re: Class of 2019 Recruiting MEGATHREAD: That's a Wrap Edition

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Alabama keeping current with social media

Over the weekend, offensive line coach Brent Key and defensive line coach Craig Kuligowski tweeted the hashtag #ROLL1N9. I confirmed with Alabama commit Quick, who also tweeted the hashtag, that it will be the Tide’s official slogan for the 2019 recruiting class.

To my knowledge, this is the first time Alabama has a hashtag for its recruiting class. I’m not sure if the coaches are going to start acknowledging verbal commitments like other schools do and tweet the hashtag when a player chooses the Tide, but it’s just another example of the team becoming more current with social media. Alabama, in my opinion, is well behind schools such as Clemson and Ohio State, which make fancy graphics for recruits and acknowledge commitments on Twitter.

Quick, who has shut down his recruitment and is locked in with the Tide, told me that the Tigers constantly would send him graphics.

"Clemson is the best [on social media],” he said. “They would send me sick edits every single day. I loved it. My dad and I have been telling [Alabama] they gotta catch up in social media and all that stuff.”

We have already seen the assistant coaches be more vocal on Twitter since the start of the new year. Perhaps Alabama is getting with the times and will utilize social media when it comes to recruiting.

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