The Alabama Crimson Tide landed the state’s top prospect today, according to reports from Scout, TiderInsider.com, and Rivals. UPDATE: You can read a free story on the recruit at the Tuscaloosa News. Demarcus Milliner of Stanhope Elmore. Milliner is considered the top cornerback prospect in the nation. He is 6’1″, 185lbs. and runs a 4.45 [...]
Archive | June, 2009
Trent Richardson enrolled, on campus
The Pensacola News Journal reports Alabama signee Trent Richardson has graduated and enrolled at the University of Alabama. According to the News Journal, “Now on campus and fully qualified academically, Richardson has enrolled in summer classes and is participating in voluntary workouts. At the advice of his brother Terrell — a defensive end at Louisiana-Lafayette [...]
Crimson Tide notes for Thursday
Decision day for state’s top recruit The top ranked cornerback in the nation and the state’s top player, according to Rivals.com, makes his decision at 1 p.m. today (Thursday). DeMarcus Milliner of Millbrook decided to end the ordeal of recruiting, and speculation has the talented defensive back favoring Alabama. Milliner is on the ESPNU 150 [...]
College Football Is A 119 Party System
By intheknow72 We’re now 93 days out from Alabama’s return to the Georgia Dome for our skirmish with the Hokies. This means we have about 63 more days of internet banter about secondary violations, coaches oversigning, forthcoming NCAA decisions, long cars (remember my ban on the name of that kind of vehicle) and whatever else [...]
While Detroit collapses, the South surges
Reuters files this story from Lincoln, Alabama: “There are eight major assembly plants operated by foreign-owned auto companies in six southern states, and while U.S. auto companies cut back in Detroit, companies from abroad are expanding in the U.S. South. Volkswagen started construction of a plant in Tennessee last month and Kia Motors Corp is [...]
New frosh off to classes
According to Alabama’s twitter, “the new freshmen are off to their first college classes.” Once a list is available of these summer freshmen, we’ll post it.
More details on recruiting sites & Auburn
That gathering of Auburn fans and recruits looks less “impromptu†with details that seven Auburn police were on the scene—a fact reported by the Opelika-Auburn News. One officer was on site 45 minutes before the event began, also according to the O-A News report by Andrew Gribble. Gribble provides this detail on how Auburn fans [...]
Shane: SEC football-Lifestyles of the rich & famous
By Shane from Centerpoint Southeastern Conference officials, including coaches, athletic directors, and presidents just completed their annual spring meetings. These meetings were held down in some elite hotel resort located near Destin, Florida. Yes, one of those places down on the “Emerald Coast†– a place that is home to the most beautiful white beaches [...]
Getting beyond Auburn’s cheating
If the SEC and the NCAA want to cleanup the slime of recruiting, the organizations should focus less on oversigning and more on the recruiting sites and how they function as propaganda machines for the schools they cover. The focus today will rightly be on whether Auburn cheated or not during a staged pep rally [...]
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