Potential huge story on Alabama football "drug related"

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To the Alabama Recruits & Parents,


First of all, I just want to say CONGRATULATIONS on your efforts and hard work that earned you the attention and interest of the University of Alabama, a most elite football program. You are no doubt by now enjoying the gorgeous facilities and campus of a university of great renown and fame for reasons too many to name.


Without question, you and your families have endured and sacrificed much throughout this journey. Having grown wiser and stronger for being on this journey, I'd like to share with you what you can expect from this program as a player and as a parent or loved one. You should expect that this school will roll out the red carpet for you, but you will need to take extreme care that this carpet is not leading you directly into a ditch. And if it does, as it has for so many others, have a solid action plan in place for how to GET OUT!

Just 6 years ago, I and my son, Joshua Frazier, walked onto that campus to hospitality and respect...the likes of which I have ever witnessed before or since. You should also expect your presence to command attention and admiration anywhere you go in the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama this weekend and beyond if this turns out to be your (or your son’s) home for the next several years.


You should also expect that since you’ll be attending on a full athletic scholarship, that you will have to work twice as hard as the typical student to get the exact same degree, should that be your goal.  If your quest to reach the NFL is through Alabama, please know, you will endure great strife and struggle to get there, if you should make it there at all.


Parents, for you, other than cutting the rug doing the cupid shuffle and enjoying a few delicious, mouth-watering meals at Nick Saban’s elegant home, here’s what you can expect for your son. He will be immersed into the typical football player culture full of all the typical attractions. But once your son is on campus as a student-athlete, he will enter what I have come to reference as the “sunken place.”


Your son is there to play football and MAKE MONEY for that university and for that program! Do not make the of assumption he is there to be educated, but you can be certain he will surely be indoctrinated into a culture of secrecy and isolation. This football program, like far too many others, has what I have come to call a win-at-all-costs culture, so if you do decide to attend this school, just know, that cost can be anything up to and including your son’s very life. That's just a risk that goes along with playing the sport regardless of where it's played.


As far as this program is concerned, I believe it takes way too many risks with the bodies and minds of their players. Consider Nick Saban's handling of the very seriously injured Tua Tagovailoa during this past season. Coach Saban demonstrated lack of discretion and judgment by putting this young man in the game after he limped off the field against LSU just one week earlier. Although Tua clearly lacked the ability and mobility to avoid defenders effectively, he was put in the very next game which ended with him being carted off the field with a dislocated hip. Rather than give him the time needed to heal and prepare for the approaching NFL combine, which is/was his reported plan, his season has ended with a devastating injury and an uncertain future in football. 


Just read for yourself what came out of Nick Saban's own mouth as reported by Erik Hall of USA Today Network:

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