Jamal Merrell

I probably came home like three, four, five times.

Nah, he stayed.

He would stay.

Yeah, I had a family.

So...

If my brother wasn't there, I probably wouldn't have came back.

I probably was just like, oh, go to dental lab, get a job.

I got my trade.

But I knew I was going back because me and him had a brotherhood.

It got deeper than just, all right, I could take care of my family with getting a college degree.

I'm giving my wife and kids something to come watch to know like, oh, daddy's on TV, daddy's on ESPN.

So it became more than just, all right, I could make something.

I'm making something of this.

Any relationship out there that can make it through college, oh, yeah, you should marry them.

You're golden because since college, we have not been through anything that we have already been through.

Okay.

So college shaped our relationship, shaped our marriage.

It didn't shape us, but it showed us how dedicated of parents we were.

And it humbled me to know how much she was pouring into our kid because I was in college.

Like, I'm living a college life.