re: Class of 2018 Recruiting MEGATHREAD: So Long Old Friend Edition

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The latest on some of Alabama’s top targets

We’ll start with Tennessee. It was only a matter of time before Butch Jones, the champion of life himself, was no longer coaching the Volunteers after his team got embarrassed by Missouri on Saturday. The Vols went ahead and fired Jones on Sunday.

How does that affect Alabama recruiting? Not all that much.

Alontae Taylor, a 4-star athlete from Coffee County Central High School (Manchester, Tenn.), de-committed from Tennessee on Sunday. Taylor was offered by Alabama as an athlete earlier this month.

“We like him,” a source close to the Alabama program told SEC Country. “We’re still trying to figure out what position he’d play for us.”

Taylor, who’s rated as the nation’s No. 29 wide receiver, would likely be a defensive back if he chose the Tide. But Alabama is squarely in the race for several top corners. Taylor seems like he’d be a wait-and-see option.

Greg Emerson, a 4-star defensive tackle who remains committed to Alabama, received some interest from Alabama earlier this year. While the Tide remain in the hunt for several defensive tackles, don’t expect the team to strongly pursue Emerson.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen there,” the source said. “He broke his leg [in the summer], so we don’t have recent film to evaluate. We don’t really know where he’s at. It’s hard to tell.”

Jaycee Horn, a 4-star Tennessee cornerback commit, tried to commit to Alabama before choosing the Volunteers, but the team will need to miss on several corners before circling back to Horn.

While the team would welcome 5-star offensive tackle Cade Mays, who de-committed from the Vols last week, he doesn’t seem like a viable option. His father was an All-American at Tennessee. A return to the Vols’ class, depending on who the university hires as its next coach, isn’t a far-fetched possibility.

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Miami’s big win

The Miami Hurricanes will likely see themselves in the top 4 of the College Football Playoff rankings this coming Tuesday after a big win against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

The “U” is back, and that win has already helped the Hurricanes in recruiting. As mentioned above, Williams, who attended Miami’s game, de-committed from Kentucky and looks to be the Canes to lose at this point; however, the Army All-American will take an official visit to Ohio State this coming weekend. Miami also received a commitment from the nation’s top fullback in Realus George on Sunday.

Alabama is fighting with Miami for two major targets in the 2018 class at arguably the Tide’s biggest position of need: Tyson Campbell, a 5-star cornerback from American Heritage High School (Plantation, Fla.), and Josh Jobe, a 4-star cornerback from Cheshire (Conn.) Academy who’s committed to the Hurricanes.

I think Alabama gets one of the two. In my most recent mock signing class, I had the Tide signing Campbell. I am changing that prediction in my updated version this week.

According to the source close to Alabama, it’s Jobe that the team is confident in landing.

“I think he’s pretty serious about his interest in Alabama,” the source said on Jobe.

As far as Campbell, who visited Miami for the Notre Dame game?

“I don’t know where that dude is going,” he said. “I think he’s going to go to Georgia.”

Patrick Surtain Sr., the father of the nation’s No. 1 cornerback, Patrick Surtain Jr., also was in attendance at Hard Rock Stadium. It’s still believed to be all LSU for Surtain.

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He was never High on the board, he was supposed to commit months ago, which would have been to Bama but he was never a take

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