McCoy Driven To Succeed By His Daughter
April 24th, 2010
When Gerald McCoy met with the Bucs pen and mic club Friday, he was mostly one-liners, talking about texting Warren Sapp about why he looks fat in his statue and how hard it was to sack current Bucs quarterback Josh Freeman when the two faced each other in college.
But GMC turned serious when the topic of conversation turned to his daughter. GMC said that he is driven to succeed because he wants a better life for his daughter, Nevaeh, so writes Woody Cummings of the Tampa Tribune.
“I’m going to be exactly what you guys drafted me for and everything you guys have seen on film,” he said. “What you think Gerald McCoy is, that’s what I’m going to be. I don’t plan to disappoint.”
He can’t afford to. McCoy has a 4-year-old daughter – Nevaeh (heaven spelled backward) – and he said just about everything he does is geared toward making her life better.
“She’s the main reason I work so hard,” McCoy said. “I don’t want to let my family down. My family’s my heart, and this is my ticket for my daughter to have a successful life and have it better than I did. I want things to be easier for her than they were for me. I want her to know what it means to work hard, like I did, but also, if she wants to go to college, it will be set for her.”
The more Joe reads about GMC, the more Joe likes this guy.
April 24th, 2010 at 9:12 am
What a bunch of sap. The guy just won the lottery. He doesn’t have to work hard anymore. So this is all meaningless.
April 24th, 2010 at 9:21 am
I thought he was driven by The Little Mermaid ???
April 24th, 2010 at 9:22 am
I just lost a little respect for the guy. What’s he doing gettting a girl pregnant while he’s in high school?
April 24th, 2010 at 9:40 am
The guy is a gem of a human being.
But all this gushing “face of the franchise” “great for the community” stuff is getting to be a bit much. The man is a football player.
And Dream, have you ever heard of the concept of not raising the expectations for a rookie through the roof? Geez. Could you have cranked it up any higher?
April 24th, 2010 at 9:45 am
Geez you guys R a bunch of hard asses.
While I’ve got to see what he does on the field being an overall “good guy” is/was one of the bedrock principles of Dungy. In fact it was responsible or the huge popularity of Brooks & Dunn (Bucs players and not country musicians)
Would you rather have co-ed Ben or “run ’em over” Stallworth? Maybe you’d prefer Pacman Jones?
April 24th, 2010 at 9:46 am
@Louie – I guess you didn’t have any respect for “who’s my Daddy” Sapp then?
April 24th, 2010 at 9:46 am
I hate this guy already! He’s a sissy and not a real man like me!
April 24th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Mr. Lucky,
The community here is always negative. You just have to ignore the comments most of the time, as they’re pretty much this way regardless of what’s going on.
April 24th, 2010 at 10:10 am
I said I lost “some respect”. Don’t twist my words.
The guy made a REALLY bad decision. How he’s delt with that decision shows what kind of person he is.
April 24th, 2010 at 10:25 am
A wr in rnd 4 Mike Williams… Love his intangables!!!! LMFAO
Dummynick is a reacher
April 24th, 2010 at 10:27 am
So far I’m glad to have this kid in Tampa.
April 24th, 2010 at 10:28 am
RahDom, you are out of your mind if you think Williams was a reach. He is as talented as any WR in this class.
April 24th, 2010 at 10:28 am
So all off season, this community complains the most about our terrible offensive line and our receiving corp. We spend 4 of our top 5 picks on improving the interior line and the receiving corp, but now they’re stupid? Do you guys watch sports simply to bitch? Or do you actually like the bucs.
April 24th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Williams is not a reach talent -wise , but he is a reach character wise, considering he’s a dumb-ass who failed out of SYracuse and quit the football team…
April 24th, 2010 at 10:38 am
Why would he talk so much about his daughter and not mention his wife at all?
April 24th, 2010 at 11:51 am
I assumed that meant he doesn’t have a wife.
April 24th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
“What a bunch of sap. The guy just won the lottery. He doesn’t have to work hard anymore. So this is all meaningless.”
Maybe that speaks to your lack of character in a similar circumstance and not so much his, eh?