Let’s address the elephant in the room: the Tuscaloosa community, the Crimson Tide, the Alabama fan base, and the entire fraternity of sports fans and writers lost one of our finest yesterday.
Yes, the death of Cecil Hurt is an important story, so we’ve dedicated an entire story and thread to it over here, as well as our proposal to rename the press box at BDS in Cecil’s memory.
But here, for Gump Day, we will leave you with the words that Nick Saban had about his friend that sum up just about everything that Cecil Hurt was — as a man and a professional.