🏈 Alabama player having breakthrough year while privately coping with mom's cancer battle

[Matt Zenitz |]

"I don't really talk to anyone about it. I really just keep it to myself. I really just try to fight through"

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[TUSKtimes]

Second chances don't sound so compromising when you realize that coach Saban is face to face with his kids as they go through life's problems.

 

[BamaFan334]

Good read. I get sad knowing people are fighting something like cancer, because they fight so dang hard for an unknown result and future. Praying for her to have a long future and for her pain to go away.

 

[rick4bama]

Praying for all!

 

[Tidestalker]

Damn. Sometimes we forget these kids are dealing with "real life". He's got to be hanging by a thread.

Hootie was my fav recruit in his class. I thought he could be the next in line of stud first round safeties. While he hasn't been near that level yet, at least he's found the field and made a solid contribution. With Jackson leaving maybe he will step in and do big things. Seriously rooting for him now

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Damn. Sometimes we forget these kids are dealing with "real life". He's got to be hanging by a thread.

Hootie was my fav recruit in his class. I thought he could be the next in line of stud first round safeties. While he hasn't been near that level yet, at least he's found the field and made a solid contribution. With Jackson leaving maybe he will step in and do big things. Seriously rooting for him now

Same here, great story.

 

[bama alum]

Good read! Thanks for posting it.

His mother is more patient than I am. I would have had a lot more difficulty in restraining myself in the face of that stupid bitch than she did.

 

[sean]

keeping him and his family in my thoughts.

and here's to hoping he gets a shot at the "Ball Out" belt by making a big defensive play.

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

Wow....Man so much respect for this kid, prayers for healing & comfort to his mother, Amen.

 

[UAgrad93]

Praying for Hootie and his Mom. I HATE cancer!! Lost my grandmother to it while I was a junior at BAMA.

 

[JoshB]

Second chances don't sound so compromising when you realize that coach Saban is face to face with his kids as they go through life's problems.

Makes people like Finebaum really come off shitty when he was almost demanding that Cam and Hootie be kicked off the team after that incident last year...

Unbelievable story, really hope he gets a chance to truly shine next year. He's played so well this year and with a huge burden on his mind.

 

[Max]

Most people probably know Jones as being one of the two Alabama players arrested in May on drug and weapons charges. The other player was star left tackle Cam Robinson.

The Monroe, La. police department made the arrests after spotting a car occupied by Jones, Robinson and three friends inside a closed park at 2:30 a.m. They found marijuana in the car along with a gun on Jones' lap and one under Robinson's seat.

While police let the three friends go, they arrested Jones and Robinson and, according to Carr, told both that they weren't going to be able to play football again before eventually taking pictures of the two Alabama football players in handcuffs.

Carr says both players later underwent drug tests and neither had any drugs in their system. Neither had any issue with the police prior to the incident either. Yet, three days after the arrest, Carr was at the grocery store with a client when she was approached by a woman that recognized her.

"Aren't you Jessica Carr?," the woman asked.

"Yes, ma'am" Carr responded.

"Your son, he's just a sick sack of shit," the woman said, according to Carr. "What kind of mother are you to raise such a hoodlum?'"

The woman concluded, "This wouldn't have happened if he had went to LSU."