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Earlier this week, a veteran Big Ten football player Publication He retired from the game of football.

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Cormac Sampson, a hostile lineman for the Wisconsin Badgers, is calling it a vocation. In an explanation to Badger247,

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Sampson said he graduated in the spring and is deciding to zero in on his vocation as a teacher.

Here's what he said, via 247Sports:

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"I have graduated this previous spring and I felt like for my expert vocation as a teacher

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I expected to seek after that more completely than having one more year in school football,

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Sampson said. "It was completely my decision and I'm pleased with what

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 I cultivated as a Badger. 

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I anticipate establishing on the folks this forthcoming year."

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Sampson was available in his university profession with six beginnings in 32 games for the Badgers.