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Former bama player and AU recruit in trouble again.

Wonder how ole Peaches is feeling about this...basically ruined this kid's life, kidnapping him on signing day or whatever.

Maybe it would have turned out the same and AU was spared four years of misery....but just can't help but think that people tinkering with this young man's life for their own reasons should have a lot to answer for.

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Not to be the party pooper, but, these are kids doing the same stupid crap some of us did at their ages.

I am just going to move along here. Sorry to hear Brent. Thought he really had a lot going his way.

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Not to be the party pooper, but, these are kids doing the same stupid crap some of us did at their ages.

I am just going to move along here. Sorry to hear Brent. Thought he really had a lot going his way.

Guess I was lucky...was in small town HS but don't think anyone in my HS class got caught for anything more than speeding...This stuff is not some immature HS hi-jinx...it's a felony. Like I say, could have happened just as easy at AU perhaps, but when this kid was a hot recruit he had "friends" all over the place ...using him for their purposes...and now most his future looks like crap. Hate to see it.

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Not to be the party pooper, but, these are kids doing the same stupid crap some of us did at their ages.

I am just going to move along here. Sorry to hear Brent. Thought he really had a lot going his way.

Pretty sure he's considered a grown a$$ man at this point.
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Don't really have an opinion on this kid regarding football ...

Regarding what we may or may not have done when we were in HS ... It is a different day and time. Things that would not have gotten you in trouble then will put you in jail now. Kid is old enough to know better and will pay the price ... Just like any of us would and should.

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He is no longer a kid. Makes one question how he was raised, obviously from a broken home since he had a legal guardian, etc. I would venture to guess that there are more Brent Calloway's than Michael Oher's in the world.

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How he was raised has nothing to do with it, he was a good kid. It's his surroundings and the shoals area. When there is no REAL jobs around, people are gonna do what they have to do in order to have money. It may be a handful of decent jobs between Florence and the muscle shoals area but that's it. At the end of the day he knew what was right and what was wrong, he's not a kid anymore. Just like earlier in his career he had a choice to go to the school he wanted and he got influenced to go where someone else wanted him to go. Hopefully he will learn to make his own decision's and quit being influenced to do what others tell him to.

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How he was raised has nothing to do with it, he was a good kid. It's his surroundings and the shoals area. When there is no REAL jobs around, people are gonna do what they have to do in order to have money. It may be a handful of decent jobs between Florence and the muscle shoals area but that's it. At the end of the day he knew what was right and what was wrong, he's not a kid anymore. Just like earlier in his career he had a choice to go to the school he wanted and he got influenced to go where someone else wanted him to go. Hopefully he will learn to make his own decision's and quit being influenced to do what others tell him to.

Is he in school? Did he earn a degree? At some point he has to take responsibility for his choices and for the direction of his life. I personally think he's reached it now. If there is no future in Florence then he needs to work on a way out instead of wasting his life. He's young enough to recover from this but he has to want something better and have the guts to make changes.

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How he was raised has nothing to do with it, he was a good kid. It's his surroundings and the shoals area. When there is no REAL jobs around, people are gonna do what they have to do in order to have money. It may be a handful of decent jobs between Florence and the muscle shoals area but that's it. At the end of the day he knew what was right and what was wrong, he's not a kid anymore. Just like earlier in his career he had a choice to go to the school he wanted and he got influenced to go where someone else wanted him to go. Hopefully he will learn to make his own decision's and quit being influenced to do what others tell him to.

Is he in school? Did he earn a degree? At some point he has to take responsibility for his choices and for the direction of his life. I personally think he's reached it now. If there is no future in Florence then he needs to work on a way out instead of wasting his life. He's young enough to recover from this but he has to want something better and have the guts to make changes.

Exactly, he has to make his own mind up and quit letting others influence him. And this happens a lot in this area. I don't know if he's still in school or not, I really didn't know he had came back home. But if he was still in school, this could be a very costly blow to his enrollment and future.
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How he was raised has nothing to do with it, he was a good kid. It's his surroundings and the shoals area. When there is no REAL jobs around, people are gonna do what they have to do in order to have money. It may be a handful of decent jobs between Florence and the muscle shoals area but that's it. At the end of the day he knew what was right and what was wrong, he's not a kid anymore. Just like earlier in his career he had a choice to go to the school he wanted and he got influenced to go where someone else wanted him to go. Hopefully he will learn to make his own decision's and quit being influenced to do what others tell him to.

There are plenty of jobs. Tens of thousands of Latino immigrants are flooding across the border to fill them. The problem is those jobs involve getting dirty, sweating and suffering the occasional bee sting. Anybody that wants to WORK can find a job. Those that want to sit on their lazy butts in an air conditioned office and get paid a six-figure salary without having a college degree can't find their "dream job"? Tough.

