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Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:28 am to chattabama
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:28 am to chattabama
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Grandpa's birthday party was the Saturday before NSD. Malzahn and his coaching staff scheduled the in home with Evans to be during the party so they could get the last word in. Not to be outdone, Smart and a few Alabama assistants also join the party along with Reuben Foster, current Alabama player and former Auburn commit who was a teammate of Evans at Auburn High School.
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Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:52 am to chattabama
quote:Didn't the party get moved from the Evans home to somewhere on the Auburn campus as well? There was talk that it was done in an attempt to keep the Bama coaches from attending, but they came anyway.
Grandpa's birthday party was the Saturday before NSD. Malzahn and his coaching staff scheduled the in home with Evans to be during the party so they could get the last word in. Not to be outdone, Smart and a few Alabama assistants also join the party along with Reuben Foster, current Alabama player and former Auburn commit who was a teammate of Evans at Auburn High School.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 9:21 am to Crowknowsbest
Not SEC unless you extrapolate back with aTm but if you've seen the ESPN 30 on SMU, Eric Dickerson talks about aTm buying him a Trans Am and SMU taking over the payments.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:27 am to Crowknowsbest
Not SEC, but a couple weeks ago, athlete Louis Brown was committed to Texas and took his official visit. Halfway through, he was asked to leave a day early and tweeted that he decommitted. Rumor is that instead of hanging out with the other recruits the first night, he went to a strip club and the coaches found out.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:36 am to PJinAtl
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Didn't the party get moved from the Evans home to somewhere on the Auburn campus as well? There was talk that it was done in an attempt to keep the Bama coaches from attending, but they came anyway.
It was at a hotel in Auburn according to this article: LINK
I reread that article and had forgotten that Evans had left the party with Reuben a few times, leaving the staffs at the birthday party without their main target.
Alabama/Auburn recruiting battles are ridiculous, especially when both sides go all in on a prospect.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 10:55 am to Crowknowsbest
The Chris Jones saga was just weird.
He did switch schools and didn't play football until late HS, but the rumor was, for whatever reason, teams never got requested tape on him and I don't believe he attended any of their camps. His potential was only realized when other coaching staffs saw him in person and when he started playing in the All-Star games.
I mean, who goes from a low-rated three star prospect to a top 3 rated player (24/7) in a matter of 6 months?
Ole Miss finally worked a way to get an "in" with him (insert #TheNetwork joke) and then his recruitment really started getting wacky. He came on an official to Ole Miss where many State beat writers denied he was in Oxford until a photo of him turned up at a fraternity party with notable Ole Miss players in the photo.
I also remember Jones's in-home visit with MSU started at the church and then moved to his house.
Then, you got conflicting reports on signing day. He said something along the lines of he was going to Ole Miss up until about 4 in the morning where he changed his mind. Then, his Mom said on signing day it was "never really close" and he was always going to MSU. Probably just saving face but still.
Finally, before the season starts, you have the Chris Jones article that insinuates that Ole Miss is going to get in trouble over the Chris Jones recruitment. State beat writers begin to then imply that this is just the beginning and they know so much more. Examples: Gene/Steve, Paul Jones, Robbie Faulk, etc.
Of course, if you know anything about recruiting, every single top prospect gets at least one "interview" (5-10 minute talk) from an NCAA representative for their recruitment. Over a year and a half later, Ole Miss is still waiting lol.
Anyway, long story short, weird recruitment.
He did switch schools and didn't play football until late HS, but the rumor was, for whatever reason, teams never got requested tape on him and I don't believe he attended any of their camps. His potential was only realized when other coaching staffs saw him in person and when he started playing in the All-Star games.
I mean, who goes from a low-rated three star prospect to a top 3 rated player (24/7) in a matter of 6 months?
Ole Miss finally worked a way to get an "in" with him (insert #TheNetwork joke) and then his recruitment really started getting wacky. He came on an official to Ole Miss where many State beat writers denied he was in Oxford until a photo of him turned up at a fraternity party with notable Ole Miss players in the photo.
I also remember Jones's in-home visit with MSU started at the church and then moved to his house.
Then, you got conflicting reports on signing day. He said something along the lines of he was going to Ole Miss up until about 4 in the morning where he changed his mind. Then, his Mom said on signing day it was "never really close" and he was always going to MSU. Probably just saving face but still.
Finally, before the season starts, you have the Chris Jones article that insinuates that Ole Miss is going to get in trouble over the Chris Jones recruitment. State beat writers begin to then imply that this is just the beginning and they know so much more. Examples: Gene/Steve, Paul Jones, Robbie Faulk, etc.
Of course, if you know anything about recruiting, every single top prospect gets at least one "interview" (5-10 minute talk) from an NCAA representative for their recruitment. Over a year and a half later, Ole Miss is still waiting lol.
