If you believe Alabama wasn't recruiting Jeremiah Smith, you don't understand recruiting

College football recruiting has gone from a niche subset of the sport to something that has taken on a life of its own. Just a few short decades ago, if you wanted to follow recruiting you almost had to seek it out, ordering magazine subscriptions and hanging out on message boards to stay on top of the latest rumors. Now, fans can be inundated with recruiting news and factoids just by hanging out on social media, to the point where you're almost beaten over the head with it on a near daily basis