992
been there for every
minute, every hour of their day.

995
00:49:14,660 --> 00:49:15,911
Then my parents came and talked to me.

996
00:49:15,994 --> 00:49:17,162
I had the opportunity to move to Memphis.

997
00:49:17,829 --> 00:49:19,498
I was supposed to
move to Memphis with my cousin

998
00:49:19,748 --> 00:49:20,540
and get away from all that

999
00:49:20,624 --> 00:49:22,042
and start school over down there.

1000
00:49:22,417 --> 00:49:23,293
But it was just like,

1001
00:49:23,377 --> 00:49:26,004
I just couldn't see
myself leaving everybody.

1002
00:49:27,130 --> 00:49:29,216
Granted everything happened was terrible.

1003
00:49:29,966 --> 00:49:31,760
We all are supposed to
go do this together, you know.

1004
00:49:32,511 --> 00:49:33,804
We'll do what we always do,

1005
00:49:34,429 --> 00:49:36,848
which is go back to
work and prove you wrong.

1006
00:49:39,184 --> 00:49:41,144
I remember splashing in the paper,

1007
00:49:41,228 --> 00:49:41,978
boom, front page.

1008
00:49:42,729 --> 00:49:43,689
Ray and John was on the paper.

1009
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:46,108
The trial.

1010
00:49:47,401 --> 00:49:49,403
Just knowing that
he could be sent to prison

1011
00:49:49,820 --> 00:49:52,239
and to see my
brother go away and sit down

1012
00:49:52,447 --> 00:49:54,533
for playing a part in something,

1013
00:49:55,033 --> 00:49:57,160
that we all played a part in, you know,

1014
00:49:57,244 --> 00:49:58,495
it was kind of hectic.

1015
00:49:59,246 --> 00:50:00,914
John and Ray, they had their arraignment

1016
00:50:00,997 --> 00:50:03,583
at the same time, with the same judge.

1017
00:50:04,876 --> 00:50:06,336
Well, who's your judge?

1018
00:50:07,254 --> 00:50:09,798
I'm like ah Saffold,
you know what I'm saying?

1019
00:50:10,090 --> 00:50:12,050
Everybody, everybody I said that to was,

1020
00:50:12,134 --> 00:50:13,009
"Oh, we gonna pray for you."

1021
00:50:13,093 --> 00:50:13,844
You know what I'm saying?

1022
00:50:14,469 --> 00:50:15,262
Because word is,

1023
00:50:15,345 --> 00:50:17,472
she was known to like, "Saint people."

1024
00:50:18,098 --> 00:50:19,850
From what we were being told, you know,

1025
00:50:19,933 --> 00:50:21,518
she was pretty strict.

1026
00:50:22,102 --> 00:50:23,895
When that judge was assigned a case,

1027
00:50:24,020 --> 00:50:25,063
the writing was on the wall.

1028
00:50:25,439 --> 00:50:28,483
This isn't gonna go the
way that our heart wants it to.

1029
00:50:29,443 --> 00:50:32,612
So as an 18 year old, hearing 18 to life,

1030
00:50:33,363 --> 00:50:36,283
knowing that I got Shirley
Strickland Saffold as my judge,

1031
00:50:36,658 --> 00:50:39,494
you can almost
think where my mind was at.

1032
00:50:40,871 --> 00:50:44,166
You know, the rep that
she has in Cleveland, Ohio,

1033
00:50:44,541 --> 00:50:45,709
she sent people to jail.

1034
00:50:47,335 --> 00:50:48,712
I'm aware of my reputation.

1035
00:50:49,254 --> 00:50:51,131
No nonsense, fair trial,

1036
00:50:52,215 --> 00:50:54,259
but tough old sentencing.

1037
00:50:55,010 --> 00:50:56,511
Even if I don't believe in it,

1038
00:50:56,595 --> 00:50:57,804
I will enforce the law.

1039
00:50:58,054 --> 00:50:58,680
That's my oath.

1040
00:50:59,639 --> 00:51:01,641
I think that I'm lenient a lot,

1041
00:51:02,434 --> 00:51:04,269
but most people would not agree.

1042
00:51:05,312 --> 00:51:08,940
Their fate, you
know, it was singed sealed.

1043
00:51:09,608 --> 00:51:11,359
So you gonna give us a judge that's known

1044
00:51:11,610 --> 00:51:13,820
to throwing the book at people?

1045
00:51:14,196 --> 00:51:18,283
The charges were
different type of robberies, murder.

1046
00:51:19,117 --> 00:51:20,827
Ray and John were
charged with felony murder.

1047
00:51:21,536 --> 00:51:24,498
If you are participating in an action

1048
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:29,503
and a death occurs, then
you are responsible for the death

1049
00:51:29,586 --> 00:51:32,714
because of your
unlawful participation in that act.

1050
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:35,550
You know, when you look at the case

1051
00:51:35,842 --> 00:51:39,179
and you listen to the
facts and you do the paperwork

1052
00:51:39,471 --> 00:51:42,724
and you listen to the
arguments on the various motions,

1053
00:51:42,808 --> 00:51:46,686
of course, he was a
prime candidate for prison.

1054
00:51:47,103 --> 00:51:47,854
Both of them were.

1055
00:51:51,608 --> 00:51:53,401
Mr. Football was gone

1056
00:51:53,610 --> 00:51:56,321
and there was no one
else in the program like him.

1057
00:51:56,822 --> 00:51:59,699
We didn't have a shot to
win a game according to the press,

1058
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,285
the naysayers and the public.

1059
00:52:02,869 --> 00:52:05,789
Even some of the alumni
didn't give us enough chances

1060
00:52:05,872 --> 00:52:06,540
to win that year.

