I've heard the same, 28... Well, at least, we'll have some good size for depth/mop up duty if he doesn't pan out...
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I'm lived my whole life in wp until 8 years ago. At one time we had one of the Bulldog Clubs largest chapters per capita , but don't think thats the case anymore. There is a large contingent of om fans there, but mostly bandwagons with no large donors other than my buddy.
Lashley is an inexperienced kid who has only played football for two years. He has a lot of potential, but he also has a chronic leg condition called Blount's Disease, where his knees may progressively become more bowed. I don't know how this will effect him long term at this point. I know that this is the reason he has only played 2 years.
I hope you are right. I would be just fine if Lashley, RDavis and Knott all fall flat on their face and get processed by the Saban machine. If they go over and become All-American types all that will do is encourage more MS HS players to jump over the line and play for Saban when given the chance. Saban hasn't hurt us that much before because he usually signs HS players that are highly touted AND highly developed which is not something you find with most MS HS players so he really hasn't targeted MS that much. Players in MS usually tend to have lots of potential but are quite raw. Lashley, due to not playing much HS football, is even rawer than most. Will be interesting to see what happens to him over there.
This is one scouting report synopsis on Lashley:
Lashley is an interesting prospect. Looks like a bit of a frustrated TE at the HS level and will need to fully embrace his fate as a less glorified, 'lunch pail' carrying OT, but if he does he brings some tools that could allow him to gain attention for his play there. Still raw and needs to settle in and focus on OT and at this stage not an early contributor, but a big man with some real promising upside.
This is definitely not the case. I honestly can't see Saban ever signing a player just to stick it to another team.....when he gives a commitable offer to a recruit, he does it because he feels like that player can help him win another title. But even if he did engage in petty, counterproductive bullshit like that, it damn sure wouldn't be directed at us. Dan Mullen has never even had a lead against Bama (in 420 minutes of football, he has spent 0 seconds with more points than them), so I don't think that Saban would even offer a recruit a preferred walk on with the intent of sticking it to us.