4* S/LB Kaine Williams announcing in 7 days

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It also sounds like we're going to start making some decisions on guys that we might normally wait on for camps since camps are probably out of the equation.

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Saban taking notes from Proot, who would’ve ever thought.


In all seriousness though, there will not be football played this fall so it’s best that coaches start embracing the fact that in person evals will be very difficult. Digital krootin will be the norm this cycle

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Just not going to be a thing anymore so you are going to have to take the risk and trust what you see on film and measurables.

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Tbh I’m pretty comfortable with our staff evaluating off mostly film. On Campus camps just serve to show whether a kid can take hard coaching or not, and just about every one of our targets have been to Knoxville for camps prior to this year.


Would imagine most SEC staffs are in a similar boat. Probably hurts our conference less than most due to the concentration of football talent in the Southeast.

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Tbh I’m pretty comfortable with our staff evaluating off mostly film. On Campus camps just serve to show whether a kid can take hard coaching or not, and just about every one of our targets have been to Knoxville for camps prior to this year.


Would imagine most SEC staffs are in a similar boat. Probably hurts our conference less than most due to the concentration of football talent in the Southeast.

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I think the biggest thing those staffs like about camps, other than what you mentioned, is the ability to see these kids do specific drills and watch their twitch and other movement abilities. Phil Savage had an entire section in his book about Saban's template for kids at certain positions and a huge part of it is quick twitch, movement, etc because it is projectable as a kid gets bigger and his body matures.

I'm sure Pruitt is similar as I know he (along with Kirby) were two of Saban's most trusted evaluators of that next-level projectable stuff with backers and secondary guys, which is why there were/are always 3-star guys who we offer at camps and commit who then blow up into 4/5 star guys once everybody else sees them at camps (that and the Bama bump, obviously).

They really only get to see that sort of specific stuff at their camps with their own eyes, and it especially matters when you are looking at a kid and trying to decide whether he can add weight and change positions than what you've seen on film. But, that isn't a thing that exists anymore, so you gotta adapt.

Yup - agree. Think of how many of those January offers that go out to kids like Josh Jacobs at Alabama are contingent on a coach going and watching the kid play basketball or seeing then in a state championship game or something.

There will be a lot of those where coaches just aren't gonna throw out offers without some sort of in-person visual. And like you said, those kids will end up at Southern Miss or Georgia Southern instead of Auburn or South Carolina.

Not a whole lot of kids get missed these days unless that are truly hidden and do zero camps and/or they just grow or develop like crazy once they get on campus at a small school.

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Bama needs LB’s

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He looks like a great athlete and Bama needs LB’s

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Not particularly. Alabama loaded up in the 2019 and 2020 classes. What they need is experience and staying healthy.

Yea we certainly aren't hurting for LB/Hybrid types for the 2021 season

2021
- Deontae Lawson (LB) (4-star, #122)

2020
- Chris Braswell (LB/DE) (5-star, #19)
- Drew Sanders (LB) (5-star, #22)
- Demouy Kennedy (LB) (4-star, #38)
- Quandarrius Robinson (LB) (4-star, #64)
- Jackson Bratton (LB) (4-star, #155)

2019
- Shane Lee (LB) (4-star, #78, played as a freshman)
- Christian Harris (LB) (4-star, #110, played as a freshman)

2018
- Ale Kaho (LB) (4-star, #133)

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If this was the case, why would they take Seegars last month? A kid that y'all probably could get later in the process

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I guess they liked Seegars better. Sometimes it's better to reel them in early before they blow up. Its easier sell to a kid "We wanted you and believed in you first" when Saban comes calling in Dec.

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Jesus y’all are acting like I’m saying Alabama is desperate for linebackers or something. I’m saying Alabama needs linebackers in this class, like they take every fricking year

I guess i could’ve worded that better but considering the uncertainty surrounding everything that’s happening, I’m glad they’re taking someone who wants on board and could project into a great prospect

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Yea, agree. Sounds like a lot of schools see the same thing in him and all of them would probably prefer to analyze it in person at a camp, but Alabama decided to take a shot on it without it and others didn't.