One ex-teammate offered his own findings. "De'von mentally is gone," Dionte Holloway said. "That's not the De'von I know. That's not the De'von I went to school with. That's not my friend. That's somebody who was out of their mind."
The part that shocks Hall's friends is how his mother became the victim. "She was his rock," said Jeff Copp, the assistant coach who recruited him to Logan.
What can we conclude about Hall's troubles? That's tricky. Nobody should make any connection from his case to any other off-field issues in Utah State's program in recent years.