1061
00:52:06,748 --> 00:52:07,541
We didn't have a shot.

1062
00:52:09,876 --> 00:52:12,087
Regardless of this last
year that happened, you know,

1063
00:52:12,796 --> 00:52:14,339
we still here, we still got each other,

1064
00:52:14,422 --> 00:52:15,423
we still need each other.

1065
00:52:15,507 --> 00:52:16,716
So if we gonna make this work,

1066
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:18,468
then we gotta get our shit together.

1067
00:52:19,928 --> 00:52:22,222
So week one, we played St. Ignatius.

1068
00:52:22,848 --> 00:52:24,891
I remember that during pregame,

1069
00:52:25,892 --> 00:52:27,686
huge thunderstorm started.

1070
00:52:28,270 --> 00:52:30,730
They put us all
back into the locker rooms

1071
00:52:30,814 --> 00:52:33,733
and Coach Bortnick calls us all together

1072
00:52:34,109 --> 00:52:37,237
and gotta come up with
a second pregame speech now.

1073
00:52:38,321 --> 00:52:41,199
Art wasn't a huge pregame speech guy,

1074
00:52:41,741 --> 00:52:45,287
but I remember him
saying something along the lines of,

1075
00:52:45,996 --> 00:52:49,416
you know, we owe it for one more person

1076
00:52:49,499 --> 00:52:50,709
and he pointed up to the sky.

1077
00:52:52,419 --> 00:52:54,421
Anybody could have ran
through a brick wall that day.

1078
00:52:55,589 --> 00:52:57,841
I mean, I remember
walking out of that locker room

1079
00:52:57,924 --> 00:52:59,634
with tears running down my face

1080
00:52:59,759 --> 00:53:02,345
and that was my
major takeaway from that game.

1081
00:53:03,179 --> 00:53:03,930
You know, for me,

1082
00:53:04,764 --> 00:53:06,516
walking out of that
locker room for the second time,

1083
00:53:06,933 --> 00:53:09,769
I was, it's like I
had Lorenzo's hand in my hand.

1084
00:53:10,312 --> 00:53:14,983
It's a reflection of
how much we had to go through.

1085
00:53:15,901 --> 00:53:18,737
Lorenzo was still in
our mind and in our hearts.

1086
00:53:19,279 --> 00:53:22,032
We were getting
ourselves as best as we could

1087
00:53:22,115 --> 00:53:25,410
to get back to the
flow, back to practice,

1088
00:53:25,493 --> 00:53:29,289
back to everything that we needed to do.

1089
00:53:29,456 --> 00:53:32,083
53 to six, the
Bengals lost to St. Ignatius.

1090
00:53:32,584 --> 00:53:34,210
That first game under our belt

1091
00:53:35,003 --> 00:53:36,922
and not having much success

1092
00:53:38,006 --> 00:53:41,426
kind of helped in
putting our players back

1093
00:53:41,593 --> 00:53:47,223
into a state of mind that
we got ourselves back flowing.

1094
00:53:48,016 --> 00:53:49,559
We went through so many months there

1095
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:55,857
of just the sadness and
the horror of losing that teammate

1096
00:53:56,524 --> 00:54:00,362
and not having
Lorenzo around. For a lot of us,

1097
00:54:01,863 --> 00:54:03,490
we didn't want to relive it.

1098
00:54:03,782 --> 00:54:05,700
We never discussed it the whole year.

1099
00:54:06,076 --> 00:54:07,994
We didn't discuss it to the players

1100
00:54:08,620 --> 00:54:10,622
and we did not
discuss it as a coaching staff.

1101
00:54:11,206 --> 00:54:14,751
That game became
almost like a release for us.

1102
00:54:15,251 --> 00:54:18,380
We could put
everything behind us and just go play.

1103
00:54:19,798 --> 00:54:22,175
Right after of that game,
we went on a winning streak.

1104
00:54:22,926 --> 00:54:24,970
We got back in stride
almost like we were that team

1105
00:54:25,053 --> 00:54:25,637
the year before.

1106
00:54:26,972 --> 00:54:28,974
Closer we got to the end of the season

1107
00:54:29,057 --> 00:54:30,475
where we knew it was gonna be a playoff,

1108
00:54:31,059 --> 00:54:33,520
the more the noise
kind of backed off, you know,

1109
00:54:33,603 --> 00:54:34,938
and then you didn't hear it as much.

1110
00:54:35,939 --> 00:54:38,108
Having to deal
with being in the playoffs,

1111
00:54:39,150 --> 00:54:41,528
my brother on trial, it was a struggle.

1112
00:54:41,736 --> 00:54:43,780
Then still having to
do with school, school work,

1113
00:54:44,489 --> 00:54:46,241
still dealing with
people in the community

1114
00:54:46,324 --> 00:54:48,326
in the neighborhood, it was stressful.

1115
00:54:48,827 --> 00:54:50,829
Nobody could support them
properly except their teammates.

1116
00:54:51,204 --> 00:54:53,081
It's one thing for a
coach to tell you coach speak,

1117
00:54:53,331 --> 00:54:55,458
but the way that the players bonded

1118
00:54:55,542 --> 00:54:56,793
and everybody came together.

1119
00:54:57,085 --> 00:54:59,671
You know, the year before,
if it was the Ray Williams show,

1120
00:54:59,879 --> 00:55:03,008
that next year was
team effort, all hands on deck.

1121
00:55:13,768 --> 00:55:15,061
We had our first few arrangements.

1122
00:55:15,812 --> 00:55:17,814
Judge, she's like,
"Oh, I see Mr. Huddleston,

1123
00:55:17,897 --> 00:55:18,690
I see Mr. Williams."

