Re: Have we blown our chance of getting Nico Johnson
Red Spider, care to give any sort of statement as to what you are talking about, or what you read? If you can't say where you heard that misinformation, maybe you can say what exactly you are talking about. Asking a foolish question in one of your first posts on the board is not going to endear you to other Tide Fans posters.
Longtime lurker here.
Not sure I can speak for Red spider, but this indeed has been the chatter on some barn boards.
http://auburnfootballfanforum.yuku.com/
the rumor, which looks to have started on that board, goes pretty much like this:
Barn fan 1: Might as well look elsewhere. (regarding Nico, Tana, Dre, and Kelly)
Barn fan 2: I 100% disagree with this statement, unless something major has changed in the last week or two. It was pretty much common knowledge that not too long ago Saban tried to pressure Nico into committing and it rubbed Nico the wrong way (you might say ....ed him off). He and his mother told quite a few people he would NOT be signing with Bama. The school that was being whispered as having the upper hand for him was LSU.
For a while now Tana has wanted to be a Dawg, but they're not going to have room for him. Speculation has been that he's up for grabs with UAT and AU duking it out for him.
Dre & Kelly... I agree they end up at Bama, unless USC gives Dre the Reggie Bush special.
Bama fan: Been reading this board for over a year and y'all have a good thing going here. This post spurred me to make a comment or 2 if you don't mind.
You know, back when this Nico rumor that is supposedly "common knowledge" 1st came out (on this board) I looked on all the Bama message boards and found nothing about it. Not a single mention. And nothing about it since. Based on that, I'd say that there's nothing to that rumor.
As for Tana, something that I haven't seen on this board is that his cousin is Bama player Ali Sharrief and he spends time with Ali whenever he visits Bama, including this recent Bama camp that Tana attended. Hopefully that's a factor (along w/ playing time) in Bama's favor. Btw, Nico was also at this Bama camp.
Good luck on the season guys (except against Bama of course) and beat West Virginia!
Barn Fan 2, reassuring again: Not trying to start a ....ing match, so please don't take this the wrong way, but the "rumor" isn't on Bama message boards because most Bama fans have no clue that this even happened. They blindly think that they lead hands down for every prospect in Alabama. You'll notice through this recruiting process that Nico will handle it a lot like Jerrell did last year -- close to the vest. "Common knowledge" was probably not the right choice of words, as it was only "common knowledge" to those who actually know what they're talking about -- which isn't very common at all. My apologies for that
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Sorry if I shouldnt have even posted that much, but just thought I would clear up any confusion about what this barner was referencing.
And now I go back to lurking. Thanks for all the info you guys provide here! It makes for some great reading!