The Road Less Traveled

Jeff Howe
10 months ago
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Kenny Vaccaro has overcome the odds to become a leader for the 2012 Longhorns and a contender for the Thorpe Award as a senior.

Senior Kenny Vaccaro's road to stardom hasn't been easy, and has been filled with potholes. But the Brownwood product has overcome the obstacles to become a leader at Texas.

Jeff Howe
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10 months ago

http://texas.247sports.com/Article/Kenny-Vaccaros-path-to-stardom-was-an-unlikely-one-87939
Senior Kenny Vaccaro's road to stardom hasn't been easy, and has been filled with potholes. But the Brownwood product has overcome the obstacles to become a leader at Texas.

This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by Dave Behr on 8/30/2012 at 7:38 AM
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10 months ago

outstanding read
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Damn, that was good. Thanks, Jeff.
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10 months ago

Kenny is one of my alltime favorite Longhorns. He really turned his life around and I see a great senior season and many years in the NFL in his future.
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10 months ago

Nice article. I somehow never knew about the ACL in high school. Very impressive he was able to play as a freshman coming back from that.
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10 months ago via 247Sports Mobile

Thanks for this. KDVII has been my favorite player in this team for 3 years, not just for his play on the field, but because of what you just outlined. He's a great story.
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10 months ago

Excellent read, Jeff. Excellent.
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My favorite Longhorn of all time. Great story Jeff.
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10 months ago

Awesome read. Thank you sir.
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Jeff Howe said...
http://texas.247sports.com/Article/Kenny-Vaccaros-path-to-stardom-was-an-unlikely-one-87939
Senior Kenny Vaccaro's road to stardom hasn't been easy, and has been filled with potholes. But the Brownwood product has overcome the obstacles to become a leader at Texas.
“The league minimum makes more than 90 percent of the people in America,” Vaccaro said. “I'll be happy just to be getting paid to play football.”

Its absolutely incredible that he has this perspective... Glad he is on our team
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Bravo to Kenny for walking the narrow path.
Jeff, outstanding read!
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Is he married and/or living with his child? If he's walking the straight and narrow I would assume he is. Great player and a nice person when I met him. Glad he came back.
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Longhorn in OK said...
My favorite Longhorn of all time. Great story Jeff.

Really? I mean, he's a good player with a nice story but favorite of all time? Not even top 10.
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RufusWasMyPapaw said...
Really? I mean, he's a good player with a nice story but favorite of all time? Not even top 10.

Just because he isn't your favorite, doesn't mean he isn't someone else's. Favoritism is subjective.
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10 months ago

n/m

This post was edited by RufusWasMyPapaw on 8/30/2012 at 3:54 PM
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10 months ago

Hope Kenny reads this so I can thank him for his efforts and making me Texas Proud! Great job Jeff.
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Fantastic stuff. Lucky to have him back for his senior year for sure. One of the special pieces to this team that makes them a special bunch. Wish him a very successful senior campaign and a hardware to put an exclamation to his time at the 40.
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