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Title: Hardie Buck a big contributor for the Tide on special teams!! Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on November 19, 2011, 08:09:00 AM http://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1295884
Great read! Quote TUSCALOOSA | Hardie Buck was busing tables at a local chicken-wing house when the call came. It was Alabama football on the line. And Buck was told to turn in his apron for a football jersey. It was August 2009, and it had been 21⁄2 years since Buck put on football pads. In competitive athletics, 21⁄2 years is an eternity, and more than enough of a layoff to lay waste to a career in any sport, to say nothing of major college football. Now, Buck is a special teams player for the Crimson Tide, on both the kickoff and punt return units, but the path he traveled to get there required a level of persistence most couldn't fathom. Today, he'll be honored on Senior Day before the Crimson Tide's final home game of the season against Georgia Southern. And were it not for that persistence, he would be watching the Senior Day ceremony from the stands with nearly 102,000 others that never got to do what he has done: play for the Crimson Tide. Title: Re: Hardie Buck a big contributor for the Tide on special teams!! Post by: BAMAWV on November 19, 2011, 08:30:18 AM http://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1295884 Maybe hsc could pass his resume around out in Dallas/Ft. Worth. I'll PM him.Great read! Quote TUSCALOOSA | Hardie Buck was busing tables at a local chicken-wing house when the call came. It was Alabama football on the line. And Buck was told to turn in his apron for a football jersey. It was August 2009, and it had been 21⁄2 years since Buck put on football pads. In competitive athletics, 21⁄2 years is an eternity, and more than enough of a layoff to lay waste to a career in any sport, to say nothing of major college football. Now, Buck is a special teams player for the Crimson Tide, on both the kickoff and punt return units, but the path he traveled to get there required a level of persistence most couldn't fathom. Today, he'll be honored on Senior Day before the Crimson Tide's final home game of the season against Georgia Southern. And were it not for that persistence, he would be watching the Senior Day ceremony from the stands with nearly 102,000 others that never got to do what he has done: play for the Crimson Tide. Title: Re: Hardie Buck a big contributor for the Tide on special teams!! Post by: SUPERCOACH on November 19, 2011, 09:28:13 AM Great article.
Title: Re: Hardie Buck a big contributor for the Tide on special teams!! Post by: ricky023 on November 19, 2011, 10:05:52 AM I love this love he had for Alabama and football. It just makes chills come on you to see the passion and prayer he did before he moved at all. Well Done Hardie and may your future be as bright as forever. RTR!
Title: Re: Hardie Buck a big contributor for the Tide on special teams!! Post by: cbbama99 on November 19, 2011, 10:14:53 AM Great story. A young man willing to do whatever it took to just wear that crimson jersey, even if it meant just playing on special teams and not getting the name recognition of a TR, CU, or DH. Kudos to Hardie, and RTR!!!
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