Alabama target Greg Taboada committed to Stanford today!

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Alabama target Greg Taboada committed to Stanford today! - stan01 - 10-28-2012

Taboada is a Georgia tight end and DE, whose parents are from Spain and whose brother played tennis for Georgia.

http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=2&c=1234509&ssf=1&RequestedURL=http%3a%2f%2frecruiting.scout.com%2f2%2f1234509.html

Taboada had been open about his interest in Stanford long before the Cardinal offered on September 30.Â Perhaps our coaches waited to offer since he was not able to fully participate in their summer camp due to a pulled hamstring.Â In an August interview, he talked about waiting for Stanford:

When I started the recruiting process, I was hoping I could use my football to help me get a good degree. Obviously, Alabama doesnt have the highest degree. But then I thought about it, and playing for Coach Saban, with all the exposure you get from playing for him, its almost like having a good degree. But Im still kind of waiting for Stanford a little bit. I dont want to commit too soon, so that Stanford would that think they lost me if theyre still interested. So thats what is kind of holding me back.

I was going to wait until halfway through the season and send game film to Stanford and see what they think. If I still dont have an offer from them, and no other schools like Georgia pop up, I will probably commit around that time.

http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2012/08/28/alabama-is-frontrunner-for-4-star-te-who-also-likes-uga/

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Re: Alabama target Greg Taboada committed to Stanford today! - scorecard - 10-28-2012

Fantastic news!Â I was worried that the TE position might be the toughest to replace with losing Ertz/Toilolo (particularly Ertz in my opinion -- he seemed to be a bit of a security blanket for both Luck and Nunes), but it looks like we might have some good ones in the pipeline (Kaumatule, Cotton, Taboada, maybe Schultz in 2014).Â Would be great if we could stay stocked at TE.Â And if there's a logjam, maybe one of them might want Hewitt's position?Â

Re: Alabama target Greg Taboada committed to Stanford today! - CowboyIndian - 10-28-2012

I think this guy is headed to DE. Pure speculation. I don't mean Delaware, by the way.

Re: Alabama target Greg Taboada committed to Stanford today! - dabigv13 - 10-28-2012

Pretty ballsy to call out the academic chops of the school who was at the time the most likely place for him to end up. Is ballsy the right word?

In any case sounds like a good get. Really hope he gets admitted.

Re: Alabama target Greg Taboada committed to Stanford today! - StannyBoy - 10-28-2012

(10-28-2012, 10:17 PM)CowboyIndian link Wrote:I think this guy is headed to DE. Pure speculation. I don't mean Delaware, by the way.

I dunno about that. We have a ton of young talent at DE and not a lot at TE. And if he's athletic he'd probably be tried out at OLB before DE.

Re: Alabama target Greg Taboada committed to Stanford today! - StannyBoy - 10-28-2012

(10-28-2012, 10:17 PM)CowboyIndian link Wrote:I think this guy is headed to DE. Pure speculation. I don't mean Delaware, by the way.

I dunno about that. We have a ton of young talent at DE and not a lot at TE. And if he's athletic he'd probably be tried out at OLB before DE.

Re: Alabama target Greg Taboada committed to Stanford today! - washingtonismoney - 10-29-2012

Saban was interested in him as an OLB if he played defense so I'd imagine it's the same for us.

Re: Alabama target Greg Taboada committed to Stanford today! - OutsiderFan - 10-29-2012

Stanford is also recruiting Austin Hooper, apparently as a TE.Â I don't know if he will be admitted, but Stanford is not done recruiting jumbo athletes.

Re: Alabama target Greg Taboada committed to Stanford today! - kuz - 10-29-2012

(10-28-2012, 11:57 PM)young_money link Wrote:[quote author=CowboyIndian link=topic=6773.msg50832#msg50832 date=1351487825]
I think this guy is headed to DE. Pure speculation. I don't mean Delaware, by the way.

I dunno about that. We have a ton of young talent at DE and not a lot at TE. And if he's athletic he'd probably be tried out at OLB before DE.
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+1. His highlights definitely do look a lot better as an OLB than as a TE; then again, we have Palma and Kalambayi both at linebacker (I'm not sure if the coaches have made their minds up yet if Palma is an ILB or an OLB).

I also wouldn't be too surprised if Taboada ended up as a Hewitt-esque H-back.

Re: Alabama target Greg Taboada committed to Stanford today! - kuz - 10-29-2012

(10-28-2012, 11:57 PM)young_money link Wrote:[quote author=CowboyIndian link=topic=6773.msg50832#msg50832 date=1351487825]
I think this guy is headed to DE. Pure speculation. I don't mean Delaware, by the way.

Re: Alabama target Greg Taboada committed to Stanford today! - fullmetal - 10-29-2012

I think he means "almost like having a good graduate degree if you don't pan out and he forces you to leave the team."

If Greg is smart enough to earn Stanford admission and play all four years, he'll pick up any NFL playbook without a problem.