Robbie Tolan’s criminal justice degree from Prairie View A&M University is over ten years in the making, but what happened during a significant portion of that time was not a part of Tolan’s overall plan. “I played baseball here at Prairie View and helped my team to win PV’s first-ever SWAC [Southwestern Athletic Conference] Championship back in 2006. The Washington Nationals drafted me the next year. In 2008, I came home for the holidays, and my cousin and I went on a late-night Jack-in-the-Box run. But when we got back home, we were confronted by the police, and I was accused of stealing my own car,” said Tolan.
