Jimmy Johns is my new candyman
I know Brian at MGoBlog made note of this, but Alabama has a severe scholarship problem on account of its recruiting shenanigans, though the Alabama blogs threw a hissy fit because Nick Saban is the third coming of the Bear1. Jimmy Johns — one of Alabama’s umpteen scatbacks, and probably their best one, though he made the move to linebacker in light of another disciplinary problem on the team — opted to save the day for the Tide and was just busted on cocaine charges.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama linebacker Jimmy Johns was arrested on felony drug charges Tuesday and kicked off the team, the latest in a string of off-the-field problems for coach Nick Saban’s squad.
Johns, who moved to defense for his senior year after playing running back and receiver in 2007, was “pretty wide open” selling cocaine to students on and around the University of Alabama campus but tried to hide what he was doing from teammates, police said.
In response, Saban tossed Jimmy Johns off the team, and thus off scholarship.
Saban dismissed Johns from the team almost immediately.
“This type of behavior obviously will not be tolerated (so long as we have that 85 scholarship threshold to satisfy) — [OHD edit] and he is no longer a part of our program,” he said in a brief statement.
I’m not sure if they ever kicked off that redshirt freshman dude for robbing a few of those students. Maybe that’s tolerable behaviour. But this should be exciting to watch Alabama make it below the 85 limit. Should be a photo finish!
Oh, and…
Authorities who searched the apartment found about 10 grams of cocaine and ecstasy pills.
Damn, son. If you’ve been dealing for this long, why haven’t you hooked me up dammit. I think cocaine is the only thing that can make my work trips to Tuscaloosa interesting.
Parole Tide Parole!
- remember Tide fans, how Stallings was supposed to be the second coming? Until you ran him out of town for winning 70 games in 7 years? Remember? Remember that? [↩]
Dude, I don’t know what’s worse. Jimmy Johns peddling cocaine whilst having an open Facebook account or my idiot coworkers and UA alums for using my work computer to browse Facebook (I don’t recall allowing them either) and saving their passwords.
It could just be the nature of the offense, but I found his Facebook profile humorous.
I confess that when I first saw this headline floating around earlier, I thought it was the sandwich shop. Not one of the 76 new Saban recruits.
To be honest, I’ve been down here for 2 years+ now and I still haven’t gotten used to it. Evidently the locals treat it as a homonym, because we have Jimmy Johns down here too, though I would never eat there.
Every time I hear Jimmy Johns, though, my mind flashes back to my 4 years at Ohio State with that one drunk blonde girl my friends and I knew well. Every time she wanted a snack, she would blurt out “let’s go to Jimmy John’s!!” in one of the most nasely tones imaginable (think: Fran Drescher meets little girl doped out on cough medicine… that kind of tone. The girl in question though was cool, I wouldn’t have hung out with her if I couldn’t stand her.). She practically lived at that Jimmy Johns on the corner of 15th and High. She would even go behind the counter at times and make her own sandwich. For a period, you could go up to the counter and order a “Blerin” and get a custom sandwich from them.
Ah, memories. How they come back so clearly with the help of Jimmy John’s cocaine.
I’ve picked up on when they’re talking about the restaurant and when they’re talking about the drug dealer/scatback. But then again, the difference is that I actually listen to the locals down here when they’re talking (most of the time, at least). Vic doesn’t. Locals, who aren’t repulsed by the very sight of him and actually start talking to him, make him very uncomfortable.