Green Ready to Eat Up Some Real Estate

Andre Green seems to have a thing for real estate. Buying. Selling. Appraising. The usual real estate type stuff. "I've seen my aunt do it for years," says the 6-3 incoming freshman from Fayetteville GA, who will attempt to make his debut at quarterback for the 2001 Blue Raider squad. "And it just seems like something I've always wanted to do. I think you could make a really good living at it" He should get into the ins and outs of how the real estate game works while attending college, learn all the vocabulary, and formulas, and the like. But Green already knows one phase of the real estate game that no one has to teach him and he won't learn in any classroom. Collecting it. As in one-yard at a time. Rated as one of the top quarterback prospects in the country, Green collected yardage by the truck load while leading Sandy Creek High School in Fayetteville. Only in existence since the early -90s, and having never seen post-season play, Green helped change all that for the new school and the relatively new football team. "My first year to play quarterback, we made it to the playoffs," he said. "And the next year we went even further." And it was Green's yardage production that helped put the school in their new-found position of playoff contender. His junior year saw him move the ball as efficiently through the air as he did on the ground. Fifteen touchdowns, 2,100 rushing yards, and 1,400 passing yards later, and Sandy Creek had posted its best-ever record. Green's senior season saw him throw for 800 yards and rush for 1,000 more as he led his squad to a 9-3 mark. The season also saw Green earn Fayette County Offensive Player of the Year by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. But the numbers and the post-season awards were mere eye candy for the football aficionados. What really drew the likes of NC State, UAB, Memphis, Georgia Southern and East Carolina to the Green household during the recruiting wars was a certain comparison. "They said I reminded them of a young Michael Vick or a Donovan McNabb," said Green. Indeed it was the possibility of developing into that type of quarterback that drew Green to MT. "I can be a drop back kind of passer," he said. "But I wanted to come to MT because I knew Coach McCollum's offense can be wide open. And I think that's the best type of offense for me. I really don't have to change the way I play. I just want to get up there and get better and help score a lot of points. What they do is really geared toward my abilities." Those abilities include not only the arm strength to get the ball deep down the field, but also a 4.4, 40 time. "I guess if I have a weakness, it would be lack of experience at this level," said Green. "But I just want to get up there and learn the plays as fast as I can, and challenge for a starting spot."

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