Video: How Bama football dominated California recruiting

Cruloc

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Then you watch it and it seems TAM was right behind on the CA recruits.
 

johnbt

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The flip side of the "deboer can't recruit in Alabama" narrative is that we got bigger fish from a much bigger pond. Give me all the Mater Dei players we can get.
lol

UA football will never compete for championships again if the majority of the roster isn't from Alabama. We've never won a championship when at least 30+% of the roster wasn't from Alabama

Majority were from Michigan for UM last year and majority are from Ohio this year for OSU

Is KD scared to go head to head with Freeze and Kirby in state and Ga
 

B1GTide

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UA football will never compete for championships again if the majority of the roster isn't from Alabama. We've never won a championship when at least 30+% of the roster wasn't from Alabama

Majority were from Michigan for UM last year and majority are from Ohio this year for OSU

Is KD scared to go head to head with Freeze and Kirby in state and Ga
This is absurd.
 

countrytider

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Dude is definitely trolling…but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t at least concerned about not landing a single top ten state prospect, while rival Barn lands 8 out of the top ten…

That doesn’t bother you guys??
 
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johnbt

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Dude is definitely trolling…but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t at least concerned about not landing a single top ten state prospect, while rival Barn lands 8 out of the top ten…

That doesn’t bother you guys??
Of course it bothers them

The first thing any great recruiter is lock down their state. Saban is the best recruiter in history of cfb and he did until he didn't have to

Kirby did in ga until he didn't have to

I could go on and on. A team full of out of state mercenaries who don't give a fart about what football means in AL or the south isn't a team
 

The Ols

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lol

UA football will never compete for championships again if the majority of the roster isn't from Alabama. We've never won a championship when at least 30+% of the roster wasn't from Alabama

Majority were from Michigan for UM last year and majority are from Ohio this year for OSU

Is KD scared to go head to head with Freeze and Kirby in state and Ga
Ummm…OK.
 

The Ols

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Of course it bothers them

The first thing any great recruiter is lock down their state. Saban is the best recruiter in history of cfb and he did until he didn't have to

Kirby did in ga until he didn't have to

I could go on and on. A team full of out of state mercenaries who don't give a fart about what football means in AL or the south isn't a team
Thanks for speaking for us…your mercenary theory is 💯 live and well…it’s called NIL. What we knew as college football is gone…”you know that.”
It’s now get the best players from wherever you can and hope you can pay them to stay for 3 years.
I’m guessing you didn’t have problems w/Tua,Bryce, Mac…all out of staters.
Not sure why you’re so bent about this….
 

rjtide

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Of course it bothers them

The first thing any great recruiter is lock down their state. Saban is the best recruiter in history of cfb and he did until he didn't have to

Kirby did in ga until he didn't have to

I could go on and on. A team full of out of state mercenaries who don't give a fart about what football means in AL or the south isn't a team
I’d say now ALL teams have mercenaries from out of state due to NIL transfer portal etc. It’s not gonna matter AS MUCH where the kids are from as far as in state or out of state: what will matter is what’s always mattered……the coaching. Saban had so many players come to Bama from out of state for the coaching, plain and simple…..those out of staters had NO loyalty to Bama. Same now. If DeBoer turns out to be a coach seen by recruits as someone who can help them get better, craft their game to translate to NFL success, it won’t matter if he can’t lock down Bama for recruiting.
 
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AlexanderFan

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Of course it bothers them

The first thing any great recruiter is lock down their state. Saban is the best recruiter in history of cfb and he did until he didn't have to

Kirby did in ga until he didn't have to

I could go on and on. A team full of out of state mercenaries who don't give a fart about what football means in AL or the south isn't a team
Kirby has never locked down Georgia, even Saban’s final years Kirby lost Downs and Haynes and others.

Saban lost a lot of in state talent early on. If CKD continues to lose recruits in state after a couple of years , there might be cause for concern.

With the advent of NIL, everything is new, trying to base college football forward on college football past is apples to canned dog food.
 

81usaf92

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Dude is definitely trolling…but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t at least concerned about not landing a single top ten state prospect, while rival Barn lands 8 out of the top ten…

That doesn’t bother you guys??
Well here is also the thing, DeBoer has only been here for a year, and Freeze has been here for two years. So some of it is just time in office vs lack of time. But still most of our recruits in our 25 class come from Georgia… just like Auburn. Another thing to consider is that DeBoer is a “fit” guy and not a “can’t miss talent” guy. If you can’t run his systems then you don’t get much of an offer.

I think recruiting in Alabama will be essential down the road but it’s far from the catastrophic failure that many are trying to spin it as. Many of these guys were already committed or seriously leaning towards Auburn and Texas even when Saban was in charge.
 

Scobaman

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Of course it bothers them

The first thing any great recruiter is lock down their state. Saban is the best recruiter in history of cfb and he did until he didn't have to

Kirby did in ga until he didn't have to

I could go on and on. A team full of out of state mercenaries who don't give a fart about what football means in AL or the south isn't a team
How do you translate a full team of out of state mercenaries who don't give a flip to pro football or college basketball?
 

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