re: Tide Hoops | Recruiting

How does the Burnett injury change everyone’s expectations for the season? Thoughts on starting 5?
I was thinking:
Q
JD
Ellis
Shack
Gurley
That seems small though and probably wouldn’t be too good defensively. If Tchikou is healthy enough, you could go:
Q or JD
Ellis
Shack
Tchikou
Gurley

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I'm leery having a class full of five stars for obvious reasons. Most national title teams aren't built like that.

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UCLA, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Duke are the top 4 teams with the most National championships. Yeah, let’s NOT get 5-stars, that’s a great idea. Let’s keep rolling the dice on Herb Jones’ and Ar’Mond Davis’.

JD Davison? Collin Sexton? Josh Primo? Kevin Durant? Anthony Davis? No thanks, I’ll roll the dice with Jimmie Taylor!!!

Jesus Christ you guys say some stupid sh*t

Keep in mind you're talking to a shite head troll whose shtick is making over the top dramatic claims and beating up straw men.

This was posted on the Auburn On3 board when a similar discussion came up.

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2021 - Baylor: 0 five stars
2020 - no champion
2019 - Virginia: 0 five stars
2018 - Nova: 1 five star with 0 being in the top 20
2017 - North Carolina: 0 five stars. Yes 0
2016 - Nova: 0 five stars
2015 - Duke: 4 five stars with 3 in top 20
2014 - UConn: 0 five stars
2013 - Louisville: 1 Five star

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Point being, 5*’s are great for publicity and getting you to the tourney but it almost always requires a veteran core to get you to the top. That late in the tourney it becomes such a mental game and you need some mature guys to keep your team together.

09-10 Kentucky is a prime example. That’s one of the most talented teams I’ve ever seen in college and I think they only made it to the Elite 8.

Same guy that said a Future 1st Round Pick was worthless and trash.

To win a Championship your core of your teams needs to be multi year players with experience. Then you add 1 or 2 One and Dones to them.

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I appreciate your informative response, but the jackass you're responding to thinks Herb is mentally retarded and wanted Alabama to fire Saban. So you might as well be trying to explain quantum physics to a chimpanzee.

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This is also the same guy who derailed every football thread talking about how terrible Mac Jones was and that Bryce should start over him as true freshman in the 2020 season. He just spews out a bunch of shite, then he thinks (or hopes) nobody remembers his jackassery. But pepperidge farm remembers.

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I want to see Bryce as the starter. If you start Mac, Bryce is gone, and you just don’t let that happen.

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Anybody who is in Mac’s corner, it feels like you’re here just to start an argument?

Watch the film, listen to every expert..Mac Jones isn’t even in the same area code talent-wise as Bryce Young. Saban made a monumental mistake starting Hurts over Tua, and it cost us 14 games we never got to witness with our schools GOAT QB.

You start the better player. It was tough for Dabo to bench that one guy for Trevor Lawrence, but it had to be done.

We aren’t going to waste Bryce Young eligibility so we can start freakin’ Mac Jones lol come on now, it ain’t happening. Jones is average, and average QBs are a dime a dozen.

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Same here. I hope future NFL 1st rounder Bryce Young doesn’t fall victim to that too.

Look at the recruiting rankings, look at the skill sets...

Bryce Young is in the Tua Tagovailoa/Justin Fields/Trevor Lawrence tier.

Mac Jones is in the Greg McElroy/John Parker Wilson tier.

Knowing what you know now, do you want Tua Tagovailoa or Greg McElroy starting QB for your favorite team?

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Based off 4 games? Watch the replays on ESPN, Macs arm isn’t that great

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It’s mind-blowing to me how someone’s birth year has that much weight in these decisions.

Bryce Young was the #2 recruit in the country. He’s a 1st Round pick, & seems to have all the tools NFL QBs need.

Mac Jones was the #329 ranked recruit in the country. He’s average, does nothing extraordinary, won’t be in the NFL, & will have a business job somewhere in 5 years.

Who will be better In December with 10 games of experience? It’s Bryce & it isn’t close. Hurts should have NEVER started over Tua because he’s older, and Mac should NEVER start over Bryce.

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If you have 3 football teams, all 3 oozing with 4-5 star all Americans, and one is being QB’d by Trevor Lawrence, one by Justin Fields, and one by Mac Jones, well, you better hope yours is the one that doesn’t have Mac.

It’s going to be pretty pathetic watching Fields/Lawrence be the difference makers while a player that could be better than both of them rots on our bench.

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Mac Jones, just ridiculous.

Guys like Bryce Young are here for 3 seasons. Why stunt his growth? Give him those game reps. Mac is an average guy, a dime a dozen.

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And then, just like that, you see the switch. Now he's all in on Mac, and every criticism he's had about him never existed.

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I don’t know how I’d rank each of those categories, all I know is I’d take Mac over Tua every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

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I believe Mac Jones would have been great before a lot of you think. Remember the a-day game after the 2nd & 26 game, Mac outplayed Jalen, & the gap was pretty huge.

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So I don’t hate Tua or anything, but he was EXTREMELY overrated. I’d take Mac over Tua, and it’s not even close

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True topic, and Mac > Burrow is just another reason why 2020 Alabama > 2019 LSU.

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Damn bro, that's straight up murder.

Left the game at halftime yesterday, walking back to the car and ran up behind about half the hoops team on the sidewalk on Univ heading back to the Coliseum. They were talking about the crazy tailgating /fans outside the stadium. Funny to listen to for a second. They were having fun.

Darius Miles looks much bigger. JQ is a cool cat. Big fan.

What's up with Jusaun Holt? He was with them. I had to look him up, didn't recognize him. What's his story? Rtr

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What's up with Jusaun Holt? He was with them. I had to look him up, didn't recognize him. What's his story? Rtr

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High ceiling 3&D player who needs to eat a cheeseburger or 20.