Former Alabama star Tyrone Prothro has a simple coaching philosophy.
"Teach them about the game of football and team them about life in general," Prothro said.
Does that mean Prothro uses his own story -- how a brutal leg injury near the end of a blowout victory over Florida on Oct. 1, 2005 essentially ended his promising career -- as a way to reach the young men he now coaches?
"What better story to use than my own?" he said. "I think I'm at the top of my game my junior year at Alabama and I had put in the work to go to the NFL.