The Alabama football 2011 recruiting class is taking shape and it isn’t even national signing day. The official details from the University follow below: Crimson Tide Football Welcomes Eight Players for Spring Semester Alabama announced that eight student-athletes were scheduled to begin classes on Wednesday and will be eligible to participate in spring practice with [...]
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RECRUITING: Oklahoma State crybabies
Oklahoma State is crying foul over Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban’s visit to the state. The crybabies are upset over Saban’s bump into Barry Sanders Jr. According to the report, “My job is to deal with compliance on our campus, but when another coach from another institution comes in and starts doing stuff like [...]
Recruiting: Alabama lands top Florida RB
REPORT: “The University of Alabama received a huge commitment Sunday afternoon from Dee Hart, a Scout.com National 100 running back from Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Fla. Hart becomes the first running back to commit to the Crimson Tide in the 2011 class,” according to Andrew Bone’s report in the Tuscaloosa News. According to [...]
Alabama lands commitment from CB Chris Jones
Minor High School cornerback Chris Jones committed to play football for the Alabama Crimson Tide. He announced the commitment on Fox 6 television. According to recruiting expert Andrew Bone, “Jones had more than 20 scholarship offers from schools including Auburn, Florida, Notre Dame and Tennessee.” “I love the chance I will have to play for [...]
Recruiting: Update on Ha’sean Clinton-Dix
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Ha’sean Clinton-Dix is “now 85 percent Alabama.” The story by Chris Hays includes some quotes from the young football star. “I’m still ‘Bama, but the Gators are on a run with me,” Clinton-Dix said Monday, when he also said that now 85 percent with Alabama and listening to those others [...]
Recruiting: Isaiah Crowell talks Alabama & Georgia
The AJC reports that Georgia and Alabama continue atop RB Isaiah Crowell’s list. According to the report, Georgia believes Crowell could have a “Marcus Lattimore effect.” “It is still Alabama and Georgia tied on top,” Crowell said of his favorites from more than 50 offers. “[But] it is really just week to week. I am [...]
REPORT: Top recruit suspended for 2 games
A top recruit considering the Alabama Crimson Tide was suspended for two games by the Florida High School Athletic Association. Nick O’Leary, a tight end for Palm Beach Gardens Dwyer in Florida was suspended for an unsportsmanlike act. According to the report (see story below), “The grandson of Jack Nicklaus — one of the nation’s [...]
Alabama Recruiting: Cyrus Kouandjio
Alabama Recruiting Update Name: Cyrus Kouandjio. School: DeMatha High School (Hyattsville, Md.) Class: Senior Position: Offensive Tackle Height: 6-7 Weight: 300 College: Considering Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Miami, Fla., New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, USC, Virginia Tech and Virginia. AP: “I’ll be glad when he graduates,” Milloy said. “He’s a very, very imposing player. His [...]
Recruiting: Alabama-bound Trey DePriest
Recruiting update: ‘Football smart’ Trey DePriest looks to top 100 tackles for a second straight year The Alabama Crimson Tide landed a top linebacker when Trey DePriest committed to play football at Alabama. Here is more information on the recruit: Name: Trey DePriest School: Springfield (Ohio) High School Class: Senior Position: Linebacker Height: 6-2 Weight: [...]
Recruiting: Alabama-bound Ryan Kelly
Recruiting update: Ryan Kelly, one of the more versatile offensive linemen in the country, is Alabama-bound Name: Ryan Kelly School: Lakota West Class: Senior Positon: Offensive lineman Height: 6-5 Weight: 290 College: Alabama AP: “I’ve been there three times and the relationships just keep getting stronger and stronger,” said Kelly, who plans to major in [...]
Recruiting: Alabama’s prizes from Ohio
Alabama Recruiting Update AP: But Ohio State didn’t keep everyone in state. Among the top talent heading elsewhere is Troy DePriest, a senior linebacker from Springfield who is friends with Miller but has chosen to go to top-ranked Alabama. At 6-foot-2 with a 40-yard dash time of 4.79 seconds, DePriest is coming off a big [...]
Did ESPN help Alabama land its latest recruit?
It is just not fair. You can bet you’ll hear that from the Auburn callers on today’s Paul Finebaum Radio Network. These callers like Charles will be upset that the Alabama Crimson Tide landed a commitment from a top recruit for the 2012 recruiting class. According to reports, Eddie Williams of Arnold High School in [...]
Alabama’s recruiting and banning NFL scouts
Will the ban on NFL scouts harm Nick Saban’s and the Alabama Crimson Tide’s recruiting? Maybe not. According to Scout.com, “So how does banning scouts from the practice field affect Alabama’s recruiting? Coming off of a BCS Championship, during the absolute slowest recruiting part of the year, for a program that is covered nationally as [...]
Football recruiting: Ely picks Alabama
Phillip Ely wanted his announcement to be a “shocker.” He said, “It is more fun that way.” Ely’s announcement might have been the best dressed commitment since Trent Richardson and Andre Smith donned the houndstooth to declare he was headed to Alabama. Ely wearing a dark suit, made his commitment known by unbuttoning his jacket [...]
Recruiting tidbit from ESPN
ESPN’s Chris Low provided this interesting tidbit on recruiting in a post about Arkasnas’s recruiting efforts. Low writes, “Over the last four years, there have been a total of eight ESPNU 150 prospects to come out of the state of Arkansas, which dates back to the 2008 signing class. Counting Cook and Smothers, the Hogs [...]
