re: Jarez Parks Accepts Grayshirt Offer from Alabama - Will Enroll Next January

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Some low self esteem shite here. What happens if he has a career ending injury prior too a full ride? Just curious...

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Remember this from a couple of years ago. Saban got Elisha Shaw a non football scholarship to attend Alabama after he got hurt. Saban is not the devil rivals want him to be.

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One of the feel-good stories from this past year’s signing day was finalized on Monday.

Alabama officially got clearance from the NCAA to award a non-football scholarship to Elisha Shaw, the former Tucker High School standout who suffered a career-ending neck injury at the beginning of his senior season.

Before the injury, Shaw was rated as one of the state’s top 10 overall college football prospects for 2014. He had around 20 scholarship offers, and listed Alabama, UGA and Ole Miss as his leaders.

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Before last February’s signing day, Shaw never publicly committed to Alabama nor was he ever listed as a Crimson Tide commit on any recruiting websites.

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“He had committed to me,” Saban said. “But maybe that wouldn’t have stuck? I don’t know. We had a good relationship with him. We liked him as a player. We liked him as a person. We were committed to him after he told me he wanted to come to Alabama. As soon as all of this occurred, we told him that we were going to do everything we could to see if we could still give him the opportunity to get him an education here at the University of Alabama.”

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