From Joseph Goodman, since many of us won’tclickal.com. One is on the nature of the game, and another is how Auburn distinguished itself and recruiting CBM.
Physical? This game was three yards and a cloud of dust on Jefferson Pilot. It was Auburn 3, Mississippi State 2 on parquet. It was drunken boxing with a side of basketball and Baker-Mazara was right smack dab in the middle of it all.
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“I seen how they interacted with my mother when I went to my visit,” Baker-Mazara said. “My momma doesn’t really speak English. She kind of understands it if you talk slowly, but I seen them with their phone, talking to Siri, trying to translate stuff to Spanish the whole three days we were there.
“That really touched my heart because most schools that I went to, they were just, ‘Oh, hi mom,’ but kept her to the side. But my momma, that’s like my heart and soul, so seeing that little thing that they were trying to do just to make her feel comfortable, and make her feel at home, that just, like, broke my heart and I was like, OK, these guys, they’re going to take care of me. Just little things, they really mean a lot, at least to me.”