re: 2013 Alabama Football Recruiting Thread - DH Decommited from UGA

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Is this an accurate representation of Bama's recruiting strategy for LB/DL?

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Maybe 5% of the high school teams in the country run a 3-4. Even fewer than that run the kind of 3-4 we do. So we are having to evaluate front 7 players based on how they will transition from playing DT in a 4-3 to DE in a 3-4 or DE in a 4-3 to OLB in a 3-4. If Saban can accurately predict how much kids are going to grow and how they are going to react to a college S&C program, I'd love to know how he hasn't won the lottery multiple times by now. If Allen gains 40 or 50 pounds like Upshaw did, he could grow into a DE. I have no doubt that the staff wants him as an OLB because he is a monster off the edge, but who the frick knows how much more, if any, he is going to grow? These are 17 and 18 year old kids we are talking about. You simply cannot predict their physical development.

Also, lulz at TTs crying about Bama recruiting on the LSUrb.

Meh. Urban Meyer used "the next Percy Harvin" line on 3-4 players per class his last 3 years at Florida and it worked on some kids who were nowhere near Harvin's level of player.

One thing I feel about our pursuit of the Jack position is that we are on Year 6 of the Saban regime and we have yet to land a "true" Jack LBer. Yeah Upshaw was a beast for us, but he in no way was a prototypical Jack like Jason Taylor. Truth be known, Allen is the closest thing to that though.

However, to combat that stigma we've gotten, the highest drafted defensive player we've had since Saban got here was a DE. Like someone said above, I believe several players in each class COULD be Jacks for us, but no one knows how they will develop moving forward.

Ask him to list allllll these players that Bama recruited as Jack who should not have been. Have there been a couple who switched positions (Ed Stinson comes to mind)? Yes, but there have been a couple that have switched at every other position as well.

Speaking of Upshaw, he gave one of the best quotes I've ever seen a recruit give when being told he could be the "next" so and so:

Tubs told him that if he came to Auburn he could be the next Quentin Groves. Courtney's response was that he could be the next Quentin Groves at Alabama.

It's been a while since I've heard that quote, truly a classic and fits Upshaw and his career to a T.

Talk about having the right qualifications

He may have said that too, but he did say he could be the next Quentin Groves at Alabama. See Mags post above. He remembers it too.

How come Boom doesn't get shite for offering the same exact kids as Bucks?

No hate TTs. You know kids get promised at every position that they will be the next "insert former great players name at the prospective school doing the recruiting position."

I have seen multiple kids say they are gonna be the next Bo, Herschel, Tebow, Trent, Dareus, Julio, Harvin, etc. The list goes on and on.

Well suck me sideways. That's the last time I list you as a reference.