With the Jim Thorpe Award and All-American honors on his resume, Terrell Buckley embarked on what became a 14-year journey in the NFL in the spring of 1992.
Buckley also left Florida State following his junior season with 2 1/2 years worth of classroom credits and a conviction to eventually earn his undergraduate degree. The school's all-time interceptions leader began the task of chipping away at the hours he needed to graduate while a member of the Miami Dolphins during the spring of 1996.
Distance-learning classes through FSU and those taken at Nova University and community colleges added up. And Buckley is now a semester away from earning his degree. Back on the Florida State campus where he attends class and serves as an assistant student-manager, Buckley is poised for one more big play - graduation on Dec. 15.
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