re: Alabama Basketball 2026-27 roster tracker

If we end up with Freeman and Wilkins, this portal class goes from a little underwhelming to one of the best classes in the country. Still a little bit of a question at the five spot but between Collins, Garrison, and JDF I'm fairly confident that two of them can hold their own and do the dirty work we need from them for 40 minutes.

I don’t know what chance we have at getting both of them, but I know there’s nothing as entertaining as seeing the BIG BLUE BONEHEADS lose their collective minds about Pope not being able to close!!!! If Nate gets em both they might chase Pope out of the state IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!! They are thrashing WildcatHoopsHQ on X because he predicted Freeman to commit to UK and then said he was setting up a Bama visit a couple of hours later

Wilkins and Freeman and LETS frickING ROLL!!

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Hell, let's toss in Jasper Johnson, and that's 3 transfers we were runners up the first time. We've been runners up in a stupid number of elite prospects out of HS.

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It’s because we lead for these guys and then last minute other teams outbid us and take them. I don’t think people realize if we were in the pre NIL days Oats would be recruiting at Calipari levels.

Which I’m good with honestly. If they want to go get a bunch of money as freshmen and then come here a year or 2 later more developed I’m cool with that.

What I THINK is happening in a lot of these instances though is this: Out of high school Oats and Murphy are telling kids “We can give you say…200k in rev share. But we also are the most followed athletics department on all of social media and the biggest brand in college sports. We are the pro team of our state. So you CAN make up to a million and we’ll develop you and you’ll play fun and winning basketball”


Then some other school comes in and says “we’ll give you a million guaranteed that our billionaire booster made from sex trafficking”.


Then the kid gets to that school and that “guaranteed” money still ends up being them doing random NiL things or it being a struggle to collect

If we get Wilkins we are going to be dang good.

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What I THINK is happening in a lot of these instances though is this: Out of high school Oats and Murphy are telling kids “We can give you say…200k in rev share. But we also are the most followed athletics department on all of social media and the biggest brand in college sports. We are the pro team of our state. So you CAN make up to a million and we’ll develop you and you’ll play fun and winning basketball”


Then some other school comes in and says “we’ll give you a million guaranteed that our billionaire booster made from sex trafficking”.


Then the kid gets to that school and that “guaranteed” money still ends up being them doing random NiL things or it being a struggle to collect

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I think so too. Personally I find it really unusual that there have only been a handful of instances where a school even attempted to enforce those contracts and only the one (Reshada?) I'm aware of where a player tried to enforce them against an individual booster or a collective. Makes me think a lot of these kids are signing NFL style contracts, albeit valid and legally enforceable ones, where the face value and what you're actually going to end up earning are two very different numbers, but no one in their "camp" has the brains to recognize it for what it is. Then with all the go-betweens, i.e. agents, parents, handlers, collective representatives, booster reps (Mark Cuban isn't personally negotiating with Snakerell for example), coaches, etc. who all have something to lose you're going to be wading into a quagmire trying to allege fraud. Just like the Reshada kid.

It’s down to us vs Kentucky for Donnie Freeman.

This is the big time 3 we’ve been missing since Brandon left.

Do we have a known visit date for Wilkins or Freeman? Are either of them still on campus at Kentucky?

Freeman is visiting today, or just finished his visit. I cant remember which.