Very in-depth article that will make you appreciate and root for Naz Jones:
Nazair Jones remembers his middle school years with crystal clarity. He lived, he says, in “the projects” in Roanoke Rapids where fights, drugs and domestic abuse were constant parts of the landscape. He remembers his mother suggesting the company he was keeping fell into the “lie down with dogs ...” category. He just shakes his head today at the thought of distancing himself from two of those good pals and hearing several months later both were in jail for armed robbery and drug possession.
“Middle school was a horrible time for me,” he says. “We’re all immature, we’re basically terrible people at that time. I was in with the wrong crowd. I was with guys 24-7 who were eventually locked up. Luckily, I went in a different direction.”
And my Fedora favorite mention:
Jones had been on Carolina’s recruiting radar his junior season but was not offered a scholarship until he came to Chapel Hill for camp in July 2012. Weinstein was there and said he was “holding his breath” that Jones could perform well enough in front of Coach Larry Fedora and his defensive assistants. Weinstein didn’t think Jones could rev himself up to more than 75 percent of what he’d been when healthy.
“Coach Fedora offered him on faith—good faith that he could get back to 100 percent,” Weinstein says.
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Nazair Jones remembers his middle school years with crystal clarity. He lived, he says, in “the projects” in Roanoke Rapids where fights, drugs and domestic abuse were constant parts of the landscape. He remembers his mother suggesting the company he was keeping fell into the “lie down with dogs ...” category. He just shakes his head today at the thought of distancing himself from two of those good pals and hearing several months later both were in jail for armed robbery and drug possession.
“Middle school was a horrible time for me,” he says. “We’re all immature, we’re basically terrible people at that time. I was in with the wrong crowd. I was with guys 24-7 who were eventually locked up. Luckily, I went in a different direction.”
And my Fedora favorite mention:
Jones had been on Carolina’s recruiting radar his junior season but was not offered a scholarship until he came to Chapel Hill for camp in July 2012. Weinstein was there and said he was “holding his breath” that Jones could perform well enough in front of Coach Larry Fedora and his defensive assistants. Weinstein didn’t think Jones could rev himself up to more than 75 percent of what he’d been when healthy.
“Coach Fedora offered him on faith—good faith that he could get back to 100 percent,” Weinstein says.
http://www.goheels.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3350&ATCLID=211115989
