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"Former NFL quarterback Vince Young will be returning to his alma mater, but not to play as the award-winning, championship-winning team leader he once was.\nThe University of Texas hired Young as a part of its Division of Diversity and Community Engagement on Thursday. In his new role, Young will be a development officer for the program's alumni relations, focusing on raising money for first-generation and low-income students.\nSee also: Washington NFL Team Releases Ad Defending Controversial Name\nIn June, Young retired from NFL football at the age of 31. He played six seasons in the NFL on a number of teams, but started his professional career on the Tennessee Titans in 2006, where he would make the Pro Bowl twice in his time with the Titans. He was released from the Titans in 2011, where he would then join the Philadelphia Eagles \u2014 which would later be his last professional start.\nAfter leaving the Eagles in 2012, Young struggled to find a starting role on a team. In 2013, he was cut from the Green Bay Packers at the end of the preseason. He then joined the Cleveland Browns in May after a three-day minicamp tryout. The Browns signed veteran quarterback Tyler Thigpen on the same day as Young, and four days later, the team released Young after drafting the young football star, \"Johnny Football\" Manziel.\nMany wondered what happened to such a talented prospect \u2014 the No. 3 overall draft pick in 2006 \u2014 that would leave him struggling to even find back-up quarterback positions. It was likely the baggage \u2014 injuries, reported emotional instability and financial woes \u2014 Young carried with him.\nIn 2008, Young went missing for four hours, leaving his phone at home. Many believed his emotional well-being was at risk after being booed by fans during a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars and only returned to the field after then-coach Jeff Fisher made him; four plays later, he would sprain his left medial collateral ligament.\nAfter Fisher called the police, Young was found and agreed to meet with Fisher and the police at the team's training facilities.\nOff the field, Young was at the center of various lawsuits and financial issues. In 2012, the Associated Press reported that Young had \"just a fraction of the money he received from a contract that guaranteed him $26 million.\" He also faced other financial problems that year when Young sued his former agent, Major Adams, and a financial planner, Robbie Peoples, after a New York lending firm, Pro Player Funding LLC, notified him that a loan for $1.9 million obtained in his name during the NFL lockout that year had defaulted. Young alleged that Adams and Peoples misappropriated $5.5 million of funds.\nThroughout the suits, Young denied that he was broke, according to the Houston Chronicle.\nIn January, Young filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and a month later, in February, reached a settlement with creditors.\nBefore his NFL woes, growing up in Houston was difficult for Young. In an interview with Esquire in 2009, Young described memories from his childhood, in particular, looking through a hole in his bedroom door and seeing \"[s]moking, dancing, having sex [...] [p]eople so strung out that they're stuttering,\" after his grandmother would leave for a graveyard shift at work.\n\"That was my window on the world,\" Young told Esquire. \"And I thought to myself, I don't know what else is gonna happen to me, but I do not want to be like that.\"\nYoung described how his mother would smoke, do drugs and drink alcohol, but always go to work the next morning. He described how when the water would go out, he would take jugs to his friend's house to fill up and carry back home.\nThough it seems like much of his early life and his professional career after the Titans was a struggle, Young's college career at the University of Texas was quite the opposite. Overall, Young was 30-2 with the Longhorns. Most notably, in 2005, he led the team in its 13-0 record and to a BCS Championship. Along the way, he received many accolades, including the Davey O'Brien Award \u2014 the national award given to the best NCAA quarterback that year \u2014 and was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy in 2005.\nSo, in a sort of poetic turn, Young will return to the University of Texas, the place where he had his greatest professional successes, in his new role reaching out to low-income students, on Sept 1.\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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