MANHATTAN
The vast majority of football players at Cerritos College are there for reasons they care not to admit.
Bad grades, criminal records, minimal talent … Frank Mazzotta has seen it all during his 38-year tenure as football coach at the California junior college.
But Mazzotta said D.J. Reed, now a sophomore Kansas State defensive back who played for him last season, doesn’t have a single one of those issues.
“He is just a really great kid, and he was something special at this level,” Mazzotta said in a phone interview. “He was a good student, a good guy, there wasn’t a reason he was in junior college like 90 percent of the kids we coach.