Get your head out of the gutter, fool...
Clark Atlanta University is a Division 2 school and is part of the HBCU family of schools.
Ken Sugiura of the AJC introduces us to a man trying to put his life back together and the coach who is giving him the chance...
In February 2008, Jeff Chaskin was pulled over by Duluth police. He said he was charged with possession of cocaine, which was a violation of his probation for an earlier cocaine possession conviction.
He was married with eight children. He had a lawn-care business that he started when he moved to metro Atlanta from Michigan in 1995, he said. He had been hooked on alcohol and drugs since 1984. Then, it cost him a spot on the Wayne State University football team in Detroit. Now, it was about to cost him his marriage. He had been arrested several times.
He spent eight months in jail and decided that part of putting his life back together was playing football. CAU Head Coach Ted Bahhur, who is 42, initially thought Chaskin was nuts.
Now, Chaskin is the back-up tight end for the Panthers.
"I just want to make [family and friends] proud one day," he said. "That's all."
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