Aside from just what Pollard will provide next season, though, this commitment represents yet another major step forward in the Alabama basketball program under coach Anthony Grant. As a five-star recruit ranking among the top 25 players in the entire country, Pollard received interest from virtually every program in the country and received offers from nearly as many, including the likes of Kentucky.
He was selected as a prestigious McDonald's All-American, and now Alabama will be one of only about a dozen programs to sign such a player. Anthony Grant is building this program up slowly, but building it he is. With the potential for a monster class, and the likes of stud recruits like Trevor Lacey and Devonta Pollard now on board as young players to go along with high-end recruits like Trevor Releford , Rodney Cooper , Levi Randolph , and Nick Jacobs , the prospects for Alabama basketball are looking as bright as ever.
I don't think I was ready for it. When Kelvin Sampson took over as coach at Houston in , the program had six scholarship players, a gym with a distinct Cold War bunker kind of vibe and nothing to brag about since before Hakeem added the H to his name.
Once the show-cause expired, he was eager to get back into the college game. Like Pollard, he was looking for a fresh start, and he was starting pretty close to the bottom. We had a schedule to play, and we had a conference.
We needed a team. A colleague told him about an interesting unsigned junior-college player, but everyone he asked kept mentioning the kid's "situation. Pollard describes himself as "hard to reach" at that time. Sampson tried to get to him through his aunts but found them to be protective of Devonta toward people they didn't already know.
Then, Sampson said, "I found out he had a good girlfriend. They arrived at midnight. He wanted somebody to trust. At the same time, Pollard was scared. He'd never gone far from home. At Alabama, he'd drive back to Mississippi at every opportunity, sometimes leaving at 2 a. But it was home. Pollard, possessing a soft-speaking voice and the gentle manner of the Southern country boy he is, has spent much of his time worried about being accepted and making mistakes.
Outside of ball, all he's ever really wanted was to just slip into the masses. Another driver under the big blue sky. He had lost so much, been belittled so much, and now here was this big city and these new people.
I didn't think the coaches were going to still see me as a humble young man. This dunk by Daimion Collins will make you jump out of your chair Article written by: Mrs. Remember Devonta Pollard? Two years ago, Kentucky recruited Pollard, a five-star small forward, but he chose to sign with Alabama.
A year ago, Pollard's mother, Jessie Mae Brown Pollard, was arrested and charged with kidnapping a six-year-old child. Although his involvement was peripheral, Pollard himself was charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and transferred to East Mississippi Community College. After a long, hard year in which he had to testify against his mother to avoid prosecution, Pollard is trying to start anew. Scottie Pippen: "I didn't realize how much Hakeem Olajuwon had diminished in the game. Here is how the Los Angeles Lakers graded individually in a shameful loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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