{"id":95398,"date":"2025-07-27T00:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95398\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T00:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:29:13","slug":"louisville-qb-miller-moss-gives-back-by-hosting-football-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95398\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisville QB Miller Moss gives back by hosting football camp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Miller Moss<\/a> reared back and fired. The 23-year-old\u2019s short and zippy receivers in oversized red jerseys leaped to grab the ball.<\/p>\n

In the sea of red, one player emerged with the ball, lifting his arm in celebration. The scene was familiar, Moss throwing a touchdown pass in Los Angeles to a teammate donning his home colors \u2014 and celebrating in the end zone.<\/p>\n

Yet, on Saturday morning at Beverly Hills High, the celebrating player was a boy \u2014 not even half the size of the 6-foot-2 signal-caller \u2014 and the cause was bigger: the now-Louisville quarterback hosting a youth football camp for girls and boys to benefit Palisades fire<\/a> relief efforts.<\/p>\n

For Moss, the last year was far from what he expected.<\/p>\n

In November during his fourth season at USC, Moss lost his starting quarterback role<\/a> to Jayden Maiava<\/a> after nine games, 18 touchdowns and nine interceptions. Then, in January, as he prepared a move to Kentucky to finish out his collegiate career<\/a> away from home, the wildfires ravaged the Palisades. His childhood home burned to the ground, leaving just a basketball court he had often played on for hours in its destructive wake.<\/p>\n

Moss knew he had to do something for his community. Even if he was hurting from the impacts on his family, Moss still wanted to help others.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis camp has kind of a personal note for me just in terms of being from the Palisades, having a ton of friends and family from that area,\u201d said Moss, who made passes to 35 campers in drills Saturday. \u201cI think any way that you can exercise your platform to do good and to help the community, especially when it has that personal note, is always a positive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Louisville <\/p>\n

Louisville quarterback Miller Moss throws a pass at his youth football camp at Beverly Hills High on Saturday.<\/p>\n

(Benjamin Royer \/ For The Times)<\/p>\n

Garrett Pomerantz, USC outside linebacker and Moss\u2019 former roommate, remembered visiting his friend and his family while they were cooped up at a hotel after the Palisades fire.<\/p>\n

Pomerantz said it was the first time he saw Moss depressed and needing emotional support. He said Moss isn\u2019t one to dwell in the details, adding that he\u2019s not surprised by his willingness to step up for his community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just Miller in a nutshell, like he\u2019s always trying to help others,\u201d said Pomerantz, one of the many volunteers at Moss\u2019 youth football camp. \u201cHe worries about others, worries about us as roommates and makes sure we\u2019re always doing good. Whenever you need someone to talk to, he\u2019s the guy you\u2019d want to talk to.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Moss put on a silver tuxedo and took part in Atlantic Coast Conference media day in Charlotte, N.C., to discuss his move from USC to Louisville for his final year of collegiate eligibility.<\/p>\n

While Moss said he was grateful to play at USC, he said he\u2019s drawing from positives as he meshes with a new team and works with Louisville coach Jeff Brohm and his staff. Louisville finished 9-4 last season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hadn\u2019t been in that situation, probably since I was 18 years old,\u201d Moss said about the adjustment period being a transfer quarterback. \u201cI give the team, the locker room, a ton of credit in terms of just welcoming me with open arms and making me feel like I was at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Louisville <\/p>\n

Louisville quarterback Miller Moss instructs a couple of players at his youth football camp at Beverly Hills High on Saturday.<\/p>\n

(Benjamin Royer \/ For The Times)<\/p>\n

On how he\u2019s adjusting to Brohm and the coaching staff: \u201cHe\u2019s been phenomenal. His dedication, not only to being the best coach he can be, but to be able to invest in relationships with his players is really unique. He\u2019s a genuinely good human being that cares about the development of us and cares about having a relationship outside of merely the one that\u2019s player-coach based.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moss said that no matter where he\u2019s playing, Southern California is always going to be his home. He was happy to return from ACC introduction and give back to his community.<\/p>\n

Michelle Bellamy, a single mother whose condo burned down in the Palisades fire, said she came with her young son as a relaxed introduction to playing football \u2014 inspired by the connection shared with Moss and the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really kind and shows what character he has to put this together for these kids that were also affected by the fires and kids that weren\u2019t affected by the fires,\u201d Bellamy said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t surprise me that he has that character, because he comes from a community that cares about one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

As numerous members of Moss\u2019 family watched on, the camaraderie after the Palisades fire was on full display at Beverly Hills High six months later.<\/p>\n

Emily Kovner Moss, Miller\u2019s mom, said it\u2019s hard to know what drives people\u2019s character until you\u2019re placed in moments to act. While she and her family grieved over the loss of their home and community, Miller\u2019s reaction was immediate.<\/p>\n

Like Saturday, playing with the kids \u2014 whose families drove in from as far away as Ontario \u2014 Moss\u2019 first thought was to help.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just incredibly proud that he is who I always hoped he would be,\u201d Kovner Moss said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miller Moss reared back and fired. The 23-year-old\u2019s short and zippy receivers in oversized red jerseys leaped to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,19919,246,45752,62841,1531,316,2961,224,5337,43083,18127,62839,6291,62840,17254,9323,62842,11016],"class_list":{"0":"post-95398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-character","11":"tag-family","12":"tag-football-camp","13":"tag-garrett-pomerantz","14":"tag-good","15":"tag-home","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-louisville","20":"tag-miller","21":"tag-moss","22":"tag-other","23":"tag-palisades-community","24":"tag-palisades-fire","25":"tag-player","26":"tag-touchdown-pass","27":"tag-usc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114922374098675355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}