Joseph Miller '22 Recruiting Profile

My overall collegiate goals is to continue my education further and play football for as long as I am able.  I don't think I fully understood what my "senior year" would mean to me playing football until that last game.  I have been born and raised in Buford Football.  The game doesn't come any more serious than at Buford.  The intensity of the work, the practices, my teammates, the expectation, you  play better than everybody else or you don't play is an organic living culture at my high school.  We build championship teams on purpose.  Nothing is an accident.  As I am a 5 star long snapper, my gunners are 4 and 5 star athletes.  My punter is 3 star quarterback that his average punt is 60 to 70 yards, I have to motor to get down field to do my job.   There is no allowable breakdown in your job.  Practices are be on the field at 5:30am.  Be back at 3:00pm.  Nothing is overlooked or missed.  And I love it.  I know champions make champions, winning is a habit.  It's an attitude, it must be earned but once earned you never want to let it go.    I have had the privilege to work beside some of the greatest high school football players in the country.  Nothing can prepare you for that type of intensity accept for being in it.   I am used to the work.  I will bring that into my next football career.  I know I am able to do the work.  I like to win.  It's difficult in a personal statement to put the right words to it.  But I know the coaches that take the time to read this understand the grind and the rigor it takes to be on a state championship football team much less on a team that is a three-peat championship team (2019, 2020 and 2021).   I know the work, I love the work.  I know what it takes mentality to be a part of an organization that wins.  The sacrifice and commitment to compete every day.  Our practices, our scout team practices against 18 D1 4 star and 5 star recruits every day.  I understand the requirements of greatness.  I understand my job with two minutes left in a championship game and 4th down and it's my job to punt snap perfectly.  And then get down field and make the tackle to stop the opposing team from getting any yards on the punt return.  That's my job.   I did it.  I'm obsessed with that feeling.   There is nothing in this world that would prepare me for life as the game of football has.  I am in this to learn everything I can from it.   I am football player that loves this game.  I am willing to sacrifice it all to be out there as long as I can.  I have been able to show that same intensity in the classroom.  My history of grades speak for themselves.  I am 4.0 high school student.  All honors and AP classes.  Smart football players are better football players.  I do the work in the classroom no differently than how I do the work on the football field.