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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 2817460, member: 5798"] I guess you could say that Alabama today, is the football equivalent of UCLA basketball during the Wooden era. Wooden got most of the recruits he wanted because (back then), the pool was much smaller, UCLA was a very high profile team (on TV a lot), and they were winning championships. If you played basketball, and UCLA offered you, you grabbed it. Wooden was legendary while he was still coaching. Interesting side note. It's my understanding that John Wooden did not do home visits. His assistants did. He did do one home visit though, guess who???......................................................Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., out of Power Memorial High School, Manhattan NY. (AKA Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). :cool: [/QUOTE]