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"\n\nThis Is Your Captain Speaking\n\nAfter USC routed Penn State in the Rose Bowl, Mark Sanchez, the Trojans' 22-year-old quarterback, quietly began flirting with the notion of turning pro early. The unexpected announcement\u2014\"It was just a shock to people,\" he says\u2014led to a spat with coach Pete Carroll (who publicly opposed the decision) and then the strange purgatory fated for once beloved players who break the heart of an entire campus. \"UCLA and Notre Dame fans are the new Mark Sanchez fans,\" he jokes.\n\nWell, if Sanchez, an Orange County native, was having second thoughts about bolting prematurely, some white-hot attention from the NFL was enough to reassure him that he'd made the right choice. In April, after hustling from an undergrad class called Argumentation and Advocacy (he gave a presentation lobbying, naturally, for a college-football playoff system), Sanchez threw passes for more than a hundred reps from pro franchises, solidifying his spot as one of the top two QB prospects in the country. Not to mention the Sprint endorsement deal and the EA Sports photo (his face will be on the EA NCAA 10 Football video-game box).\n\nLike all NFL rookies, Sanchez now faces a punishing time at training camp, where he'll no doubt be hazed by his new teammates. We're going to go out on a limb and assume that these photos\u2014of Sanchez in formfitting lifeguard-wear\u2014might not help. (\"I wouldn't necessarily be caught in those shorts,\" Sanchez says, laughing.) However, any inevitable haranguing wasn't much on his mind during the shoot, as he was caught up in the embrace of fast-rising supermodel Hilary Rhoda. \"Yeah, she's, uh\u2026Well, obviously she's gorgeous,\" Sanchez says, grasping for words. \"She was just giving me pointers the whole time. She made me feel really\u2026comfortable.\" Hey Sanchez, give GQ a call and we'll put you two kids in touch. Supermodels like quarterbacks, we hear. Just ask Tom Brady."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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