talked to an assistant coach at MHS who speaks with Tyler regularly. Said that during his in-home visit, CDM was much more agressive that Croom and asked him to make his decision within 5 days. Tyler's parent's didn't like that sort of pressure one bit. The coach that I talked to (who is a big MSU fan) tried to smooth it over with Tyler in telling him that CDM just needed to know relatively quickly, because he had made a commitment to only sign one QB (Tyler), and if Tyler was having second thoughts, CDM needs to start looking at some other options, so he doesn't miss an opportunity with any potential QB recruit that might like to come to MSU. He also explained to him that winning was what CDM was hired to do, and he can't afford to NOT sign an excellent QB this year because it would put him too far behind the curve with his plan. Could this be why the QB from Maryland is now on the radar?
Tyler also told this coach that he's concerned that CDM isn't a "Christian" (take that for what it's worth and what you paid for it). I thought that CDM was Catholic. Isn't that Christian? Supposedly, Tyler and his parent's are very religious people. Not that there's anything wrong with that at all. Speaks alot of his character.
Sounded to me like Tyler really liked Croom as a person, and committed to us based on that. Coach Stringer is the coach who has been recruiting Tyler, though.
OK, now for the black helicoptor portion of the story...
Tyler told this coach that Coach Moore ?? from Bama (no, not Mal Moore) had been dogging him with phone calls repeatedly during the "dead period", when no calls are permitted by the NCAA. This coach that I spoke with told Tyler that he needed to inform Coach Stringer that Coach Moore was calling him during this dead period. Tyler did, indeed, inform Coach Stringer of this. He said Coach Stringer told him that Bama is notorious for it, and nothing is ever done to them. He said that after he committed to us, that every other school that was recruiting him, with the exception of Bama, told him "if you ever change your mind, give us a call. we'd love to have you". Bama never quit recruiting him after he committed to us. They've stayed on him the whole time. You can look at that one of two ways. That sounds about right for Saban, though. He's a dickhead who doesn't care if others think he's a dickhead.
That is all.