Gladiator School
by Roman Stubbs | July 14, 2010 | Montana Kaimin
This article was originally published on February 19, 2010. On July 13, the University of Montana announced that the NCAA cleared Jimmy Wilson to play the upcoming season of Griz football.
He sat at his grandmother’s dining room table late on that sweltering June night, dreaming. Eating his ribs and collard greens in silence, pondering his future with each bite.
For Jimmy Wilson, there were only seven hours left before deliverance. Duffel bags packed, alarm clock ready. At five o’clock in the morning, he was going to rise out of bed and drive 17 hours from his Southern California home to Missoula, Montana, and love every minute of it. When he arrived on the University of Montana campus for summer workouts they would see a polished cornerback, a reinvented man.
This was his year. To show what an All-American candidate was all about. To send the message that his legendary hits for this program were about to get a lot more vicious. And to make all those people who mocked his NFL dream think twice before they judged that dream again. Nothing was going to get in his way.
A half hour later, Jimmy Wilson had an AK-47 pointed to his chest.
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