SEMINOLES’ ROLLE PICKS RHODES INTERVIEW OVER MARYLAND GAME

Florida State safety Myron Rolle is a kid whose accomplishments seem too good to be true: A starter since his freshman year, an All-America candidate, a pre-med student who got his bachelor’s degree in two and a half years and is already working on his master’s.And now Rolle is poised to do something really extraordinary: Make football second in his life, after his aspirations to earn a Rhodes Scholarship.The final interviews for this year’s Rhodes Scholar candidates are on November 22, which is also the day of Florida State’s game against Maryland. And although that game could decide the ACC Atlantic Division, Rolle says becoming a Rhodes Scholar comes first, and he’ll skip the game if he has to."The more I do mock interviews here at school and think about what I want to say, I have grown to really want to be a Rhodes Scholar,” Rolle tells Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated. “If it takes missing a game, that’s what it takes.”Florida State coach Bobby Bowden says he completely supports that decision, even though it means going into a big conference game without a starting safety."We couldn’t be more proud of this happening for one of our players,” Bowden said. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance and you wouldn’t dare deny him that. I just hope he wins it."Kickoff time of the Florida State-Maryland game has not been determined, so there’s a chance that Rolle could both attend the interview and play in the game. But if he has to choose, he’s choosing his academic goals over football.