Texas A&M Football
A family tradition: Kevin Matthews details family pipeline
Key quotes from Kevin Matthews interview
"I always really enjoyed my time in College Station and thought this would be a great place to raise our family."
"I had come to A&M a few times; they actually gave me my first recruiting letter. I came to a camp and really enjoyed it and decided that maybe at the time they didn’t think I could play, but I knew I could play."
"Jake had his pick from wherever he wanted to go and I think, just for his ego, he wanted to hear it but for the whole time he knew he was going to come here."
"It’s cool when you guys say I started this pipeline, which I can’t really say I did. Us Matthews are just creatures of habit, we just get comfortable with a place and stick with it."
"We established our roots in Houston and obviously that’s just 100 miles or so."
"I was very proud and excited to be there with Jake (at the draft) and share that moment and I know he was excited. The first thing he did after getting off the phone was yell 'Yes!'"
"We’ve been very blessed, we’re all proud of each other and sometimes maybe you take it for granted. It’s a blessing and a great career to have while you can have it. It’s definitely a stressful job, but you have to be thankful that you can get such an opportunity."
"I loved (playing under my dad with the Tennessee Titans). He told me that I had to be head above the rest to break the starting line up. So there might have been more on my plate in that aspect."
"Mike has a nastiness about him that we generally don’t have. He plays hard and plays with a lot of leverage, he’s a little shorter. I’m sure he’ll love to hear that."
"I think Mike has got a good shot (to have a career in football), we just saw he was on the Remington watch list which is big time."
"There iss another Matthews on the way. He’s 6’3, 300 pounds and 14 years old. I think he’s going to end up being a 6’6-6’7, 320 pound bruiser here in 4 years."
Note: Due to technical issues, the final half of the file is audio only.
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