A couple of quick replies...Questions about these two paragraphs.
There was a Sporting News article a little while back with Chitty saying he was a huge Florida fan and if they offered he was gone so what makes you so sure he is a Bama lock now? Also I guess we are recruiting him as a receiver correct?
Also Robinson said he will wait until NSD to choose now. So if he waits do we get Cox and let Robinson go to UGA?
Chitty will take interest in Florida, and I do expect them to offer him eventually, but that is merely one piece of information about him. If you look at all of the other stuff prior to Tuberville's firing, he was really starting to look very hard at us, and he is clearly very impressed. Moreover, he does seem to want to stay in-state. Once you eliminate Auburn, I think that means he is likely 'Bama bound. He's not a 'Bama lock just yet -- notice I said "pretty much" -- but with Auburn's struggles and our successes, I just have a hard time seeing us miss out on this young man given the mutual interest on both sides. Moreover, even the Auburn boards (ITAT) are now admitting that it seemed like Chitty, despite his commitment, was actually leaning somewhere else before the firing of Tuberville (i.e. Alabama).
As for Robinson v. Cox, that's a dang tough question. I don't know who is really higher on our board, and that will dictate it to an extent. On the other hand, it may very well be a situation of who commits first. Either way, we're going to have to wait a while on both of those guys. Robinson is going to take his visits, and Cox is going to let cooler heads prevail on the coaching change, so it may very well be a moot point in the end. Moreover, when Robinson says he will announce on Signing Day, that doesn't necessarily mean he will actually commit then. Most of these NSD commitments let the head coaches know where they are going a while before their official announcements, and that may very well be the case with Robinson. In that sense, when you are talking about NSD, silent commitments are pretty common.
Either way, as I said earlier, the upshot of it all is that we are going to get our Jack linebacker in this class. I don't know if it will be Cox or Robinson -- I would actually prefer Robinson, but that's another topic -- but either way, we're getting a highly-talented Jack linebacker prospect, and that's all that really matters in the end.
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