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re: 2013 Alabama Football Recruiting Thread - DH Decommited from UGA
Posted on 5/13/12 at 12:40 pm to BuccWildBammer
Posted on 5/13/12 at 12:40 pm to BuccWildBammer
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I can't help that AUs insiders have their heads too far up their asses to realize what is going on but the optimism I'm speaking of is AU's staff, they now feel extremely optimistic about landing Foster
Is it false optimism?
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Posted on 5/13/12 at 12:41 pm to BuccWildBammer
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he has become friends because he is a new student at the school (and I'm sure Blaise and Cam had some incentive from dads to make friends quick).
Well, let's put 2 and 2 together...
Reuben Foster, Blaise Taylor, and Cam Luper are all Auburn recruits. They all go to the same school. They all visit Auburn and other schools. Blaise's dad is Trooper, Cam's dad is Curtis. They're all also on the same football team and spend a lot of time together. If they're friends, so be it. It'll help Auburn. It wasn't some grand scheme that Lowder rigged up to get Foster to Auburn so that Luper and Taylor could become best friends with him. Foster chose that school, and what comes out in the future with his recruitment comes out. Just because something happened to favor Auburn with an Alabama commit doesn't mean it was dirty.
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Am I worried about losing him?
I'd put the chances at about 25% right now, although they seem to be rising. The Auburn insiders aren't even jumping all over this.
All that being said, even if he does flip, his recruitment won't be over. Alabama will still recruit him as hard as before.
Posted on 5/13/12 at 12:41 pm to AMM AU9893
Nope at least they don't think so, is it in reality? I couldn't say
Posted on 5/13/12 at 12:43 pm to TTsTowel
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It wasn't some grand scheme that Lowder rigged up to get Foster to Auburn so that Luper and Taylor could become best friends with him. Foster chose that school
Posted on 5/13/12 at 12:45 pm to TTsTowel
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You couldn't spin this anymore if you tried
He can spin the bitch all day if he likes.
If you don't like, simply gtfo...
Posted on 5/13/12 at 1:05 pm to BuccWildBammer
Bucc, don't spend too much time with worry about Foster one way or the other. Yes, he is a very good player and hopefully he will stick with his commitment but he is still just a HS kid who wants to have some fun in a new environment.
I can't say that I blaim him for wanting to see what is out there. For the first time in his life he is getting attention from everywhere he turns and the chance to travel and take mom along for the ride.
I can't say that I blaim him for wanting to see what is out there. For the first time in his life he is getting attention from everywhere he turns and the chance to travel and take mom along for the ride.
Posted on 5/13/12 at 1:09 pm to T Rey WI
Alabama has recruited linebackers better than anyone since 2008, so I don't see why Foster switching would even have a huge effect on their defense. They always grab the best linebackers available.
Posted on 5/13/12 at 1:09 pm to T Rey WI
Just really want him in Crimson but I learned long ago not to fret too much
Posted on 5/13/12 at 1:10 pm to TTsTowel
Best LB available = R. Foster 
And it's not even close
And it's not even close
Posted on 5/13/12 at 1:12 pm to T Rey WI
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he is still just a HS kid who wants to have some fun
This is why I don't take commitments too seriously. Following recruiting is fun, but I don't get too invested in the kids before signing day. They are young and quite impressionable so they can be swayed easily. I really wish the best for them no matter where they choose that they get an education, and if it works out pro ball.
This post was edited on 5/13/12 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 5/13/12 at 1:17 pm to BuccWildBammer
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Best LB available = R. Foster
And it's not even close
I agree, but my point remains. Alabama gets top linebackers every year. Reuben Foster switching to Auburn, if even does, would not affect Alabama's defense in a negative way. Just look at all of the top linebackers Alabama brought in from in-state last year.
Posted on 5/13/12 at 1:19 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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They are young and quite impressionable so they can be swayed easily.
Posted on 5/13/12 at 1:23 pm to joeyb147
Posted on 5/13/12 at 1:23 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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They are young and quite impressionable so they can be swayed easily.
Teenagers haven't had enough experience going with their gut to know any better. I would like to see the transfer rates of kids who are committed to one school for months and months before pulling a last minute flip.
Posted on 5/13/12 at 1:46 pm to Robot Santa
Nm
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Posted on 5/13/12 at 2:12 pm to T Rey WI
Thought this was an interesting article and retrospective view from Lawrence
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LIONS INSIDER
Alonzo Lawrence trying to make the jump from community college to the NFL
Tim Twentyman
There’s still a small part of Alonzo Lawrence that wonders how different his path to the NFL might have been if he’d stuck it out at Alabama. Lawrence, a safety at Lions rookie mini-camp this weekend, was a former blue-chip prospect out of Mississippi who committed to Alabama, but never made it on the field.