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How he was raised has nothing to do with it, he was a good kid. It's his surroundings and the shoals area. When there is no REAL jobs around, people are gonna do what they have to do in order to have money. It may be a handful of decent jobs between Florence and the muscle shoals area but that's it. At the end of the day he knew what was right and what was wrong, he's not a kid anymore. Just like earlier in his career he had a choice to go to the school he wanted and he got influenced to go where someone else wanted him to go. Hopefully he will learn to make his own decision's and quit being influenced to do what others tell him to.

There are plenty of jobs. Tens of thousands of Latino immigrants are flooding across the border to fill them. The problem is those jobs involve getting dirty, sweating and suffering the occasional bee sting. Anybody that wants to WORK can find a job. Those that want to sit on their lazy butts in an air conditioned office and get paid a six-figure salary without having a college degree can't find their "dream job"? Tough.

Come to the shoals area and see how you like it. I'm not making excuses for him, I'm just letting everyone know decent paying jobs are very few and between in the Florence area. And those Latino jobs that u speak of, most of those jobs are either minimum wage or below.
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How he was raised has nothing to do with it, he was a good kid. It's his surroundings and the shoals area. When there is no REAL jobs around, people are gonna do what they have to do in order to have money. It may be a handful of decent jobs between Florence and the muscle shoals area but that's it. At the end of the day he knew what was right and what was wrong, he's not a kid anymore. Just like earlier in his career he had a choice to go to the school he wanted and he got influenced to go where someone else wanted him to go. Hopefully he will learn to make his own decision's and quit being influenced to do what others tell him to.

There are plenty of jobs. Tens of thousands of Latino immigrants are flooding across the border to fill them. The problem is those jobs involve getting dirty, sweating and suffering the occasional bee sting. Anybody that wants to WORK can find a job. Those that want to sit on their lazy butts in an air conditioned office and get paid a six-figure salary without having a college degree can't find their "dream job"? Tough.

Come to the shoals area and see how you like it. I'm not making excuses for him, I'm just letting everyone know decent paying jobs are very few and between in the Florence area. And those Latino jobs that u speak of, most of those jobs are either minimum wage or below.

I expect all of that is true to one extent or another. Other people made some bad decisions on behalf of this guy when he was still a kid and not able to make them himself. ...got him off to a bad start..IMO. It just pi****S me off that a guy like Peaches can screw around with a young guys's life for his own reasons....and then move along into the sunset and leave the debris behind with no accountability.

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I wonder what dear ole Peaches is doing for this kid these days. Is he doing what he can to help him, or did he just cast him aside since he's no longer the cash cow he expected him to be? After all, don't forget that quote that the HS coach told about Peaches to Calloway when he was an AU commit: "You'll ruin everything."

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How he was raised has nothing to do with it, he was a good kid. It's his surroundings and the shoals area. When there is no REAL jobs around, people are gonna do what they have to do in order to have money. It may be a handful of decent jobs between Florence and the muscle shoals area but that's it. At the end of the day he knew what was right and what was wrong, he's not a kid anymore. Just like earlier in his career he had a choice to go to the school he wanted and he got influenced to go where someone else wanted him to go. Hopefully he will learn to make his own decision's and quit being influenced to do what others tell him to.

There are plenty of jobs. Tens of thousands of Latino immigrants are flooding across the border to fill them. The problem is those jobs involve getting dirty, sweating and suffering the occasional bee sting. Anybody that wants to WORK can find a job. Those that want to sit on their lazy butts in an air conditioned office and get paid a six-figure salary without having a college degree can't find their "dream job"? Tough.

Come to the shoals area and see how you like it. I'm not making excuses for him, I'm just letting everyone know decent paying jobs are very few and between in the Florence area. And those Latino jobs that u speak of, most of those jobs are either minimum wage or below.

Alabama Power Company does not pay below minimum wage. There have been two crews through here in the past three weeks. The supervisors are Latino and certainly not on minimum wage. All of their crewmen are Latino. How do you get to be a supervisor? You start off low man on the crew and do a great job. In prior decades, our native born were doing these jobs. Now they sit on their fat asses waiting for their debit cards to be re-loaded, too good to do the work their fathers and grandfathers did.

I do not feel a bit sorry for Calloway and others like him. The work is there, get off your duff and apply for a job. If you have to start at minimum wage, so what? Perform well and soon you, too, can move on up the ladder of success. The Mexicans are doing it, so can Calloway.

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How he was raised has nothing to do with it, he was a good kid. It's his surroundings and the shoals area. When there is no REAL jobs around, people are gonna do what they have to do in order to have money. It may be a handful of decent jobs between Florence and the muscle shoals area but that's it. At the end of the day he knew what was right and what was wrong, he's not a kid anymore. Just like earlier in his career he had a choice to go to the school he wanted and he got influenced to go where someone else wanted him to go. Hopefully he will learn to make his own decision's and quit being influenced to do what others tell him to.

There are plenty of jobs. Tens of thousands of Latino immigrants are flooding across the border to fill them. The problem is those jobs involve getting dirty, sweating and suffering the occasional bee sting. Anybody that wants to WORK can find a job. Those that want to sit on their lazy butts in an air conditioned office and get paid a six-figure salary without having a college degree can't find their "dream job"? Tough.

