As a junior in high school, Alvin Kamara of Norcross, Georgia is already being recruited by numerous big-name schools across the country after rushing for more than 1,500 yards during the 2011 season. While Kamara has received interest from schools such as Syracuse, Florida, Clemson, and Mississippi State, it appears Alabama may be the most interested in landing Kamara for the 2013 season–at least that’s what it seems like after they sent the junior running back 105 letters in the mail at once.
According to Keith Niebuhr of Rivals.com, Kamara recently found 105 letters from this year’s BCS Champions in the mail after coming home from school one day. Kamara obviously knows he’s one heck of a talented football player and he’s received plenty of letters over the years from numerous schools interested in bringing him on board, but even this many letters from one school came as a bit of a surprise for the running back.
From Niebuhr’s article:
“There were 105 letters from Alabama,” Kamara told Rivals.com.
Seriously?
“I counted!” Kamara said. “And I took pictures. I was shocked. I didn’t expect there to be that many in the mailbox. When I opened it, it was overflowing and some of them fell out.”
Kamara said he’s keeping all 105 of them in one shoebox.
And while he says hasn’t read them all – there were simply too many of them – he thinks he already knows the meaning behind the Tide’s mass mailing.
“It’s because they want me,” Kamara said.
It’s one thing to send a few letters to a recruit expressing interest in a player, but to send that many letters at once seems a little intense–especially for a school like Alabama. Then again, Alabama has won two National Championships over the last three seasons–so they’re obviously doing something right when it comes to recruiting players.
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