Former 5-Star ILB Brandon “Ale” Kaho is joining Alabama

TIDE-HSV said:

To clarify, Bama and UW were his 1A and 1B choices. Many of us were surprised when it wasn't Bama. Yes, there are family problems - deaths and a divorce. However, it appears that Bama feels more like "family" now. I think too much is being made of the geography...

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Sometimes college choice is to get away from a situation, or persons. Sometimes college is just finding a situation you are comfortable with. I hope he learns to love Alabama. He will be a welcome addition at Alabama.

CoolBreeze said:

It is worth checking the Recruiting Board from time to time. Jambama has been on this since last Thursday.

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No offense to our other contributors but Jam has become the best recruiting guru that we have ever had.

230kv_barehand said:

No offense to our other contributors but Jam has become the best recruiting guru that we have ever had.

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Has been for a while now, IMO. He went away for a while and those of us who, whether we admit it or not, are recruiting junkies, missed him a lot.

Wouldn`t mind seeing a reappearance of BigEasyTider ( BET ) as well!

The idea that we would blatantly tamper with a kid at this juncture is ridiculous. Saban is bold but not stupid.

TIDE-HSV said:

If you want an unabashed homer view - Seattle Times

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That site hates my pop-up blocker. I doubt I even want to know what the writer had to say.

DzynKingRTR said:

That site hates my pop-up blocker. I doubt I even want to know what the writer had to say.

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He doesn't say much, other than mentioning that Tosh used to coach at UW and was under investigation when he left. The comments, though, are another story.

Question: some of the fans are saying we have been under NCAA sanctions 4 times since 1995. That isn't right is it? I thought we had the whole Jelks thing and the Means thing and that was it. Both several coaches or more ago. What am I forgetting?

RedWave said:

He doesn't say much, other than mentioning that Tosh used to coach at UW and was under investigation when he left. The comments, though, are another story.

Question: some of the fans are saying we have been under NCAA sanctions 4 times since 1995. That isn't right is it? I thought we had the whole Jelks thing and the Means thing and that was it. Both several coaches or more ago. What am I forgetting?

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Textbooks?

Looks like Washington has been on probation twice during roughly the same time frame as Bama was with three stretches.

http://www.footballgeography.com/college-football-fbs-and-ncaa-probation/

Also sounds like some UW fans are admitting that they had an assistant with some wrong-doing recently.

Text books... :-(

RedWave said:

He doesn't say much, other than mentioning that Tosh used to coach at UW and was under investigation when he left. The comments, though, are another story.

Question: some of the fans are saying we have been under NCAA sanctions 4 times since 1995. That isn't right is it? I thought we had the whole Jelks thing and the Means thing and that was it. Both several coaches or more ago. What am I forgetting?

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The Ols said:

Text books... :-(

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Oh. Does that even count? I see it as so minor I am not worried about it. The other two were huge though.

Welcome aboard, Mr Kaho!

DzynKingRTR said:

That site hates my pop-up blocker. I doubt I even want to know what the writer had to say.

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Slightly off-topic -

TLDR;

I keep one browser heavily screwed down for general browsing, and another for "trusted" sites or occasional news sites that give you nothing with the screwed down browser.

More;

I use Sea Monkey (a Firefox flavor) with "NoScript" addon for general browsing. This turns off absolutely everything, transitively, for your target site and any cross-linked sites (almost always ads). Then, you gradually turn on trust, permanently or temporarily. Every time you restart your browser, all your temp trusts are gone.

After a few days with this setup, you will find unscrewed-down browsers to be unusable, disruptive, slow, loud (e.g.autoplay videos), with stuff loading in the middle of pages, sides of pages, stuff popping out of your cursor.

I use Chrome for gmail and work-related applications, and if necessary, sites like this Washington news site that gives nothing to a screwed-down browser.

To be fair, the textbooks thing was from before Saban...

Wondering if he is on campus yet. Anyone have an update? Thanks in advance.

NoNC4Tubs said:

To be fair, the textbooks thing was from before Saban...

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All of it was before Saban. All new admin and coaching staff. It's basically a whole different organization from 12 years ago.

It's why I don't currently bring up USC's murky past when they recruit - it's not even close to the same organization. I guess some people have the "once a cheater, always a cheater" mentality about some teams but it's just not true in any direction. That line of thinking can apply to individuals, but once nearly every single individual in a position of authority has left an organization you have to re-center yourself on what the new identity of the school is. So in the case of USC I'd say they work hard to stay clean BECAUSE of their past and also pat themselves on the back for being glorious USC and then choke in big moments.

B1GTide said:

Wondering if he is on campus yet. Anyone have an update? Thanks in advance.

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I checked BOL this morning and no mention of it. We may get an update with today's practice report.

Intl.Aperture said:

All of it was before Saban. All new admin and coaching staff. It's basically a whole different organization from 12 years ago.

It's why I don't currently bring up USC's murky past when they recruit - it's not even close to the same organization. I guess some people have the "once a cheater, always a cheater" mentality about some teams but it's just not true in any direction. That line of thinking can apply to individuals, but once nearly every single individual in a position of authority has left an organization you have to re-center yourself on what the new identity of the school is. So in the case of USC I'd say they work hard to stay clean BECAUSE of their past and also pat themselves on the back for being glorious USC and then choke in big moments.

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I thought it actually happened under Saban. Looked it up and it says the improper charges happened in fall of 2007 but the timeline didn't really add up in the article so I'm not sure.

BamaMark. said:

I thought it actually happened under Saban. Looked it up and it says the improper charges happened in fall of 2007 but the timeline didn't really add up in the article so I'm not sure.

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my understanding was that the textbook thing had been going on since before Saban and it was found during his first (2007) season. The university found it and reported it and all players were suspended by the programs before we even heard back from the NCAA about it.