while I agree with your take about players who didn’t play at previous schools and wind up transferring, this kid is in a completely different situation than Lee. Fegans is not 1, or even a 2 year and done. He will be a RS freshman at USC this year. He was a member of the most exclusive DB unit in college football. This unit is Saban’s baby, and Bama is LOADED in the defensive backfield each and every year. The “experts” ranked him as the #9 player in the transfer portal without him playing a single down in his only year at the collegiate level. Crazy, I know, but I’ll bet hes extremely talented
Could be the Ohio St transfer Bryson Shaw who was with the first string most of spring, and then the rest...including previous starter Max Williams, Anthony Beavers or a kid to keep an eye on in Christain Pierce.....not sure where Branch is but perhaps they look at him at Nickle
Always leery of guys who don’t pan out at top talent schools. Like Shane Lee. Seems like there’s a reason he’s not playing at Bama. Same with the auburn transfer height who has been hurt all the time.
Mon the other hand. I do not like 1 year rentals. Think you build a program for continuity, and it puts a huge amount of pressure on the coaching staff to be right on every single recruit and transfer when you are building the roster from scratch basically every year. So getting guys with 2-4 years left helps a lot imo
we are in a new world and I’m old school. I’m my frame of reference this whole transfer and roster overhaul thing is something coaches can do for about two recruiting cycles. The one they are hired into and then the next. After that you better be building a roster for the long haul.
you can say one thing for usc. Either they are spending money. Or for whatever reason they have become an exceedingly attractive destination. And any program wants that. It makes accumulating talent, much easier and that makes winning much easier.
Lee started as a frosh at BAMA got hurt took time to recover and never got his job back and looked for a new home...guy just didn't fit the D put in place when he returned as he lacks speed and is a bit stiff but a good plug the middle guy..Height left because Auburn was a catastrophe with coaches and infighting. Can't blame him for wanting out..and if you hadn't noticed those were part of a quick fix last season ...this season CLR is getting kids that have more then a season to play...a few bigtime guys with three or four years left...
search party organizing to hunt for poor alty's corpse
He’s afraid to compete.
Edit: response to Java
while I agree with your take about players who didn’t play at previous schools and wind up transferring, this kid is in a completely different situation than Lee. Fegans is not 1, or even a 2 year and done. He will be a RS freshman at USC this year. He was a member of the most exclusive DB unit in college football. This unit is Saban’s baby, and Bama is LOADED in the defensive backfield each and every year. The “experts” ranked him as the #9 player in the transfer portal without him playing a single down in his only year at the collegiate level. Crazy, I know, but I’ll bet hes extremely talented
Always leery of guys who don’t pan out at top talent schools. Like Shane Lee. Seems like there’s a reason he’s not playing at Bama. Same with the auburn transfer height who has been hurt all the time.
Mon the other hand. I do not like 1 year rentals. Think you build a program for continuity, and it puts a huge amount of pressure on the coaching staff to be right on every single recruit and transfer when you are building the roster from scratch basically every year. So getting guys with 2-4 years left helps a lot imo
we are in a new world and I’m old school. I’m my frame of reference this whole transfer and roster overhaul thing is something coaches can do for about two recruiting cycles. The one they are hired into and then the next. After that you better be building a roster for the long haul.
you can say one thing for usc. Either they are spending money. Or for whatever reason they have become an exceedingly attractive destination. And any program wants that. It makes accumulating talent, much easier and that makes winning much easier.
Have to believe we now land his brother who’s a 5 star safety in the 2025 class… that’s if things go well for him at USC.