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D.J. Fluker writes about recruiting process, decision to pick Alabama
Posted on 2/7/15 at 9:33 am
Posted on 2/7/15 at 9:33 am
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I took a visit to Mississippi State and I didn’t really like it. Too much cowbell for me, you know? It didn’t feel right. I visited Auburn, and it was really nice, but in the end I just didn’t think it was the place for me. Then I visited LSU — just an hour and a half drive from where I grew up — and it was pretty good. The recruiting coach did a great job, too. I got the whole 5-star treatment.
I grew up an LSU fan because I lived in New Orleans. It’s all-LSU everywhere in NOLA, so you don’t have much of a choice. I remember Nick Saban being at LSU in 2003 when they won the BCS National Championship. They had a great team, but when he left, they just weren’t the same. Even though Les Miles is a great coach (he won a BCS title at LSU, too), they didn’t have that same fire they had under Saban.
But the second I stepped on the campus at Alabama, I thought, “This might be my last stop.”
God’s honest truth: When I visited Alabama, I didn’t even know who Bear Bryant was. I didn’t really follow college football. LSU was all I really knew. So when I visited Alabama, there was all this talk about tradition, and I didn’t know anything about it.
Then they took me to the campus museum and I saw all these great players from Alabama — the Shaun Alexanders, the Ozzie Newsomes — and all that history just unraveling before my eyes. I’m thinking, “Man, I wanna be a part of that. I gotta play here.”
I went to a game in Tuscaloosa to experience what it would be like to be a part of that team and that history, and they did it up. I ran out of that tunnel with the team —against LSU, no less — and it was electrifying. Fans were screaming, my name was up on the jumbotron, it was crazy. I felt like I was a part of something bigger than a football team, like I made it to the NFL already. The whole stadium had an attitude about it. Everyone had a swagger. I felt like it was my time.
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Posted on 2/7/15 at 9:36 am to Bench McElroy
And then the money orders came through and I was all set.
Posted on 2/7/15 at 9:37 am to Bench McElroy
Good post. I wasn't convinced that bama was better than lsu until I just read that, now I know.
This post was edited on 2/7/15 at 9:38 am
Posted on 2/7/15 at 9:37 am to Bench McElroy
Who wrote that for DJ Fluker?
Posted on 2/7/15 at 9:54 am to Bench McElroy
I didn't know you could put a recruits name up on the jumbotron. Learn something new everyday.
Posted on 2/7/15 at 9:55 am to Bench McElroy
Wasn't he the one that admitted taking money from an agent while playing there? Sure that had nothing to do with Alabama being better.......
Posted on 2/7/15 at 10:40 am to Bench McElroy
Good advise. You could plug LSU, Auburn or any other program into the article and the advise would still be sound. It's amusing how folks look right over the message of the article and attack the individual and his selection.
Posted on 2/7/15 at 10:53 am to Bench McElroy
Well I guess Auburn should give up football.
Posted on 2/7/15 at 11:11 am to Bench McElroy
Alabama is awesome, but we all already knew that
Posted on 2/7/15 at 11:48 am to Bench McElroy
Same thing with Russell, Allen, Williford, Alexander, Neighbors, etc. from alabama et al. Except that it was Death Valley.......
Posted on 2/7/15 at 12:40 pm to Bench McElroy
We could either pay attention to this one that somebody else wrote or we can pay attention to where he himself admitted to getting paid. Should be the last person writing about what recruits should be looking for.
Posted on 2/7/15 at 1:17 pm to Bench McElroy
3 Points. It's a recruiting violation to have name on video board before signing with school
I'm pretty sure that Flucker can't read or write, and
There is no such thing as "too much cowbell"
I'm pretty sure that Flucker can't read or write, and
There is no such thing as "too much cowbell"
Posted on 2/7/15 at 9:21 pm to Bench McElroy
D.J. Fluker write I'm sorry he wrote that
Posted on 2/7/15 at 11:07 pm to Bench McElroy
quote:
it was electrifying. Fans were screaming, my name was up on the jumbotron, it was crazy. I felt like I was a part of something bigger than a football team, like I made it to the NFL already. The whole stadium had an attitude about it. Everyone had a swagger. I felt like it was my time.
I got chills reading that. I love our stadium and atmosphere. From hearing the Bear talk to the new music they are piping in just makes it an epic experience.
Posted on 2/7/15 at 11:20 pm to Bench McElroy
Bama opened up the checkbook when he got on campus. That's what happened.
Posted on 2/7/15 at 11:30 pm to Bench McElroy
I think I may switch teams now...
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