re: 4* OT Damieon George from TX commits to BAMA

Bama reaching like this is a new thing.

Thanks for the narration...

That baw is gorilla strong!

Yeah, you keep on doubting Saban and Bama’s recruiting . . .

I remember the questions on here about Josh Jacobs a few years ago.

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The only reason you're going after him is to secure Evans, George is a throwaway recruit for Bama please dont act like you have some sort of huge success rate with 3-stars, you dont. 

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Mark Ingram was 3 star recruit with scout.

Terrence cody 3 star.

Eddie jackson 3 star.

Brad smelley 3 star.

Javier arenas 3 star.

Mac womack 3 star.

Josh jacobs 3 star.

Marquis maze 3 star.

Kevin norwood 3 star.

Vinnie sunseri 3 star.

Brandon deadrick 3 star.

Quinton dial 3 star.

John parker wilson 3 star.

Christion jones 3 star.

Tyrone prothro 3 star.

Anthony steen 3 star.

Glen coffee 3 star.

Greg mcelroy 3 star.

William vlachos 3 star.

Chance warmack 3 star.

Wallace gilberry 3 star.



Just to name a few. There are others. You can stop laughing now.

Damn you went in the wayback machine for some of those

Besides the fact you had to dig back about 10 years to find most of those players, had to dig to put qualifers on (Well he was a 3-star here) and even listed out several mediocre players, here's what I'm talking about.

Let's start with 2016 247 composite and work our way back since they have at least been 3 seasons in at this point. We'll look at non specialists 3 star players or below that went to Bama, ALL of them for the last several years.

2016
WR T.J. Simmons - Transferred out
TE Miller Forristall - 6 catches in 3 seasons
RB Josh Jacobs - Big hit, drafted 1st round
DE Jamar King - 6 tackles in 3 seasons
TE Irv Smith Jr - big hit, drafted 2nd round
CB Aaron Robinson - Transferred out
LB Shawn Jennings - Transferred out
LB Joe Donald - No stats in 3 seasons
- 2 out of 8 players turned into anything -

2015
DE Christian Bell - Transferred out
DT Jonathan Taylor - Transferred out
S Keaton Anderson - 21 tackles in 4 years (assuming special teamer)
OT Matt Womack - Starter 1 season in 4 years
- 1 out 4 players turned into anything -

2014
DE O.J. Smith - Transferred out
TE Ty Flournoy-Smith - 5 catches in 2 seasons
- 0 out of 2 players turned into anything -

2013
WR Raheem Falkins - Transferred out
CB/S Eddie Jackson - Good player, 4th round pick
OC Bradley Bozeman - 2 year starter, 6th round pick
CB Jonathan Cook - Transferred out
OT Brandon Hill - Transferred out
ILB Walker Jones - 1 tackle in career
QB Parker McLeod - Transferred out
- 2 out of 7 players turned into anything -

2012
DE Dakota Ball - 13 tackles in 4 seasons
CB Deion Belue - 2 year starter at CB, undrafted though
TE Kurt Freitag - Kicked off/transferred
QB Alec Morris - Transferred out
DT Darren Lake - career backup
OT Caleb Gulledge - Transferred out
- 1 out of 6 players turned into anything -

So over that most recent 5 year span, 6 out of 27 3 stars or below, who WEREN'T specialists, turned into anything at Bama. So again, my point stands, Saban isn't some kind of 3-star recruiting savant. Roughly 20% of the 3 stars really do anything at Bama most recently. It's not really different at a lot of other big power 5 recruiting prowess schools either.

The point here is some ridiculous notion Saban has a great eye for the "lesser" (3-star) players than others, it's false. He very very much gets by on all the highly talented guys, not hitting on any sort of high rate on 3-stars.

George is a 3 star. Why do you have to lie and say he's a 4 star when hes clearly not? I'm not big on star rankings anyway, bc if the guy can play, he can play.

Just watch the kid's tape. He's not a Bama OT. This is obviously a play for Evans, but my money is on OSU or UGA.

You mean half of our classes don’t contribute? Shocking. Why don’t you do everybody’s classes. You said Bama hasn’t had success with 3 stars. He proved you wrong. Way to move the goalposts though.

Eta sorry you said Bama hasn’t had huge success rates with 3* lol. Who has? It doesn’t change the fact Bama has had successes with them.

While we’re at it why don’t you list the “package deals” Saban has signed to get the higher rated recruit, since he just throws away scholarships to get the better player.