Ray Rice has slowly been winning people over because of his continued effort to be a better person and it seems very genuine. Some people will never forgive him and that’s just life but it’s a reminder of how fast things can change. He was always known as a good guy until he made one mistake and it changed his life forever. Ray was a star at Rutgers and he returned to campus yesterday to talk to the current team and let them know it only takes one second to make a bad choice.
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Rice has not played in the NFL since being suspended after he knocked out Janay Rice in an elevator at an Atlantic City casino. He declined an interview with The Associated Press, saying, “I’m always working,” when asked whether he was working toward getting back in the NFL. Rice currently is a free agent.
Rice told NJ.com it was good to be back at Rutgers.
“It’s very nice. It feels like home,” he said. “It feels good to come back to a place where I had so many good memories. I only want to remember the good, but I want to reflect on the things I’ve been through and give it to the guys.”
Flood said he reached out to Rice and asked him to speak to the team.
“The message was very simple,” Flood said. “You can do a lot of great things in your life. You can do charitable works at home and the cities you’re working in, but if you make the wrong decision, you’re going to have to be accountable for that. And Ray made a wrong decision and he’s held himself accountable to it. And he’s paid the price for it.
“I thought today was an opportunity for him to deliver a message to try to prevent one of our young people from doing that in the future.”
Rice told NJ.com he came with a life lesson for the players.
“I just shot them straight,” Rice told NJ.com. “I’m sure if you speak to them, they’ll give you a lot better explanation of what I told them, but I gave them the message to go out there and not make the mistakes that I made. If I can help them understand, then I’ve made an impact. It costs no money to give them a good message like that.”
Rice is perhaps the most accomplished player to ever play at Rutgers. He is the school’s career leader in rushing yards, with 4,926 from 2005 to ’07, and he ran for 6,180 yards in in six seasons with the Ravens.
