Devonta Bolton Headed To JUCO

by outsidethesidelines on Jul 1, 2008 11:30 PM CDT

As reported by ABC 33/40 out of Birmingham, Alabama signee Devonta Bolton did not qualify. According to their reports, his ACT score was not high enough, and now he is headed to East Mississippi Junior College with fellow Alabama signee Brandon Lewis. Without knowing any specifics just yet, I would assume the plan for both is to play one season, redshirt, and then come back to Alabama with three years of eligibility remaining.

And that will officially wrap up the 2008 recruiting class. Of the 32 signees, we ended up getting 27 enrolled. Two of the 27 were early enrollees, three were academic casualties, and two decided to play professional baseball.

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Man, I just wanna. . . .

. . . .pop that shaggy switch-hitter Brian Cook upside the head one! Just sayin’.

by BixBeiderbecke on Jul 2, 2008 10:04 AM CDT reply actions

Where "Butt" Happens

Oh man, the Natty Ice tasted a lot better going in than it did out my nose.

by LifelongBammer on Jul 2, 2008 12:57 PM CDT reply actions

Natty Ice

There isn’t much else that some once can say natty ice tastes better than.

Cause bama's pluck and gritt has writ her name in crimson flame.

by pluckandgritt on Jul 2, 2008 5:34 PM CDT up reply actions

This is a true statement

that you make. It is cheap and I think I aquired a taste for it during my broker days. I have a lot of reverence for Natty Ice because if it were not for that I may have aquired a taste for the “beast”. We can’t have that.

by LifelongBammer on Jul 3, 2008 2:32 PM CDT up reply actions

Update

I ran across this article. It appears that it may not be a done deal yet. I really hope Bolton can make it to the Capstone, though it seems unlikely. He is very impressive on the field. I guess we will see.

by Kenny483 on Jul 2, 2008 1:22 PM CDT reply actions

Question:

How does this year’s number/percentage of “academic casualties” compare with that of past years’? I can’t seem to recall…

The most beautiful phrase in the English language: "Touchdown, Alabama!"

by turnover on Jul 2, 2008 1:39 PM CDT reply actions

Academic casualties...

I’ll crunch the numbers really quick on academic casualties…

2008: 9.3%... 3 academic casualties out of 32 signees

2007: 4.1%... 1 academic casualty out of 24 signees

2006: 13.0%... 3 academic casualties out of 23 signees

2005: 20.0%... 6 academic casualties out of 30 signees

2004: 14.2%... 4 academic casualties out of 28 signees

2003: 17.6%... 3 academic casualties out of 17 signees

2002: 26.3%... 5 academic casualties out of 19 signees

There is seven years of data, and it looks very good when you compare the two Saban classes to the previous five. In the five classes prior to Saban’s arrival, we had 21 academic casualties out of 107 signees, a casualty rate of damn near 20%. In Saban’s two classes, however, we have had only 4 academic casualties out of 56 signees, a casualty rate of only 7.1%. In other words, the academic casualty rate thus far with Saban is barely one-third of what it was in the five years prior to his arrival.

The man deserves a hell of a lot of credit for it. He simply does not take kids who are longshots to qualify, and actually stays away from a lot of kids who are going to be very borderline. For the most part, he’s only looking for kids who will qualify with no problems, or kids who are borderline but who have a great chance of making it. Obviously, he’s not in the business of signing a bunch of academic casualties.

As for this year, to have only three academic casualties out of 32 signees is pretty dang impressive. That’s a very good big class, and usually classes that big tend to have more. Miami, for example, signed 33 kids, and I believe I read they are looking at around six casualties or so.

by outsidethesidelines on Jul 2, 2008 3:56 PM CDT up reply actions

ESPN

And still ESPN will try to use these numbers to justify denying Bama the number 1 recruiting class. A big ol’ made up “told ya’ so”. Those people hate Bama so much they will go as far as to make things up. I think I am starting to understand were the barn may have gotten that mathimatical equasion that they use to deny Bama’s 12 national championships. OTS, you are truly a bottomless pit of stats and we appreciate it.

by LifelongBammer on Jul 3, 2008 2:40 PM CDT reply actions