JessN: Tide’s recruiting strategy looks geared for sustained dominance

JessN · May 29, 2018

Tide’s recruiting strategy looks geared for sustained dominance
by Jess Nicholas
TideFans Editor-In-Chief
May 29th, 2018 03:15 AM

By Jess Nicholas TideFans.com Editor-In-Chief May 29, 2018 Among the questions that arose immediately following Alabama’s win over Georgia in the College Football Playoff was one of longevity – both in regards to Alabama’s already-extended position at the top of the sport, and also in regards to Nick Saban’s remaining career. If early returns on […]

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tide96 · May 29, 2018

Thanks for the great information, but it might have been easier to look at each section if you also listed the expected returning players.

78Alum · May 29, 2018

Great job as always, Jess. Roll Tide!

CoachJeff · May 29, 2018

Nice article. My only quibble is in thinking g Jonah Williams is 50/50 to stay/leave. It’s more like 5/95.

RTR91 · May 29, 2018

CoachJeff said:
Nice article. My only quibble is in thinking g Jonah Williams is 50/50 to stay/leave. It’s mlre like 5/95.

I’ve gathered Jonah wants to stay all four years. We’ll see how he feels in January when the NFL provides its evaluation.

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B1GTide · May 29, 2018

RTR91 said:
I’ve gathered Jonah wants to stay all four years. We’ll see how he feels in January when the NFL provides its evaluation.

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Agreed - he is already being discussed as a first rounder. Let's see if he wins the Outland.

NationalTitles18 · May 29, 2018

Thanks for breaking the drought. More....water....

JessN · May 29, 2018

tide96 said:
Thanks for the great information, but it might have been easier to look at each section if you also listed the expected returning players.

I tried to look at this more as a focus on player-minus vs. player-plus. Adding in the whole of the numbers at each spot winds up giving you a lot of names, when the story was more or less going to be about how do you mitigate the number of losses at each position group.

One thing I'd like to see: Rebalancing away from the OL a bit, where numbers are stout, and towards the DL, if possible. We all held our collective breath last year hoping the starting unit would stay together. Had Raekwon Davis not come on strongly in the second half of the year, the temporary loss of Da'Shawn Hand might have been especially penal.

DrollTide · May 30, 2018

This is an outstanding summary of where we are at, and I like the format of minus-plus rather than revisiting the whole roster. The amplification that we are solid or thin at a position is fine.

In terms of personnel, I would like to see one more elite running back to prime the pump for two seasons down the road. Given that Saban plays 5 Dimensional Space Chess, there is probably one of these in the queue.

Atl Joe · May 30, 2018

Thanks for the article, Jess.
Nice to have some football to read about while stuck in the horse latitudes from May to August.

RTR91 · May 31, 2018

JessN said:
One thing I'd like to see: Rebalancing away from the OL a bit, where numbers are stout, and towards the DL, if possible. We all held our collective breath last year hoping the starting unit would stay together. Had Raekwon Davis not come on strongly in the second half of the year, the temporary loss of Da'Shawn Hand might have been especially penal.

The staff would have liked to do that, too, but the last two DL classes have been fairly weak. Looks like this year's class is much better, and the new staff is getting several top targets.

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