Former Ohio State RB Maurice Clarett meets with Florida State football team

Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher, left, speaks with former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett on Wednesday night.(Photo: Florida State athletics) Former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett met with the Florida State football team on Wednesday night to share his journey from being one of college football’s best players in the early 2000s to serving jail time for miscues off the field. “Essentially, I was what y’all was: a national champion, right?” Clarett said in a video of the meeting posted on ESPN.com. “So how do you go from being Mr. Everything to Mr. Nothing? How do you go from being in the NFL to basically in a jail cell?” Clarett played one season with the Buckeyes, leading them to the 2002 BCS National Championship over Miami in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl. But his career never got back on track after his standout season due to a number of off-field issues. TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT FSU football team using ‘The Wizard of Oz’ as motivation Clarett, 31, said the advice he received after spending nearly four years in jail for aggravated robbery and carrying a concealed weapon inspired him to get his life back on track. Now, in addition to his public speaking duties, he works with packaging and transportation businesses, according to ESPN.com. “Bottom line: let me just break it (down) for y’all: Only 2 percent going (to the NFL),” Clarett told the Seminoles. “Most of y’all dudes dude going to be regular dudes in society. Y’all know that? …

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