By "WAEGABABY" I assume you mean Quan Bray.. lol
Yeah, he probably did, but I am not sold that he had a committable offer. If he did, I stand corrected. I think we were after bigger fish at RB than him.
I don't trust Rivals or any other recruiting site as to whether we've offered, are recruiting or how hard we're recruiting any particular prospect. You shouldn't either...
Shula's first two years still had the ncaa gun aimed at Bama's head, the ncaa kept the punishment open until Gallion proved that fulmer, the SEC commish and the ncaa were in cahoots, trying to bring Bama down. Negative recruiters were telling recruits Bama could still get the DP.
I wouldn't say Calloway, Cyrus or others are "dumb" but they are young, inexperienced and impressionable like pretty much all 17/18 yr olds. Who among us didn't make some bad decisions at that age? What AU is good at is exploiting this with Troopa and others and they prey on these kids. Of course there are no parents there - any adult would see through it in two seconds, but the kids aren't old enough to know better yet. It wouldn't surprise me if other SEC schools are complaining because it really is morally reprehensible for a 'supposed' institute of higher learning to specifically exclude parents and try to get kids to make a life decision based on a weekend of hype. And then they lie to everyone and say it's all about "fambly" and a "God thing,".
It's a very troubling approach. But I suspect AU can't sustain it for much longer. Moms and dads and high school coaches are already catching on.
Auburn was in desperation mode when they got rid of Tuberville. He didn't recruit worth a crap his last year or so. The 2007 class had several studs that starred on the team this past year. But the 2008 and 2009 classes really suffered. Many of the players in those classes weren't very good and many of the good ones signed didn't qualify or are not on the team right now. They are going to feel the effects from those poor classes this year. When you compare those classes with Alabama's from those two years it's not even close. Chizik, Trooper and Luper had to resort to dirty tactics to get players in there. They've always done things this way but it was ramped up big time when Saban began to put a stranglehold on the recruiting as well as winning on the field. I think their desperation is going to catch up with them sooner or later. The Cam situation was the first major hint of something illegal happening but the way they recruited Calloway, Cyrus, Region as well as the kids from Arkansas and Louisiana really put out some major hints. Supposedly, the NCAA and SEC are going to punish Trooper for the way he handled the Gabe Wright recruitment. Good riddance if so. He's been a bag man everywhere he's been.