1124
00:55:18,773 --> 00:55:20,191
She was like, "Well,
where's the other person?"

1125
00:55:20,275 --> 00:55:21,776
And they was like,
"Oh, we gave him probation."

1126
00:55:23,319 --> 00:55:25,530
Mr. Roberts, I'm gonna
place you under the supervision

1127
00:55:25,613 --> 00:55:28,283
of the County Probation
Department for a period of two years.

1128
00:55:29,743 --> 00:55:31,870
She was like, "So
you gave the drug dealer

1129
00:55:32,037 --> 00:55:33,872
who shot on
probation, but you want me to,"

1130
00:55:33,955 --> 00:55:35,457
and him saying, "Railroll done."

1131
00:55:36,041 --> 00:55:39,711
As I watched the case
and listened to the development

1132
00:55:40,003 --> 00:55:42,922
of the case, I began to think,

1133
00:55:43,256 --> 00:55:44,549
what was their involvement?

1134
00:55:45,133 --> 00:55:47,761
And, you know, was
this like kids not thinking,

1135
00:55:48,178 --> 00:55:49,929
not seeing things to their conclusion?

1136
00:55:50,889 --> 00:55:55,643
And I remember that Huddleston's father

1137
00:55:56,227 --> 00:55:57,771
gave a very positive light.

1138
00:55:58,271 --> 00:56:00,065
So then I started
looking at them differently.

1139
00:56:01,399 --> 00:56:03,943
So, Sentencing Day
comes and everybody's bracing

1140
00:56:04,110 --> 00:56:07,530
for the worst, waiting
to see what's going to happen,

1141
00:56:07,781 --> 00:56:09,866
hoping for the
best, praying for the best,

1142
00:56:10,241 --> 00:56:11,076
and then it happens.

1143
00:56:12,202 --> 00:56:14,996
There were tears and
cheers as Judge Shirley Saffold

1144
00:56:15,163 --> 00:56:17,165
announced her
sentence, five months probation

1145
00:56:17,457 --> 00:56:20,418
and a $1,000 fine
for both Raymond Williams

1146
00:56:20,502 --> 00:56:21,544
and John Huddleston.

1147
00:56:23,254 --> 00:56:25,173
Damn, y'all gotta be kidding me.

1148
00:56:25,256 --> 00:56:26,299
This was super big.

1149
00:56:26,758 --> 00:56:29,594
If they got all this believe
in me, I ain't letting them down.

1150
00:56:30,678 --> 00:56:32,597
It didn't make sense to send them to prison

1151
00:56:32,806 --> 00:56:36,976
because I kept saying, what
did they do that caused the death?

1152
00:56:37,268 --> 00:56:40,313
Other than they were
going out to rob a dope dealer

1153
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:42,232
and what did they do?

1154
00:56:42,315 --> 00:56:44,984
Did they do anything
themselves in furtherance

1155
00:56:45,068 --> 00:56:48,780
of killing this
young kid who was their friend?

1156
00:56:49,656 --> 00:56:52,242
And I was gonna let them go to college,

1157
00:56:53,118 --> 00:56:54,828
but if they didn't act right in college,

1158
00:56:55,453 --> 00:56:56,621
I would send them to prison.

1159
00:56:57,831 --> 00:57:01,126
She ain't known for
doing what she did for us.

1160
00:57:02,210 --> 00:57:05,839
I kinda felt that she
kinda understood what had happened.

1161
00:57:06,673 --> 00:57:09,843
A lot of people might've
thought like, oh, you're older,

1162
00:57:09,926 --> 00:57:11,761
you guys knew what
you guys were getting into,

1163
00:57:11,845 --> 00:57:13,471
but not really.

1164
00:57:13,972 --> 00:57:15,473
I know there was
some things that all of us

1165
00:57:15,557 --> 00:57:17,183
had to get through, you know, the family,

1166
00:57:17,851 --> 00:57:19,853
but at least that we'd be
able to get through them together.

1167
00:57:21,688 --> 00:57:23,690
I definitely salute Judge Saffold

1168
00:57:23,773 --> 00:57:26,943
for just being, understanding.

1169
00:57:27,318 --> 00:57:28,153
Were all just good young man,

1170
00:57:28,236 --> 00:57:29,988
that just made
stupid decisions that night.

1171
00:57:31,030 --> 00:57:34,784
My guess would be
that the Judge in Ray's case,

1172
00:57:35,243 --> 00:57:37,203
she came to the
conclusion that, you know what,

1173
00:57:37,579 --> 00:57:39,497
this young man deserves a chance.

1174
00:57:40,415 --> 00:57:43,543
And really in life, all
any of us can ask for is a chance.

1175
00:57:45,336 --> 00:57:49,549
People had a very
personal interest in Raymond

1176
00:57:50,425 --> 00:57:51,134
to go to prison.

1177
00:57:51,926 --> 00:57:55,722
The prosecutor on this
case, he quit the office after,

1178
00:57:55,805 --> 00:57:58,766
I'm telling you,
this guy got really ticked.

1179
00:57:59,392 --> 00:57:59,976
He quit.

1180
00:58:00,727 --> 00:58:02,562
And went to another prosecutor's office.

1181
00:58:03,354 --> 00:58:06,232
He was angry about what happened.

1182
00:58:07,775 --> 00:58:08,484
Outraged.

1183
00:58:16,201 --> 00:58:18,661
But I think that we're all human beings.

1184
00:58:19,245 --> 00:58:21,289
And you know, we
come in and we say to juries,

1185
00:58:21,915 --> 00:58:24,459
we just want you
to be fair and impartial.

1186
00:58:25,043 --> 00:58:27,712
But everybody brings with
them the baggage of their life

1187
00:58:27,921 --> 00:58:29,088
and their life experiences.

