No team in all of college football recruited better than the University of Alabama during Nick Saban’s 17-year run coaching the Crimson Tide. Every single one of Saban’s 17 recruiting classes at Alabama ranked in the top five of 247Sports’ composite team rankings. Add in the fact that Auburn was often competing for SEC and national championships, and it was rare for top prospects from Alabama to leave their home state.

Since Kalen DeBoer replaced Saban in 2024, however, Alabama has lost its stranglehold on top talent in its backyard. Mystifyingly, all of the top 15 prospects from the state of Alabama in the 2027 class are now committed to schools other than the University of Alabama. Auburn, meanwhile, is coming off five straight seven-loss seasons.

Top 15 Prospects from Alabama in the 2027 Recruiting Class
NIL promises often supersede regional roots in today’s recruiting landscape, and that’s allowed Ohio State – not only with its financial resources, but also its track record of perennially competing for championships and producing early-round NFL draft picks – to have more recruiting success than ever before in states that were historically controlled by SEC powers. There’s no more striking example of that than how quickly Ohio State has created a pipeline of talent from Alabama to Columbus over the last three years.

Just sayin': Alabama isn't doing too well in it's own state.

Welcome to the Buckeye Family, Karlos!!

Wells4Heisman said:

What a viewing experience when teams don’t defend.

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calibuck said:

Yeah to Thump's cry of 'Bagmen'. Cignetti is ticking off his accomplishments, win B10, win a Nati, sign best in Indiana. Gotta give him credit. But back to Sales, cannot blame him at all, and good luck to him. We'll see how well he gets prepared for the NFL there, but should get many more minutes at Indy than tOSU. Depth chart probably worked against tOSU, given the stable of current 5*s, and verbaled 5*'s acoming. And Cignetti always seems to land a polished QB. Really don't know how good their teaching staff/coaches are, so do not have an informed opinion. But must be adequate to the tasks. Good luck, wait until our DBs line up against you, and remember they go daily against tOSU's 5* WRs in practice.

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IU had a 1st round pick(same amount of 1st round WRs drafted as OSU) and 4th rounder after winning an NC. Thats A LOT to sell a hometown kid

calibuck said:

So where'd the other $4 million go?

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Bend over,……..I’ll show you….

You had me at skin tags...

buckeyemania11 said:

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The good old "let's not ruin anyone's weekend!" approach.

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Now why would Harbaugh [allegedly] want to handle everything internally. Was this just the "good ole boy" network in action? Or were Weiss's computer hacking activities somehow providing an advantage to the scUM football program? I wonder if those crafty plaintiffs' attorneys will uncover any information concerning stolen practice footage.

Don't get me wrong – I doubt that any of those attorneys would care about scUM vacating wins or losing their NC*. However, if Weiss's superiors (Harbaugh, Manuel, Ono) knew about his hacking activities and failed to report him, then scUM as an institution would face some serious liability. And the press coverage would be even worse: "They let that monster continue his operation just to win some football games!"

Well, it's been my experience that laws are made/written, whatever. However, they don't mean much until they are adjudicated in a court of law. Where each and every sentence is sliced and diced. An allegory might be - what's the speed limit? Answer is - whatever the highway patrol enforces. Same with players CBA, and the 'five to play five' rulings.

calibuck said:

Interesting Bestbuck. If McDuff 'goes big', having Elsa at the 5, Mobley at the 4, and Kitts at the 3/4, could/would assume that the Buckeyes would control the boards. But with only two quick players at the PG and SG, not certain how McDuff's beloved full court press would be effective. Really don't see him giving up on his calling card. But when tOSU plays the SC's (South Carolina), and UConn's of the world, that kind of look might be more effective than four smaller guards running around.

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Exactly. In the tourneys our press hasn't been as effective so we hands to win more in the half court game. At least there seems to be options right?

Maniac's visual (#23) is fricking incredible. Don't know if done by talking heads or coaches, but no one saw all of these guys, maybe took articles written about each team and stacked them, highest pile if #1? Or somesuch arbitrary way. And yes, opinion are like 'noses' everyone's got one.

As I suspected

Not to be argumentative, but has Birm actually spoken to DGG and/or family? Block O is special here, as is #45, and the Big Cat directly asked Archie if he would mind. Block 0 is a different animal methinks, and given to a player of proof of his gifts/contributions to the Buckeyes on the field. If you say Birm iterated his direct contact, my mind will be at ease.

"David knows -insert sport here"

Bums

Yeah, that whole couple of weeks he spent at Tennessee did wonders for him./s

Re: Bryson DeChambeau docked 2 shots in Open for penalty on 5th hole​

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I think a lot of it's performative. I think a lot of it's for attention.

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Bagmen

johnson2443 said:

Saw this gentleman out in public yesterday with what I assume could have been recruits and/or GA’s/other staffers. He is built like a fucking brick. What I want my RB coach to look like.

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DGG was definitely with him when I saw him. I didn’t realize who it was at the time but they seemed to be having a great time as well as the other recruits. Let’s hope he brings this home

soft taxos

RB07OSU said:

Snyder pins Sadulaev in RAF! I had it on record but a hell of a match for Kyle to get his revenge on the world's (former) best. He earned it big time.

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According to the pundits, Sad got hurt and rolled over.
I saw Snyder get the winning TD and then the injury to Sad...

When Tarkanian (sp?) was at UNLV, was rumored that one staffer was a lawyer. Maybe TSUN needs to consider that as well. Not certain if this guy would be prosecutor or defense attorney though....

Couple of years ago, California seemed to be on fire, all over. Fires at Lake Tahoe were so strong, caused a haze down here in the San Joaquin Valley. Didn't have annual golf tournament in Tahoe, because several of attendees have asthma. Cabins in Shaver Lake area (still in Sierra Nevada mountains) burned, and resultant insurance rates tripled. Of course, Cali has a smog problem, but these fires compounded that by 5x. Still played golf though.

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Little know fact: Johnny Cash wanted to sing the the theme song, he actually wrote and submitted his version of the song, needless to say it was
rejected:

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KARMA for smart ass posts

NJ-Buckeye said:

It's summer and I could use losing 10 quick pounds.. gonna get me some Taco Bell

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daughter just started the parasitic diarrhea from Chipotle salad in NYC