Marvin Terry will indeed get his chance at starting a collegiate career, albeit at a much lower level than he once thought a few months ago.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Terry signed this past week with Trinity Valley Community College. “In an email, Trinity Valley football coach Brad Smiley (pictured) said he and his staff were excited to help Terry pursue the goal of playing major college football,” the News wrote.
As noted by the newspaper, there was a school of thought that, because of an incident earlier this year, Terry might not get an opportunity at any level.
In late January, Terry was charged with family violence assault with intent to impede breathing or circulation as well as continuous family violence assault, both felonies, in an incident earlier that month that resulted in his second arrest in less than a year. “Terry allegedly pushed the victim [his girlfriend] down, hit her numerous times with his fists and kicked her in the ribs, according to the case’s probable cause affidavit,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote, adding, “Terry told her he would kill her and caused her to fear for her life.”
He also faced another charge of misdemeanor family violence assault that causes bodily injury and insufficient bond for family violence assault. In that latter incident he was accused of pushing his girlfriend and mother of his daughter, then eight months pregnant, in the face last July.
In April, he reached a plea agreement that granted deferred adjudication, placing him on two years of probation. If there are no further incidents his record will be expunged.
Terry was a three-star 2016 recruit rated as the No. 31 weakside defensive end in the country and the No. 75 player at any position in the state of Texas. The Dallas high school product, who became Missouri head coach Barry Odom‘s first commit in December, was sitting in a jail cell on National Signing Day this past February and did not sign with Mizzou as the football program moved on from him following his January arrest.