MIAMI GARDENS — When you grow in up Alabama you want to be one of two things — an Auburn Tiger or an Alabama Crimson Tide.
Lamical Perine wanted to be different.
It’s why Perine spent his own money to get a bus ticket to Gainesville for Friday Night Lights to bet on himself. He didn’t have a scholarship offer to Florida at the time, but the bus ticket was his chance to earn one. He did and he committed to Florida.
Perine bet on himself. When Gus Malzahn told Perine he didn’t think he had the speed to play running back at Auburn, he filed it away.