Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, August 13, 1993 TAG: 9308130043
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By ANDREA KUHN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LEXINGTON LENGTH: Medium
Schug arrived at VMI for military training Aug. 1 and left Aug. 4. He said he decided the military school was not for him.
"I started thinking about if I wanted to be in that atmosphere or not for the whole year, and I decided I didn't," said Schug, a two-time member of the All-Timesland football team.
Schug broke his national letter of intent, so he won't be eligible to play football anywhere else this season. He said he planned to attend Virginia Tech part-time and focus on finding a place to play football or soccer next year.
"I just put myself under so much pressure to decide where to go, and VMI was the only place that offered me any [scholarship] money," he said. "I probably just didn't take enough time to decide."
The 6-foot-2, 210-pound tight end was a member of the Indians' 1992 football team that finished second in New River Valley District, and he was the goalie on Blacksburg's Group AA state championship soccer team.
During his three-year varsity career, Schug caught 110 passes for 1,900 yards and 22 touchdowns. He set district and school records for receptions and yards, and he played in the state all-star game this year. In soccer, he was a second-team All-Timesland selection.
The other VMI signees who arrived for military training and then left were Jamie Harless, a defensive lineman from Abingdon; Beau Herbst, a linebacker from Salem High School in Virginia Beach; Alister Pinckney, a fullback from Gaithersburg, Md.; and Pete Dalton, a lineman from Lynchburg who played at Brookville High School.
by CNB