Walk-on Busch brewing up success at Alabama

[Jamos]

Gussie Busch doesn't look much different than any other walk-on linebacker at the University of Alabama.

The 6-foot, 210-pound freshman didn't get on the field in the 2014 season, which isn't unusual for a scout team player in his first year.

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[Chechem]

“I am the great, great grandson (of the man) who started the company,” he said in New Orleans a couple of days before Alabama's game against Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl.

The company, of course, is Anheuser-Busch, which introduced a bottled beer product called Budweiser to America in the 1870s.

Suggest that Busch knows more about beer than the entire UA football roster and he laughs.

“Probably so,” he said.

Busch had scholarship offers out of high school from lower NCAA Division I schools like Southern Illinois and Ohio University. He wanted to join a more prominent program and chose to accept Alabama's invitation to become part of the team as a preferred non-scholarship player over a similar offer from Ole Miss.

“I picked here to come because I liked the coaches a lot and the facilities,” he said. “Everything was great. It's been an awesome experience.” ...

Walk-on players at Alabama seldom get any recognition, so I'm pleased to see this one on the Quad.

All hail, Gussie!  

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