1188
00:58:29,881 --> 00:58:31,758
And, you can't
make a decision without that.

1189
00:58:32,217 --> 00:58:33,760
I think because he was Mr. Football,

1190
00:58:34,093 --> 00:58:37,972
and I think because his
status, he was the scapegoat.

1191
00:58:38,389 --> 00:58:39,515
Raymond never pulled a trigger.

1192
00:58:40,058 --> 00:58:41,559
He never pointed a gun at that guy.

1193
00:58:42,435 --> 00:58:44,395
He never was the one
involved with that person.

1194
00:58:46,439 --> 00:58:48,733
When Judge Saffold
gave my brother probation,

1195
00:58:50,401 --> 00:58:51,069
it was a relief.

1196
00:58:52,195 --> 00:58:53,196
We got to get back to business.

1197
00:58:54,072 --> 00:58:56,783
And I think after
that, it was just like, you know,

1198
00:58:56,866 --> 00:58:58,910
it did take a lot
of shit off my shoulder.

1199
00:58:59,327 --> 00:59:00,662
That put a fire up under me.

1200
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:02,997
And I'm sure it did
for a lot of other people.

1201
00:59:03,206 --> 00:59:05,500
So it was like, the
minute I strapped this stuff on

1202
00:59:05,583 --> 00:59:08,253
and put these colors on, it's showtime.

1203
00:59:09,671 --> 00:59:11,589
And Troy came to life.

1204
00:59:12,507 --> 00:59:13,841
Kyle was off the chain.

1205
00:59:14,342 --> 00:59:16,552
Kyle used to throw
offensive linemen down the line.

1206
00:59:17,470 --> 00:59:19,055
Literally throw them down the line.

1207
00:59:19,138 --> 00:59:19,806
I remember seeing it.

1208
00:59:20,598 --> 00:59:23,059
Before we even know it,
we're back at the Pro Football Hall of Fame

1209
00:59:23,142 --> 00:59:25,061
playing in the state
championship for a third year in a row.

1210
00:59:30,191 --> 00:59:31,359
I don't think I slept that night.

1211
00:59:31,609 --> 00:59:33,486
I don't think I slept the
night before the championship.

1212
00:59:34,028 --> 00:59:36,572
I was so anxious
and so like, I didn't know,

1213
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:38,032
I didn't know how to feel.

1214
00:59:38,449 --> 00:59:39,909
After everything we just overcame,

1215
00:59:40,576 --> 00:59:41,869
I'll be damned if y'all couldn't beat us.

1216
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:44,205
You know, like, it's
just, it's not gonna happen.

1217
00:59:45,290 --> 00:59:46,082
It was calm.

1218
00:59:46,874 --> 00:59:47,709
It was focused.

1219
00:59:48,167 --> 00:59:49,168
It was a good environment.

1220
00:59:49,419 --> 00:59:51,838
You know, there
wasn't a lot of overreacting.

1221
00:59:52,046 --> 00:59:54,340
There wasn't a lot of wasted energy.

1222
00:59:56,301 --> 00:59:59,178
I'll never forget
the captains walked out early

1223
00:59:59,262 --> 01:00:01,347
before the game to meet with the referees

1224
01:00:01,431 --> 01:00:03,182
and get ready for the coin flip

1225
01:00:03,266 --> 01:00:06,686
and Ray's standing
right outside of the locker room.

1226
01:00:08,229 --> 01:00:10,565
Honestly, I wasn't
even expecting the coaches

1227
01:00:10,648 --> 01:00:13,359
and the faculty and
the staff to let John and Ray

1228
01:00:13,443 --> 01:00:13,943
on the sideline.

1229
01:00:15,445 --> 01:00:18,865
When I pulled up to that
stadium and got out that car,

1230
01:00:19,574 --> 01:00:21,033
I can remember me telling myself,

1231
01:00:21,034 --> 01:00:22,076
"Have a clear head on."

1232
01:00:23,578 --> 01:00:26,122
I know I can remember my
mom kept telling me just like,

1233
01:00:26,205 --> 01:00:28,499
"If you expect
somebody to say something to you,

1234
01:00:29,792 --> 01:00:32,003
"then they don't,
don't take it the wrong way."

1235
01:00:33,004 --> 01:00:35,548
So when I got out,
the car got into the arena

1236
01:00:35,631 --> 01:00:38,384
and I didn't know who was
gonna speak to me and who wasn't.

1237
01:00:38,885 --> 01:00:40,720
I hadn't spoke to
nobody in the whole year.

1238
01:00:42,263 --> 01:00:44,932
And of course, you
know, I seen the dirty looks

1239
01:00:45,058 --> 01:00:48,186
and the whispers
and all that type of stuff,

1240
01:00:48,269 --> 01:00:50,480
but didn't really pay no attention.

1241
01:00:51,314 --> 01:00:54,150
It's still like that
we're gonna welcome you in

1242
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:55,193
because you know what I'm saying?

1243
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:57,236
Like you were part of
this, but at the same time,

1244
01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:58,279
we gotta follow a certain type of rule

1245
01:00:58,363 --> 01:01:01,866
and I respect that, but
it's just like, I appreciate it.

1246
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:03,868
A lot of emotions and a lot of things

1247
01:01:03,951 --> 01:01:07,288
running through your head,
what to do, what not to do.

1248
01:01:08,081 --> 01:01:09,457
And you know, we all embraced them

1249
01:01:09,707 --> 01:01:11,918
and I think he just wanted us to know

1250
01:01:12,001 --> 01:01:13,920
that he was there with us.

