Doesn't seem funny - seems legit. If he was dissing Auburn on social media and then sent a text to the HC saying that he wanted to decommit (seriously, he sent a text for something that important?), Auburn did the right thing by walking away. Pull the scholly and tell the kid to get lost.
Exactly people going to see it from either their orange and blue glasses or crimson and white it is what it is.
Of course there is, until there isn't. My youngest son, when he was 16, broke up with his GF via text message. Why he chose that method is immaterial because it was wrong. This is that, and it is pretty inexcusable.
Absolutely not. Tweeting recruits is beyond the pale. I know they often feed off it, but no.
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Important point. There's a guy in my neighborhood, near 80, barn fan, who discovered Twitter and spends his days trolling Bama, its commits and recruits. E-I-G-H-T-Y years old. I see that sometimes and think "Is there anything that is legal that is more publicly stupid?"
Webb would be a pleasant, pleasant surprise. Not sure how good Golding is at recruiting but he is the boss of the D and probably quite younger than any of the other guys recruiting this kid.
Maybe he should not have waited 2+ hours to call the recruit back...... OR -- maybe a little "I'm tied up in meetings until noon, but I'll call you right after. Don't do anything until we talk" -- maybe THAT would have helped a bit.....Yeah, the since deleted tweetstorm and the and the subsequent commit to Alabama are a direct result of that.
There's more to it than that. I mean, for one, if we yanked the offer of every highly ranked kid that OV'd elsewhere, we wouldn't have much of a class to speak of. For another, the timeline in the kid's own words doesn't add up.
And the last thing, have a little respect for a program that offered you early when you were a low 3* and to which you were committed for months. If you take his words at face value (decommits in private via text on Sunday, announces Tuesday a signing day event where we are well aware he'll dramatically flip a la Brent Callaway/Reuben Foster), the it's no wonder we weren't going to send him an NLI since we were well aware he was just going to use as a prop in his little bit of performance art at our expense.
FWIW, this was the exchange he posted:
Webb was considered all LSU until Coach Saban had an in home visit with him. His official visit went great this past weekend as well. Not ready to say it's Alabama, but his recruitment is trending that way and Alabama has made it a fight until the end.
Tell you what, after the last couple of seasons you can better well bet that Coach has fire in his belly to get the studs necessary to get back up the mountain where we belong. Let's just hope this is one of the pieces of the puzzle that adds to our champioship success.
