WR Tyler Simmons Flips, Signs With Georgia

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bamacon said:

He had enough Stars for Saban and that is the recruiting service I trust most

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Blindside13 said:

No argument from me I totally agree with you.

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Exactly..These recruiting services misses more times than they care to admit..I quit trusting them after the 1st time we all watched Javier Arenas return kicks his freshman year..He was a 3* across the board on the recruiting services, but, he turned out to be more important to our team as any of the 5*'s that recruiting class & he contributed more than most from that class as well..

If there was ever a recruit that was the "Poster Child" to the flaws of these recruiting services..It's Javier Arenas..What these services can't factor in is the football "Heart" of a recruit..That's what ends up separating the good from the great in recruiting..JMO

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TideMan09 said:

Exactly..These recruiting services misses more times than they care to admit..I quit trusting them after the 1st time we all watched Javier Arenas return kicks his freshman year..He was a 3* across the board on the recruiting services, but, he turned out to be more important to our team as any of the 5*'s that recruiting class & he contributed more than most from that class as well..

If there was ever a recruit that was the "Poster Child" to the flaws of these recruiting services..It's Javier Arenas..What these services can't factor in is the football "Heart" of a recruit..That's what ends up separating the good from the great in recruiting..JMO

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Amen. Have y'all noticed how once Saban offers suddenly the "STARS" tend to move upward?

Re: ***WR Tyler Simmons commits to Bama***

http://247sports.com/Player/Tyler-Simmons-69560
http://sports.yahoo.com/fau/football/recruiting/player-Tyler-Simmons-162453

Here's a couple of links, since no one put one in the thread.

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crimsonaudio said:

Yah, weird how people see different things from the same video - I see a kid with great vision and speed.

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I think some see him as a 3* so he could not possibly have great vision and speed.

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Just flipped to UGA and signed with Kirby.


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RTR91 said:

Just flipped to UGA and signed with Kirby.


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Im assuming we will have a solid replacement?! RTR

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Didn't see that coming.


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runtheoption22 said:

that was the assumption

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Hey RTO were you hearing about Drake Davis last night too?

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jambama1 said:

Hey RTO were you hearing about Drake Davis last night too?

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Who is he? :conf2:

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runtheoption22 said:

yes, but did not think Bama was necessarily his destination..

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I saw on twitter from Andrew Bones saying that Davis never got LOI from Alabama.... I wonder Bama goes after him hard now... since he hasn't signed yet.

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The inside slant on how UGA pulled a big-play receiver from Alabama on signing day

Interesting bullet points on his recruitment.

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Alakablamo said:

The inside slant on how UGA pulled a big-play receiver from Alabama on signing day

Interesting bullet points on his recruitment.

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Thanks. I think the reaching out to Ohio State comment is probably a good indicator he was playing the game and was never solid.

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CrimsonEyeshade said:

This is interesting, particularly since it follows the stuff from Fromm's dad about never connecting with the Alabama staff on the last visit .... Who would be the most important coach for a QB recruit and his family? Hmm.


The Simmons family didn’t connect with Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin. When they broached that subject with Nick Saban, Simmons said Kiffin contacted him with a good morning message the next day. Simmons replied, but never heard from Kiffin again until his family addressed it a second time. Kiffin finally came in hard to see him almost every day in the last week. “I’d been committed to Alabama for about two months and during that process I had not talked to Coach Kiffin but maybe once,” Simmons said. “That was on my official where I sat down with him for about 10 minutes.” That was a problem. If he wasn’t talking to Kiffin then, what will it be like at Alabama?

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So what are you saying? :cool2:

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Alakablamo said:

The inside slant on how UGA pulled a big-play receiver from Alabama on signing day

Interesting bullet points on his recruitment.

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...or that trip Smart took flying down the interstate going 100 miles per hour in a state trooper’s car to meet him that night.

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WHAT!?

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CrimsonEyeshade said:

This is interesting, particularly since it follows the stuff from Fromm's dad about never connecting with the Alabama staff on the last visit .... Who would be the most important coach for a QB recruit and his family? Hmm.


The Simmons family didn’t connect with Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin. When they broached that subject with Nick Saban, Simmons said Kiffin contacted him with a good morning message the next day. Simmons replied, but never heard from Kiffin again until his family addressed it a second time. Kiffin finally came in hard to see him almost every day in the last week. “I’d been committed to Alabama for about two months and during that process I had not talked to Coach Kiffin but maybe once,” Simmons said. “That was on my official where I sat down with him for about 10 minutes.” That was a problem. If he wasn’t talking to Kiffin then, what will it be like at Alabama?

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Maybe completely wrong here, but I believe Kiffin isn't talking to him much because that's not Kiffin's recruiting territory. That is Kirby's area, which is why Simmons and Fromm both had better relationships with Kirby than Kiffin.