It had been just a few weeks since Vic Beasley announced his intentions to return to Clemson for his senior year. He was back in school and life was moving along quite nicely when suddenly everything stopped.
While shooting basketball with a couple of his friends on Feb. 1, 2014, Clemson’s All-American defensive end received a phone call he never could have imagined. His older brother, Tyrone Barrett, had suddenly passed away when he lost his life from injuries suffered in car accident. He was 40-years old.
“It was very shocking. It came out of nowhere,” Beasley said on Thursday night after receiving his award as the South Carolina Football Hall of Fame’s Player of the Year for 2014.