The Power of the Professor

Twenty-four years later, one lesson still teaches.

I was standing in front of the Parthenon and I was immediately taken back to 2001.

The class was communication and rhetoric. The professor was Peter Simonson. I didn’t realize it then but I sure am now that that singular class, that singular professor shaped the trajectory of my life.

As I’m flying home, fully transitioning back to college football from a summer adventure in Europe, I am reading the media day headlines: Tampering accusations (Pitt). Defending a programs history (Clemson). A break away from the NCAA (SEC). You get it. The news.

Yet I keep thinking about my professor.