Anyway, long story short, weird recruitment.
This post was edited on 1/28/15 at 10:56 am
Posted on 1/28/15 at 11:02 am to geauxrebs
He played the system.
Jones was basically unheard of until the Sparq and Under Armour's practices. Then he was a 5*. Then got to State, got fat, and I don't think he's even a starter anymore.
Jones was basically unheard of until the Sparq and Under Armour's practices. Then he was a 5*. Then got to State, got fat, and I don't think he's even a starter anymore.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 11:14 am to PJinAtl
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Didn't the party get moved from the Evans home to somewhere on the Auburn campus as well? There was talk that it was done in an attempt to keep the Bama coaches from attending, but they came anyway.
There was definitely talk from the AU side that it was an attempt to keep Bama coaches from attending. The Bama side maintained that Evans' family invited the coaches.
I think the fact that he committed to Bama less than a week later tells you that the talk of Bama coaches "inviting themselves" was inaccurate.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 11:25 am to Crowknowsbest
My favorite is the one about the former LSU baseball assistant pantsing a recruit.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 11:28 am to Crowknowsbest
There was once a 5-star recruit that visited Bama and didn't commit.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:37 pm to SwayzeCrazy
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Oh. I was imagining coaches standing around singing happy birthday to this old man.
That's basically what happened. It probably became very awkward when Evans left the party with Reuben, leaving all of the coaches there without the recruit they came to visit.
For that matter, or can't believe nobody mentioned Reuben and his Auburn tat.That was a crazy recruitment.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:50 pm to AU86
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The Super Secret Double Double Cross, by Bud Elliott
A five-star defensive end was committed to an in-state school for over a year. He loved the school, but became concerned when a writer for a recruiting site covering a rival school planted the idea in his head that the school to which he was committed actually had a secret commitment from another defensive end and wasn't telling him, because the school didn't want to give the impression that the position was too crowded.
The recruiting writer convinced him to get revenge on the school to which he was committed. They concocted a plan in which the player kept telling the school he was still committed, all the while planning to switch his commitment to the rival on Signing Day.
On Signing Day, the player noticed the other guy was committing after himself. This bolstered his belief that the school was prepared to sign them both. So the long-time commitment decided to go through with the plan and faxed his letter to the in-state rival, burning the team to which he had been committed.
Of course, the recruiting writer who hatched the plan was lying. The "secret commitment" was never committed in-state and signed with a school out West.
This is the story from the sb nation article, that I'm very curious about.
What 5 star was committed to an instate team fire a year, then switched to an in state rival in signing day? This is the most diabolical story I've ever heard.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:55 pm to CCTider
Pretty sure it was Dante Fowler.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 4:10 pm to Crowknowsbest
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Reuben Foster's was absurd in every way possible, speaking of
That was such a shitfest. I remember when like half that class said they were going to play together.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:27 pm to Crowknowsbest
Corey Nelson (2010):
Linebacker from Skyline (Dallas) who signed all of his tweets "Mr. Texas A&M". Brent Venables convinced him to string along the A&M coaching staff until NSD. When ESPN got wind of it and reported the decommitment the weekend before NSD, Nelson immediately contacted every service to tell them that he did not decommit, under Venables' guidance.
Then on NSD, flips to OU.
He went 1-2 vs A&M for his career.
Linebacker from Skyline (Dallas) who signed all of his tweets "Mr. Texas A&M". Brent Venables convinced him to string along the A&M coaching staff until NSD. When ESPN got wind of it and reported the decommitment the weekend before NSD, Nelson immediately contacted every service to tell them that he did not decommit, under Venables' guidance.
Then on NSD, flips to OU.
He went 1-2 vs A&M for his career.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:37 pm to dawg4lyfe
Kinda surprised nobody has mentioned Crowell and the Missing Man formation.
Or Josh Harvey-Clemons and Richt visiting him at the jail where JHC was acting as a bondsman for his grandpa's company. There were a lot of jokes made then about that one and they're still pretty true now that he got kicked out for weed usage.
Or Josh Harvey-Clemons and Richt visiting him at the jail where JHC was acting as a bondsman for his grandpa's company. There were a lot of jokes made then about that one and they're still pretty true now that he got kicked out for weed usage.
Posted on 1/28/15 at 11:01 pm to tylerdurden24
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Gabe Wright
Biggest fricking waste of talent
On a side note when there were 17 scholarship LBers on Alabamas roster Brent Calloway went awol for an eternity & eventually signed with Alabama never to be heard from again.
This post was edited on 1/28/15 at 11:09 pm
Posted on 1/28/15 at 11:23 pm to plazadweller
A lot of good ones already posted by people, but the recent one that sticks out for me is the Floyd Raven recruitment. shite is funny as hell...
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