1251
01:01:14,587 --> 01:01:17,131
As Catholics, we're told to forgive

1252
01:01:17,632 --> 01:01:19,717
and I'd make sure that those guys knew

1253
01:01:19,801 --> 01:01:23,054
that there's no
anger, there's no animosity.

1254
01:01:23,971 --> 01:01:26,224
I was there to see
the guys that were up under me

1255
01:01:26,307 --> 01:01:29,185
win the state
championship, so that's what I kept it as.

1256
01:01:29,602 --> 01:01:31,312
All I wanted to do
was just see y'all win.

1257
01:01:32,939 --> 01:01:34,357
I feel like every time I touch that ball,

1258
01:01:34,816 --> 01:01:37,819
somebody gotta pay, you
know, somebody gonna feel it.

1259
01:01:38,361 --> 01:01:39,654
Troy Huddleston on the move,

1260
01:01:39,737 --> 01:01:41,823
Troy Huddleston is
going to go all the way.

1261
01:01:43,533 --> 01:01:45,952
33 yards in the
touchdown for Troy Huddleston.

1262
01:01:46,661 --> 01:01:48,371
I put that in my
mind, like if I touch it,

1263
01:01:48,454 --> 01:01:50,039
because I didn't
expect to get that many touches

1264
01:01:50,123 --> 01:01:51,624
that game, I didn't.

1265
01:01:52,166 --> 01:01:55,336
Troy has put on a show at
the running back spot, hasn't he?

1266
01:01:55,878 --> 01:01:56,504
Special player.

1267
01:01:58,339 --> 01:02:00,258
We ran the same type
of offense that we had ran

1268
01:02:00,341 --> 01:02:02,468
for the 44 games leading up to that

1269
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,721
and we were on a
mission to make a statement.

1270
01:02:06,848 --> 01:02:10,435
We had a brother that
transitioned over to the next life.

1271
01:02:10,810 --> 01:02:12,270
We're gonna use that in his name

1272
01:02:12,562 --> 01:02:14,439
and we're gonna win
a state championship, amen.

1273
01:02:16,190 --> 01:02:19,861
The Benedictine
Bengals, overcoming tragedy

1274
01:02:19,944 --> 01:02:23,072
in their program,
fighting adversity all season long.

1275
01:02:23,364 --> 01:02:25,408
Defend their state title in Division III.

1276
01:02:25,616 --> 01:02:28,119
27 to 14, they are winners.

1277
01:02:29,078 --> 01:02:31,205
I would have told you
that's too good for Hollywood,

1278
01:02:31,289 --> 01:02:33,207
that's bullshit, but they did it.

1279
01:02:36,919 --> 01:02:40,214
Adversity has an amazing
way of bringing people together.

1280
01:02:41,591 --> 01:02:43,593
And that was some of
the most fun I've ever had

1281
01:02:43,843 --> 01:02:45,636
in teaching and
coaching and just in life.

1282
01:02:46,137 --> 01:02:47,763
I'm as proud of that team,

1283
01:02:48,014 --> 01:02:50,057
if not more than
anything I've ever been a part of.

1284
01:02:52,602 --> 01:02:54,312
My probation officer calls me down.

1285
01:02:54,854 --> 01:02:57,273
They wanna do a piss
test with you before you leave,

1286
01:02:57,482 --> 01:02:58,608
but after I take the test,

1287
01:02:58,983 --> 01:03:02,111
they tell me to stay down here

1288
01:03:02,195 --> 01:03:05,781
because my test
results will be back in 45 minutes.

1289
01:03:06,574 --> 01:03:08,242
Now when I signed off on my probation,

1290
01:03:09,368 --> 01:03:11,078
all my piss gets sent to a lab.

1291
01:03:12,038 --> 01:03:14,081
And I said that to my probation officer,

1292
01:03:14,165 --> 01:03:15,458
and they said,
"There's something new going on

1293
01:03:15,541 --> 01:03:17,168
over there today, they
just doing it right there."

1294
01:03:18,377 --> 01:03:19,712
So once I leave and go downstairs,

1295
01:03:19,795 --> 01:03:22,006
I call my lawyer and
tell him what's going on,

1296
01:03:22,089 --> 01:03:24,050
and he say to me
himself, "That don't sound right."

1297
01:03:25,259 --> 01:03:26,385
And I guess from what he told me,

1298
01:03:26,469 --> 01:03:28,971
he was like, "The whole
routine of how it played out

1299
01:03:29,055 --> 01:03:29,931
was different."

1300
01:03:31,891 --> 01:03:33,309
They said, "Your test was dirty."

1301
01:03:35,186 --> 01:03:37,063
No way, I haven't been smoking.

1302
01:03:37,647 --> 01:03:39,440
There's no way I violated this probation.

1303
01:03:40,483 --> 01:03:42,568
So now I'm in the
process of getting booked.

1304
01:03:42,902 --> 01:03:45,404
By the time he get over
there, he go see Judge Saffold,

1305
01:03:45,947 --> 01:03:49,033
she calls downstairs and
tell him to send me upstairs now

1306
01:03:49,742 --> 01:03:50,576
in the middle of the booking.

1307
01:03:50,785 --> 01:03:54,038
So they take me upstairs and she say,

1308
01:03:54,121 --> 01:03:56,165
"Ray, I told you if
you come back in my courtroom,

1309
01:03:56,791 --> 01:03:58,042
that you gonna have to do some time."

1310
01:03:59,001 --> 01:03:59,877
So I said, "Yeah, you right."

1311
01:03:59,961 --> 01:04:01,337
She said, "Well,
you back in my courtroom.

1312
01:04:01,629 --> 01:04:03,381
I'm sentencing to you today three years."

1313
01:04:04,674 --> 01:04:06,008
All right, if they say his urine is dirty,

1314
01:04:06,384 --> 01:04:07,260
the media gotta pick it up.

