Happy Friday everyone. Nick Saban did the rounds yesterday and talked about the recruiting class and other things. He asked the annual question about retirement and gave a nice thoughtful answer read here if you want. I personally prefer the video.
This is good news. Maybe he should hire few equipment managers to handle the recruitment.
About the annual talks, Jerry Jeudy talks about Bama against the worst NFL team.
Could the Alabama football team have beaten the Jaguars or the Jets in 2020?
“Yeah, I actually thought about it this year,” Jeudy said. FanSidedsay Mark Carman on behalf of Old spice. ‘If they see them play this year, these guys are so good, I think they can beat an NFL team. Can be. Can be.”
The opening of the biggest hits of the seasons past early in the year. So, what do you say? Could the Tide beat a Jacksonville group that surrendered 6.3 YPP to the NFL offense, and was quartered by Gardner Minshew and sixth-round rookie Jake Luton from the state of Oregon?
Nick also used this very different year to recruit, as in every other facet of life.
‘We also included the families in the virtual practice. We have included them in virtual medical meetings, virtual power and conditioning, academics, academic appointments, ”said Saban. “Is it better personally? Yes, I would rather have personal relationships and be able to visit people with us and show hospitality, and they get the chance to meet more people, not just the person who is actually buzzing with them. But we have helped a lot of people try to do that in a lot of ways, including our players in some cases. ”
In several cases, the relationships they built up were sufficient to ensure recruitment in the last days and weeks. It had a commitment from Camar Wheaton, a five-star full-back, despite the huge interest from Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M in recent weeks, and on Wednesday won the race for four-star defensive back Terrion Arnold over Georgia and Florida .
Although Alabama has the best of the best in terms of facilities and campus environment, I suspect players who are not allowed to make visits contribute to that. It’s much easier for a player to get caught up in the emotion of being the BMOC when the red carpet is rolled out for him on an official visit. This year, the conversations with the coaches were basically all they had to go on, and Nick Saban is always going to win in that scenario.
Wide receiver was one of the most important position groups of this year, and the Tide reached four of the top ten. Two of them, JaCorey Brooks and Agiye Hall, are higher than any of the Rydeouts at 6’3 ”. Josh Pate asked Nick if it was intentional.
No offense to mr. Pate here, but it’s a silly question after two of the smaller guys went in the first round and two more are on the line, including the Heisman winner who was the key driver in the most productive offense in the history of the CFB. . Yet it is a very specialized group with two distinct outer types and two types of slots. It will be interesting to see how they work together.
Terrion Arnold is a legitimate basketball talent, in addition to a top-50 football prospect.
Hawer visited Arnold on Wednesday night.
“He’s tough. [Assistant] Coach [Bryan] “Hodgson recruited him hard,” Oats said after a win over LSU. ‘He and Kool-Aid [McKinstry] are both guys who can both play [sports]. We worked with football to recruit him. He’s a tough, dirty point guard type who can get in the ball. We like him. Shoot, I faced him this afternoon. Excited to bring him in. ”
‘[Saban’s] the message to me was just, ‘Why not come to a winning program?’ ‘, Arnold said during the ESPN broadcast that aired his announcement. “The competition level there is a high level of competition, and if I feel like I’m one of the best players in the country, why do I not compete with the best?”
We’re glad to have you, Terrion. You can see some of his highlights below.
Nice handle. You can never have too many guys who can dribble.
Finally, we saw Jalen Hurts and Landon Dickerson do good works yesterday. Tua Tagovailoa has now started his own foundation.
The nonprofit’s first action offered donations of $ 16,667 apiece to the North Miami Police Athletic League, Big Oak Ranch, and the Hawaiian Polynesian Football Hall of Fame.
Big Oak Ranch aims to help abused, abandoned, and neglected children “by giving them a solid, Christian home and a chance to fulfill God’s plan for their lives.” Big Oak Ranch was founded in 1974 by John Croyle, a former former football player in Alabama, and now operates Big Oak Boys ‘Ranch in Gadsden, Big Oak Girls’ Ranch in Springville and Big Oak Cattle. Croyle’s son, former quarterback Aldie and Kansas City Chiefs Brodie Croyle, is the organization’s executive director.
No one could ever doubt that Tua would find a way to influence the world.
That’s what it’s about today. Nice weekend.
Rolgety.