Summer Updates: Hev's pool, Slevin & Lil Reese's achilles in shambles

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Swamp Donkey

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I sure hope Hopper put on 40 lbs. he is going to have to play middle linebacker.
 

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DB kimbrough, LB hopper and OL Simonds are summer B enrollees who have been allowed to arrive on campus a few weeks early and have begun training with the team. One of the new wrs also arrived.

Ethan White is starting to look like a different person. Namely Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk.

Is everyone good to get in now for Summer B except for Black?
 

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DB kimbrough, LB hopper and OL Simonds are summer B enrollees who have been allowed to arrive on campus a few weeks early and have begun training with the team. One of the new wrs also arrived.

Ethan White is starting to look like a different person. Namely Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk.

Add WR Ja'Markus Weston to the group (he also enrolled for Summer B).
 

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Malik Langham is transferring to Vanderbilt...
 

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Regardless of my liking big butts stance, obviously the band is full of tuba players w big butts who arent potential OL.

When I heard the early reports about how freakishly strong he was, I was sold.

On the OL and DT especially, stars dont matter as much. It is just too hard to predict who wont get hurt, who will work in the weightroom, who has the genes to develop, who has the smarts (OL have to be smartest on the field), etc. Plus Id usually rather have a fifth year RS Sr three star than 4+ or 5 star third year Jr who is only worried about getting to the NFL as absolutely quickly as possible.

Hevesy may not be an elite recruiter but he is an elite developer of OL talent. There are very few in his category. I trust him as much as an OL coach. If he wants the kid, we are good.

There were some complaining about us taking him. I dont remember who. They also said he'd surely get pushed out bc we wouldnt take 7. It was crazy talk all.along, especially given how poor our talent level on the OL was.
I can buy that on the OL but not DL. OL seems to be purely a “fit for the offense” area. On the other hand... Freak athletes with considerable size do really well in college on the DL, even with crappy technique. Bama’s DL is always stellar and it starts with those 5 stars.
 

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Bama’s DL is always stellar and it starts with those 5 stars.
Maybe, but guys like Marcel Darius and Terrence Cody were three star guys w strength who started the whole thing for them. There are more examples but Ive blocked out some of the pain of the last decade and dont wish to revisit it.

Obviously though, 5 stars like Sharrif and Dominque should be the foundation of a championship team if you dont hire a moron HC, but there are bargains to be had. The scouts value speed over strength bc projecting strength is incredibly difficult.
 

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Maybe, but guys like Marcel Darius and Terrence Cody were three star guys w strength who started the whole thing for them. There are more examples but Ive blocked out some of the pain of the last decade and dont wish to revisit it.

Obviously though, 5 stars like Sharrif and Dominque should be the foundation of a championship team if you dont hire a moron HC, but there are bargains to be had. The scouts value speed over strength bc projecting strength is incredibly difficult.
Cody wasn’t ranked coming out of HS because his grades were so bad he couldn’t qualify at USF AND he sat out his sophomore and junior years. He dominated his senior year though. Had to go JUCO. He was an anomaly.

Other recruiting services liked Darius more than Rivals. He was a composite 4. I’d take a 247 low 200s, 6’4” 304 lb prospect any day of the week. Much better DL prospect than a low 200s, 6’4” 215 lb string bean who is a freak athlete projected to grow - our current recruiting targets.
 

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Just a reminder.

The last time Trailerbammer lost to an SEC East team, it was SOS in 2010.
 

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Just a reminder.

The last time Trailerbammer lost to an SEC East team, it was SOS in 2010.[/QUOTE]

That is an impressive stat until you realize a down UT team is their yearly cros division game. And they always seem to get the other teams when they are down.

PS. Living in Alabama sucks right now.
 

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Yeah, Stewart made several preseason AllSEC teams.


Wonder if Ole English will let him play though.
Im sure that PFF film study showing Stewart as one of the best players in the country problem wont affect English at all.

I share your less than stellar opinion of English, as both a coach and a recruiter. To call is performance dismal is to do a disservice to dismality. You don't suppose he has nekkid pictures of somebody do you? Some special leverage of some kind would seem to be the only explanation for his continued presence. Perhaps an unguarded moment with a promiscuous shark?
 

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English and Sunseri were once respected names.

I don't know what the hell happened. old and tired I guess.
 
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