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Bama please beat UConn. Little Hurley is a whiny miserable jerk that thinks he’s a tough guy.

Bammer is a basketball school, not a football school.

Bammer is a basketball school, not a football school.

Donk I agree. Deboer is doing fine with the class at moment but these guys need to be the back end of the class, better players at the front. And just bc he’s not on a lot of elite talent at moment doesn’t mean it won’t change. He just needs to do it to keep up.

GeauxTigers it’s not stupid at all. It’s early in recruiting and a number of teams like UGA, Oregon, Texas and possibly Auburn and FSU will have higher classes than bammer. I follow recruiting closely and another factor why he’s not recruiting that great is they aren’t in on hardly any 5 stars, the other programs are. So their class will continue to go down in rankings. By signing time, Deboer and bammer will be outside the top 10.

Talking to me? UGA and Smart didn’t offer this player. Faheem Deane? Yes UGA offered which means clearly they wanted him. They didn’t get him and as you identified UGA wasn’t a final team. Not sure what the load of bull is.

He’s not recruiting great at all. This player is a low 3 star and his other players so far are a mix of three and four stars, top player being in the top 50. He’s recruiting around 15-20 ranked class at moment with no hint of a 5 star in sight.

LSUUSMC it seems to be getting bigger, the sport that is. With your team and stars like Caitlin Clark I’ll watch some womens basketball these days. The girls are really skilled and the fundamentals are in play in their game. And Mulkey has been a heck of a coach for years and years.

Greg Sankey, Hush. You are an industry wonk that’s not nearly as smart as you think.

Donk that’s simply untrue. You are giving your opinion and zero data. Billy Lucci of A&M said as much with the purse strings being tighter than people think on the Finebaum show: “yes Paul Texas schools have that guy or two that can buy out big and then hire a coach for big money too. But it’s not as easy as people think.” And if Texas or A&M had all the money they would have long ago had the biggest recruiting budget etc. on the flex. But they haven’t. And they haven’t won a national title in 20 years for one school and the other one since 80 years ago, all the incentive for them to blow it out of the water and they don’t. Besides where they stand on metrics compared to us, let’s face it. Your poor state university only shrinks from here (not that you were ever any deep pockets anyway) with the little raging lunatic now playing from the lady’s tees in south Florida.

Donk their oil money is exaggerated all the time. Yea they have money but A&M stated in their last coaching search that it would have a more “get paid for performance” contract instead of an all out guaranteed one. And you are wrong about our UGA money. We have the biggest recruiting budget, our coach is the highest paid and our endowment is twice the size of bamas ($2B to $1b). Facts Donk, just the facts.

That’s a blind loyalist comment. Is Deboer nick Saban or Kirby Smart? Um no. So no matter what Alabama will not be at that level bc he has to recruit at that level and he’s shown he can’t. When he has repeated top three classes then let’s talk. Now all that said, if he gets Proctor back that’s a great return for Bama. He’s a physical mauler with too slow of feet to play left tackle. He needs to go to right tackle or interior. Your school is at a recruiting and financial disadvantage to Texas, UGA, Texas A&M and Florida in the SEC. And that’s not changing.

Donk I think a 15 win season is a nice accomplishment but 6 national titles in 16 years is a heck of a lot better.

And a key part of recruiting these days is retention.

Slow day SDS? Deboer can have the Barnum and Bailey circus at practice every day if he wants but akin to what James Carville said about the economy being most important, it’s recruiting stupid. If he recruits great he wins. If he doesn’t he’s cooked.

Can always expect the most intelligent comments from the bammers.

He couldn’t control players like he was accustomed to anymore. That’s what quickly drove him out of the pro game. And it’s factual as he pointed out (70 to 80 percent), of the players he recruited and signed were consumed about money. And contrary to popular belief, there still are some 4 and 5 stars that aren’t. He didn’t find or couldn’t successfully recruit those types of players.

Dtanne I’m in that arena. Yes activist judges do but that’s not the case here. Over the last few years the courts have been consistent with freedom in the marketplace and shocked at what the ncaa has done, even stating “nowhere else are these practices allowed” or something along those lines. This is far from an activist judge situation, in fact seamlessly the opposite.

There is no appeal coming. When a federal judge issues a ruling, make no mistake that he or she is supremely confident the ruling will stand and likely has informally checked with the higher ranking robes for confirmation.

It should’ve been for years. Anyone trying to make the argument to limit in any way what a person can make is tone deaf with two left feet. Colleges have stolen money from college athletes for years. It’s not going back. It’s over. As the great poet Mr. Belfort said, “the chickens have come home to roost”.

If he can recruit in the top 8 he should be ok. If not, he’s cooked.

And make no mistake. Whether Kirby pushed him there it helps UGA with trying to get players from Buford.

Maybe Kirby did so to gain some momentum at Buford; it seems to make all the sense. Many recruiting classes are built around an elite quarterback and Raiola was known to heavily recruit for UGA up until the last few days of him flipping. Kirby knew he’d do such and that coupled with Buford being an elite program in the state would seem to be a win win. However, there are many other elite programs in the state and if I’m a rival coach in 7A (now 6A), I’d be quite sour at any influencing from a college coach to help pick a program for the young man.

JTF exactly. Nonchalant play calling in the first half especially, lack of commitment to the run game even though running against bammer was difficult, and the play call with the flip reverse inside our 25 yard line in the 4th quarter was just nuts and irresponsible. Never ever should the ball be treated so carelessly deep in one’s own territory. That said, I like Bobo long term. He believes in true balance.

Good for him. Keeps him present.

Players are pulled by numerous influencers and this is no different. Kirby doesn’t lose many but he lost this one. On that note, it’s noted by some locally in Atlanta area that Kirby pushed raiola to go to Buford high school over other high schools. I don’t know if that’s true but if so that’s not cool at all. Regardless if Dylan ended with UGA or not, quite glad that Buford folded early in the playoffs.

AFan is a legend. Comments are always on point.

Exactly what Tdow said. Kirby pulled as many recruits from Nikki as he did from Kirby. Without that reciprocal competition, more of those now go to Kirby.

You won’t be going there much anymore. You were simply along for the ride with the raging lunatic. Those days are over amd he couldn’t wait to get out of the cesspool of ghetto Tuscaloosa and the poor state of Bama.

You park in the ghetto bc your too cheap to park somewhere decent, no surprise of you being the poor bammer side of things. I’m vaguely familiar with gas taxes, bottom line is bammer is the 7th poorest state in the country, just behind Kentucky.