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Football Recruiting Alabama offer changes recruitment for Rivals250 Texas ATH

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Alabama extended an offer to a Rivals250 prospect last week, that may have shook up his whole recruitment.

Carrying weapons over the decades

First of all let me say carrying any weapon is not a good thing! It’s very dangerous to be carrying/packing any type of weapon!
When I first arrived at BAMA in the summer of 1967 from New Jersey most fights went settled by fists fights.
One thing we all learned in New Jersey is that when you got into a fight was but something in your hands. Most of us carried a roll of pennies in our pockets. This helped prevented your hands and knuckles from getting injured. It also helped the force of your punch. Another weapon (if the other person had a knife or there were more than one person against you) was a car antenna! The kind with the metal bead at the end. You could open it up and you had three or more feet to protect yourself!
Most (if not all) of my teammates and students would settle their differences with a fist fight and when one person would give up the fight was over!
But some places out of Tuscaloosa there were some scary places. We soon learned to stay away from those areas! A walk on Football player from Pennsylvania was knifed to death my freshman year.
I could not believe how easy it was to purchase a pistol or rifle it was to get! In New Jersey the laws were and still are much harsher to buy a gun!
Fast forward to today’s time and it’s still rather easy to get a gun in Alabama!
I maybe old fashioned and an old fart but times have really changed! Many more people seem to be carrying hand guns and are willing to use them. I don’t know if it’s today’s society or what. I don’t have any answers but it breaks my heart when I hear of all the drive by shooting and gang fights!
I’ll be willing to bet you that DM is a good young man who put himself in a very bad position.
I don’t know what kind of area he was raised in but I don’t think Coach would have signed him if he was not!
Sorry for the long rant but something has to done for the strip and all of the college strips across our Country!
ROLL TIDE ROLL!

How Pete Golding stacked up to Nick Saban's other DCs at Alabama


Give me a read, but here are the numbers.

Scoring defense​

Jeremy Pruitt (2016-17) — 12. 48 (1 average ranking)
Kirby Smart (2008-15)— 13.32 (3.25)
Tosh Lupoi (2018) — 18.07 (12)
Pete Golding (2019-22) — 19.11(13.25)
Kevin Steele (2007) — 22.0 (27)

Total defense​

Pruitt — 261.13 (1)
Smart — 265.52 (4.13)
Lupoi — 319.53 (16)
Golding — 323.96 (18.25)
Steele — 345.5 (32)

Rushing defense​

Pruitt — 78.79 (1)
Smart — 86.71 (3.5)
Golding — 115.52 (23.25)
Lupoi — 121.27 (19)
Steele — 124.2 (38)

Passing defense​

Smart — 178.76 (18.88)
Pruitt — 182.34 (15)
Lupoi — 198.26 (33)
Golding — 208.44 (37)
Steele — 221.3 (48)

Sacks per game​

Pruitt — 3.24
Golding/Lupoi — 3
Smart — 2.31
Sacks —1.85

Turnovers per game​

Smart — 1.88
Steele — 1.85
Pruitt — 1.83
Golding — 1.57
Lupoi: 1.4

Thoughts on Alabama’s Dominant Win Over Missouri

It’s just business as usual for Alabama once again. They started out the game on a 9-2 run and then it was nip and tuck for the rest of the half, that is before Alabama went on a 8-0 run to take a 10 point lead into half time.

In a game where Brandon Miller didn’t score over 20 points and actually struggled to shoot from the field overall, others stepped up. Noah Clowney had 17 points and 14 boards, Sears finished with 17, and Quinerly hit big shots to score 13 and balloon Alabama’a lead.

Alabama’s defense was phenomenal most of the game. Missouri was 3/28 from 3 and shot 33% overall. They made things tough for Missouri, even with missing Kobe Brown they really didn’t get anything easy. Alabama was +6 in rebounds and had 21 second chance points.

This was one of the 3 games I thought Alabama could very well drop this year a couple weeks ago, but after a dominating win, you can’t help but think there’s not a game on the schedule they won’t win. This team continues on and they hit a soft stretch in the schedule before showdowns with Auburn and Tennessee

The 3-pointer: Three takeaways from Alabama's win against Missouri

Alabama cruises to its eighth-consecutive victory as it cruises to an 85-64 win over Missouri. Here are three takeaways from Saturday's win.

Oats on Nimari Burnett: 'He's getting real close'

During his Friday press conference, Nate Oats hinted at a potential return for Nimari Burnett.

"He's got the cast and brace off. He's had a bit of a heavy tape job, but shoot we're going to see how he responds," Oats said.

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