If they can offer a 3 star boy from Bama they can offer Ronnie with the promise SBB and Calvin will come on board. It's not like Hoggins isn't on par with what we already have. Al has no idea how to play the game. Dude straight up corny naive country boy! Man Butch would already have SBB, JJ, D. Davis, Carlton Davis and Hoggins as a deal closer. Al is a Buster if there ever was one!
That kid had a conditional offer and his commitment wasn't accepted.
..and he's a completely different kind of player than Hoggins, he's a tall, rangy CB to help cover today's tall WRs that most teams are stockpiling. He would replace Gunter...something Hoggins can't do. The two players aren't comparable.
Do we really want another Gunter though? I'll take a ballhawk like Hoggins before someone who can fill the Gunter profile...
Hoggins is the type of dude who will ball and get tons of interceptions in a couple of years in a place like Louisville and everybody here will moan about the staff missing on him. No matter the role he'll play, I don't think anybody will say that about the Bama CB. Ballhawk skill > specific type of CB
You build a great defense by getting playmaker who can give the ball to your offense, not by getting Gunter type of player...