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Is it just me but has anyone else noticed Bama isn’t getting the recruits they use to get?
Posted on 5/31/26 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 5/31/26 at 2:29 pm
Only a couple years ago they were getting five stars and now fighting to get 4 stars. NIL really leveled the playing field.
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Posted on 5/31/26 at 2:37 pm to Geauxtigers2025
It is not different for any other team in the league. Maybe state, UK, Scar, Vandy, OM, etc. are beneficiaries of the same.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 2:41 pm to Geauxtigers2025
It’s hitting the entire SEC the same way. There will never be teams with that kind of depth again.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 2:50 pm to Geauxtigers2025
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Only a couple years ago they were getting five stars and now fighting to get 4 stars.
Once Saban was snubbed by the Alabama admins regarding the 15 year Learfield deal that he opposed, it has been all down hill ever since.
I've been telling Alabama fans for the past few years about how that deal made some in house folks rich while screwing the football program.
Alabama fans in general don't seem to understand, but I'm fine with that.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 3:31 pm to Geauxtigers2025
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Is it just me but has anyone else noticed Bama isn’t getting the recruits they use to get?
Alabama literally signed the #1 ranked player overall in the Class of 2025.
In the Class of 2026 Alabama signed more 5-stars than Ohio State, Georgia, Texas A&M, Miami, Michigan, LSU, etc.
The only program to sign more 5-stars was Oregon who had four.
Alabama, Texas and Notre Dame signed three.
fricking idiot.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 3:35 pm to TideSaint
The legend is always greater than reality. Alabama getting talented players hasn’t been the problem, depth is a problem but it’s a problem alll over the sec.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 3:36 pm to Geauxtigers2025
They still get great recruits, it’s just that no teams are able stack 4/5 stars 3 deep, any more. Times are a changing.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 4:29 pm to Geauxtigers2025
I don't even follow recruiting anymore. There was a time when I could name just about every player on LSU's roster and what their recruiting ranking was coming out of HS. Now I just laugh when someone comes on here to brag about signing a HS recruit or a portal player.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 4:30 pm to Mohican
quote:Y'all had depth? What's it like?
There will never be teams with that kind of depth again.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 4:40 pm to Drewbie
Oklahoma's #1 2027 class took 3 kids out of Alabama.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 5:32 pm to Geauxtigers2025
quote:Of course. The field is leveled now that every school can pay their players...
Is it just me but has anyone else noticed Bama isn’t getting the recruits they use to get?
Posted on 5/31/26 at 5:46 pm to Mohican
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It’s hitting the entire SEC the same way. There will never be teams with that kind of depth again.
Never should've been that way in the first place.
I believe it was start of the league's overall decline
Posted on 5/31/26 at 6:22 pm to Geauxtigers2025
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Only a couple years ago they were getting five stars and now fighting to get 4 stars. NIL really leveled the playing field.
Based on On3 rankings, Alabama signed 3 five star recruits in the last recruiting cycle. They finished the 2026 recruiting cycle 2nd in number of 5 stars. Only Oregon signed more with 4. In 2025, despite the coaching change, they were 3rd with 3 five star recruits.
Why do so many people here start threads that are just wrong? Easily fact checked yet still completely wrong. LSU fans start more than any other fanbase.
You should be embarrassed by this. You probably won’t be.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 6:25 pm to Wishbone85
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Oklahoma's #1 2027 class took 3 kids out of Alabama.
Because nothing will change between now and December. Things never change in recruiting…
Posted on 5/31/26 at 7:09 pm to captdalton
The op is talking about overall. Sure, you signed some 5 stars. Your Alabama so you should. But you aren’t following up those 5 stars with the next level player after player. The results are right there in front of you. And you’ll see the results agin this season when you are in close game after close game.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 7:13 pm to RunningJacket
The OP said Alabama is not signing 5 stars anymore and is fighting for 4 stars.
You are as stupid as him. Got it. Will remember this going forward.
As for keeping players, no one is able to do that like in the past.
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Only a couple years ago they were getting five stars and now fighting to get 4 stars
You are as stupid as him. Got it. Will remember this going forward.
As for keeping players, no one is able to do that like in the past.
This post was edited on 5/31/26 at 7:14 pm
Posted on 5/31/26 at 8:19 pm to captdalton
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Why do so many people here start threads that are just wrong?
Ironic post is ironic.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 8:57 pm to RunningJacket
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Your Alabama so you should
Yikes
Posted on 5/31/26 at 9:09 pm to Geauxtigers2025
And no seniors hardly at all
Posted on 5/31/26 at 10:04 pm to Chip82
Explain the Learfield deal
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