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"T.J. Weist always had a grand plan. And he stuck to it from start to finish. 'He's definitely driven,' said Mike Debo, a longtime friend who graduated with Weist from Bay City All Saints in 1983. 'He's the type of guy who wouldn't stop. It didn't matter if you were playing cards or basketball, if you said you had enough, he said 'Let's keep going.' He's always had a way about him.'
A receiver on a run-dominated All Saints football team, Weiss played a couple summers with the Bay City Brahmas semipro team and decided to take a shot at college football – the pinnacle of college football.
'I walked on at Alabama and, no, I didn't have any business playing at Alabama,' he said. 'At the time, that didn't matter to me. I worked and worked and stuck it out. I came in with 40 guys and by the time I was through with my senior year, I was the only one left.
'Going through that process and finishing, that was one of my best accomplishments.' Weist earned a varsity letter as a senior at Alabama in 1987 and suited up against two programs – Michigan and Notre Dame – that he idolized as a kid growing up in Bay City."
A receiver on a run-dominated All Saints football team, Weiss played a couple summers with the Bay City Brahmas semipro team and decided to take a shot at college football – the pinnacle of college football.
'I walked on at Alabama and, no, I didn't have any business playing at Alabama,' he said. 'At the time, that didn't matter to me. I worked and worked and stuck it out. I came in with 40 guys and by the time I was through with my senior year, I was the only one left.
'Going through that process and finishing, that was one of my best accomplishments.' Weist earned a varsity letter as a senior at Alabama in 1987 and suited up against two programs – Michigan and Notre Dame – that he idolized as a kid growing up in Bay City."
