Can the Mods are anyone else that has valid information as to if Alabama ever offered or recruited him. Or if he just never considered Bama. Seems like he going to flip from OSU to the Barn.
Thanks

Tony and I previewed the Auburn game here:

If he was an amateur, I could blame it on his youth and inexperience…but he is a Professional Football Player that receives more money than most of the Alabama fans earn and who contributes to the collective that provides his paycheck. We would be fired If we quit on our employer like JM quit during the Oklahoma game. I would be for cutting him loose…it would be an outstanding lesson for him to learn.

This was a closer game than anticipated, but 19 turnovers and 11 missed free throws will do that. Pair those with Rutgers having the best freshman duo since Zion and RJ and it was a very close game throughout.

The officiating was less than stellar with all the whistles and free throws, but give Alabama credit, they fought through and got a win they needed. Mark Sears had his best shooting game of the season, Grant Nelson played well, and I thought this was Derrion Reid’s overall best game. Alabama obviously has to clean up the turnovers, but playing a game after such a high emotional game in Houston the night before is very tough to come back from.

Rutgers is not a very good team, but when you have those two freshmen, there will be games they’ll be very tough and beat teams they shouldn’t. Their supporting cast is just not good.

Alabama will look to win 500k in NIL, on top of the 1 million they got to play in the tournament, on Saturday against Oregon in the championship.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Alabama has never defeated Auburn in Tuscaloosa — Except when Coach Saban was in charge.

Brother — I hope that changes this Saturday

I was coaching a high school game in Pulaski, TN last night so I didn’t get to watch the game live, but I did rewatch it. Wow what game.

Honestly thought Alabama should’ve won in regulation, but the final 10 minutes did not go well. Mark Sears had another poor shooting game, but was his best game of the year. He really let the game come to him and got himself to the line 14 times. Player of the game was no doubt Mo D. He’s the definition of hard hat.

Just overall a great team effort. This team plays so hard defensively and with so much effort. You can see the identity change from last year. As long as they maintain that, they’ll be extremely difficult to beat. Oh and they’re also missing one of their best players still.

Rutgers tonight

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Who: No. 9 Alabama (5-1) vs. Rutgers (5-1)

When: 9 p.m. CT, Wednesday, Nov. 27

Where: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada

Watch: TBS

Listen: Crimson Tide Sports Network | SIRIUS/XM 134/201 (Play-By-Play: Roger Hoover, Analyst: Bryan Passink)

Alabama will make the championship game with a win tonight. Let's rock.

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Matthews will be on campus for the Iron Bowl on Saturday.

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Will add some thoughts from Nate Oats after he speaks to reporters. But some instant takeaways after another hard-fought win for Alabama:

Asked Mo Linguist how the impacts of freshmen like Zabien Brown, Jaylen Mbakwe and Zavier Mincey create a good recruiting pitch to potential DB recruits

Long quote but felt worth it to share the whole thing given what Oats said and how Dioubate has played.

Dioubate in two games in the Player's Era Festival: 20 points, 25 rebounds, 2 assists, 5 blocks, 3 steals

Full quote from Oats after the Rutgers game:

“He’s kinda what we try to embody in the blue-collar mentality that we try to preach. We obviously play fast, score a lot of points. But we try to build the base of what we do around some blue-collar mentality and he’s been the best at it. We write out blue-collar points, we count them, he’s won the Hard Hat the last two games. I mean, he gets a ridiculous amount of them, to be honest with you. He’s making bets with his teammates as to weather he’s gonna win it. Most of them would be smart not to bet him anymore because he’s gonna win it about every night. I mean he gets to the offensive boards. He gets offensive boards from the free-throw line. He gets them everywhere. He’s finishing at the rim. Shoot, he’s 6 of 6 from the free throw line [in the last two games].

"I tell the guys ‘When you’re locked in, you’re locked in.’ I think he’s locked in to make winning plays. When you’re locked in you just go to the free throw line, you step up and you make the free throws. He’s struggled at the free throw line a little bit but he’s been really looked in to just what we need to win. He’s just making good plays. He had a couple big blocks — I think three big blocks yesterday. He had big blocks tonight. He’s just looking ‘Where can I make an impact?’ Shoot, he had another block, they called the foul on somebody else — he had the block over the top.

"He’s figuring out ways to impact winning outside of just scoring the basketball, and then he ends up scoring it because he finds ways to get to the rim, get some dunks, get some tough buckets at the rim. I think three games ago he took more 3s than he had rebounds. We told him it’s not a recipe for you to be playing. And we said that can’t happen again. I don’t mind if he shoots a wide-open, catch-and-shoot 3. He’s been working on his shot. But he’s got to really focus on the stuff that he’s great — offensive rebounding, defensive rebounding, getting stops, making blocks, getting deflections. The steal he had when we blitzed them on the ball screen was a big play because we weren't getting stops. It kind of went to where we had to blitz them. The first time we kind of tried to blitz Dylan (Harper) on the ball screen he makes a big play making the read on the backside.

"So he makes big plays, he’s tough. He’s got the best attitude. I mean, even when he doesn’t play very many minutes he’s the best teammate ever. He’s a guy that as a head coach you wanna find more minutes for him because his attitude’s been so great ever since he’s been here. He’s helping us win games right now. It would be stupid not to find him minutes the way he’s playing.”

He deserves his own thread after that. 10 point and 16 rebounds. Diving everywhere. That’s what you want the personality of your team to be. That’s the character we need on another team we have.
I’ve been saying we need him on the football team and after tonight, I’d like to say it again!

Saturday, Alabama will be saying good bye to nine Seniors in the starting 68 player group, Malichi Moore, Que Robinson, Robbie Outz, Justin Jefferson, J. Latham and Tim Smith who were originally recruited to Alabama, C.J. Dippre, Graham Nicholson and James Burnip..

You don’t win in college football without a senior class.

If I forgot one that was on the depth chart forgive me.

Alabama was hit with 35+ scholarship departures, which is exactly why we are sitting at 8-3. Coach Bryant once said that you lose one game for each freshman you start. Well that leaves us one more loss. From the number one recruiting class in 2021, we will finish with seven. Coach DeBoer is not responsible for that problem.

Mine is Van Tiffins kick..1985 I believe. Also coach Bryants 315th win is up there.

amazing ...probably the all-time worst college football program ended the season in a 3-way tie the the Ivy Championship.The league uses no tie breakers so they win though they lost to the two teams tying them (Harvard and Dartmouth). Grats Lions!

The most infamously bad college football team won its first league title in 63 years

I'm hearing Alabama is now the frontrunner in his recruitment. He's a big target and there is a big want to play in the SEC so the Crimson Tide are looking very strong at this point.

Deontae Lawson, Keon Sabb, Cole Adams and Que Robinson are all out for the season and the only players listed for Alabama.

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FWIW - I"ve been behind Milroe from day one, but the improvement that he showed through the UGA game has seemingly disappeared.

Question and thought: Does the NIL entity LANK (In association with Yea! Alabama) and the involvement of many of the players in LANK have anything to do with the reason that the players want JM to be the QB and potential locker room dissention if he is not the starter?

Robinson worked as Auburn's linebackers coach and run game coordinator in 2022.