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"As the Wolfpack running back goes into his senior season, he’s 10 pounds heavier and said he’s bigger and stronger. But, he said, he’s also older and wiser.
“Definitely older and wiser, baby,” Thornton said, nodding his head and smiling.
Thornton once tweeted that the “road to success is long and narrow.” That’s especially true for someone who wasn’t always on a straight path at N.C. State.
Thornton has dealt with some legal issues that took him into a Wake County courtroom. He twice was suspended by Wolfpack coach Dave Doeren, his college career at N.C. State tenuously close to ending, a situation he has likened to a near-death experience.
But that’s all behind him now, Thornton said this week, cooling down after a Wolfpack practice. Asked how much he has grown while in college, he again broke into a wide smile and said, “Oh, man. A lot. I’m light years of where I was my freshman year. Things were a lot faster but now things have slowed down. I know how to carry myself on and off the field.”
"As the Wolfpack running back goes into his senior season, he’s 10 pounds heavier and said he’s bigger and stronger. But, he said, he’s also older and wiser.
“Definitely older and wiser, baby,” Thornton said, nodding his head and smiling.
Thornton once tweeted that the “road to success is long and narrow.” That’s especially true for someone who wasn’t always on a straight path at N.C. State.
Thornton has dealt with some legal issues that took him into a Wake County courtroom. He twice was suspended by Wolfpack coach Dave Doeren, his college career at N.C. State tenuously close to ending, a situation he has likened to a near-death experience.
But that’s all behind him now, Thornton said this week, cooling down after a Wolfpack practice. Asked how much he has grown while in college, he again broke into a wide smile and said, “Oh, man. A lot. I’m light years of where I was my freshman year. Things were a lot faster but now things have slowed down. I know how to carry myself on and off the field.”