Recruit picked Alabama’s ‘family environment’
Rivals.com reports that the Alabama Crimson Tide landed a commitment from a tight end recruit out of Mississippi. Malcom Faciane is 6’6″, 265 lbs, according to Rivals. “I basically decided on Alabama because it is a family environment and I felt at home every time I ever visited Tuscaloosa. I just got more and more [...]
Danny Woodson Jr. says Alabama is family
The Alabama Crimson Tide landed a commitment over the weekend—Danny Woodson, Jr. Woodson was thought to be an Auburn lean before his visit to Tuscaloosa, but something happened there. He discovered that Alabama is family. According to Tider Insider ($), “I used to walk around in my Alabama jersey and my sister had a little [...]
Recruiting 2011 Update: Marvin Shinn of Vigor HS
T.J. Walls Recruiting Correspondent About a year ago, Alabama received its first verbal commitment of the 2011 class. The early commitment was the wide receiver out of Vigor High School, Marvin Shinn. Shinn of Prichard-Vigor is a big time junior wide receiver. As a sophomore, the 6-3, 174-pound Shinn caught 46 passes for 872 yards [...]
Goodman talks Alabama, Auburn & UCF
T.J. Walls Recruiting Correspondent Recruiting Profile: Josh Goodman, Lake Howell High School This past year Lake Howell High School produced Florida State signee Christian Jones. It appears over the next few years the 5A program is loaded with blue chip prospects and you will be sure to find college football coaches in the stands with [...]
SEC Recruiting: LSU lands big play threat
Recruiting news of interest around the SEC T.J. Walls Recruiting Correspondent At 6’3”, 192 lbs, Armand Williams received the gift of a lifetime just 6 days before National Signing Day. On January 28th Les Miles extended Williams the offer that he’d been dreaming about all his life. Williams was the #98 wide receiver (in the [...]
BIZARRE: It is Alabama, no wait Auburn!
Will the recruiting news stop for one day so fans could enjoy basketball? Or at least not think about college football for one Saturday and maybe think about the Super Bowl? I guess that is an impossible dream in a state that is always obsessed with football. And Saturday was a bizarre day in the [...]
Recruiting: Vols landed a good one in Jackson
T.J.Walls Recruiting Correspondent Recruiting Analysis: Martaze Jackson The Tennessee Volunteer’s May Have Found a Diamond in the Rough Each year during National Signing Day great players across the country are overlooked by many Division I programs. Former Pro and now high school scout, Max Emfinger calls it “Flying Under the Recruiting Radar.” Derek Dooley and [...]
Alabama’s 2010 recruiting class
Here is the official release detailing the Alabama Crimson Tide’s 2010 recruiting class. Crimson Tide Ink 18 on National Signing Day (courtesy of UA Media Relations) TUSCALOOSA – University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban announced today that 18 student-athletes have signed national letters of intent to play football with the Crimson Tide, joining [...]
Recruiting: Blue chippers flocking to Florida
AP: Despite the uncertainty about coach Urban Meyer’s future with the Gators, Florida landed one of the top classes in the country Wednesday on national signing day. …In December, Meyer first resigned, then decided instead to take a leave of absence to deal with health issues. That leave hasn’t happened yet, and any concern that [...]
Alabama Signing Day update (9:45 a.m.)
Photo from fOTOGLIF Even on signing day there is time for a cheerleader picture! It is National Signing Day 2010. This year doesn’t seem to hold as much drama as 2008 or 2009; however, there are a few players to watch as today unfolds. Here are the players who have faxed in their LOIs as [...]
Recruiting: Arie Kouandjio picks Alabama
T.J. Walls Recruiting Correspondent After visiting Los Angeles to give USC an official visit this past weekend, Tuesday Arie Kouandjio decided to give his verbal commitment a day before National Signing Day. Tuesday Arie Kouandjio told S.I.com, “Alabama just felt like a good situation, like the right place to be,” Kouandjio said. “I liked everything [...]
Recruiting: Jalston Fowler
T.J. Walls Recruiting Correspondent One of the first commitments to the 2010 Alabama Crimson Tide class was Jalston Fowler. At 6’0, 240 lbs., Fowler appears to pass the eye test when fitting the big back system Alabama Crimson Tide Coach Nick Saban has always used—from T.J. Duckett at Michigan St. (6’1, 250 lbs.) to the [...]
Recruiting update: Allen out, Tide looks to finish
T.J. Walls Recruiting Correspondent The big news as of late, is star safety/ wide receiver, Keenan Allen may have decided to play somewhere other than the Tide. It seems that Penn State, California, and Clemson are in the picture now. One of the top players in the country, it would be somewhat of a blow [...]
Recruiting: Brandon Ivory fits Tide’s 3-4 scheme
T.J. Walls Recruiting Correspondent Brandon Ivory told the Alabama Crimson Tide football staff he would be rolling with the Tide Sunday, and on Thursday morning he made the announcement official. “I told Coach (Nick) Saban Sunday that we had to keep the news private. Bama was the place best for me, but I didn’t want [...]
Tony Mitchell’s suspension much needed
As the Crimson Tide takes the floor tonight in basketball’s version of the Iron Bowl (part one, anyway), it’ll do [...]