Recruiting Lockdown WHAT

by Todd on Apr 28, 2009 7:44 PM CDT in Football

Working on a recruiting piece for Yea Alabama, and just realized something:

Of the top ten recruits in the state last year, Saban signed eight of them. The other two? JUCO and Ole Miss. Guess those beautiful plains aren't that beautiful after all...

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And honestly

Jamontay Pilson is way too much of an Auburn sounding name for us to sign him.

by jmappelbaum on Apr 28, 2009 8:06 PM CDT reply actions

I thought the first sign of this happening...

…was when CNS showed up in 2007 and convinced a few local fellas to come to Tuscaloosa (especially the finally-on-campus Kerry Murphy). Obviously, the recruiting season was not yet over when Coach Shula was fired, but, at the time, we had only one of the state’s top players (Rolando McClain) on board to 7 or 8 for the barn. By signing day, we had 4 to their 6. I remember thinking then that, if he could make that big of a change in that short a time, the future was going to be bright.

Of course, maybe the top players in this year’s class are just smarter than those of 2007. Anything’s possible.

by NiceLittleSaturday on Apr 28, 2009 8:29 PM CDT reply actions

they are probably just as smart. a player goes where he thinks is best for his future and, logically, uses past performance to make that decision. the problem is that it’s a flawed means of measure.

by kleph on Apr 29, 2009 6:59 AM CDT up reply actions

Umm...

…that part was supposed to ‘sound’ sarcastic. My bad.

by NiceLittleSaturday on Apr 29, 2009 3:05 PM CDT up reply actions

A Dark Cloud

Yes, but that was before they had the limo! Tremble before the power of the barn on wheels… ha.

by Watchman on Apr 28, 2009 9:05 PM CDT reply actions

Alas,

the days of the stretch tractor recruiting juggernaut are upon us!

by heffie on Apr 29, 2009 9:08 AM CDT reply actions

I really wish I had made a note of all of the Barners running their mouths about ’Bama being dead back in ’05 and ’06, as though Auburn was destined to be on top forever. I tried to tell them, but did they listen? Noooo.

by PeteHoliday on Apr 29, 2009 9:52 AM CDT reply actions

Ironic

that it happened to be Tuberville’s undoing. He got them all drunk off of beating ’Bama every year and winning in-state recruiting battles, that once things changed, they thought they were entitled to it being that way. Funny how roles reverse, and then reverse back again.

"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken

by Bens4vcobra on Apr 29, 2009 10:04 AM CDT up reply actions