re: 2025 Football Recruiting

That's a very interesting statistic. Nice!

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Crazy to think Moody is a fricking powerhouse in 5A now. And Oxford has played Clay-Chalkville.

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Yep. It was a great game, but I think both teams have improved over the course of the season. I know it took Oxford several weeks to really figure out the defensive side of the ball and they have played very good for the past 4 or 5 games.

Back in my day, Leeds was the really good team of that area while Piedmont was the dominant team in Calhoun county. I believe they have moved up in classifications over the past couple realignments so they started facing better competition and kinda fell off while Anniston has had a resurgence lately.

Oxford has been solid historically, but have really turned into a very good program since they hired Etheridge. He built them into a power and won a title for the first time in 26 years. Then Oxford let him walk, stupidly, to Auburn. When he left, a bunch of kids transferred out (The Fegans kids, the OL kid that is on AU now followed him to Auburn HS, 2 or 3 more transferred to Spanish Fort and Gulf Shores) so they fell off for a year or two. Coach Adams has done a good job of building it back up. He had to play a ton of very young kids his first year or two. Britt was starting in 6A as an 8th grader. That's basically unheard of at Oxford. They have a good shot to win another title if they can stay healthy. I would really like to see Clay-Chalkville get knocked out before they could meet again, but they did handle them pretty easily last week.

High school job probably pays the same or more wouldn't it?

Mark Freeman is the coach at Thompson has 10 state titles between 3 different schools.

Etheredge has 4 or 5 can’t remember exactly but won multiple at Leeds and 1 at Oxford and Auburn high poached him.

I am surprised we still haven't had a decommit yet. FSU, for instance, has seen an exodus of their recruits.

Hopefully the class can be held together.

A bunch of the recruits were sending out social media messages last week saying hold on we are on the way.

It’s been reported as well that the ‘25 class is really close to the players in the ‘24 class as well.

That’s not to say we won’t lose anyone but I think this class will stay mostly intact.

Probably gonna gain a few and lose a few. Wouldn’t expect a huge net loss the way things are going

No Perspective Smuck Lanier thinks our program is off the rails lol.


It's bumpy but we are still headed there. Reminds me of my POS Chevrolet Equinox. It was flashing a whole book worth of codes but when it flashed an indicator reducedenginepower I was just a praying it could make it 30 miles to a dealership. That mf had to go up mountains and shite but plodded along. Got there though! Smooth sailing from there.

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Etheredge has 4 or 5 can’t remember exactly but won multiple at Leeds and 1 at Oxford and Auburn high poached him.

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There are people still mad about Etheredge in Oxford. From what I understand, he just asked Oxfird to match the Auburn offer and they wouldn't. It was a supposedly pretty small number too. Around $10k per year. But then dropped $20 million on an indoor practice field, new weight room, and upgrades to the stadium.

JLee now has Joseph Mbatchou 6foot 4.5, 275lb DL out of Grayson now at 60% prediction. Has an official next week.

He is ranked a 4 star but I think thats mostly potential from what they are saying. From Cameron, played basketball and I believe just started playing football in the spring.

This DL/Edge class is shaping up to be one for the ages.