OT Vadal Alexander commits to LSU over Auburn and Alabama
Buford High School's Vadal Alexander (AJC photo by Michael Carvell)
If you heard somebody screaming in the distance on Monday afternoon, it may have been LSU coach Les Miles.
Vadal Alexander, one of the Georgia’s most heavily-recruited college football prospects, committed to LSU over Auburn and Alabama. The 6-foot-6, 300-pounder from Buford High School was ranked by some as the state’s No. 1 OL prospect.
Alexander called all three of his finalists on Monday, and got an enthusiastic reaction from Miles.
“It was great,” Alexander told the AJC. “He was ecstatic. He was screaming and yelling, you know, only like Coach Miles can do. He is very outgoing. He was happy and he was definitely screaming.”
Miles had plenty to hoop and holler about. LSU rallied to edge Auburn for Alexander’s services.
“I had taken my official visits to Alabama and Auburn, and going into this past weekend’s trip to LSU, Auburn was leading,” Alexander said. “But I went to LSU and it just clicked for me. It was one of those things that I just knew when I left from Louisiana on Sunday evening. It was the atmosphere, the coaches, and everything. There was nothing negative about LSU, It was all positive.”
Alexander is a native of New Orleans, and lived in Louisiana until he was three years old. His father played college football at Nichols State. Alexander said the Louisiana connection did not affect his college decision. “No, it really didn’t. I went into my official visits with an open mind. Everybody was even and got their chance. Being from Louisiana wasn’t a factor.”
What position will Alexander play on LSU’s offensive line? “They see me as a tackle but I would play any position that they need me to play. I would play tackle or guard.”
Buford High School is the four-time defending Class AA state champions in Georgia. It has nine players that have either been offered by or committed to major colleges, including linebacker Dillon Lee (committed to Alabama) and tight end Kurt Freitag (Alabama, Florida or maybe FSU).
FLASHBACK: UGA’s recruitment of NFL rookie QB sensation Cam Newton (click on story link)
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01HAWK
October 10th, 2011
8:48 pm
BAMA has 5 of top 15 recruits for 2012 in the state of ALBAMA…………….AUBARN has 3 of the top 15.
Achtung ………………………Big Daddy ……………………………….You know absolutely nothing about recruiting. Start researching before you open your BIG TRAP.
01HAWK
October 10th, 2011
8:51 pm
ACTUNG and BIG DADDY…………………………………Where are you ? Did you run away and hide.
I will be waiting on your other lies you have.
PT
October 10th, 2011
8:58 pm
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Terry
October 10th, 2011
9:00 pm
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study showed that Alabama was one of the worst in the country for obesity with most counties having over 29% of adults obese, except for ten which exceeded 26%.[66] Residents were least likely of any state in the nation to exercise.[67] Alabama has one of the highest incidents of adult onset diabetes in the country, exceeding 10% of adults.
NoNameDefense
October 10th, 2011
9:01 pm
Congrats LSU and Congrats Vadal! LSU is getting a fine young man with a great family behind him!
Achtung
October 10th, 2011
9:01 pm
01hawk- Bama has more commits now but won’t on signing day, like last year. Losing the Iron bowl for the eighth time in 10 tries won’t help.
01HAWK
October 10th, 2011
9:03 pm
Achtung…………………………………..That is OK…………………….We will still have a better recruiting class than UGA and will finish hiHger nationally and in the SEC.
Lakedawg
October 10th, 2011
9:07 pm
Kid has been an LSU lock since enrolling at Buford. Avery Young, John Theus, Chester Brown, Greg Pyke, and getting Kolton Houston back next year will be a nice addition to Chris Burnette, Dallas Lee, Kenarious Gates, Austin Long, David Andrews, Watts Dantzler, Hunter Long, and Nathan Theus.
OL line will be young, but plenty of bodies and potential. Believe 8 of that group was offered by Alabama, Auburn and Florida, but chose the Dawgs.