1315
01:04:07,593 --> 01:04:09,595
Oh, Mr. Football, this thing is dirty.

1316
01:04:10,054 --> 01:04:13,182
He test dirty, he gonna
go to jail for three years,

1317
01:04:14,016 --> 01:04:15,560
So they hold him, put him in jail.

1318
01:04:16,018 --> 01:04:17,936
And of course, he
reached out to his lawyer,

1319
01:04:17,937 --> 01:04:18,396
lawyer reached out to the judge.

1320
01:04:19,313 --> 01:04:22,275
Judge orders another
urine sample to be collected.

1321
01:04:23,901 --> 01:04:26,612
Two days after that,
my lawyer come touch visit

1322
01:04:26,696 --> 01:04:28,197
and tell me that my urine is clean.

1323
01:04:29,073 --> 01:04:32,118
That morning I go
see her with the prosecutor

1324
01:04:32,368 --> 01:04:33,578
and everybody that's right there.

1325
01:04:34,036 --> 01:04:35,204
She asked those guys,

1326
01:04:36,038 --> 01:04:38,874
"So how did he take a test for y'all?

1327
01:04:39,542 --> 01:04:40,585
And he took a test for me."

1328
01:04:41,836 --> 01:04:45,256
"Inside with no access to
nothing to clean his system with,

1329
01:04:45,339 --> 01:04:46,799
and it came back clean?"

1330
01:04:48,801 --> 01:04:49,927
Prosecutors couldn't say nothing.

1331
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:53,139
She said, "With that being
said, I'm letting him out today."

1332
01:04:53,681 --> 01:04:56,267
And that's how I got a
second chance with that situation.

1333
01:04:56,851 --> 01:04:58,894
So that's why I take my hat off to her.

1334
01:04:59,770 --> 01:05:02,064
And I love her to this day,

1335
01:05:02,148 --> 01:05:03,733
because without her,
I wouldn't be right here.

1336
01:05:04,900 --> 01:05:07,320
Right after I got on probation,

1337
01:05:08,070 --> 01:05:10,281
schools was able to talk to me again.

1338
01:05:10,823 --> 01:05:12,950
And I ended up leaving
and going to North Carolina

1339
01:05:13,034 --> 01:05:14,368
and playing at Shaw University.

1340
01:05:15,911 --> 01:05:20,124
At that time, I'd get
picked up by Carolina Panthers.

1341
01:05:21,042 --> 01:05:22,168
Like I'm riding with you.

1342
01:05:22,501 --> 01:05:23,502
I'm like, "All right, cool."

1343
01:05:24,253 --> 01:05:26,422
You know, it was a whole
different type of lifestyle now.

1344
01:05:27,089 --> 01:05:27,798
You know what I'm saying?

1345
01:05:27,882 --> 01:05:30,551
But it wasn't a different friendship.

1346
01:05:32,261 --> 01:05:32,720
You know what I'm saying?

1347
01:05:33,054 --> 01:05:34,096
We still was the same guys.

1348
01:05:34,930 --> 01:05:37,058
We were just going to play football.

1349
01:05:37,266 --> 01:05:38,392
We were just in two different lanes.

1350
01:05:45,066 --> 01:05:46,942
I feel I could have had it at a shot,

1351
01:05:47,068 --> 01:05:51,197
but it was a lot of
questions asked to how did I change.

1352
01:05:51,697 --> 01:05:53,115
I mean, I guess I answered the question

1353
01:05:53,199 --> 01:05:56,577
to the best of my ability,
but at the NFL Draft.

1354
01:05:57,453 --> 01:05:59,497
Yeah, they probably would have
said I had character issues.

1355
01:05:59,580 --> 01:06:01,499
That's a lot of
what the scouts were saying.

1356
01:06:02,249 --> 01:06:04,168
So I didn't get a shot.

1357
01:06:05,086 --> 01:06:06,337
The Ravens were looking to sign them

1358
01:06:06,420 --> 01:06:08,005
and they essentially told them,

1359
01:06:08,089 --> 01:06:09,965
"We can't take the PR right now."

1360
01:06:14,470 --> 01:06:18,015
Up until recently, my
brothers and I never discussed

1361
01:06:18,474 --> 01:06:21,060
really what took
place and how it affected us.

1362
01:06:21,435 --> 01:06:24,397
I learned some things about
how they felt that I never knew.

1363
01:06:24,939 --> 01:06:26,107
And I'm sure they
learned some things I felt

1364
01:06:26,190 --> 01:06:28,401
that they never knew because I said,

1365
01:06:28,484 --> 01:06:30,653
I believe everybody
was trying in their own way

1366
01:06:31,570 --> 01:06:32,988
just to get past it.

1367
01:06:33,572 --> 01:06:39,078
I buried it so deep and
just weighed it on my shoulders.

1368
01:06:39,161 --> 01:06:40,996
I've been carrying it since I was 14.

1369
01:06:42,456 --> 01:06:44,583
I've never even got
into detail with my family,

1370
01:06:45,251 --> 01:06:49,755
but the positives is I
was, I wanted to tell my side to tell our story

1371
01:06:51,006 --> 01:06:52,425
and shed light on it,

1372
01:06:52,508 --> 01:06:54,844
even though it may
seem like something that's fun,

1373
01:06:55,636 --> 01:06:57,972
just think twice before you do it

1374
01:06:58,639 --> 01:07:00,474
because you don't know how
it's going to impact your future.

1375
01:07:01,726 --> 01:07:03,185
Don't rush anything in life, you know,

1376
01:07:03,269 --> 01:07:06,147
and you gotta take
your time and work for it.