Come to the shoals area and see how you like it. I'm not making excuses for him, I'm just letting everyone know decent paying jobs are very few and between in the Florence area. And those Latino jobs that u speak of, most of those jobs are either minimum wage or below.

Alabama Power Company does not pay below minimum wage. There have been two crews through here in the past three weeks. The supervisors are Latino and certainly not on minimum wage. All of their crewmen are Latino. How do you get to be a supervisor? You start off low man on the crew and do a great job. In prior decades, our native born were doing these jobs. Now they sit on their fat asses waiting for their debit cards to be re-loaded, too good to do the work their fathers and grandfathers did.

I do not feel a bit sorry for Calloway and others like him. The work is there, get off your duff and apply for a job. If you have to start at minimum wage, so what? Perform well and soon you, too, can move on up the ladder of success. The Mexicans are doing it, so can Calloway.

Yeah they are doing it, 10 Mexicans vs 1 Brent Calloway.
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How he was raised has nothing to do with it, he was a good kid. It's his surroundings and the shoals area. When there is no REAL jobs around, people are gonna do what they have to do in order to have money. It may be a handful of decent jobs between Florence and the muscle shoals area but that's it. At the end of the day he knew what was right and what was wrong, he's not a kid anymore. Just like earlier in his career he had a choice to go to the school he wanted and he got influenced to go where someone else wanted him to go. Hopefully he will learn to make his own decision's and quit being influenced to do what others tell him to.

There are plenty of jobs. Tens of thousands of Latino immigrants are flooding across the border to fill them. The problem is those jobs involve getting dirty, sweating and suffering the occasional bee sting. Anybody that wants to WORK can find a job. Those that want to sit on their lazy butts in an air conditioned office and get paid a six-figure salary without having a college degree can't find their "dream job"? Tough.

Come to the shoals area and see how you like it. I'm not making excuses for him, I'm just letting everyone know decent paying jobs are very few and between in the Florence area. And those Latino jobs that u speak of, most of those jobs are either minimum wage or below.

Alabama Power Company does not pay below minimum wage. There have been two crews through here in the past three weeks. The supervisors are Latino and certainly not on minimum wage. All of their crewmen are Latino. How do you get to be a supervisor? You start off low man on the crew and do a great job. In prior decades, our native born were doing these jobs. Now they sit on their fat asses waiting for their debit cards to be re-loaded, too good to do the work their fathers and grandfathers did.

I do not feel a bit sorry for Calloway and others like him. The work is there, get off your duff and apply for a job. If you have to start at minimum wage, so what? Perform well and soon you, too, can move on up the ladder of success. The Mexicans are doing it, so can Calloway.

Was that APCO or the their contractor that does tree trimming along power line right of ways?

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Was that APCO or the their contractor that does tree trimming along power line right of ways?

Some of both, at different times over the past two months. Prior to this, last fall, a Nice Young Man from Costa Rica (AL Power employee) stopped here for directions. His English wasn't so hot, but between us and his GPS map I got him oriented. He was working alone, a self-starter type if you will, in a Power Company truck. What he was doing seemed like a job that required some higher level of responsibility and knowledge. I wondered why one of our native born wasn't doing this job. Then I looked in the back of his truck and saw my answer. His working supplies included heavy gloves, a hard hat, backpack sprayer and chain saw.

If I had to guess I'd say this was around a 50k a year job that required some paper work but also required sweating on hot days, dealing with bugs and snakes and so forth. Clearly beneath the dignity of those that "can't find work".

I have been on this farm for a long time. Up until roughly ten years ago our native born, both black and white, were doing these jobs. Tree planting jobs too. Now we're paying the Brent Calloways of the USA to sit on their steps and gripe about the amount of funding on their EBT cards while the Latinos are glad to have a job. I'm happy that these people are coming here in droves, they want to work.

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Was that APCO or the their contractor that does tree trimming along power line right of ways?

Some of both, at different times over the past two months. Prior to this, last fall, a Nice Young Man from Costa Rica (AL Power employee) stopped here for directions. His English wasn't so hot, but between us and his GPS map I got him oriented. He was working alone, a self-starter type if you will, in a Power Company truck. What he was doing seemed like a job that required some higher level of responsibility and knowledge. I wondered why one of our native born wasn't doing this job. Then I looked in the back of his truck and saw my answer. His working supplies included heavy gloves, a hard hat, backpack sprayer and chain saw.

If I had to guess I'd say this was around a 50k a year job that required some paper work but also required sweating on hot days, dealing with bugs and snakes and so forth. Clearly beneath the dignity of those that "can't find work".

I have been on this farm for a long time. Up until roughly ten years ago our native born, both black and white, were doing these jobs. Tree planting jobs too. Now we're paying the Brent Calloways of the USA to sit on their steps and gripe about the amount of funding on their EBT cards while the Latinos are glad to have a job. I'm happy that these people are coming here in droves, they want to work.

don't our "native born" live on reservations and own casinos?
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