MontereyVol
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Hat called you out on the main board so you decided to come over here and pick on the kids. This has been in the works for months. Where was your outrage before today?
I had a good friend tell me I should go as far west as possible, Hood said. But I dont think that its a situation that I should try to avoid. It was heinous. It was awful. Any bad thing you could say about it would probably fit it.
But I think its not trying to put it in a corner and forget it ever happened. I think you have to take it and learn from it and grow from it. Ive got a debt to (the victim) that I can never repay, just trying to throw it away like it never happened would be the worst thing I could do for her.
Hood acknowledged that some will not be able to see past his mistakes. He is confident, though, that he’ll be able to handle any criticism that comes his way, in large part because of his faith.
“I know people are going to form their opinions about me. Everybody’s entitled to that. The only thing I can do is prove who I am now,” Hood said. “Every day is a new battle. There’s a new person I can meet. They may have a prejudice set up against me. But I have a chance to prove who I am every day and not only to be a witness to some of the correctional facilities and the jobs they’re doing of putting out rehabilitated people, but more directly be a witness for Christ for the sake of his church.”
Pretty strong support there.“It was probably about a two-week process for us in terms of talking to a lot of people, but it was obviously a little bit of a leap of faith for us,” Catholic Principal Dickie Sompayrak said. “Daniel’s just been incredible. Football aside, as just a student and a school citizen at Knoxville Catholic … he’s been a blessing to our school.”
Sompayrak also went on to say, “We’ll put our school’s reputation on our recommendation for Daniel Hood.”