Notre Dame CB Target Terrion Arnold Already Looking At Big Picture

Terrion Arnold‍ is an elite athlete who was blessed with immense talent, that much is clear by the fact that he’s already garnered scholarship offers from some of the country’s top football and basketball programs.

The 2021 Florida cornerback/guard has worked to maximize those talents through training and he will continue to do so, but he’s also already being advised to seriously consider the other factors that go into becoming a prominent athlete and the importance of those long-term.

“He’s very focused on the different aspects of his image and what a brand can do for him from a school standpoint and what the degrees from each school can do for him,” says trainer/advisor Travis Norton. “He’s focused on not just playing, but leaving a legacy he can capitalize on afterward.”

Norton says he and those around Arnold talk to him about those things on a daily basis.

“We talk to him about how you present yourself to the public, how you move along inside society, what your interpersonal actions with women are like,” says Norton. “Just different stuff like that we talk about every day.

“We make sure he’s very grounded as far as community service too. He does stuff with his church. He’ll go and help out with kids who are under 12.”

With Arnold having proven he’ll put in the physical work, his team is trying to get a head start on the other aspects of being successful.

“We’re just trying to mature him overall to the point where he’s already like a junior in college by the time he gets there,” says Norton. “That’s the goal.

“It’s more so about how you’re impacting everybody around you. Because I know you’re going to take care of who you are as a player, that’s what we train for. It’s the little intangibles like that that are going to catapult you to who you’re going to be after your career, so your playing days take care of you.”

Coming from Florida, there are plenty of examples of athletes who didn’t maximize their earning potential.

“It’s not even just the ones who go broke,” Norton explains. “It’s ‘What do I do after this?’ They never took care of their image enough for that image to continue to pay them.”

His team is exposing Arnold to “the right people,” including former NFL players, who can share things they wished they know when they were his age.

There are no “sure things,” but Arnold is certainly giving himself every chance to be successful.