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At 6 a.m., Jay Bilas tweeting Young Jeezy is fuel Damien Harris needs

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It's 5 a.m. and somewhere Jay Bilas is tweeting.

Soon, Alabama's star running back will see today's offering from the 54-year old ESPN college basketball analyst.

Apparently Bilas' long-running tradition of blasting off an inspirational message from rapper Young Jeezy's catalog really strikes a chord with Damien Harris.

Since spring practice closed, the senior Crimson Tide running back has retweeted Bilas' morning ritual 17 times.

"You know, we wake up at like 6:00 every morning to go run," Harris said Wednesday at SEC Media Days. "First thing, I get on Twitter and I see some motivational tweet from Jay Bilas and it just automatically gets me ready to go.