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A bye week for the No. 19 Michigan football team means junior defensive lineman Enow Etta won\u2019t be barreling through a 300-pound offensive lineman Saturday. Instead, an arguably more loathsome task is in store for the Earth and Environmental Science major this weekend: chemistry homework.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor my major, (balancing school and football) is a little tough because I take like chemistry, so I have a lot of lectures and laboratories I have to do,\u201d Etta said Tuesday. \u201c\u2026 But it\u2019s just like the stories of life, like sacrifice. I\u2019m not gonna have a lot of time to do extra stuff, squeezing in film and then school and football. \u2026 I think that\u2019s a sacrifice, because when it gets to the off season, I\u2019m going to look back and be like, \u2018You know what? It was all worth it.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
Sacrifice is not only the \u201cstory of life\u201d as Etta sees it \u2014 it\u2019s been a big part of his career with the Wolverines as well. Coming to Michigan meant moving far from his home in Texas, something that he admitted makes it difficult for his family to see him play. Though his mom and sister did make the drive to Norman, Okla., and his dad has the Ohio State game circled on his calendar.<\/p>\n
In a pure football sense, too, Etta has had to make concessions to play for the Wolverines. For starters, he played just three games his freshman year to preserve his redshirt status. But that\u2019s not uncommon, even for a prospect who was ranked<\/a> just outside the top-100 in his class. At that point, Etta was at least playing his desired position.\u00a0<\/p>\n