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J.D. Moore's daily struggle at LSU: Juggling football and architecture

BATON ROUGE, La. – For someone whose primary objective on the football field is to blow stuff up, J.D. Moore’s career path might seem somewhat contradictory.

The LSU fullback wants to become an architect, pursuing an interest he's had since childhood.

“I did Legos, building blocks,” Moore said. “I used to get two-by-fours and nail them together, not really knowing what I was doing. I just always wanted to build and do things with my hands.”

There was a problem with following that interest into an architecture degree track at LSU, however. A five-year undergraduate program with large time demands and a high dropout rate, architecture was hardly the easiest academic pursuit for a student who also participates in a little extracurricular activity called SEC football.