(Courtesy of Jarvis Johnson)
All the extra incentive that former Rutgers football star Jarvis Johnson needed to graduate from college came from his mother.
"Even when I was playing she was like, 'I know you are into the NFL right now, but there is no way you are going to come back to my house without me getting a college degree to hang on my wall,'" Johnson said. "I was the first one in my family."
Because not everyone shares Johnson's mother -- or the self-motivation that led him to earn a Bachelor's degree in administration and justice at Rutgers and a master's in counseling at Tiffin University -- he and former University of Miami professor Dr.