re: What top level SEC recruit from today will be a bust

Hard to say because you don't know what these guys are into. Reuben Foster's high school videos are the best I've seen since Tray Blackmon, though, and maybe better.

Some of these kids will bust. For all schools. Some won't like the competition, some won't quit the weed or won't make the grades or won't put in the work to distinguish themselves from all the other blue chippers they compete with at the next level.

I'm not singling any of them out, though, because first they are 18 freaking years old, many with strange or broken families, and you just don't know what's going on no matter how many messageboards you read. If I had to single anyone out it wouldn't be Reuben Foster, though, because his job is easy: do what Saban says and he'll be a superstar. He's got that kind of talent already. He doesn't need to do what some other kids have to do-- gain 30 pounds, change positions, etc. Reuben just needs to make grades, line up in the right spot, and play ball. Others are going to have it a lot tougher.

If you make me pick somebody to be a bust, I'm picking somebody with "ATHLETE" as their position. Because they have learning to do somewhere-- at some specific position-- before they hit the field.