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Sport (s) Initial Signing Date
Division I Basketball (Early Period) November 11, 2020
Division I Basketball (Regular Period) April 14, 2021
Division I Football (Early Period) December 16, 2020
Division I and II Football (Midyear JC Transfer) December 16, 2020

Do we even know if we have any scholarships?

With this waiver rule who knows?

(11-09-2020 08:56 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  Do we even know if we have any scholarships?

Can't turn down a quality kid. If he's good enough you'll find a spot - regular, blueshirt, grayshirt, redshirt, [fill in the blank color]shirt...

Kybo Jamerson committed today.

Hoops: Jamel King and Ja’Heim Hudson announce this week.

Love the name!

@jacobpolacheck
3 Star forward Jamel King will be announcing his college decision on Friday at 1pm CT.

Final List: Grand Canyon, New Mexico, UAB, Arkansas State and Alabama.

(11-11-2020 12:16 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  @jacobpolacheck
3 Star forward Jamel King will be announcing his college decision on Friday at 1pm CT.

Final List: Grand Canyon, New Mexico, UAB, Arkansas State and Alabama.

committed to New Mexico

(11-09-2020 10:29 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  Kybo Jamerson committed today.

Hoops: Jamel King and Ja’Heim Hudson announce this week.

Hudson to Florida Gulf Coast.

(11-09-2020 08:56 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  Do we even know if we have any scholarships?

This has been my question regarding football & basketball. Who’s going to return? Where does that put our worst need? If a coach even knows who they should be keeping close tabs on, what message are they delivering? Can’t really promise early playing time...


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Elijah Tate just made a verbal pledge to UAB hoops
https://twitter.com/eeht5k/status/135263...44512?s=20

https://verbalcommits.com/players/elijah-tate

Appears he was supposed to go prep, but ended up at Odessa college.
Played in a post grad league in the fall. Sounds similar to how Kobe Jeffries got here.

Actually, Hillcrest prep just shared his announcement as well.

Now that I’ve had an hour or 2 to think about it. The connection is, coach Ryan Cross and ULM.

Tate is a former ULM signee

Glad I could do Evan Dudley’s job for yall

(01-22-2021 11:58 AM)BlazinBham Wrote:  Now that I’ve had an hour or 2 to think about it. The connection is, coach Ryan Cross and ULM.

Tate is a former ULM signee

Glad I could do Evan Dudley’s job for yall

https://twitter.com/eeht5k/status/1352639182372544512

(01-22-2021 11:58 AM)BlazinBham Wrote:  Now that I’ve had an hour or 2 to think about it. The connection is, coach Ryan Cross and ULM.

Tate is a former ULM signee

Glad I could do Evan Dudley’s job for yall

Somebody needs to do Evan Dudley's job because he won't do it.

The key is, if you are going to cover the beat. You inquire about recruits, who are you high on, are they high on you, do you know of decision dates, are you certain you’ll get a pledge. Some questions, a beat writer would ask compliance or a coach about. Then if there’s high probablity the pledge is about to be made, you should have a story prewritten with comments from said recruit and possibly their coach or parents to follow. That’s how you get exposure out of someone who you allow to call themselves your beat writer and sit in during post game and ask questions.

Gone are those days. Come back Drew, Steve, or even Birdsong.

Instead, we have guys assigned to other parts of the state, doing write ups on us.

(01-22-2021 01:22 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  The key is, if you are going to cover the beat. You inquire about recruits, who are you high on, are they high on you, do you know of decision dates, are you certain you’ll get a pledge. Some questions, a beat writer would ask compliance or a coach about. Then if there’s high probablity the pledge is about to be made, you should have a story prewritten with comments from said recruit and possibly their coach or parents to follow. That’s how you get exposure out of someone who you allow to call themselves your beat writer and sit in during post game and ask questions.

Gone are those days. Come back Drew, Steve, or even Birdsong.

Instead, we have guys assigned to other parts of the state, doing write ups on us.

Why don't you become the beat writer? You sure as hell know more about the job than that clown who calls himself a beat writer now.

(01-22-2021 01:31 PM)busch Wrote:  

(01-22-2021 01:22 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  The key is, if you are going to cover the beat. You inquire about recruits, who are you high on, are they high on you, do you know of decision dates, are you certain you’ll get a pledge. Some questions, a beat writer would ask compliance or a coach about. Then if there’s high probablity the pledge is about to be made, you should have a story prewritten with comments from said recruit and possibly their coach or parents to follow. That’s how you get exposure out of someone who you allow to call themselves your beat writer and sit in during post game and ask questions.

Gone are those days. Come back Drew, Steve, or even Birdsong.

Instead, we have guys assigned to other parts of the state, doing write ups on us.

Why don't you become the beat writer? You sure as hell know more about the job than that clown who calls himself a beat writer now.

Who wants to work for a democrat/socialist newspaper, at this point? Unrelated, there had to be reasons Champlin and Scarbinsky stepped away from Al.com and it likely wasn’t about money. Drew was covering 4-5 different things at the same time, when he stepped away.

(01-22-2021 01:31 PM)busch Wrote:  

(01-22-2021 01:22 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  The key is, if you are going to cover the beat. You inquire about recruits, who are you high on, are they high on you, do you know of decision dates, are you certain you’ll get a pledge. Some questions, a beat writer would ask compliance or a coach about. Then if there’s high probablity the pledge is about to be made, you should have a story prewritten with comments from said recruit and possibly their coach or parents to follow. That’s how you get exposure out of someone who you allow to call themselves your beat writer and sit in during post game and ask questions.

Gone are those days. Come back Drew, Steve, or even Birdsong.

Instead, we have guys assigned to other parts of the state, doing write ups on us.

Why don't you become the beat writer? You sure as hell know more about the job than that clown who calls himself a beat writer now.

Guys, STFU. Really. He’s in an industry where everyone has to do 5x the work their peers used to and he has to wake up knowing he and/or every colleague he knows could be unceremoniously dumped with no warning.


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(01-22-2021 01:42 PM)blazr Wrote:  

(01-22-2021 01:31 PM)busch Wrote:  

(01-22-2021 01:22 PM)BlazinBham Wrote:  The key is, if you are going to cover the beat. You inquire about recruits, who are you high on, are they high on you, do you know of decision dates, are you certain you’ll get a pledge. Some questions, a beat writer would ask compliance or a coach about. Then if there’s high probablity the pledge is about to be made, you should have a story prewritten with comments from said recruit and possibly their coach or parents to follow. That’s how you get exposure out of someone who you allow to call themselves your beat writer and sit in during post game and ask questions.

Gone are those days. Come back Drew, Steve, or even Birdsong.

Instead, we have guys assigned to other parts of the state, doing write ups on us.

Why don't you become the beat writer? You sure as hell know more about the job than that clown who calls himself a beat writer now.

Guys, STFU. Really. He’s in an industry where everyone has to do 5x the work their peers used to and he has to wake up knowing he and/or every colleague he knows could be unceremoniously dumped with no warning.


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Please. He does not do 5X the work that a traditional beat writer does or did. All I ask of him is to do his job. He does not do that. He does not even do the minimum. Trust me, I know - first hand - about the dying/death of that business, so save the lectures. I just wish they treated UAB the same way they treat South Alabama.

Must be hard to copy and paste from UAB’s website from the couch of your home as you act as if you were actually covering a game live or in-person. Better yet, how many times has the most informative line been “ Listening to postgame, coach said......” and that’s following home games. Cant even bother to be at most home games, in-person. Pandemic or no Pandemic.

Only school in the whole damn country where we have to collectively cover our own program.