In March, Clemson assistant coach Nick Eason shared his life story in full for the first time when he sat down with Tigerillustrated.com for three-plus hours.
The six-part series was published in April and featured an almost breathtaking series of life struggles Eason has fought and overcome -- from overt racism as a high-schooler in his hometown of Lyons, Ga., to watching teammate and friend Brandon Rouse die of a heart attack at Clemson, to almost losing his own life when as a Pittsburgh Steeler he was hospitalized for weeks with complications from a ruptured appendix.
Today we present the uncut audio of the first hour of that conversation.
Parts 2 and 3 will be released next week.
Nick Eason Part 1
And here are the previous two in case you missed them:
Garrett Riley, Wes Goodwin and Thomas Austin
Grace Raynor