1377
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:08,607
Don't go off doing those stupid stuff,

1378
01:07:08,691 --> 01:07:10,359
take your time and be a kid, for real.

1379
01:07:10,943 --> 01:07:12,695
Everybody, I don't care who you are,

1380
01:07:12,778 --> 01:07:15,614
like has had one night
to where it could have changed

1381
01:07:15,698 --> 01:07:17,199
your life too, you know what I'm saying?

1382
01:07:21,036 --> 01:07:23,038
If I could go back in time,

1383
01:07:23,581 --> 01:07:25,374
I wouldn't have
even started selling drugs.

1384
01:07:25,875 --> 01:07:27,001
I would have stayed in my ass in school.

1385
01:07:27,752 --> 01:07:28,960
You know what I'm saying? The struggle.

1386
01:07:28,961 --> 01:07:31,797
That's the
struggle, that got the best of me.

1387
01:07:31,881 --> 01:07:35,468
You know, I was living in the projects,

1388
01:07:36,844 --> 01:07:39,472
back and forth,
staying with family and friends.

1389
01:07:39,555 --> 01:07:41,432
So it was like, I just
didn't want to do that anymore.

1390
01:07:42,141 --> 01:07:44,477
So I kept selling drugs all that time

1391
01:07:45,144 --> 01:07:47,438
and somebody ended up getting killed.

1392
01:07:49,857 --> 01:07:55,946
We all got choices and the
street life is not where it's at.

1393
01:07:57,573 --> 01:07:57,990
It's not.

1394
01:07:59,283 --> 01:08:01,827
I got to prison in 2016

1395
01:08:03,829 --> 01:08:06,916
for a different murder.

1396
01:08:07,666 --> 01:08:09,668
I'm in here for 18 to life.

1397
01:08:10,544 --> 01:08:11,670
I made the wrong choices.

1398
01:08:12,922 --> 01:08:18,594
And now it's too late
and I might not ever get out.

1399
01:08:20,888 --> 01:08:26,310
And I hope that other people watch this

1400
01:08:27,144 --> 01:08:28,604
and learn from this, you know,

1401
01:08:29,480 --> 01:08:31,941
don't make that mistake that we made.

1402
01:08:32,858 --> 01:08:36,070
If I had one more time,
just to chat with Lorenzo.

1403
01:08:36,278 --> 01:08:39,698
So I'd say "Thank
you for the time you gave us

1404
01:08:40,783 --> 01:08:42,284
and the memories you
gave us while you're here."

1405
01:08:44,411 --> 01:08:45,955
We're all guys in our thirties

1406
01:08:46,831 --> 01:08:48,040
that have returned the favor.

1407
01:08:48,582 --> 01:08:50,626
There's so many of
us that have become coaches.

1408
01:08:51,085 --> 01:08:52,127
We're tremendous leaders.

1409
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:54,338
I came back here as a coach.

1410
01:08:55,089 --> 01:08:57,091
The first thing I did when I came in here

1411
01:08:57,424 --> 01:09:00,177
was I walked into the gym

1412
01:09:01,136 --> 01:09:03,889
and I looked at that baby blue banner

1413
01:09:05,182 --> 01:09:06,392
and it says state champions.

1414
01:09:06,475 --> 01:09:08,519
And I know that no matter what,

1415
01:09:09,186 --> 01:09:11,856
I was part of the best team at that time.

1416
01:09:12,398 --> 01:09:13,732
And that's something that all of us have.

1417
01:09:13,983 --> 01:09:15,526
Like, that's not
something we take lightly.

1418
01:09:15,901 --> 01:09:16,819
All of us are champions.

1419
01:09:17,236 --> 01:09:18,988
We will always forever be champions.

1420
01:09:20,531 --> 01:09:22,658
Given everything
that that team went through,

1421
01:09:23,117 --> 01:09:24,368
I could make the case that,

1422
01:09:24,451 --> 01:09:26,120
if they go out and just have a season,

1423
01:09:26,620 --> 01:09:27,621
if they play the games,

1424
01:09:27,913 --> 01:09:30,499
that's a victory for
them, for the coaching staff.

1425
01:09:31,083 --> 01:09:33,085
But then they go out
and win a state championship.

1426
01:09:33,836 --> 01:09:35,045
Now, I could say this.

1427
01:09:35,296 --> 01:09:38,257
There may have been
more talented Benedictine teams,

1428
01:09:38,632 --> 01:09:40,926
but given the fact of
what those guys went through

1429
01:09:41,010 --> 01:09:42,094
and what they accomplished,

1430
01:09:42,636 --> 01:09:44,847
I think that could be the greatest

1431
01:09:45,014 --> 01:09:46,807
Benedictine football team in history.

1432
01:09:48,726 --> 01:09:51,312
The elite of Bengal history,

1433
01:09:52,188 --> 01:09:54,690
celebrating its 20th anniversary,

1434
01:09:55,065 --> 01:09:59,528
the 2003 Benedictine Bengals.

1435
01:10:04,366 --> 01:10:05,534
I still have no relationship

1436
01:10:05,618 --> 01:10:07,244
with a lot of those guys right now.

1437
01:10:07,786 --> 01:10:10,623
And some of the guys that
I don't have a relationship with,

1438
01:10:11,081 --> 01:10:12,041
I wish I did.

1439
01:10:13,083 --> 01:10:16,086
I ran into Ray not long ago.

1440
01:10:16,295 --> 01:10:20,090
He was working as a
laborer on a job that I was on.

1441
01:10:20,466 --> 01:10:22,426
He jumped up and gave me a big hug.

1442
01:10:23,219 --> 01:10:27,306
And they said, "You
know, that guy played for you?"

