By: Larry Burton
A Commentary and open letter to Trent Richardson
Trent, I’ve known you since interviewing you as a player at Alabama. During your years at Alabama, you were respectful, humble and in control of your emotions and life. You worked your butt off and became a great football player and because of all that the reputation you earned as a good student athlete, the NFL was more than willing to usher you into their ranks.
I won’t go into playing psychology and pretend to know everything that went through your mind after getting into the NFL, but it was evident that without the structured disciplined environment of Alabama and their players and coaches around you that you became less focused on maintaining that great hardworking reputation.