re: How did Dee Anderson lose 34 lbs but fail the Conditioning Req?

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That goal was almost derailed several times by a mystery illness that first showed up midway through his senior year of high school and persisted for nearly three years.

“To this day I don’t really know what happened,” Moss said. “I went to sleep, and when I woke up I was sick. I was hurting — my legs, my abdomen, my groin. Moss’ high school coach, Joey Florence, took him to the emergency room, then to a series of doctors throughout north Texas, none able to find what was wrong. All the while Moss, who was then a blue-chip recruit, couldn’t eat. He could hardly walk, and he certainly couldn’t play football.

Off to a slow start

“This is one of the best athletes in the country, and we can’t figure out why he can’t walk,” Florence said. “It was the oddest thing in my coaching career I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of kids get injured. I’ve been doing this 20 years, but that was the dang-dest thing. It was scary, just watching him shrivel up like that.”

The pain persisted through Moss’ first two seasons at the University of Florida. He received a medical redshirt one season and played in only one game his second year in Gainesville. It wasn’t until the summer of 2005, when his weight had dipped to 220 pounds, that he was diagnosed with a bacterial infection in his pelvic bone and prescribed seven weeks worth of intravenous antibiotics

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