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Picture looks like a mugshot. Perfect for a defensive end.

Offensive line and defense built, love the way coach is building it.

(10-13-2015 12:21 AM)Big Dee Wrote:  Offensive line and defense built, love the way coach is building it.

Yep. Everything starts with the big nasties.

we need to start building facilities so we can convince CUSA level recruits and coaches that UAB will be around long enough to be a viable option.

You don't say.

Can't help but think we have some secret commits lined up for the Feb signing day...

(10-13-2015 06:54 AM)bladhmadh Wrote:  we need to start building facilities so we can convince CUSA level recruits and coaches that UAB will be around long enough to be a viable option.

Seems to be a good pickup. It looks like he played DE and TE in high school. Here are some videos from his 2015 Senior year in Friendswood, TX.

He has 3 years left, so he'll make up what will likely be a small sophomore class in 2017. That is a great pick up from a class balancing standpoint.

Of course, more importantly, it looks like he is a good player.

The best video of any commit so far.

(10-13-2015 06:45 AM)Smaug Wrote:  

(10-13-2015 12:21 AM)Big Dee Wrote:  Offensive line and defense built, love the way coach is building it.

Yep. Everything starts with the big nasties.

Wasn't it Vince Lombardi who said something like, "People try to find things in this game that don't exist. Football is just blocking and tackling." Always thought that quote was so true. Most of the good teams (in the NFL at least) are usually pretty good at those two things.

I think I heard it from Lombardi as "Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology."

Do those two things well, and every other thing you'd like to do gets easier.

(10-18-2015 01:27 PM)Smaug Wrote:  I think I heard it from Lombardi as "Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology."

Do those two things well, and every other thing you'd like to do gets easier.

Really it is true that all sports come down to basic fundamentals like the Lombardi quote(s) and the "Bull Durham" quote that baseball is simple- "You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball". Without good line play, football has no All American QBs, RBs, WRs, LBs, DBs. These OL & DL folks are the ones who win the trophies, but most often not for themselves. A BB coach told my son's PAL team that in each game you dribble thousands of times, pass hundreds of times and shoot dozens of times. He made them practice accordingly. His name was Murrey Arnold.

Hopefully we can get the RB who visited with Robinson and Brunner.

(10-18-2015 03:45 PM)Big Dee Wrote:  Hopefully we can get the RB who visited with Robinson and Brunner.

Who is that?

(10-18-2015 05:52 PM)hooverblazer Wrote:  

(10-18-2015 03:45 PM)Big Dee Wrote:  Hopefully we can get the RB who visited with Robinson and Brunner.

Who is that?

Jordan Brown he's RB/DB at Georgia military