PT
October 10th, 2011
9:07 pm
01HAWK – Why are we discussing the number of recruits in Alabama? It’s not considered a hot bed for talent.
Achtung
October 10th, 2011
9:09 pm
01hawk- you ever hear the old comedienes’s joke about a tornado hitting Alabama and doing millions of dollars in improvements? That’s kinda what the Iron Bowl has been like the last decade, eh?
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01HAWK
October 10th, 2011
9:10 pm
BLACKOUT ANYONE…………………………….BAMA still leads series 36-25
BAMA…………………………..2 CHAMPIONSHIPS SINCE 1992
UGA……………………………..Has not won since 1980……………………….Seems like UGA has been hit with a ……………………….HOB NAIL BOOT
01HAWK
October 10th, 2011
9:12 pm
Everyone loves to hate on the top program in SEC FOOTBALL…………………………………Good Night losers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO sleep on your HOB NAIL BOOT
Lakedawg
October 10th, 2011
9:13 pm
How is Florida State getting 4 of the top 8 players in the state of Alabama. Saban falling down on job?
or is that QB not whay he is looking for?
01HAWK
October 10th, 2011
9:16 pm
Lakedawg ………………………………….FSU has 3 of top 14 if you read my post.
Don’t worry…………………………………..BAMA will just get some more from JAWJA
Achtung
October 10th, 2011
9:17 pm
01hawk- now don’t get your panties in a twit, remind me, which part of Bama annually losing the Iron Bowl and getting outrecruited in state is a”lie”. The truth is in the results. Iron bowl anybody?
PT
October 10th, 2011
9:39 pm
01HAWK –The state of Alabama has a great college football program of which you should be proud, but all things considered that’s about the extent of it.
I WIPE MY A$$ WITH TIDE ROLL !!!
October 10th, 2011
9:40 pm
Oh my !! How soon 01hawk forgets’s about the shula, franchione era right. Give me a break loser !!! now move along.
Achtung
October 10th, 2011
9:52 pm
O1hawk-if you watch football, which I doubt from your comments, you would know LSU is number 1, beat y’all last year and is the top SEC team this year not Bammer. Oops, Auburn is defending champs, you’re not even tops in your state, I guess that’s why y’all call that rib place Dreamland?
forget fat albert
October 10th, 2011
9:58 pm
My son plays in the same region as this 5A school playing in 2A. I’m teaching him the cut block. Go at the ankles from the side while rolling.
Staci
October 10th, 2011
10:03 pm
WHY ISN’T HE GOING TO UGA?
PT
October 10th, 2011
10:25 pm
It’s just not a level playing field when having to go against Buford in AA. Been there, done that.
Bigone
October 10th, 2011
10:35 pm
Bottom Line:
Alexander only lived in Louisiana until he was three years old. He lived in Georgia most of his life.
The thing that did was: It was the atmosphere, the coaches, and everything. There was nothing negative about LSU, It was all positive.”
Per Alexander: Being from Louisiana wasn’t a factor.”
Achtung
October 10th, 2011
10:52 pm
I saw Buford in the Dome last year and they had 5 guys about 6′ 5″ 300 lbs across their line for a AA school. I would say their coach is an excellent recruiter.
Blackoutanyone?
October 10th, 2011
11:13 pm
Lol @01Hawk laying beat downs on these fools all night. Not sure why all the UGA fans are on here as they were never considered by this elite prospect. Tide Roll owns this board. Sad but true.
Bama will sign 5 of the top 11 Georgia prospects for 2011. Has the #2 2013 prospect committed and is a heavy favorite for the #1. Those are hard facts ladies.
Atchtung… Bro its extremly lame to live vicariously thru the accomplishments of your rivals. Are you not a Georgia Bulldog? Man up…
Roll Tide
Cedar Grove Football
October 10th, 2011
11:37 pm
If the Coaching staff 4 UGA is Fired that could change things around. Let us hope & pray. Because the way things are going McCrary is not coming 2 UGA…… It will be Bama more than likely. SMH.
