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Oh, SORREY! Alabama becomes Canada South
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:35 pm
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:35 pm
FOOTBALL
WR John Metchie (Brampton, Ontario)
Toronto Sun - Canadian John Metchie defies the odds to become top U.S. football recruit
BASKETBALL
Guard Josh Primo (Toronto, Ontario)
- current SEC Freshman of the Week
Forward Keon Ambrose-Hylton (Toronto, Ontario)
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Ahriahna Grizzle (Toronto, Ontario)
BASEBALL
OF Owen Diodati (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
- Freshman All American 2020
SP Antoine Jean (Montreal, Quebec)
- Freshman All American 2020
GYMNASTICS
Shallon Olsen (Surrey, British Columbia)
WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING
Diver Tanesha Lucoe (Victoria, British Columbia)
WOMEN'S TENNIS
Sasha Gorchanyuk (Mississauga, Ontario)
WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD
Natassha McDonald (Brampton, Ontario)
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Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:36 pm to SummerOfGeorge
OH CANADA
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:38 pm to mwlewis
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:42 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I love we're getting quality young men from Canada. Has it been an effort from athletic department to recruit Canada or is it coincidence?
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:45 pm to SmokeTide
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I love we're getting quality young men from Canada. Has it been an effort from athletic department to recruit Canada or is it coincidence?
Basketball and baseball it has. Hodgson, our top assistant in basketball, has a lot of connections in Canadian youth basketball (which has exploded and has tons of elite players). Bohannon, the head baseball coach, has old ties in Canada as well and has had a lot of luck finding underrecruited kids there due ot the cold weather that he then turns into elite players. He signed Edouard Julien at Auburn, who was from Quebec, and James Paxton at Kentucky, who was from British Columbia.
As for football - pretty sure that was just random that Metchie was from Canada (as well as Ghanna and Taiwan). He was in metro DC and then New Jersey all of high school.
This post was edited on 1/25/21 at 4:50 pm
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:48 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Tuscaloosa News - Canadian Pipeline, Alabama Baseball
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Brad Bohannon — and by extension, Alabama baseball — have a brand in Canada.
Bohannon’s reputation in American’s neighbor to the north goes back to his time as an assistant coach at Kentucky, starting with the 2004 season. His intent was to go north, but not necessarily to cross a national border.
“When I recruiting at Kentucky, I figured out in a hurry that I needed to go north instead of south to get players,” Bohannon, UA’s coach, said. “It was just a lot easier sell a kid in Pittsburgh, Chicago or Detroit to come south and play in the (SEC).”
In his travels north, he forged a strong relationship with Greg Hamilton, an influential figure in Canadian baseball who is now the head coach and director of Canadian national teams. Through that network and others, Bohannon has brought Canadians to the SEC for years.
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The crown jewel of Bohannon’s Canadian pipeline: James Paxton. Paxton followed Bohannon to Kentucky from Ladner, British Columbia, and was once a first-round draft pick; Paxton’s now entering his eighth season as a Major Leaguer, third with the New York Yankees on a $12.5-million contract. Other Canadian Wildcats under Bohannon include Chris Bisson (fourth-round draft pick), Zach Pop (seventh-round pick) and Tristan Pompey (third-round pick).
In just two years as an assistant at Auburn, he was able to lure Canadian Edouard Julien, who played a big role in Auburn’s run to the College World Series last season.
This post was edited on 1/25/21 at 4:49 pm
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:50 pm to SummerOfGeorge
frick Canada
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:52 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Sawry
You mean soary?
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:52 pm to deltaland
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frick Canada
20 pts
8/11 FG
4/5 3PT
Yep, you got Canucked
This post was edited on 1/25/21 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:53 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:53 pm to Travis Scott
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You mean soary?
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:55 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Soon you'll be able to add Charles Bediako to that list
Posted on 1/25/21 at 4:56 pm to Gary Busey
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Soon you'll be able to add Charles Bediako to that list
Posted on 1/25/21 at 5:06 pm to SummerOfGeorge
You should open a restaurant serving this:
Posted on 1/25/21 at 5:09 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Are you serving poutine in the dining hall now?
Posted on 1/25/21 at 5:09 pm to Poker Dough
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You should open a restaurant serving this:
Luckily, the boys have learned that we have better dining options in the deep south than they do back in the frozen tundra.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 5:10 pm to deltaland
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frick Canada
The US did that royally earlier this week.
Bama just saw what was coming and provided a place for refugees.
We're caring that way, you know.
Posted on 1/25/21 at 5:10 pm to Leto II
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Are you serving poutine in the dining hall now?
Bama dining stacked, LSU dining friccccccccccccccked
Posted on 1/25/21 at 5:14 pm to SummerOfGeorge
They will enjoy holiday from university down in Florida eh?
Posted on 1/25/21 at 5:15 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I was in Quebec a few years back. Went to a sugaring off event at a maple syrup farm. A guy with an accordion walks up and asks where we’re from. We say Alabama. Dude says “Roll Tide” and breaks into ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ on his accordion. Swear to God.
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