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Message: [QUOTE="phil77, post: 5672147, member: 1169"] Some more for you [USER=7185]Bulldog04[/USER] "Hodgson has established himself as one of the top recruiters in the nation across his 11 seasons as a collegiate coach. Most recently, he was ranked by 247Sports.com No. 2 in its basketball recruiting rankings and has been instrumental in the Crimson Tide garnering back-to-back top-10 signing classes in both 2020 (No. 9 Rivals/No. 12 247Sports) and 2021 (No. 9 by 247sports/No. 10 by ). In fact, of the eight signed freshmen who were members of the Tide’s recruiting classes across his two seasons in Tuscaloosa, all have been four stars or better, including four five-star prospects and three McDonald’s All-Americans. One of those five stars signed by Hodgson, Joshua Primo, spent the 2020-21 season at Alabama before entering his name in the 2021 NBA Draft where he became the No. 12 overall pick by the San Antonio Spurs. It marked the second-straight NBA Lottery Pick for the Crimson Tide (Kira Lewis Jr. drafted No. 13 overall in 2020), as Primo became the Tide’s eighth overall player drafted inside the top 15 in school history. “Bryan is one of the best recruiters I’ve been around,” Oats said. “I initially hired him at Buffalo and he quickly proved that was one of the best decisions I made. He was able to get high-level talent, and he’s got an eye for talent. He knows exactly how we want to play so there’s a chemistry there in terms of knowing who we want to bring in and what type of player we need.” Hodgson blazed a trail to Canada as he signed the first Canadian players in program history – Primo and Keon Ambrose-Hilton – Canada’s No. 1 and No. 3-ranked players, respectively, in 2020. He followed that by getting a third Canadian, Charles Bediako, to ink his National Letter of Intent in with the Crimson Tide 2021. Both Bediako and Ambrose-Hylton were listed as consensus four-star prospects." [/QUOTE]

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