LA Dawg
October 11th, 2011
12:18 am
@Brewmaster, please lay off off the cough medicine. Cam Newton IS running over NFL linemen. He leads all NFL QBs with 5 goal line touchdowns. UGA would’ve been been “embarrassed” to have Cam Newton at QB? Not this Dawg fan. As much as I dislike Auburn, Cam had the greatest single season at QB last year in college football history. I’m fine with Stafford over Newton, but heck no with Logan Gray, Joe Cox or Aaron Murray. Cam Newton is the real deal. Deal with it.
evil empire
October 11th, 2011
12:19 am
dantzler is a bust…
7thWard
October 11th, 2011
1:11 am
Congratulations my little cuz is going back home!! I’m sooo glad for you Big V. Geaux Tigers, Who Dat 2012
Achtung
October 11th, 2011
1:31 am
Blackout – really enjoyed my last 2 trips to Tuscaloser as a Dawg, the last two times we played there. I went to that rib place with my jersey on, the food sucks but it’s a good place to take a victory lap since y’all think the place is so great.
Red Dog 77
October 11th, 2011
1:44 am
@01HAWK……….This dead coach you like to quote, Paul “Bear” Bryant certainly did believe in winning at all cost. Hawk, I was alive and actively following college football during the “Bear’s” run. Back in those days there was an honor-system that Bryant trampled like he trampled his own players. Many of the modern day rules in the SEC and in fact NCAA were implemented because of this coward of a man……………I would challenge you or anyone else to dispute my claims. #1 Bryant owned the University of Alabama and thus was never challenged by the administration when he used Baseball, Basketball, Tennis, Swimming, Golf, Track, and Basketweaving scholarships for “his” football program………This practice was outlawed, and Bryant was the only creep [or cheat] that was low enough to use it. He also liked to incite “badblood” in an era that was dominated by real gentlemen coaching in the SEC. Furthermore, being a Georgia man, having no love for Georgia Tech. I will say, Bobby Dodd was probubly the finest example of a gentleman as you could find. And yes, Bobby Dodd took his Yellow Jackets and left the SEC as a direct result of Bryants “dirty play” and cheating MO…………….You Bama boys might have won games under that creep, alot of games, but I’d rather lose than cheat…………RED
dawgenuff
October 11th, 2011
2:01 am
TideRoll, Brandon Greene couldn,t carry John Theus,s jockstrap! We play alabama in 2012,and 2013,we’ll see who has the best OT! By 2013,we will blow you away! With John Theus at Murray’s blind side,and Keith Marshall and Isiaih Crowell at running back, and Malcolm Mitchell at receiver,all with a few more years of experience ,we the Bulldawg Nation will be top Dawg by then. Book It!
dawgenuff
October 11th, 2011
2:10 am
Blackoutanyone , you forget, or you are too dumb to realise, that this is an article by the AJC,which is the Atlanta Journal Constitution,which is in the great state of GEORGIA,not the Touscalooser Times! We have,the bulldawg nation ,the right to be on anything that means the state of GEORGIA! Go back to ALABAMA and stay off of our websites! Can I get an AMEN from Dawgster?
BurytheBone
October 11th, 2011
5:07 am
@Georgia Tech, let me get this straight. You are a tech fan but live in New Orleans. And you are defending a program that is not your team. You live in one of the most corrupt cities in the nation, for that matter states. So is it fair to say that you think what LSU’s players did to the kid, repeatedly kicking him in the head while he was on the ground was ok? And now those athletes are back on the field like nothing ever happened. Now thats a fine example of a progam you so choose to step up to the plate for. Its a wonder you can get yourself dressed in the morning.
BurytheBone
October 11th, 2011
5:15 am
@ Red Dog 77, I agree 100%. I just wish we could get Tech to come back to the SEC. At least then they would see how real men play football.
