re: 2013 Alabama Football Recruiting Thread

I believe specific position coaches, especially OL coaches, technical ability vastly outweighs the ability to recruit in importance. It's really rare if an OL Coach is a good recruiter in general. They'll rack up a few lineman, but you don't see them getting Recruiter of the Year often.

Stoutland gives Bama connections to Miami and the Northwest, but there has to be interest to use him there. But again, his ability to coach outweighs any other thing he does as a coach.

I've seen him in person once, and my impression was he is a very dry, hard arse type coach. You aren't gonna get many chest bumps out of him...