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

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Robert Lester ?@RobertLester_37
Our new little puppy @ALLAMERICAN_2 coming along nicely!!! Thanks to @vsunseri3 and @HaHa_CD6 its our year boys!

I'm getting a red x

It's amazing that Bama has amassed several players at the position, yet Collins could still find himself on the field this year.

Someone go play CB for a year, other than Vinnie playing the STAR and MONEY...

He is all UGA. Hold on I thought that he pretty much said he didnt want to be in RF shadow.

I love the way he's grinning, like he's thinking, "I ran your bitch arse outta the SEC, how u like them apples... Lolz."

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McLeod competes with the best of them



Marietta (Ga.) quarterback Parker McLeod is easy to spot on the football field because of his red hair and the way the ball just jumps off his hand while throwing. No stranger to the Nike/Elite 11 camps, he turned in a solid performance on Saturday but was hard on himself for a few missed throws that cost him a chance for a finals invite.

"I wasn't too pleased with how I did but it was fun going against some good competition," McLeod said. "I think it's fun to see how I stack up. I'm a competitor and every chance I get I love to do it."

The 6-foot-2, 190-pounder is still developing as a quarterback and his underlying skill set has his coaches in high school and in his future coaches in college excited about what he can become. With a quick release and good footwork, it's not the fundamentals McLeod is trying to work on but the intangibles off the field he's trying to hone in on right now.

"You have to be really fierce," he said. "I'm kind of quiet in nature but I think I've learned how to compete against other guys and be more outgoing and stuff like that."

Eight days before the Elite 11, McLeod made his commitment to Alabama and it is easy to pick up on how excited about the Crimson Tide he is when asked about the program.

"I loved everything about it. I love the program and how coach Saban runs things," said McLeod. "I think the offense is very fitting for my abilities and similar to what we do in high school so it should be a good transition. I also just love Tuscaloosa."

The tough part about making the pledge was not calling other coaches to tell them he wasn't coming but breaking the news to his mother, an Auburn graduate. While she knew it might be a possibility once the Alabama staff started recruiting McLeod - and by extension her - it certainly didn't make the process of a commitment any easier.

"Yeah," he said with a laugh, "she didn't really give them the benefit of the doubt. She always loved Auburn and wasn't too sure about it at first. But once she got over there, she really like it too and she's comfortable with my decision."

Crimson Tide coaches made it clear to McLeod that the program would be taking two quarterbacks this class and as a result he is the second pledge at the position along with Salt Lake City (Utah) quarterback and top 100 recruit Cooper Bateman. While some players might shy away from going to a school taking two signal-callers, the staff made it clear that McLeod was still one of their top choices and he'd be given an equal shot at starting down the road.

"They had been talking to me for a while, since last fall," he said. "Coach (Doug) Nussmeier came to see me in the spring and really loved me. I called him that night and he said he really wanted to see me in camp. The next day they got a commitment from Cooper (Bateman) and I was kind of disappointed about that. Then we started talking and said they were going to take two and still wanted me to come to camp.

"A week after that Coach Saban offered me and wanted me to come to camp. I threw for them and they just really loved me and wanted me to be their second quarterback."

McLeod had good things to say about Bateman and has talked with him off and on over the past couple of weeks. Both play the game with a similar style and appear to be a good fit as the offense takes a new offensive identity under a new coordinator.

"I think it's very similar to what their last offensive coordinator did but (Nussmeier) will open things up a little bit more," McLeod said. "I think they're going to stretch the field a little more vertically in the passing game so it should be fun."

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