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BREAKING Holloway arrested on marijuana charge - 03.16.26

AlexanderFan said:
It was a decent article until that last paragraph.

One pound of weed is not a “mistake”, it is a very conscious choice.
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If you were 17 years old and you had unlimited funds and you knew a guy that could get you a case of Budweiser, if you had the money, wouldn’t you have bought 10 or 20 cases and stored them somewhere? A lot of 17-year-olds would make that conscious choice.
 
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Reading that the street value for 16 oz is about $2-3k. Starting to sound less like a selling situation, and more like a buying it Costco style and sharing with others situation. There’s no money in it for him to buy and resell it.
 
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First off, he's an idiot for jeopardizing everything over some stupid weed.

Second, I read that in Alabama this is a first-degree drug felony which can carry a penalty of up to 10 years in jail or a $15,000 fine.

10 years in prison for weed? Time to enter the 21st century and update your drug laws Alabama.

Good grief.
 
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From what I was told he was involved in it at Auburn too. He knows the rules. Policies and expectations are pounded into them all the time. It's unfortunate because it goes beyond a basketball career. This kid could wind up in prison. It's too bad someone couldn't have mentored him and steered him in another direction. This is more than just a problem with athletes at UA. This is a problem campus wide. The leadership at UA needs to do something about its reputation for being a party school.
 
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AlexanderFan said:
It was a decent article until that last paragraph.

One pound of weed is not a “mistake”, it is a very conscious choice.
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Agree. No one needs a pound of pot around regardless of how significant your anxiety, stress, ADHD or recreational use.

Holloway is done here. But I’m betting the charges get pled down in the coming months to misdemeanors, he pays a fine, gets probation and hits the portal. He’ll be playing somewhere else, maybe even still in this conference against us.

But IMO it is more than just a coincidence that Aden got popped the previous weekend in a traffic stop.
 
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davefrat said:
First off, he's an idiot for jeopardizing everything over some stupid weed.

Second, I read that in Alabama this is a first-degree drug felony which can carry a penalty of up to 10 years in jail or a $15,000 fine.

10 years in prison for weed? Time to enter the 21st century and update your drug laws Alabama.

Good grief.
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Not to push this to nonsports or anything but it could be legal in 49 states and Alabama would be the only holdout.
 
day-day said:
If Holloway had a gun in his residence, what would the weapons charge be?
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Under Alabama Code § 13A-6-262, knowingly possessing a firearm while committing a felony that benefits a criminal enterprise carries a mandatory minimum of 5 years, rising to 10+ years for discharging the weapon, 30+ years for machine guns/destructive devices
 
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HsvFan58 said:
From what I was told he was involved in it at Auburn too. He knows the rules. Policies and expectations are pounded into them all the time. It's unfortunate because it goes beyond a basketball career. This kid could wind up in prison. It's too bad someone couldn't have mentored him and steered him in another direction. This is more than just a problem with athletes at UA. This is a problem campus wide. The leadership at UA needs to do something about its reputation for being a party school.
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For a good while not too long ago the academic reputation of the university was steadily rising but it seems to be going in the opposite direction now.

Not exactly sure why that is.
 
CajunCrimson said:
Reading that the street value for 16 oz is about $2-3k. Starting to sound less like a selling situation, and more like a buying it Costco style and sharing with others situation. There’s no money in it for him to buy and resell it.
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Unless he did it frequently; doubt we will ever know. Though the West Alabama Task Force; who made the arrest, will lean on him to flip on his source to get a reduced charge.
That guy has a LOT more and is not someone to be associated with.
 
dtgreg said:
*Dons tinfoil hat* He came from Auburn. They weren't too sad to see him go. Maybe they knew something? The Pearls are angry and vengeful. Maybe they mentioned that "if anyone wanted/needed to make a drug bust, you might pull AH over?
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One of their beat writers posted on X yesterday this very thing. Said he liked Aden but this is not very surprising at all knowing him from his time at Auburn. They knew.
 
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Bama Shoals said:
I would turn this question around. What have you seen out of Philon that looks like leadership on the floor or during games? He smiles a lot and plays the game with a lot of joy; that's why I said he has childlike quality to him. It's his demeanor. But I don't really see him instructing his teammates, pumping up his teammates when they're down, organizing them on offense or defense. In fact, if you read draft predictions, that's what they cite as a negative (even from anonymous scouts). He lacks organizational skills as a point guard. He can't or doesn't get his team organized well. Compare it to someone like Jaden Bradley. You can see a stark contrast in that regard. He controls the tempo offensively and makes sure his team is composed and running appropriate stuff in the right way for the time and score. He gets them organized defensively. But again, if you've seen anything to contradict that with Philon, let me know because I haven't seen it. I also think it's telling that when CNO or teammates are asked about leaders on the team, his name is never mentioned that I've seen.
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This tracks with my observations about his behavior/antics during games. I've thought many times that he acts very immature to be such a high profile player.

Concerning Holloway, I doubt we ever see him in Crimson again. And if he can portal to another school as if this didn't happen (assume he pleas it down) this is another reason the portal is what is wrong with college sports)!!!

As for NIL and the players making money, I think they deserve that, but immature college kids don't need to be millionaires! They are not mature enough to manage that kind of money. If I was "put in charge," I'd make it so that most of it had to go into an investment fund or trust fund for when they left college athletics.

They don't need much money. The school feeds them, clothes them, houses them and doctors them on top of paying for their schooling. What do they even money for? Buying weed?
 
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