re: Alabama has the 70th ranked recruiting class for 2027 (UPDATED)

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If some of the numbers we hear are correct, I don't think it's necessarily cheaper to pay an elite high school guy for 4 seasons, however, you do get the added bonus of familiarity and chemistry.

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Well to me it’s like you have one price for an unready unfinished good and another price for a game proven guy and a top price for a game proven elite guy.

Once you go in for the elite starter in the portal you’re basically blowing up your QB room unless you have an insane NIL budget to work with because no one wants to sit and there’s only so much money to go around.

Simpson is the perfect example: Bama had him as an unproven starter caliber guy for like $2M. He went out and showed NFL upside and had an $8M offer from Miami.

Had Simpson come back on a hometown deal at $6M it still means you can’t resign KR and AM because you can’t afford them and they want to start, so now you’ll need a starter next year guaranteed.

Then you look at the pipeline. If you sign an elite HS QB are they ready to go as a rFR? Can you afford it if you had to pay $8M on the open market instead of $6M? Maybe, maybe not.

So say goodbye to Seaborn, Haven or both.

If not now you’re stuck buying another guy on the open market for the coming season because your QB room is gutted.

So the moment you sign the elite open market guy to me is a huge short term boost followed by future uncertainty for anyone without an open checkbook from a billionaire IMO.

IMO you’re almost guaranteeing yourself a long term ride on the portal QB cycle like Tennessee has been on until you can sign and develop someone who can start to bring stability to the position and while some of those guys have panned out like Mendoza, plenty have been average or worse while making elite or near elite money.

Makes sense as to why DePoor was begging for money.

What a nosedive for a once respected program.

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I can’t imagine they have much left after giving him that huge extension

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Had enough to sign the #1 HS QB in the country out of Baton Rouge.

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lot of money to pay a HS kid to sit the bench then transfer to Michigan or Ohio State

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Probably still a better ROI than paying $3M for a 4-4 record and these stats:

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Are those Julian Sayin's stats?

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You know whose stats those are and I don't see how your comment is a gotcha. Ty's stats were largely comparable to Julian's.

Kiffin recruited David Stills.