True, but he has to have been inside a submerged, spring practice-absorbed submarine for the past month not to be aware of how he would come across.
So far as we know *and I'm going by what information is publicly available* Miller did not know the gun was even in the car. Nor did he know Miles asked him to bring it! He was responsible to pick up his friend and he was following through on that responsibility.
You're making assumptions. And the main reason Miller went to Miles, was to pick him up from the club. And from all I've seen, Miller didn't know the gun was in his back seat hidden in a cap. If he saw the text, it was too late anyway. And besides, Miller couldn't have known any bad intentions with the gun. Miles had it legally. But in hindsight, it's easy to point and say "should have".
Alright, maybe he didn't know about the weapon, but he still went out late at night, and as Coach Saban has said many times, nothing good happens after midnight, certainly anywhere near the strip. I get going to pick up your friend, but the statement still applies.
I respectfully disagree, in that I'm quite sure Coach Saban has said there is no such thing as wrong place, wrong time with respect to being out late MANY times to his players. Don't put yourself out in a place where you can be in the wrong place. We've had several players hurt on the strip after midnight over the years. Had those players not been out, no harm on the strip would have happened.
Just to clarify, this was not a fan piece. My son is a student intern for Bama Central in Tuscaloosa. That article was written by a full-time employee who is one of the main writers covering Alabama. I asked my son about it being taken down and he said they were told very little as to why.Just guessing. But I’ve worked in media for 28 years. So it’s somewhat educated.
This piece was published on platforms that have, for weeks, shown a pattern of having an ax to grind. I stop short of “malice” because that’s where things get really interesting. But they’re not likely to publish or host anything that would come anywhere close to admitting wrong due to legal exposure.
That was a fan piece that was probably published through a content management system and not vetted by the SI editorial establishment. Once discovered, it was removed. If I were in editorial management at SI, it’s exactly what I’d do. For the exact purpose of CYA. But it happened. I took a screen shot.
If the hit pieces from last month start to disappear, you’ll REALLY know something is up. Just for added interest… some national writers are starting to delete tweets about Brandon that were particularly hot takes. One writer in particular. Pretty damning stuff.
You are disagreeing with a point I did not make, at least in my response to you. I am saying there is no way Miller could have "avoided this situation entirely by telling his teammate to come get his gun if he wanted it." Miller did not know a gun was in his vehicle, nor did he know that Miles had texted him to bring it, until after the fact.
So young adult college students shouldn't go out and celebrate or have fun? I don't see that as a problem. The problem I see is too many irresponsible young people carrying guns.
To be fair, Selma, it caused a 'ruckus' on this board, and we're Alabama fans.
So this was a full time writer for SI that wrote the piece that was pulled or someone at Bama Central?
Nevermind…I found the writer
But that's being caused by the insistence on a media that cannot walk and chew gum at the same time.
"Delivered the gun," as I recall, came directly from the police detective's sworn testimony; ditto with the alternative fact that Miller and Bradley "blocked" the jeep from leaving. Those details from a Tuscaloosa cop are still driving the narrative.
God forbid that a journalist do his or her job by lowering the temperature. You know, Johnnie Cochran went "police planted the glove" - and the media went with that. "Cochran claims cops who never met until the night of the murder conspired on the spot to frame Simpson" would have been doing their actual jobs since that's exactly what he was alleging.
I concur up to a point.
