Southern California to the deep south: The Mater Dei-to-Alabama pipeline

Southern California to the deep south: The Mater Dei-to-Alabama pipeline

Sitting in a sea of DayGlo orange, Bruce Rollinson peered out at the 50-yard line inside Neyland Stadium. Roughly 2,200 miles from home, he was looking for a couple of familiar faces. He didn’t have to look for long. As Alabama players jogged onto the field for warmups ahead of their top-15 showdown against Tennessee, Domani Jackson and Zabien Brown reached midfield and turned toward the stands. They spotted their former high school coach and th…