I was looking at 247's top 50 players and

AlSwearengen

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where they signed and noticed bama didn't have a single player in the first ten, but the second ten they had five players. Furthermore, i only looked at the top 150 and many of their signees fell into that group. So, while olemiss was signing all of the elite players, Saban just used this year to build depth.
 

esplanade91

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Freeze said during the basketball game last night that he's a realist and knows they wouldn't have gotten Hooks if they hadn't signed and placed him out of high school, Treadwell if his best friend wasn't signed last year, and Kneiwlandnrbekchy if his brother wasn't already here. And especially if Connor (USP lock) if he hadn't talked all of them into joining.

So basically said it was a fluke.
 

maroonmania

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Freeze said during the basketball game last night that he's a realist and knows they wouldn't have gotten Hooks if they hadn't signed and placed him out of high school, Treadwell if his best friend wasn't signed last year, and Kneiwlandnrbekchy if his brother wasn't already here. And especially if Connor (USP lock) if he hadn't talked all of them into joining.

So basically said it was a fluke.

He wouldn't have gotten Hooks this year if he had qualified to get into Auburn. Some of Hooks' JUCO courses wouldn't be accepted there so he fell back to going to OM.