“At Alabama, me and the coach didn’t really see eye-to-eye,” he said. “I came in expecting to start and he wasn’t really playing me, so I wanted to get out before I got too old and go somewhere else and try to start.”
Lawrence redshirted his first year at Alabama but then transferred to Southern Miss. He had to sit out a season at Southern Miss because of transfer rules and then failed a couple classes, which made him ineligible.
“I just hurried up and went to a junior college so I could keep playing,” Lawrence said of his last stop, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
Lawrence says there are times he wonders what it would have been like to be a part of two championship teams at Alabama. He was in the same recruiting class as safety Mark Barron, who was selected seventh overall in this year’s draft by the Buccaneers.
“I look back at the rings and stuff and the fun they were having on TV, but I learned taking the dirt road and it made me grow up a lot,” Lawrence said. “I think the road I took was the right step for me in this situation.”
The Lions signed Lawrence to an undrafted free agent contract following the draft.
“He’s big, he’s got really good speed; like a lot of these guys, he’s trying to learn a lot of stuff in a short period of time,” Lions head coach Jim Schwartz said of Lawrence. “But he’s got some physical skills that we can work with.”
Like any rookie, Lawrence’s head is spinning right now trying to learn the playbook and adjust to the speed of the game at this level. On top of it all, Lawrence is trying to learn a new position. He was recruited as a cornerback at Alabama and played corner for nearly his entire college career.
“He's played more corner in the past but his size and physical ability probably fits us a little better at safety than it does at corner,” Schwartz said.
“A little less one-on-one. A little more space, a little more covering ground, a little more covering the area and match up. Our safeties will match up against tight ends and some wide out sometimes. It's a little less of a one-on-one position than corner.”
Lawrence views the move as a perfect fit for his size (6-2, 215) and skill set and says it’s actually simplified the game for him.
“You just have to learn the hashes, that’s it,” he said. “It’s easy to cover tight ends. It’s just about angles. It’s 100-percent easier to hold a tight end that runs a 4.8 (40-yard dash) than hold a receiver than runs a 4.3.”
Lawrence might be in for a rude awaking when and if he ever finds himself opposite the Saints' Jimmy Graham or the Packers' Jermichael Finley. He’s oversimplifying the position a bit, but for the most part it is easier from a coverage standpoint.
Lawrence said there were roughly 20 teams that contacted him leading up to the draft and all of them were interested in him as a seventh-round pick or as an undrafted free agent. The Lions were not among those 20 teams. The first contact he ever had with the Lions was after the draft when they called about signing him as an undrafted free agent.
“Playing strong safety in this defense is a good spot,” Lawrence said of why he chose to sign with the Lions. “It gives you a chance to make a lot of plays. It’s the best fit for me coming out of junior college. “I just know they need players in the secondary and that’s pretty much the missing piece from what they had last year.”
Lawrence is right. The Lions are looking for more talent in their secondary, especially at the safety position. They also don’t care if comes from Alabama, Southern Miss, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College or anywhere else.
Posted on 5/13/12 at 2:17 pm to BuccWildBammer
Lets hope Zo has better luck learning the playbook and how to work in a zone at Detroit than he did in Tuscaloosa. The kid had fantastic man-to-man skills but could not be counted on to be where he was supposed to be if an audible was called.
Posted on 5/13/12 at 2:30 pm to T Rey WI
I found this picture while searching on Google a couple minutes. Thought one of you Bama fans would find it interesting, it's a possible signature picture. It's from a couple years ago.
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Posted on 5/13/12 at 2:30 pm to T Rey WI
Zo Lawrence
Bryce Brown
Josh Portis
Marcus Dowtin
Ryan Perrilloux
All either prove that no matter if you get dismissed from you 1st college, transfer to a small school, transfer multiple times, get arrested multiple times, get caught cheating, only have a handful of FBS experience, or have played out your career at a JuCo or CC DOESN'T mean you can't make it to the NFL.
So pickup copies of that transfer form, use that dead ladies' credit card, call the CFL to see if you're eligible out of HS, hire multiple handlers, and maybe we'll see you in the NFL soon...
Bryce Brown
Josh Portis
Marcus Dowtin
Ryan Perrilloux
All either prove that no matter if you get dismissed from you 1st college, transfer to a small school, transfer multiple times, get arrested multiple times, get caught cheating, only have a handful of FBS experience, or have played out your career at a JuCo or CC DOESN'T mean you can't make it to the NFL.
So pickup copies of that transfer form, use that dead ladies' credit card, call the CFL to see if you're eligible out of HS, hire multiple handlers, and maybe we'll see you in the NFL soon...
Posted on 5/13/12 at 2:34 pm to MagillaGuerilla
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Zo Lawrence
Bryce Brown
Josh Portis
Marcus Dowtin
Ryan Perrilloux
Throw in Marcus Thomas.
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