1443
01:10:27,389 --> 01:10:28,349
I said, "Yeah, yeah."

1444
01:10:28,432 --> 01:10:29,808
And they go, "Was he any good?"

1445
01:10:32,186 --> 01:10:33,312
And I just shook my head.

1446
01:10:33,395 --> 01:10:34,939
I said, "You have no idea.

1447
01:10:35,522 --> 01:10:36,523
You have no idea."

1448
01:10:37,399 --> 01:10:39,693
I would love to see
him and see how he's doing

1449
01:10:40,527 --> 01:10:42,655
and see in person how he's doing.

1450
01:10:42,738 --> 01:10:45,366
I haven't seen him since the trial.

1451
01:10:54,291 --> 01:10:55,000
Hey, Judge.

1452
01:10:56,293 --> 01:10:58,003
How you doing?
- Hey boy. Give me a hug.

1453
01:10:59,255 --> 01:11:00,296
Good to see you.
- They tell me that

1454
01:11:00,297 --> 01:11:01,632
you are doing good.

1455
01:11:01,882 --> 01:11:03,008
I'm doing pretty good.

1456
01:11:03,092 --> 01:11:03,926
I'm doing great, actually.

1457
01:11:04,718 --> 01:11:05,552
It's all because of you.

1458
01:11:06,136 --> 01:11:08,138
Aw, that's you making me.

1459
01:11:09,306 --> 01:11:11,016
Without you giving me that chance,

1460
01:11:12,059 --> 01:11:13,143
I would never got this far.

1461
01:11:13,477 --> 01:11:15,311
Aw, Raymond, I'm so proud of you.

1462
01:11:15,312 --> 01:11:17,273
Thank you.
- I'm so glad you're doing well.

1463
01:11:17,564 --> 01:11:20,359
Now, you didn't tell
him that you heard bad things

1464
01:11:20,442 --> 01:11:20,985
about me.

1465
01:11:22,069 --> 01:11:24,697
I heard everything you could think of

1466
01:11:24,780 --> 01:11:26,323
before I came and heard that.

1467
01:11:26,907 --> 01:11:28,951
Ms. Saffold, she do not play.

1468
01:11:30,452 --> 01:11:33,455
So, on the backside, get yourself ready

1469
01:11:33,706 --> 01:11:35,457
if she decides to send you.

1470
01:11:35,541 --> 01:11:36,583
I wasn't trying to hear that.

1471
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:40,587
Well, you
got probation and I said,

1472
01:11:40,671 --> 01:11:44,299
"If you didn't commit a
violation, you was good to go.

1473
01:11:44,383 --> 01:11:45,759
And you didn't commit a violation.

1474
01:11:45,968 --> 01:11:46,885
You proved me right."

1475
01:11:47,136 --> 01:11:47,928
I appreciate that.

1476
01:11:48,429 --> 01:11:50,264
You proved me right.

1477
01:11:51,473 --> 01:11:52,349
Still to this day,

1478
01:11:52,850 --> 01:11:54,977
we just played a
little basketball the other day

1479
01:11:56,145 --> 01:11:57,855
and he still got it.

1480
01:11:58,397 --> 01:11:59,440
First off, he a father.

1481
01:12:01,984 --> 01:12:03,485
Great one at it.

1482
01:12:03,944 --> 01:12:05,863
Cause now he got a son,

1483
01:12:07,114 --> 01:12:08,157
got a girl,

1484
01:12:09,450 --> 01:12:10,951
he a motivator, he a leader.

1485
01:12:11,910 --> 01:12:14,121
He's living the American Dream.

1486
01:12:15,456 --> 01:12:17,875
Santana! Line him up, baby.

1487
01:12:18,333 --> 01:12:19,460
I coach at a youth league.

1488
01:12:20,169 --> 01:12:22,046
I was coaching 12 youth last year,

1489
01:12:22,337 --> 01:12:24,506
but I moved up with
those guys and they're 13.

1490
01:12:25,257 --> 01:12:26,300
Now they're going to high school.

1491
01:12:26,675 --> 01:12:28,969
So it's a big decision I need to make,

1492
01:12:29,053 --> 01:12:30,637
whether I'm gonna
go to high school with them

1493
01:12:31,221 --> 01:12:33,140
or drop down with some more younger kids.

1494
01:12:34,475 --> 01:12:36,060
Hey, whatch that tight end!

1495
01:12:37,019 --> 01:12:39,605
Amari! Scoot in, scoot in.

1496
01:12:40,230 --> 01:12:43,317
He's giving back to
the ones that need to hear it.

1497
01:12:44,651 --> 01:12:46,236
It's helping the kid change

1498
01:12:46,820 --> 01:12:49,573
or not go down that
path that he didn't went down.

1499
01:12:50,699 --> 01:12:51,283
You dizzy?

1500
01:12:53,994 --> 01:12:54,953
You little dizzy, boy.

1501
01:12:56,038 --> 01:12:57,915
As I remember when I was a kid,

1502
01:12:58,749 --> 01:13:01,794
some of the coaches
that was installing stuff in me

1503
01:13:02,169 --> 01:13:06,340
and how it took me
to where I got in life.

1504
01:13:08,467 --> 01:13:10,344
And I feel like me not making it,

1505
01:13:10,552 --> 01:13:13,889
this is my calling to help the youth.

1506
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:17,267
Now, I feel like my legacy need to be

1507
01:13:17,643 --> 01:13:20,646
what I'm doing, when
I didn't play off the field.

1508
01:13:22,189 --> 01:13:25,234
So to gather and
help as many kids as possible

1509
01:13:25,984 --> 01:13:27,069
before I leave this earth,

1510
01:13:28,112 --> 01:13:29,655
that's what I want my legacy to be.