re: On3: Alabama’s crisis management in Brandon Miller situation ‘an outright fail’

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My friend's been blaming it on Covid. He said everything was ticking along for Bruce and AU was clicking before covid hit. Then the covid season caused the bluebloods Duke/Kentucky and AU to not care
enough to even try to make the tournament.

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I wouldn't blame covid too much. I think covid is a major reason why we landed Jabari and Kessler. Jabari couldn't go on recruiting trips to other schools but he was already familiar with Auburn. Kessler wanted to come home due to bad experiences with covid at UNC. I think his brother is also an AU student and his family owns a lake house nearby. (You can even include Suni Lee. She would have turned pro in 2020 and maybe not even won the AA gold medal in 2020 but still team gold and a few other individual medals. It was still the pre-NIL era so she would not have joined Auburn for the 2020-21 season and likely turned pro). So covid actually helped Auburn here but hurt us in football...