{"id":3885,"date":"2020-10-30T17:13:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T17:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2020-10-30T21:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T21:00:23","slug":"austrian-robinson-15-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"AUSTRIAN ROBINSON \u201915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back, Austrian Robinson \u201915 didn\u2019t quite have <em>this<\/em> in mind. Five years in an SEC football program: Ole Miss starting defensive tackle, winner of the Chucky Mullins Courage Award (the highest honor given to a Rebel senior defensive player); father to his junior, a little Austrian; and now, waiting for the next call from an NFL team.<\/p>\n<p>As a sophomore, Robinson left home in Harlem to play basketball for Trinity-Pawling. A young athlete, he was all in as a basketball player. When Coach Coratti saw Robinson\u2019s size as he waited in the buffet line, he quickly did some lunchtime recruitment. Robinson thought he\u2019d play some JV football, stay in shape \u2014 instead he became a force in just his first year playing football. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what I was doing at all,\u201d he says, \u201cI was just running fast, out-stronging people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He aimed for the pinnacle of college football, the SEC, and quickly saw how the big boys do it. \u201cThe speed of the game was different, everybody knows what they\u2019re doing. Strength-wise I was fine, but coming from not as much experience made the learning curve fast.\u201d Robinson elected to redshirt his freshman year, saying \u201cIt was a decision from the business perspective. We had depth and it was a better idea to not play 60 snaps a game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robinson ultimately tallied five sacks and an interception in his career, playing in over 45 games for Ole Miss. Robinson says he\u2019s always been a sponge. \u201cI absorb everything I can. I might not always ask the questions, but if I see someone doing something, I\u2019m watching.\u201d He calls on young athletes to follow this lead. \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to seek help. Take things from other people\u2019s game. Work-ethic wise, push yourself because the window with football is short, and <em>watch film<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As an undrafted free agent, Robinson signed with the Carolina Panthers, participating in pre-camp during the beginning of the pandemic. A back injury prevented him from joining the final roster. Now healthy, he continues to soak in the game on Sundays, ready for his next unexpected call to action.<\/p>\n<p><em>by Cyrus Rothwell-Ferraris<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back, Austrian Robinson \u201915 didn\u2019t quite have this in mind. Five years in an SEC football program: Ole Miss starting defensive tackle, winner of the Chucky Mullins Courage Award (the highest honor given to a Rebel senior defensive player); father to his junior, a little Austrian; and now, waiting for the next call from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-october-2020"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"LOOKING TO GET BACK ON THE FIELD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3917,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitypawlingthequad.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}