Harris family aint happy

[BBBLazing]

Yeah, they should have done like Joker and not embarrassed ourselves by offering him. They should have waited until the next in state five star came along------and hey, they did. But since Harris was the ONLY five star the state has had since they started rating them I guess they didn't figure on us having one THREE years in a row. The second one turned out just fine and a good chance the third one will also, hopefully our OL looks a lot better this year and he can see where we are going.

Offering him was the right thing to do. The embarrassing thing is crying when a kid picks Alabama over us and grown men getting on an internet site wishing ill will on an 18 year old kid over a game.

 

[Grumpyolddawg]

I don't buy those claims that Saban forces out players early. Just look at Chris Black. He was a top recruit in 2012 and barely played. Beyond the 3 starters, some of our WR's haven't developed into the players that the staff hoped they'd become. Yet, Chris Black was still on the roster, and he was on the team for 4 years. He decided to transfer for his 5th year because he wouldn't crack the starting rotation. Same with Raheem Falkins. He has been a bust, yet he's entering his 4th year on the team. He could have been "forced out" to make room for another blue-chip recruit, but he hasn't. Tyler Love, a 5-star OT recruit in 2008 and was a total bust. We were very thin at OT from 2009-2011, yet Love was on the team and ended up getting his degree. There are plenty of other examples, too.

To be consistent, I also don't buy the claims that Jimbo and Urban "force players out," and believe me, there are a ton of people who believe that they do, especially with Urban. I feel the same way about the claims that Calipari has "forced" players out (Dodson, Wiltjer, Harrow, etc.) to make room for more talented recruits down the line. People make him out to be the devil for not only that, but for constantly recruiting one-and-done players. Laughable.

The day after signing day counting returning players and signees Bama is usually hovering around 95 which means 10 players have to leave by Aug 1 or some signees arent admitted. Having 12% leave the program between the end of spring practice and Aug 1 is a little strange. Until the SEC stepped in, after pressure from the other 13 schools, all medical redshirts now have to go through the SEC office because Bama was having more medical redshirts than the other 13 schools comibined, some of those said they were fine. Even Saban himself said he had no interest in heading back to the NFL because you couldn't creat a competitive advantage by roster management, I am not saying Bama is the only one using the practice, but they certainly pioneered it in the SEC. UT is certainly using it and made a rapid recovery from where they were 4 years ago. Mark Richt was so afraid of going over 85 that he undersigned every year, so much that one year we had 67 scholarshipped football players counting redshirts, long snappers and kickers. Basically played with 50 scholarshipped athletes. It was so bad we were able to give all the perferred walkons scholarships and a couple who just showed up.

 

[bigblueinsanity_rivals250340]

Offering him was the right thing to do. The embarrassing thing is crying when a kid picks Alabama over us and grown men getting on an internet site wishing ill will on an 18 year old kid over a game.

False. Noone was pissed he chose Bama. It was that he waited until the last second, when he knew he was going there all along. Then, to rub everyones noses in it, he made his IG post which was a clear shot at UK.

Anyone who wants a kid injured is wrong. But dont misstate why fans are upset with him and tired of hearing about him. Its not because he chose another school.

 

[PhattyJ4UK_rivals309166]

So trumpet cat is talking about how he has personal contacts on bamas staff yet in other posts he is a high school senior deciding where to go to school...

 

[Levibooty]

I've always been a Bama fan. I like how they play football and respect their program a good deal. I respect Bama football like I would like to see fans respect Kentucky basketball.

That said if Bama fans come here to "correct" what Kentucky fans saw and heard on a daily basis here in our home state then that may change for me. I'll remind them this is not the first Kentucky boy to choose Bama over UK and there was not this reaction from the fans. I can put these Bama folk in the same category and on ignore with UL trash if thats what they want. Doesn't mean much to them but it will make me realize the fans on Finebaum are a accurate representation of them.

I have no problem with Bama recruiting players from Kentucky, Lord knows we recruit who and where we want in basketball. I would feel the same though if a Kentucky player was as big of a punk as Harris was to a lot of people that never said a bad word about the kid.

He is at Bama, game over as far as I'm concerned but my memory of the kid was him grubbing for perks and showing little to no respect for people who cared about him including his mother.

I wouldn't have even posted if I had not read some of these Bama fans posts.

BTW I wish this thread had not been started but is was no sense in making matters worse.

 

[OHIO COLONEL]

False. Noone was pissed he chose Bama. It was that he waited until the last second, when he knew he was going there all along. Then, to rub everyones noses in it, he made his IG post which was a clear shot at UK.

Anyone who wants a kid injured is wrong. But dont misstate why fans are upset with him and tired of hearing about him. Its not because he chose another school.

Agreed, but here we are on page 4 of the latest Harris thread.

 

[TransyCat09]

Y'all still postin' in a troll thread