Section B·Page 4
The University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 4, 1998
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1998-99 SEASON
Football isn't life, Vann says
an awfully good running back in his own right. At Oklahoma State, Barry Sanders played behind Thurman Thomas."
Continued from page 1B
Unlike Sanders, Vann never won the Heisman Trophy, and he was not picked third in the draft.
In fact, he was not picked at all.
Former Kansas running back Eric Vann tries to break the tackle of a Missouri defender. Photo by Steve Puppe/KANSAN
But Vann did not expect to go in the draft, he expected to go as a free agent. On April 19, a window of opportunity opened for free agents, but Vann's former agent missed it. Vann said.
Calls to fill rosters should have been made to teams that Sunday night, but his agent waited until the next morning. Vann said.
By Monday morning, every NFL roster in the country was full, and the name Eric Vann wasn't on any of those rosters.
"If it's your life that they're dealing with, you need to know what's going on," Vann said.
Vann, who fired his agent the day after the draft, does not place all the blame for his waning NFL hopes in his former agent's hands. He carries most of the blame himself.
Vann's new agent, Jim Fender, is making calls to friends and coaches in the NFL but knows as well as Vann that his new client may have missed the prime opportunity.
"Eric employed me to work for him three days after the draft." Fender said. "I feel that it is most critical to make a roster within 24 hours of the draft, so we were looking up the sea bottom, so to speak, when Eric hired me."
Both Vann's agent and Allen think he has what it takes to play in the NFL.
"He's got to get in the right situation in the right time, and he's got a chance," Allen said. "He's got quickness and durability and great hands for a running back. It may happen now, or it may happen two years from now, but he'd got the talent that it may happen."
"I'm not in it for the money because I love to play football. But at the same time you have to start looking at the future," Vann said. "Is it worth getting beat up, getting your brains beat in for $20,000?"
The NFL is not the only professional football league to which Vann is looking. The Canadian Football League also is a possibility but is one with far fewer rewards.
Vann has not put his future on hold to wait for a call from his agent. He other plans, the biggest of which is a wedding in June.
Vann will marry Cortney Roles of
Topeka on June 5. The couple engaged since October, have been dating for two years.
With his coming marriage, Vann knows that his future decisions affect more than just him.
"All my friends were so surprised. They thought I would be the last one for sure." Vann said.
"I believe that Eric needs to make a decision that he will never regret," Roles said. "For instance, he has a question of whether he should just stop here or if he should go ahead with the CFL. I would go to South Africa with him if that's what he decided."
Vann knows he is not going to South Africa, but that is about all he knows. For now, Vann is going to
concentrate on ending the semester with good grades.
As for football, Vann said he would be OK if he never played again because he has not allowed football to be the only possibility in his life.
"It's time for Eric to just basically relax and enjoy his life." Otis Vann, Eric's father, said. "He will make a difference in the world, I truly believe it. If I died tomorrow, I couldn't be any happier with the way Eric turned out. If I had to write the whole script again, I couldn't do it any better, could you," he said, turning to his wife.
"I might change the ending," Eric's mother, Bess Vann, said.
But as of now, there is yet to be an ending.
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