Alabama finished a week with three more signings for their 2010 class. Pretty soon any recruit will be looked at as “The people Bama didn’t want” by the Tide fans as Nick Saban is quickly closing in on the number he can sign.
Most teams don’t waste a scholarship on a punter. Bama did just that this week because Lord knows they need one. Bama’s punt defense was among the SEC’s worst last year. Jay Williams, a senior from Thomasville, Ala., will join iron leg field goal specialist Cade Foster from the same Texas high school that Bama quarterback Greg McElroy went to, as the first two specialists ever offered scholarships in the same class.
It seems like Saban wanted to take care of those chores for the next four years in one class. Williams is a phenom who created quite a stir with his summer camp visits. He was instantly offered by Florida and others after seeing him boom punts all over the stadium.
Foster can not only kick a ball, but the returnee’s butt as well as he is also a starting linebacker and jarring tackler for his high school team. It’s hard to love a kicker but this is a guy that would make the “All-Madden Team”.
Speaking of Alabama recruiting, Nick also signed yet another 2011 commit. Word has it he’s been checking sonograms and is hot on the trail of a yet unnamed fetus for the 2028 class.
Does this guy ever quit recruiting?
If I didn’t mention your team this team this week, then take it that no news is good news sometimes as I love to revel the garbage.
Oh, and speaking of garbage, Jillian McCarney, daughter of Florida’s new defensive line coach, had her charges of battery on a police officer, disorderly house, and being a total $#@&! reduced to Interference with Official Acts and Disorderly House.
Ok, I made up the charge about "being a total $#@&!", but it sure fits.
I guess her guarantees are as solid as her manners since, according to police at the time of her arrest, she told officers her father would fight them and threatened violence against them several times as well as cursing at and verbally assaulting the officers.
For all you fans who fortunately have children who don’t do this and don’t understand the charge of “disorderly house”, it’s not turning down the stereo when asked nicely by police and not keeping your rowdy drunk friends from puking outside your walls.
According to the police report, Jillian asked the officer, "Do you know who my dad is? He is Dan McCarney."
Jillian told the officer she "guaranteed all her charges will be ‘dropped' because her name is ‘McCarney' and they have 'a lot of money.'"
Despite several months of plea dealing, good old boying, (her grandfather is the former police chief of Iowa City where the incident took place) and legal wrangling by high-priced lawyers, poor little Jillian got the gavel dropped on her.
Oops! Seemed she did pay a fine and have this on her record. Isn’t she the little darling you’d like to bring home to meet momma?
That’s my SEC thoughts for this week. See you next Thursday for more.
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