Three headed monster refers to a mythical beast with three heads. In modern sports nomenclature it is often appropriated to mean “a threat of three persons” or a “person with three skillful attributes”. I think both are a mistake in this context, and here’s why:
My guess is that Malik has an engaging History professor and he’s finally excited about the subject for the first time since he learned the Greek alphabet in 9th grade. It’s opened up his eyes to the opportunity of teaching after football, and brought him back to an old dream of shaping young hearts and minds with intentional, passionate mentoring.
Still seeing himself as distinct from his current academic setting of a university, he is likely considering an education model that attempts to do more than train students who are more or less in the twighlight of their scholastic career. Because of this, I presume he will look to join the faculty of a school that practices Classical Education, which focuses on training the whole student (ie, person) rather than a bunch of subjects.
This assessment is pretty easily confirmed by the comments of Deejay Dallas and Brevin Jordan. Dallas is watching this transition occur in real time, having seen the dead hearted apathy that Rosier lived in last year. He’s bearing witness to Rosier’s transition from middling student last year to the charismatic educational visionary of today.
Jordan’s tweet is not the same in form but speaks to the same reality. If we know anything about Jordan’s accolades in high school, it’s that he was a 5* AP Honor Student in History, and is expected to major in something other than sports (because Sports is not a major offered at any university). Jordan is seeing the new, pure Rosier, apart from any academic shortcomings last year, and is inspired by the raw rabidity with which he approaches the Roman conquest of Gaul.
All of this is moot is Rosier doesn’t perform on the field of academic research, but overall it is very encouraging.
All of this is to throw LSU off the scent of Deejay, Jordan and AR on the field at the same time, because that is def what this is about.