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re: Bama development of LA signees
Posted on 5/18/20 at 10:32 pm to mikeytig
Posted on 5/18/20 at 10:32 pm to mikeytig
If you don’t think whenever Saban has two roughly equivalent players he goes with the player from Louisiana then you aren’t very smart. You really think Saban couldn’t have recruited a better player than Hootie Jones?
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Posted on 5/18/20 at 11:38 pm to NolaGoldWave
I’m confused as to why ppl are hating on Tim. LSU withdrew offer at the end and he had a pretty damn good career at bama. About on par if not better than his high school rating. Was also a top 15 draft pick. What’s the argument here?
Posted on 5/18/20 at 11:48 pm to whoyodaddy
Surprised no one mentioned Denzel Devall. Big loss when we he want to Bama from Bastrop. He started at Bama but fizzled out the league quickly
Posted on 5/18/20 at 11:58 pm to James Woods
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Surprised no one mentioned Denzel Devall
Dang, hadn't heard this guy's name in a LONG time.
At the time it felt like a huge loss.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 10:10 am to Drizzt
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Had we got an average Surtain we may not have gotten both of those guys.
. He's only average in homer LSU fan's eyes. I posted facts that prove you wrong. quote:
Surtain has underachieved for a 5 star.
Again you are wrong. Facts outweigh your butt hurt opinion
Posted on 5/19/20 at 10:20 am to The Pirate King
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You’re thinking of Devonta Smith
Exactly. Devonta Lee is an LSU player that has been moved form WR to LB.
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Posted on 5/19/20 at 10:35 am to whoyodaddy
most of those guys on that list just were never going to be very good no matter where they went. Very marginal players. Bama couldn't turn them into top level players any more than LSU or anyone else could have. Its seems to be more of a problem of evaluation than of development. LSU has been pretty good at evaluating these marginal type players in Louisiana while Bama hasn't been.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 9:43 pm to Lester Earl
Shyheim Carter was not a good college player. Accept it.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 7:13 am to Drizzt
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Shyheim Carter was not a good college player. Accept it.
Like those other LA 4* players at UA, sitting the bench for 3 years harms their development. Of the 26 players from LA who committed to UA under Saban, 88% were 4*or better. Yet, only 25% of those achieved success as a Bama college player and 8% got to the NFL long enough to get a pension-if you call that success. This is absolutely poor and is absolutely well below the college sport success level achieved by other 4* at other schools. While I certainly appreciate that success in college can be measured in other non-sport metrics (Eg academics), I doubt that most of these players had that as an accompanying aspiration. The pre-NFL draft Wonderlic scores by Tua and Jeudy might support this. As a father of a D1 player who achieved success in both his sport as well as academically, I for one would be extremely wary of allowing my highly ranked son to attend a university where his chances of developing into a successful college player drop to 1 in 4, unless the academics can offset that handicap.
This post was edited on 5/20/20 at 8:45 am
Posted on 5/20/20 at 7:30 am to Drizzt
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Shyheim Carter was not a good college player. Accept it.
He was one of the better slot nickelbacks in the SEC, wasn't NFL material but got graded out pretty dang well overall. In 2018 he was much better than 2019. I nfact he was one of the highest graded DBs overall from 2018.
This post was edited on 5/20/20 at 7:35 am
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:43 am to thunderbird1100
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better slot nickelbacks in the SEC
Except against the only two decent teams UA played this year. He was absolutely EMBARRASSED against LSU and Auburn.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 11:32 pm to thunderbird1100
Yep, I definitely want the guy who was good last year but not this year. Winning argument there chief.
Posted on 5/21/20 at 8:16 am to whoyodaddy
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He was absolutely EMBARRASSED against LSU and Auburn.
Feel free to let us know what his grades/stats were in those games.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 5:19 pm to Lester Earl
To be honest, CHAVIS had a very hard time evaluating his own linebackers while he was at LSU. Kwon, Deon and Beckwith were proof of that. Also Kwon lost playing time do to injury that stunted his growth.
Posted on 5/22/20 at 5:22 pm to TheRoarRestoredInBR
One of my best friends signed with the Tide out of Jesuit in the 70’s. He was on a swimming scholarship ??
Posted on 5/25/20 at 3:10 pm to whoyodaddy
I don't think the lack of the development will deter these guys from going there as much as Ed O committing to locking down our back yard. One of his big goals early on was making it a point to keep these guys instate.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 11:38 am to Lester Earl
those names only ring a bell to me because you mention them , I like most people remember the players I was a fan of and any bama recruits don't make it there for me !
Posted on 5/26/20 at 12:12 pm to timm6971463
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I don't think the lack of the development will deter these guys from going there as much as Ed O committing to locking down our back yard. One of his big goals early on was making it a point to keep these guys instate.
From a college's perspective, getting as many good ones as possible makes sense- especially if you can keep them from going to a rival. However, from the perspective of a top quality player and his family, it makes sense to avoid situations that might lead to failure, as in the case of 4* LA players attending Alabama -especially if other lesser schools offered better possibilities of success.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 12:20 pm to DesMoinesTiger
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as Ed O committing to locking down our back yard
The 5 LA kids that O got last year was the lowest amount of in-state kids signed in 51years. Probably longer. The database i looked at ended in 1969.
This year there are more talented kids than last, but even so it doesn't look like they've been made a priority. The infatuation with out of state kids has gotten kind of weird.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 12:28 pm to Lester Earl
Is this your new thing?
O isn't signing louisiana kids
Why can't it be that he is just going after the elite ones
O isn't signing louisiana kids
Why can't it be that he is just going after the elite ones
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