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(12-05-2017 10:01 PM)Big Dee Wrote:  

(12-05-2017 09:57 PM)UABfan1 Wrote:  

(12-05-2017 09:45 PM)Big Dee Wrote:  

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(12-05-2017 01:19 PM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  .
According to al.com, he had offers from Troy, UAB, Mercer, and Western Carolina.

He was sold on Troy the whole way. His parents recommended Troy because of the coaching staff. We were also his first offer.

We know Stansbury cheated when the Troy coach was on his staff.
We know Persons uncle cheats. Its reasonable to wonder if extra benefits were involved. That said, Im not sure we had a scholarship for him late in the recruiting period. We probably were not banking on Lee signing and we had already made a mistake signing Calhoun in the early period. I think we used our last scholarship on Norton and we needed a point guard. We may have offered him early but his offer went away with the Calhoun signing. And we might have had a scholarship for him late if we didn't get Lee. So we may never know for sure.

Our last signee in the early period this year, Boyce, had a top 3 weeks before signing date only to find out that he didn't have a firm scholarship offer to any of those 3. I think we signed Calhoun, at least in part, to try and get Lee too. So its possible that Persons offer expired when we signed Lee. He would have been a far better signee than Calhoun, thats for sure. And we may have went after him harder late if we didn't get Lee. Because we needed our last scholarship for a point guard. (Nick)

Lol we signed 7 that year so we probably had a scholarship.

smh.No, we didn't. Last 2 to sign were Lee & Norton.

Lee
Cokley
Sullivan
Calhoun
Norton
Baxter
Collins