Former
hotshot basketball point guard and
football quarterback at
Hampton High School in
Hampton,
Virginia. As a
high school senior in
1997-98, was named
All-American in both sports, and
verbally committed in September
1997 to attend/play for
University of Virginia. Signed a binding
letter of intent to go to
University of North Carolina in February
1998, which pissed UVa fans off to no end -- they actually voted him
Sports Jerk of the Year in a
Tank McNamara comic strip for this, kinda
comical if it wasn't so
sad. (Second place in the voting went to "UVa fans who skewed the poll for Ronald Curry.")
When he got to Carolina, he proceeded to have a bad freshman season in football, as he was thrown into the fire when the first-string QB was injured in game 1, didn't play much in basketball, then got hurt early in his sophomore football season. Meanwhile, as a redshirt freshman, a player who grew up across Interstate 64 from Curry in Newport News, and played in the same HS district as him, Michael Vick, was lighting the world on fire at Virginia Tech, leading the masses to wonder why they hadn't heard of Vick sooner.
Answer: Curry. Funny how things even out, isn't it? Recent Carolina press releases have had Curry complaining about how "Vick stole the spotlight from me, and I want it back." Sorry, Ronnie.