0 Shares Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Maurice Clarett needs a volunteer. Standing in an auditorium inside Doak Campbell Stadium, Clarett is concluding an hour-long presentation to Florida State’s football team. He summons a player to the front and asks him to describe two things: a real man and a real n—a. Clarett went through the same exercise as an inmate at Toledo Correctional Institution, where he served 42 months for aggravated robbery. “I joked and talked more about what it was to be a real n—a and a gangsta than a man,” Clarett recalls. Clarett’s case manager, Kenneth Rupert, told him he should be embarrassed. “He said, ‘Maurice, you don’t know integrity, responsibility, accountability. All these characteristics are what make a man. How do you expect to function?'” Clarett says. “I have sex with women, I piss in the toilet, I play football, but I have no understanding of what it takes to be a man.” It hits on Clarett’s central theme to the Seminoles: Without personal development, the biggest and strongest men often remain lost boys. …
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