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RE: 5-star Marlon Davidson visits South Alabama (#2 player in country per Rivals)
(04-09-2015 01:31 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote: (04-09-2015 12:42 PM)eagle9098 Wrote: Not to take anything away from the visit, its great. Kids are a little different these days than when I was coming up. I had offers from Bama, Miss St, Southern Miss, Ga Southern, MT, Troy and a couple others. My SAT scores were to low to receive an NCAA scholarship at a D1 school in the end. The state of Georgia, at the time, had a developmental study program that allowed players to still receive a scholarship with a lower SAT. Georgia didnt offer and decided I wanted to go to Bama but could not so I went to GS. Glad I did. Anyway me and some other guys took visits to schools we had no interest in just to get out of school that day. Going on recruiting trips I learned we werent the only ones that were doing that. So sometimes a kid will take a visit just to go. Again not trying to down play the visit, it just crossed my mind as I read this post because I did the same thing. I would love to see more highly ranked players start choosing more SB types. If yall got this kid it might start a tend, who knows.
I remember sitting in Boots Donelley (sp) office, Mid Tenn's head coach and he smoked so many cigarettes that the office was stained yellow and reeked of smoke. I couldnt wait to get out.
USA got a 4* Jalen Thompson last year (downgraded to 3* when he committed to USA). 3* or 4* whatever, it doesn't change the fact that he held offers from Georgia, Florida, Clemson, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Nebraska, Miami, South Carolina, NC State, Arizona State, California, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisville, Duke, Purdue, Minnesota, Indiana, Washington, Memphis, WKU, Northern Illinois, Tulane, UAB, UCF, USM, and Louisiana Lafayette. Miami in particular went after him hard in the last few months, but his commitment was rock solid.
As far as Marlon goes, he is close to Coach Vincent, as the latter coached Marlon's brother in high school. He has offers from Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Clemson, Louisville, Florida State, Miami, Michigan, Oregon, TCU, Oregon, and Arizona State. From this list of schools he has taken 4 unofficial visits (meaning he paid the cost to go): Alabama, Auburn, USA, and Florida State. And of the 17 other offers listed, 12 were from teams ranked in the final AP poll last year (counting LSU receiving votes); 7 of those were ranked in the top 12. I don't see anything bad of him visiting campus.
If you read my post again you will see that I said nothing about his visit being a bad thing. I think its great. From my own experience though and have followed recruiting for a long time, I know that many players take visits just to go. If the guy has a relationship with your coach, thats a good thing. Kids today put more stock into relationship qualities than they used to so thats good. As far as cost, maybe his parents have the money to send him, who knows. My parents paid for me to take trips other than the ones the schools paid for. Driving to a place a couple hours away does not cost alot of money. I drove myself, along with some other player recruits, to schools where we just went for the day. Again.....not trying to downplay the visit. I hope you get him.
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