Tag: recruiting

Hugh Freeze Press Conference: The best bits

Ole Miss’ Hugh Freeze has got some good food recommendations, and some opinions about the confederate flag and suspended star Laremy Tunsil. Here are his best SEC Media Day Quotes ON LAREMY TUNSIL “There’s very little to report. We obviously will cooperate fully with, whether it’s the NCAA process or the law enforcement process, we will cooperate fully with that. I’m very confident, like I said, in the way we do things and what we can control. I’m very confident in the person that Laremy Tunsil is too, and we look forward to that coming to a conclusion at whatever time is appropriate.” ON AGENTS GETTING TO PLAYERS “It is troublesome” “I am a rookie….I’ve heard Coach Saban and Coach Miles

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Saban blames NFL for Sugar Bowl defeat

Nick Saban, the Alabama head coach, isn’t blaming players for their lack of preparedness going into the 2014 College Football Play-Off semi-final loss to Ohio State. He’s not blaming himself. Or his coaching staff. Nope. He’s blaming the NFL. “I just felt like, in our experience last year, our team chemistry from the SEC Championship game to the playoff game was affected by something,” he said. “I think that to have a December 15th deadline from when a junior can submit for a draft grade and then you get that assessment back sometime right before or right after Christmas, and then you have a playoff game coming up on January 1st or 2nd, and I think it’s my obligation as

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Bama poised as Texas A&M 5-star de-commits

Texas A&M 5-star commit and No.2 prospect in the nation Greg Little has decommitted. The 6.5, 305lb giant offensive linesman from Allen High School in Allen, TX is ranked as the top player in Texas, top offensive tackle and No.2 player overall. He is said to have great feet for his size. 247Sports.com now has Alabama as a favorite for Little’s commitment. Texas A&M originally beat Alabama, Oklahoma and Ole Miss to Little’s commitment on June 20th, 2014. Ohio State is also thought to be a contender after putting in an offer. Little has been recruited by a ton of schools apart from A&M, Alabama and Ole Miss, including LSU, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi State, South Carolina and Tennessee among

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SEC Media Days: What We’re Expecting (SEC West)

The SEC Media Days (July 13-16) don’t generally have a whole lot, yet they are still entertaining. Maybe it’s because Steve Spurrier is always guaranteed the good one-liner, maybe it’s because Nick Saban’s always whining about something that’s wrong with college football,  or maybe it’s because we’re all waiting for Les Miles to kiss one of his players on the mouth. Here’s what we think each school’s going to get asked about…..and what they SHOULD get asked about…. ALABAMA What they will ask Nick Saban: The evil schedule (The quotes that will get spouted will be: “We play in the toughest conference in the land”), the QB situation and who’s going to start (“We don’t, they are all good candidates”), how

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Booted LSU DT says: “I’ll be back”

LSU’s dismissal of redshirt freshman defensive tackle Trey Lealaimatafao on Monday night showed that Les Miles actually has some stones. After his arrest for hitting a woman after she attempted to stop him battering her boyfriend, Miles immediately suspended the player – who had caused him disciplinary issues last year as well – and then dismissed him on Monday night. Of course, there are worries about LSU’s depth, according to Bleacher Report. Lealaimatafao would have either seen time on the field or started for the Tigers, and now he’s gone, there are holes. But there we go. LSU will be OK. Lealaimatafao’s next home may well be jail….unless his claims that it was racism that brought him into the bar fight in the

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LSU DT arrested for punching woman

LSU defensive tackle Trey Lealaimatafao has been suspended by head coach Les Miles after being arrested for “simple battery and simple robbery”, the Advocate has reported. The redshirt freshman was involved in a fight outside a Baton Rouge bar on Tuesday, where he dug through the pockets of a male victim after he and a group of other- unnamed- suspects, beat the man unconscious outside Reggie’s Bar on Tuesday. Even if that wasn’t enough, Lealaimatafao then punched the victim’s girlfriend in the face with a closed fist as she tried to get in the way of the attack. He has been remanded on $15,000 bail, but hasn’t yet left jail. This is Lealaimatafao’s third off-the-field arrest, after he was arrested for stealing

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Vandy gets 3-star recruit

Three-star defensive tackle Cameron Tidd has committed to Vanderbilt. 6-3, 265lb Tidd, from Centre Grove HS in Greenwood, IN, is ranked as the 22nd-best player in Indiana, the 103rd-best defensive tackle in the country, and the 1,678th player overall. Tidd had offers from Navy, Air Force amongst other schools – and there was interest shown by Cincinnati, Indiana, Minnesota and Purdue. Tidd made his commitment to Vandy just over a month after receiving his offer.  

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Alabama RB ruled ineligible

Freshman Alabama running back DeSherrius Flowers has been ruled ineligble and will not enroll in Tuscaloosa in the fall, the school has said. The school found an eligibility issue which means he will not be cleared to enroll. Alabama is deep at running back with Derrick Henry and Kenyan Drake, but four-star recruit Flowers, from Mobile, AL, would have been quite a weapon for the future. 6ft-1, 211lb Flowers was ranked as the 5th-best player in Alabama and the 15th-best running back in the nation, and 146th-best player in the nation overall. He played on Alabama’s Spring Game and came away with a minor shoulder injury. He had had some injury form in his senior year at Vigor High School, spraining

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More about new LSU LB commitment Erick Fowler

This weekend LSU got the commitment of 4-star linebacker/defensive end Erick Fowler. Here’s a few things about the 4-star player from Manor HS in Manor, TX. Fowler is rated: — The 12th-overall rated player in Texas. — 6th-best weakside defensive end in the country. — 88th-best overall player in the country. Fowler had offers from 15 schools, including Texas, Alabama, Texas A&M, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and UCLA amongst others.

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Arkansas gets 3-star LB to commit

Arkansas has captured its eighth commitment of the 2016 recruiting class after OLB Alexy Jean-Baptiste decided he wanted to be a Razorback on Monday. The 3-star recruit is from Coconut Creek HS in Pompano Beach, FL, and is 6-3 in height and weighs a tidy 205 lb. 24-7Sports.com rates him as the 55th-overall best linebacker in the nation, the 104th-best player in Florida, and 786th-best player in Florida. He had 26 offers, including Kentucky, Miami, Michigan State, Wisconsin and Louisville, but Arkansas won a 3-way battle between themselves, the Hurricanes, and North Carolina.    

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