Showing posts with label Alabama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alabama. Show all posts

Feb 26, 2013

Alabama Just Offering 8th Graders Contracts Now


Alabama extended a handful of scholarship offers to recruits during Saturday's junior day, but none more surprising than the one given to Dylan Moses, an eighth-grader from Baton Rouge, La.

I don't know how this all works. Can you just offer contracts to whoever? What if Dylan Moses gets has a horrificc injury? Can they rescind it? Can Dylan Moses accept the scholarship now and be guaranteed to go to Alabama for free in 2017?

How is this ok with the NCAA too? I mean, they take banners away from school if they sell a jersey for food money and if a coach spends an extra minute talking on the phone to a recruit, but with 8th graders its free game?

I hope Dylan moses who is 6'1, 200 lbs turns into a beast and is the LeBron James of the NFL, but without the douchy qualities.

I just don't get all of this I guess, I need a drink.

Feb 12, 2013

4 Alabama Players Arrested


"Defensive end D.J. Pettway (second-degree robbery), and linebackers Tyler Hayes (second-degree robbery) and Brent Calloway (fraudulent use of a credit card) were arrested Monday along with Williams, according to online records from the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office. Eddie Williams, who was also a safety in high school but did not play a down at his listed position as a receiver for Alabama in 2012, was first arrested Sunday on a charge of carrying a pistol without a license.

According to a police report acquired by at least two Alabama newspapers, Williams admitted to investigators that he physically assaulted another man "and rendered him unconscious" on campus Monday morning at 3:21 CT at Bryant Hall dormitory. Williams then stole a credit card and used it for several purchases, according to police. The report said it was used at a vending machine (ESPN)."

This crap always annoys me. It happens at LSU all the time, and I just don't get it. These kids are handed everything, and they go out and jump some kid, steal his wallet and use it to buy a candy bar. So you are going to fuck up your whole life for a candy bar?

It's been a rocky offseason for Alabama. There was a report a bunch of the kids were on the deer stuff that Ray Lewis was on, and now they have this. In the end, it won't really matter. Alabama is just a machine pumping out recruits, so even if (or when) they boot these 4 kids from school, you'll see it have very little affect on what happens on the field.