I’ve repetitively apologized for that night dipshit. Enjoy Walker County or whatever awful place that you live.
Not even close, but I’m right that you just can’t help yourself but to cry about all things Bama related
"The end is just gut-wrenching." Didn't read the article, but I assume this is referencing the part where a bunch of Alabama basketball players get together to murder a young mother
Spoiler Two months after a young woman lost her life, has a coach who seems to value humanity and compassion spoken with the victim’s family? “What you ask is a private matter I’m not going to discuss publicly with everybody,” he said. “A lot of this is just hard to deal with, to be honest with you.” Has he tried? “It’s a private matter,” he said. Protecting the future About 200 miles south of Bridgestone Arena, DeCarla Cotton’s Friday evening started with rush-hour Taco Bell. Kaine, her 5-year-old grandson, wanted a chicken quesadilla and a blue raspberry slushie. “For you,” she told him, “I will get in traffic tonight.” Almost two months ago, Cotton had spent a few days thinking about how to tell the boy his mother was gone. She would muster the words, then feel a wave of anger and sorrow about how her daughter died, then flee into the next room before Kaine saw her crying. She’s an angel now, she eventually told him. No, Cotton said, Oats hasn’t reached out. Nor has anyone from Alabama. Doing so now, she said, wouldn’t feel genuine. “Everybody has seen the way he’s talked about what he knew, what he didn’t know,” Cotton said. “It’s a whole mess. Just a mess.” Those surrounding the Alabama basketball program insist it’s their job to protect a young person’s future, to prevent the events and uncertainty of Jan. 15 to stain a life permanently. The same is true in this home outside Birmingham, where Cotton has temporarily suspended her grief amid worries that Kaine will grow up angry and resentful. “Just his future, just overall,” she said. “I worry about how he’s going to cope in the years to come. He’s small, and you kind of explain things visually, but I know there’ll be a day he’s old enough to go to Google and try to figure out things on his own.” She lets out a long sigh. “You want to say the right things to him as a small child,” Cotton continues, “but you want him to understand.” It’s almost impossible, she admits, given the boy’s age and the circumstances surrounding his mother’s death. Earlier that day, Cotton’s husband, Kelvin Heard, had the news on television when a photo of Jamea came on the screen during a report about Alabama’s basketball team. Cotton whisked Kaine out of the room and told Heard to turn off the TV. Among other reasons, Cotton said, she doesn’t want Kaine to blame basketball. He used to talk about being a ninja when he grows up, but now he says he wants to play hoops. Cotton said she doesn’t want him to associate the game with tragedy, even though that will be the theme of whatever NCAA tournament run Alabama may or may not make. Since it was Friday, Cotton let Kaine stay up later than usual and play Roblox on his tablet. When the game ended and Cotton locked the device, Jamea’s picture came up as the wallpaper. Kaine’s eyes filled with tears, and his grandmother wrapped him in a hug. “I miss my mom,” he said. “She’s still in our hearts,” Cotton told him. Then she handed Kaine his light-up teddy bear in an angel costume, suggesting that if he gave it a hug, his mother might feel it. He hugged it, then his grandmother, and she tucked him into bed with a kiss on the cheek. “We always say we’re going to be brave,” she told him, the last thing the boy heard as another long, emotional day ended.
Imagine potentially going against Duke in the ncaa tournament and you are the one a heavy majority of the population is rooting against. Yet, that would be the case.
Jim Nantz giving his necktie to the guy who delivered the murder weapon will be a fitting end for college basketball
He is definitely responsible for the standards of his team, or lack thereof. but he is a Maga piece of shit so obviously expectations are low in flyover country
Sounds like they were snowflakes. If you're gonna wear that shirt, you gotta own it when asked for an interview imo
Don't you live three hours from Tuscaloosa? Living here, I’ll never understand Atlantan’s unearned superiority over the rest of the South as if growing up in Duluth with chain restaurants everywhere is the height of culture
I feel like their murders are funny shirt is bringing up a lot of questions that can be answered by their murders are funny shirt.
oh fuck off. he's getting death threats. have you internalized why you, a random ass West Virginia fan has been so obsessed with this for weeks now?
No man, Oats is a fine upstanding coach and would never say anything wrong. They're trying to play the victim here...
Nice to see that Miller did find these communications of intended gun violence to be serious enough to tell his coach, unlike last time.
Is security following him home? Does he have U.S. Marshall witness protection? If he’s getting credible death threats, it’s insanely irresponsible to have him play. This is performative.
“Somebody is literally threatening to murder one of our players and it’s very serious!” “Are you considering keeping him from playing to be safe?” “What? Of course not.”
yeah it’s really unfortunate your AD hasn’t been complicit in a second murder for people to get upset about
Based on how poorly our AD has handled everything else with this situation, I honestly don't think they're clever enough to think of planting security in hopes that reporters would ask about it and then be able to garner sympathy. Sucks he's getting threats and it's a probably a lot due to how poorly the university has handled this.
I think more of it stems from his role in helping commit a murder than the university doing nothing about it (more accurate than the word “handled”)