1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,280 [MUSIC PLAYING] 2 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:04,360 The road home is at once unique and universal. 3 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:06,640 A straight shot or wandering path, 4 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,120 it all leads to one place for each of us. 5 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,560 A place with a sense of nostalgia, 6 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,240 but a straight line connection to who we are now. 7 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,880 85 miles due south of Charlottesville, 8 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,840 along the Constitution Route on Jefferson Highway, 9 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:24,160 there's a town of just over 500, one without any stoplights, 10 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:26,000 one that's proud of its tradition, 11 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,360 and its people, the seat of Charlotte County, Charlotte 12 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,600 Courthouse, the home of third-year Cavalier, Joe Reed. 13 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:40,720 Today, as with most days, you'll find a bustling lunchtime crowd 14 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:42,120 at the heart of town. 15 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,160 The village drive-in serving up All-American fare 16 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:47,200 from a time-seasoned grill, and the stories 17 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,360 you find in every small town. 18 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:50,560 There are no strangers here. 19 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,320 And the perfect setting to tell tales of athletes past. 20 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:56,880 He was always a leader. 21 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,880 When he was six and seven years old, 22 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,600 he was real timid and shy, if you can imagine that. 23 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,440 And I'm not sure what I thought at the time. 24 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:05,040 If, he was going to make it. 25 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,600 But every year you can see Joseph grow, 26 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,400 and mature, and become a natural leader. 27 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,160 When we practice, everybody comes there and gets loose. 28 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:15,920 But what I always noticed when Joseph 29 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,960 walked in the ballpark, whoever came up next-- it could 30 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,840 be the best player, or the next best player on the team, 31 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:23,200 or the worst player on the team-- 32 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,760 but whoever showed up next, he got the ball 33 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,600 and he warmed up with that kid. 34 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,520 And it just shows from the very beginning 35 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,080 that he realized that to be a great team, 36 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:33,680 all the players have to get better. 37 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,240 I don't know if he even realized what he was doing. 38 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:37,760 It maybe just came naturally to him. 39 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,280 At UVA, our whole motto is "Earned, Not Given." 40 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,560 And I feel that it was the same way growing up here. 41 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,040 I remember-- this was my freshman year playing football. 42 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,040 And Kevin McCargo gave me this shirt. 43 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:50,480 It was an extra large. 44 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,160 And I was like, Kevin can I get a smaller shirt? 45 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,400 He was like, you're going to grow into that one, 46 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,400 or you're going to have to earn a smaller shirt. 47 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,720 So, yeah, I remember that one. 48 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:02,640 Coach Hanson called me. 49 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,440 Said, tell me about this Reed kid. 50 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:06,800 Said, we got him out here at camp, 51 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:08,400 and Coach London wants to sign him 52 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,200 right now as a ninth grader. 53 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,040 He ran that well. 54 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:14,740 What is your 40 now? 55 00:02:14,740 --> 00:02:15,200 4.5. 56 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:15,720 4.5 57 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:16,800 Yes, sir. 58 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:17,700 4.5, though. 59 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:19,700 People say everybody's 4.5. 60 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:20,900 You're not 4.5. 61 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:25,300 All these people say they can run 4.5 So 4.5' is fast. 62 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:27,500 Coach Powell was 5.4. 63 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:29,500 So you got him on the speed, Joseph. 64 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:31,800 He was my starting quarterback, and Joseph 65 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,880 was my starting quarterback the last year I coached. 66 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:37,680 I taught him everything he knows. 67 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,800 [LAUGHTER] 68 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,200 In my lifetime, you might see a UVA hat 69 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:48,480 or a UVA sweater to some more wealthy person from Charlotte 70 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:50,400 County was able to go there. 71 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:53,840 But you see UVA stuff all over Charlotte County now. 72 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:55,360 And there's one reason why. 73 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:56,640 It's Joseph Reed. 74 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:01,440 Every young person sees him have success. 75 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,680 Now they know they can go and have success. 76 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,760 I mean, we're a very small county. 77 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,680 Not a lot of people go on and have great athletic success. 78 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,800 But everybody sees that they can because of people like Joseph. 