Mizzou flips Alabama commit
The University of Alabama has suffered its second decommitment of the day.
Three-star tight end Brendan Scales flipped his commitment to Missouri Tuesday night, according to multiple reports.
#Breaking: Brendan Scales (@bscales25), TE, Lafayette HS, told me at 5pm today that he is decommitting from #Bama & will sign with #Mizzou.
— Charlie Marlow (@CharlieMarlow_) February 3, 2016
The Ballwin, Missouri, native had been committed to Alabama since April 17, 2015, but the Tigers were able to secure his commitment the night before National Signing Day. Flipping Scales is a big-time move for new head coach Barry Odom.
Scales is rated as the country’s No. 17 tight end and the state of Missouri’s No. 2 overall prospect, according to 247Sports Composite Rankings.
Scales has since announced his commitment to Mizzou via Twitter:
https://twitter.com/bscales25/status/694728931673419776
Welcome aboard Charlie Marlow, gonna love watching you play with the Tigers!!!
Welcome aboard Brendan Scales, gonna love watching you play with the Tigers!!!
Copy and pasted the wrong name…bad bad bad…sorry.
MAYBE HE DIDNT LIKE THE COMPITITION AT BAMA. GOOD LUCK
or maybe it’s because he was asked to grey shirt -_-
They have got to put a stop to the grey shirts. If you don’t have a spot, you don’t have a spot.
that’s right
No brainer, he’s a tight end, from Missouri. Missouri recently had a play-book that highlighted a tight-end (Coffman). Missouri just hired a quarter-back coach to offense coordinate. The series with Alabama was in Missouri’s favor until 2012. One destination is a wait in line with possibly few touches even if you get to the front. The other is a good chance to shine. Where will the fans appreciate his successes more?
MIZ baby!
Fun Fact: Kirkwood High School’s student section got in Scales’ head so badly last year, he flipped us the bird.
How old was he then 17?
So your saying the fans in Kirkwood community enjoy bad sportsmanship, rude behavior, and have no class ??? See, my idea of “fun” is loud support for my side but polite applause even for the other sides good plays. Try that for a life-time of sports participation/spectating, you’ll have a lot more fun and never be that low-life you hate so much in other crowd.
Suck it bama
Probably a smart move on his part. He would have been buried in the depth chart.
in a program that some people consider to be unimaginative football
Come on now Bamer won the NCand Mizzou finished last in offense in the conference and close to the bottom in the whole country. I will take “un-imaginative” any day. Just ask Clemson and Mich State how “un-imaginative” they are? More like un-stoppable”. It’s pretty obvious this kid will play right away at Mizzou. He’s not in Tuscaloosa. He’s from Missouri. Lets be realistic here.
@ADB, laughing at a Georgia fan, Georgia has an even less imaginative offense, who thinks football is only entertaining if you play it Georgia/Alabama way. Remember basketball before the shot clock, when you could put 5 guards on the floor and play keep away, winning the game 10 to 4. After last season Missouri fans are experts at recognizing boring offense. Even Odom’s defense (though better than Steckel’s) was less entertaining.
The way Bama plays it wins championships. I am sure plenty of the players enjoy that…….Missouri does have the ability to protest and burn down cities though.
and Hale Hentges from Missouri is already in the #1 TE on the AL depth chart and his letters home to mom and dad probably all include something like this “dear folks, today a got to see 25 different running backs get farther down field than I did”. I sure like the way the Golden Girls look in their (hesitation) uniforms (wink), better than these Alabama, (puzzled look) adult diaper-things-girls. Do you think I should write coach Odom a letter? Mom, is it too late to get into your regular Columbia chocolate chip cookie drop off program
It also said: I’m an SEC and national champion.
127 Division one football programs sold roughly 700,000,000 tickets to watch something differ than: I’m an SEC and national champion. A lot of them still love football even if they ever see an SEC or national championship game. Winning is a big thing and part of any athletic event, but it is far for “everything” athletic and entertaining. Heck people win at chess, golf, crossword puzzles, curling, ballroom dancing, arm wrestling, handball, etc. everyday. Personally, if I going to give up participating in life to watch somebody else play, I want to see a lot of what possible in that game.
Yet you try your best to brag about winning the division….
@bt, Maybe an example would help, I liked Missouri better in the SEC Championship against Auburn than I did in the SEC Championship against Alabama. Partly because of the Missouri offense, but also because an entertaining NFL bound DE was disqualified even though he lead with his hands not his helmet. We are spectators, we can’t brag about winning anything. I’m on record praising AL for all the value of winning another NC
I wonder of Bama hadn’t loss interest if we would of really flipped him. I can tell you now you better be able to block and catch since we may be playing a power run mixed with a spread .
Should be an upgrade and could start or at least play.
Who cares! This guy is nobody important so it doesn’t hurt Bama that he flipped! Bama will continue to Roll in championships and MU will continue to roll in hunger strike protesters!
Alabama has a much better tradition in football. It’s a big get for us to keep Scales home unlike what we could do with Hentges. But Bama posters on here acting like Missouri has some sort of monopoly on racial protests kind of make me laugh a bit. You do that much better traditionally than us too.