… back in the ‘forties. It put you right in the heart of historical events. UD wants to put you – rhetorically – in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, site of the Nick Saban Football Academy, where the reaction to the university giving a big scholarship to a student who just before his sophomore year drives drunk all over Tuscaloosa is not to worry about the well-being of your town but immediately to go to whether his absence from the team (assuming Saban suspends him even for one game) will doom your championship prospects. Headline in local paper:
NOW YOU CAN PANIC: GENO SMITH ARRESTED FOR DUI
Smith is certain to miss playing time early in the season. His absence may not be particularly noticeable in the Virginia Tech season opener, despite the fact that Smith is an excellent tackler and excels in run support. However, that September 14 game against the manically-airborne Aggies in Kyle Field will get a whole lot tougher if Smith misses any appreciable playing time.
No, not even a decent interval during which we ask ourselves whether a scholarship to someone who almost certainly won’t graduate and who drives drunk is altogether seemly…
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. You Are There.
August 21st, 2013 at 8:46AM
The series began on radio, I guess in the ’40s, but the TV version aired in the ’50s, and I think was revived briefly in the ’70s. Walter Cronkite hosted.