There have been plenty of recruits and new players, exciting prospects at the University of Alabama but who never played a down. They got in trouble, or couldn’t keep up, or couldn’t compete, or didn’t want to adhere to the discipline that makes you able to be in the competition for a champion.

It can (and has) happened to some of the highest-rated recruits.

Meanwhile, 3-star recruits become first-round draft picks and national title winners.

You either stay on or get kicked right the hell off the Alabama train. Roll Tide.

Thugs in regimes like Auburn, where the good ole boy network is in full throttle, do not.

It’s not automatic, and if Liner, Foster and anyone else dares jerk with the system, they’ll be processed. But if they honor and follow it, they’ll be millionaires.

It ain’t hard, Abraham. Take off your orange and blue glasses and just embrace the suck that is Auburn football and the dominance that is THE University of Alabama.

Glad this kid saw the light and came to play for Coach Saban…

Roll Tide!

I’m curious to hear if Dee Liner will still be considered a thug by the Capstone Report after he faxes in his LOI tomorrow.

I admit first I don’t keep up with a ton of recruiting news. It’s a lot to figure out.

But we’ve had players come to Alabama who I was excited about but never played a single down because they weren’t cut out for the discipline, schedule and academics, or all of the above. Football is only a small portion of the year, and the “bad seeds” don’t often make it anywhere near the regular season.

I wish I could remember specific names, but if they didn’t play for Alabama it’s harder for me to remember.

But look at it this way—–ALL talent, even Richardson, Ingram, Jones (take your pick), Milliner, McElroy, Lacy, Foster, Williams, Bell, Yeldon, McCarron and Clinton-Dix don’t come to Alabama with the right attitude.

You can’t be prepared for Alabama. Nobody can. Foster isn’t prepared for Alabama, maybe just as much as any player who has helped win a championship at Alabama under Nick Saban. You just have to be prepared to accept the challenge. Some players can’t, and they don’t get far. Thanks to Alabama having more depth than a Kardashian’s nature-pocket, those players are both less frequent and weeded-out more quickly than ever. You can train a 300-pound athlete to be a champion, but you can’t often train a 140-pound champion to be a 300-pound athlete.

Depth. It’s what’s for dinner all day Wednesday. Roll Tide.

It wasn’t weird Kuandjio’s school got an anonymous donation.

What’s weird about it is the donation came over a year before he was signed to Alabama—-you know, when he was verbally committed to Auburn? Besides, tOSU players have gone there, among others. I don’t understand the allegation, or if it is one?