Not being from Tuscaloosa, I only ever knew basketball simply because Kentucky is the basketball state. When I moved here in 2012, I adapted to something so amazing: a tradition so true in its roots that there was no way of stopping it. Everywhere you turned here you heard "Roll Tide Roll." I knew it was something I had to look into.

I never payed much attention to it in high school, I just knew what I knew because of the kids that wore the shirts or what not. Once I started athletic training with my school's trainer, I started to understand the terms like "off sides" or "sacked." I started to learn positions, and noticed when people began to mess up. It would genuinely make me mad because these were simple mistakes. BUT there was something much better. One day I had a friend ask, "Do you want to go to The Quad?" Surely, I had no clue what that was but I went anyway, and when we got there, I was simply taken back. Tents, music, food, people, CRIMSON AND WHITE. Those colors flooded the place and you heard "Roll Tide."

As time went on I began to tune in every Saturday to watch those beautiful boys of fall kick off, play with their guts, their glory, and their pride. I had not seen so much team spirit or pride since going to Lexington, KY. I never knew what it was like to be apart or live in a college town. But God knows I loved the SEC, and it truly feels like this place was made for me. No, I may not have been born here nor was I raised from the ground up here. I simply grew into tradition here, I adapted to Crimson and White and "Roll Tide," so easy, like it was meant to be.