79 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,040 Town is just a part of home. 80 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:18,720 Family makes up the rest. 81 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,600 Take Patrick Henry Highway to Germantown Road 82 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,360 past Amish farmsteads to the home of the Reeds. 83 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,440 Carlton and Tonya raised sons CJ and Joseph here. 84 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,640 It's hard to reconcile his loud on-field performance 85 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,280 with the quiet home life he enjoys. 86 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,920 But it suits him, and always has. 87 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:41,200 Here, nightly chores of feeding pigs and tending 88 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,560 to hunting beagles are just as important as route trees 89 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:46,080 and scouting film. 90 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,560 Few here ultimately have the opportunities 91 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:50,080 Reed has been given. 92 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:51,680 But he's earned every one of them. 93 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,800 When I played the sport, that was my dream-- 94 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,640 to go to a big time college. 95 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:02,240 To play professional. 96 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,680 You know, and just taking care of your family. 97 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,800 But in our small town, those dreams get dampered. 98 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:15,200 You forget about other aspects of your life, 99 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,360 and you try to make that family. 100 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,680 I kind of put the sports aspect on the back burner, 101 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,120 tried to make some dreams. 102 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,880 I never looked back. 103 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,760 When we learned that we were with child, 104 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,520 I would talk to our stomach. 105 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,560 And we read books. 106 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,640 We talked about sports. 107 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,120 Assuming that this child was going to like sports. 108 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:37,840 Yeah. 109 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:38,480 Boy or girl. 110 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,960 When they was big enough to move around, 111 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,440 we had some type of ball in their hand. 112 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,320 We've always been local fans. 113 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,280 That's who we pull for, win or loss. 114 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,920 You know, Joseph, as big as he remembers, 115 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,920 he wanted to play for the University of Virginia. 116 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:57,920 I think he is a mama's boy. 117 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,880 But I can say that about both my boys. 118 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:02,640 You know, being mama's boys. 119 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,360 But that's 'cause mama holds them so tight. 120 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,040 [LAUGHING] 121 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,480 Didn't do anything halfway. 122 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,760 He never like to be called out for doing something wrong. 123 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:18,240 Or not to the best of his ability. 124 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,400 Everything always had to be just so for him. 125 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,240 And it still is. 126 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,400 I always think that he tries to outperform himself. 127 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,840 What can I do today better than I did yesterday? 128 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:33,360 After it's all said and done, he doesn't need a lot of fanfare. 129 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,520 He doesn't care for a lot of attention. 130 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,240 He just wants to quietly go away. 131 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,760 As the sunset paints the summer sky, no trip home 132 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:53,840 would be complete without a favorite Charlotte County 133 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:57,040 pastime, frog gaping. 134 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:28,720 We let one get away. 135 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,120 But I'm gonna save the day. 136 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:32,880 So we're not going home hungry. 137 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:33,920 And that's how it's done. 138 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:42,960 Where we love is home. 139 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,320 Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. 140 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,440 By now, Joe Reed is back in Charlottesville. 141 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,320 A world away from his dogs, his pigs, 142 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,560 the corn fields that feed the commonwealth, 143 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,240 and a family that realizes their dreams along with his own. 144 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,240 And yet, Joe Reed has brought Charlotte County 145 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:01,680 to Charlottesville. 146 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,640 A product of his environment, he is the quintessential Virginia 147 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:06,320 Cavalier. 148 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:08,400 Sometimes it's very surreal. 149 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,400 Like, you have to stop and just think. 150 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:13,840 Is this really happening? 151 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:18,240 Our son is playing Division One football on the national stage, 152 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,800 in front of so many people. 153 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,480 But at the same time, he's at a place where he's 154 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,120 getting a top notch education. 155 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:32,960 As exciting as the football part is, as a mother, 156 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,440 the academic part excites me a lot more. 157 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:42,800 I wanted him to go wherever he was going to be happy. 158 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,400 What he's found in Charlottesville at UVA has made him very happy. 159 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:50,480 Joseph Reed. Charlotte Courthouse, Virginia.