Back in early July, Texas wide receiver Marquise Goodwin decided that he would forgo a season in football with the Longhorns in favor of concentrating on track with plans to burn a redshirt.
Well, scratch that.
Goodwin, trying to make a bid for the 2012 U.S. Olympic long jump team, has decided to move back to football. The junior recently failed to reach the long jump finals -- by one centimeter -- in the World Championships in South Korea.
“When I was overseas, I was missing football, the guys and being a part of the team so much,” Goodwin said in a statement released by the Austin-American Statesman. “I thought about how they were getting ready for the season, working hard and pulling together, but it really hit me when I was in the airport on my way back from Seoul. People were texting and tweeting me with updates from the game. I don’t know how anybody could feel what I was feeling at that time. I just was missing being there terribly and didn’t want to wait a year to play again. I just wanted to get back out there and didn’t want to be saying ‘what if’ after the season.”
After Texas’ 34-9 victory over Rice, Goodwin says he contacted head coach Mack Brown about returning. As a sophomore, Goodwin caught 31 passes for 324 yards and a touchdown.