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I mentioned some of those guys. But I think the worst of the above was shazier. Only because he Supposedly really wanted to come here but we never offered or really slow played him.

I think he was Alf's first recruit - he recruited Sorny since he was in like 8th grade or something like that. Heard it directly from a staff member how Sorny got bagged up late in the recruiting process. But, folks still believed the "he fell in love with athens on his visit" nonsense.

Good call. I recall good ol' pete and other insiders repeated the whole "he needs to get away from sofla" implying that the kid was running with some bad hombres and so he went to illiinois where Zook was baggin' them up. That said, he actually had a nice career for himself in the league.

Most of them, yes. But, if memory serves, wasn't Alf hot after Torrance Gibson?

Yeah, a bunch. He's probably top 3. I still recall a story that some insider on the boards shared once. The story goes that PJ had taken bags (and his dad, too) but was vacillating on his LSU commitment and showed up at the Hecht one day in mid Jan and asked Shannon if there was a chance he'd...

Ah yes, the time where grandma bowe told shannon to pay up when he showed up at her doorstep. gotta love sofla crootin.

We also could have had denard robinson.

Man, I remember that year - at one point, we felt REAL strongly about landing the Peterson, Janoris Jenkins, TJ Bryant, Harris foursome.

We never had a chance at them

People don't think 1 guy makes a difference but look at the list I posted. We get get 4-5 of those guys (Dalvin, Teddy B, PJ, Amari) and we will be talking many more wins.

Some older ones included (did not look at last few years) we had a legit chance at that would have been good here imo: Dee Webb Patrick Johnson Antone Smith Dee Morley Fred Rouse Preston Parker Armando Allen Devonta Freeman Teddy Bridgewater Ryan Shazier Eli Rogers Amari Cooper Matthew Thomas...