Crimson Crush
October 11th, 2011
6:27 am
LOL … someone needs to inform dawgenuff that the Interweb is connected by tubes … or something . They seem genuinely confused and hurt about why ( and how ) it is Tide fans might be reading or commenting about recruits from the state when a flood of top Georgia players leave every year now .
Maybe if Richt and Kompany read the AJC more often they would find out quicker about which players in the state of Georgia are being recruited by some of the better staffs in college football -)
Crimson Crush
October 11th, 2011
6:35 am
Bury it is indeed a given that what you said about Narlins and Lousyanna is true … but the punk who got his ass kicked earned those kicks in the head .
He was running around , threatening and PUNCHING women right before he let his mouth overload his a** . The woman he was stalking at that club already had filed a restraining order on him , he punched her girlfriend … then proceeded outside where he jumped out of his truck talkin chit to the wrong people .
The fact that all he got was an attitude adjustment and a lesson in physics ( males over 200 pounds aren’t as easy to slap around as 120 pound women ) puts him in the LUCKY category as far as I am concerned . People have ended up dead as a hammer … for less …
Mr. SEC
October 11th, 2011
8:23 am
Vadal: I bet Les MIles will not be there for your 4/5 years of commitment!
SickandTired
October 11th, 2011
8:26 am
Georgia. Mark Richt. A marriage that the SEC coaches would love to save.
RxDawg
October 11th, 2011
8:41 am
Sigh.. I hate to see so much great talent in the state going elsewhere this year. UGA’s class will be fine though. We’ve got some ballers coming in. At least this guy didn’t go to Auburn.
DawginLex
October 11th, 2011
8:49 am
A Bama fan tells me i am DILLusional
Does that mean I like pickles?
Blackoutanyone?
October 11th, 2011
9:04 am
Achtung…. IF your an adult male… its not cool to wear college jerseys out in public.
dawgenuff… Me thinks u couldn’t find Atlanta on a map. Top dog by 2013? Lol some expectations u have there. Typical…. all bark no bite.
Opinon
October 11th, 2011
9:40 am
This guy looks really good going against 5′11″” 210 lb tackles in AA.
Buford Recruiting Coordinator
October 11th, 2011
9:42 am
Anyone can pay $1,200.00 and come to the Buford City School. If you don’t live in the district, we can get a PO box for you. If you don’t have the $1,200.00 we can get it for you.
Calling them out
October 11th, 2011
9:43 am
I could list 5 kids by name who transfered from a school inside the same region as Buford and were immediately eligible. The poo is deep in Buford.
Flo-Ri-Duh
October 11th, 2011
10:58 am
Jujuan James and now Vidal. If you put the top 5 OL out of the state of Georgia,over the last four years, on the field at the same time you would have an All SEC offensive line. There are NO excuses for missing out on your home state talent. There is no secret to this. You have to win the SEC and contend for the national title. The objective for these guys is to be in the NFL and make a lot of money. Theus will be a starter his freshman year – barring injury. Avery Young is still a possibility but a long shot but win out and UGA could get some of these guys to change their mind.
BurytheBone
October 11th, 2011
11:40 am
@Crimson Crush, Thats not quite how the eyewitnesses describe the events of the night. The victim was drug from his truck. And beaten by several LSU players. Not mano e mano. The supposed restraining order was taken out several weeks after the altercation. The accusations of the victim hitting a girl( not women) has no validity or witness’s. If he did what your saying yes he should have been stopped. By one man,not 4. I think any one of those players could’ve done that without so much as a scratch. The fact remains that they will try and smear the victim and cover this up. Just like they did to the GSU player who was killed by the bouncers in Narlens. Just sayin……….
Joe Bob Thibodaux
October 11th, 2011
1:30 pm
Vidal Alexander made the right choice.
LSU FOREVER!
JBT
Really Haters???
October 11th, 2011
3:36 pm
01Hawk Loser, Really, wow I mean Really!!
Really Haters???
October 11th, 2011
3:40 pm
Blackoutanyone? is a complete joke of a person!!!!