COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- About once a week, Texas A&M junior sack specialist Von Miller checks in with the man who holds the record he's chasing.
The 6-foot-3, 240-pound Miller leads the nation with 13½ sacks
as the Aggies (5-3, 2-2 Big 12) head into Saturday's game at
Colorado (2-6, 1-3). He needs seven more sacks to pass the Texas
A&M single-season mark of 20, set by defensive end Jacob Green in
1979.
Green now works for the school's athletic fundraising foundation
and has an office at Kyle Field. Miller's father, also named Von,
asked Green to mentor his son when he arrived at A&M in 2007, and
Green happily obliged.
The two talk about football, school and life, and Miller tries
to absorb every word from Green, who played 13 seasons in the NFL.
Naturally, the record has been a topic of conversation lately, but
Miller gets the feeling that Green wants him to break it as much as
anyone.
The Aggies have four games left in the regular season, and Green
hopes he's the first person to congratulate Miller when he sets a
new mark.