"The new head coach of Eureka (Ill.) College finished the football team's laundry earlier in the day. He vacuumed the coaches' offices. The financial-aid office is closed for the weekend, so he didn't constantly deal with players' paperwork, like on most days. So, he sat at a school wrestling match, representing his Division III football program, as he talked. "I don't know anything about wrestling," Dion Jordan said. "I'm still adapting to it all - the small town, the Midwest, the cold.""
"He's 35 now and on his second act, the one with such a good and organized direction you can untether him from those struggles as a Miami Dolphins defensive end. Just like he has. "I'm not 24 years old anymore," he said. "I don't hold myself to the mistakes and the things that happened to me in a different time. I moved on. I'm an adult helping raise and mature college kids now. That's where my mentality is, where my life is right now.""
"No one busted more for the Dolphins than Jordan in recent years. He tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs three times and was suspended for the 2015 season. But you can look at it with perspective all these years later; The Dolphins, not Jordan, traded up from 12th to draft him with the third pick in 2013. The Dolphins, not Jordan, whispered how his size and disruptive game were reminiscent of Jason Taylor."
Dion Jordan is the new head coach at Eureka (Ill.) College and spent a weekend doing tasks like laundry and vacuuming coaches' offices. He attended a school wrestling match as a representative of the Division III football program while noting his unfamiliarity with wrestling and his adaptation to small-town Midwestern life. At 35, he describes himself on a second act focused on organization and mentoring. Jordan acknowledges past mistakes, including three positive tests for performance-enhancing drugs and a 2015 suspension, and notes that teams drafted and promoted him despite those issues. He retired after a three-sack season with San Francisco in 2020.
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