re: Malik McDowell: Five Star, SDE

I am very happy with the work our coaches did with this quality class and expect to finish strong. We have the top player/RB in the nation, the top LB, #2&3 Safeties and a slew of top 10 position players.

First of all I want you to know that I respect your contributions and insights and I know you want to see us add to this really, really outstanding class with the best possible recruits at positions of greatest need. When the juvenile mental midgets went into meltdown mode over the 5for5 fiasco you were among the ones who saw we came away with the 2 best recruits. Losing a couple of immature, self-centered, "Terrell Owens" duplicitous personalities to questionable recruiting just opened the door to other recruits with better character, talent, true team players who want to play here, Adoree and Dupre, e.g. Losing Tony Brown was a shock, but after hearing about his shoulder and Olympics, (and father's doctor bills) I believe he may never play a game and risk 2 Olympics. At the least he is a tool for Saban to maybe finish first again in recruiting at all costs. With Saban firing half his coaches and hanging posters over every player's locker blaming everyone but himself for his two losses, the toxic environment has to suck. Can you imagine Miles doing something that negative...NO!. Saban was denied the fabled 3-peat for his stupidity, like Bryant was denied in '65 going undefeated by playing a soft schedule with an all white team.

I like your sig list beginning at #2.

Malik has 30 schools chasing him and he should have trimmed his list by now. I am not at all sold on the veracity or meaning of the report about LSU and MSU. Les was there just 2 days ago for an in-home. Les is a Michigan alum who played for Schembechler so he undoubtedly had a lot of rapport all along as did Haley. We are deep with SDEs and WDEs but we could not sack McCarron 7 times like OU. Until Miles says it's over or that SDEs Bower, Godchaux, and Herron & WDEs Rasco & hunter are more than we need to be able to provide the speed rush and sacks we are missing, I am still hoping for Lorenzo (1st) and Malik (2nd) to mesh with CG3 and help bring back a dominating defense. Otherwise lets expect to land the best of the remaining targets.