Recruiting Corner: Alabama Signee JD Davison Shines in Final High School Game
Future Crimson Tide basketball standout put on a show in his final high school game, plus an Alabama target could announce his plans relatively soon
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Mar 5, 2021
Nate Oats and the rest of the University of Alabama men s basketball coaching staff were forced to watch JD Davison s final high school game for Calhoun from their offices in Tuscaloosa.
Due to COVID-19, in-person contact between future student-athletes and coaches is prohibited. But that didn t stop the Crimson Tide signee from impressing miles away on the television set.
Davison dropped 45 points, while recording 13 rebounds, two steals and two blocks in an 81-77 loss to Midfield in the AHSAA Class 2A state semifinals.
Talk of the Tide: Alabama s First SEC Title Under Nate Oats Won t Be Its Last
Coaching philosophy, player-development and recruiting are the three main components that will keep the Crimson Tide in the running for an SEC title year-in and year-out with Oats
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Mar 4, 2021
Following No. 8 Alabama basketball s season sweep of Auburn on Tuesday night, the rims at Coleman Coliseum were bare and net-less.
Coach Nate Oats even showed up to his post-game press conferencing wearing one of the nets as a necklace to celebrate the Crimson Tide s 2020-2021 Southeastern Conference regular season championship.
Oats, who hasn t even finished his second year at the Capstone, is hoping that it won t be his last in the SEC.
Oregon Walk-on DL Ready to Wrestle for Husky Playing Time
Brody Reese grew up watching the Washington defense play and he saw a lot of characteristics in Greg Gaines that he would like to emulate.
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Feb 17, 2021
Brody Reese is a walk-on defensive lineman for the University of Washington, from Hillsboro, Oregon, and maybe better known as one of the nation s top heavyweight wrestlers at the high-school level.
Rather than go elsewhere and he had smaller-school offers and rather than spend his college time on a mat, he is will bring his best takedown moves to the Husky football team. He s never once thought about doing anything else.
Recruiting Corner: Assessing Alabama s 2022 Needs
Defensive line, quarterback, and tight end are positions that the Crimson Tide will focus on during the 2022 cycle
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Feb 5, 2021
As the recruiting world awaits a decision from 2021 defensive end J.T. Tuimoloau, which won t happen until later this spring, the bow is tied on the University of Alabama s 2021 signing class.
Now, the page turns to the class of 2022.
The Crimson Tide had the No. 1 recruiting class in 2021, but can it do it again in 2022?
In this week s Recruiting Corner, staff writer Tyler Martin and Sports Illustrated All-American director of football recruiting dive into what the Crimson Tide might need at certain positions in its next batch of talented prospects.
How Bielema s Long Friendship With High School Coach Led to Illini RB Signee
Bret Bielema may want you to believe it was fate that landed him 3-star tailback Josh McCray. McCray s high school coach knows Bielema s personal commitment to know different.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Don’t let
Bret Bielema fool you into thinking it was fate that led him to the opportunity to recruit and sign running back
Josh McCray into his 2021 recruiting class at Illinois.
One of McCray’s high school coaches certainly doesn’t see it that way at all.
In announcing one of his two February signees for the 2021 class, Bielema suggested in his Zoom media conference with media that it just so happens that a longstanding relationship with longtime Wisconsin high school football head coach Jed Kennedy resulted in a quick recruitment of McCray, a three-star tailback prospect from Enterprise, Ala., to Illinois.