Norvell used Cam Newton’s example to keep Metoyer motivated through time at Hargrave
There was so much to this story that lots of interesting aspects of it didn’t make the final cut for the newspaper. Yesterday, I blogged about co-offensive coordinator Jay Norvell’s desire to see more kids take the route Metoyer did because of how valuable it can be.
Here, Norvell talks about one of the big examples he used when encouraging Metoyer to keep his eye on the prize.
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Metoyer admitted being bitterly disappointed that he was at Hargrave last year, and not at Oklahoma, where he thought he belonged.
The disappointment would very nearly boil over into a near depression, where he might have quit if not for some very important people in his life encouraging him.
One of them was Norvell, the Sooners’ receivers’ coach and Metoyer’s primary recruiter, who spoke with the receiver often and even visited him in Chatham a couple times.
“You have got to go to Hargrave,” Norvell would tell Metoyer. “Your dream is not over with.”
Norvell expanded on how difficult these talks were for him personally, although he couldn’t show it.
“It was a hard conversation,” Norvell said. “You become very close with kids when you recruit them for as long as I recruited Trey. You go through the ups and downs with them, but you’ve got to be consisent and be there for them.”
