Robert Stewart was a bruising, muscle-toned football star at Houston County in the 1980s and later an All-American at the University of Alabama, but it’s something else that his high school coach, Bubba Odom, most remembers.
“A smile – and he made other people smile,” Odom said. “As an athlete, he was so humble.”
“But it didn’t matter to him. What mattered to him was the team, and people around him. He was just nice, and that’s the way his whole family was.”People are also reading… “Their parents never asked for a thing for those kids,” Odom said. “It was all about what can we do? And that’s the way Robert was.”
He was recruited by colleges across the country. Odom recalled when an assistant coach from the University of Southern California made a visit. “He looked at me and he smiled and he turned around at that coach and stuck his hand out and shook hands with him, and told him, ‘Coach, I’ve never been to California. I’d like to go to California, but I’m not going to go because if I go, I’m wasting the university’s money, because I’m going to the University of Alabama.’”
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