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I live in Phoenix and it's been strange here. I turned on the radio to the Dan Bickley show (a show on a sports talk radio channel) and they had a caller talking about how it was a sad day for AZ. Immediately I knew that he had been killed.
Every AM talk radio station has been talking about it all day today. We're building a new stadium for the Cardinals and many people want to name it after him. From the way he lived and the way he refused to speak to the press about his decision to join the Army, I don't think it would be the right thing to do. He didn't do it for fame or to be put on a pedestal. IMO, the best thing they could do is make a statue with a plaque describing him at the entrance to the new stadium and then have an annual scholarship program for an athlete that was a great student, but not a good enough athlete to get an athletic scholarship.
He walked onto the ASU football team and the coach was going to red shirt him because he thought he had potential but he wasn't talented enough to make the team full time. He told the coach: "do what you want, but in 4 years I'm out of here" He graduated in 3.5 years with a 3.85 GPA. He went on to get drafted, but it was in the much later rounds.
I'll never forgive Simeon Rice for what he said about him after he was drafted.
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