Bama commit may visit The U and Nick's not happy

Anything can happen in the final crazy days of recruiting.

Certainly that's what UM is banking on when it comes to Powder Springs (Ga.) McEachern High School WR Tyler Simmons.

An Alabama commitment, the Canes worked tirelessly this month to land a visit from the 3-star prospect. Now that might just come to fruition.

"It's still in the air - I'll know tomorrow," Simmons told CaneSport Thursday night.

He was planning to take the visit ... but then 'Bama coaches got wind of it.

"Alabama came to the house today and talked about it," Simmons said."You know how they are when somebody's committed tand aking a visit. They're pissed off."

So now it's wait and see.

If he does go ahead and visit Mark Richt has a chance to work his magic and win over a recruit from 'Bama.

Asked if the Canes have a chance to land him in just a few days, Simmons said, "That's why I'm going out there. I don't know much about it other than what they've told me. I have to see it for myself."

Cane coaches have told him plenty so far. He says they stay in daily contact, and Richt took an in-home visit with him a week ago.

"He was saying how they're going to run stuff there, that they're trying to change the program around, make it moreso the old Miami, how the old Miami was winning, make it a winning program," Simmons said. "He told me he'll be running the offense how he did at Florida State and when he first got to Georgia, that they only have five wide receivers on scholarship right now, have a need for receivers, that I have great chance coming in there and playing."

Thomas Brown and Ron Dugans also visited Simmons.

"They were talking about me coming and seeing the campus and everything," Simmons said. "I know coach Brown from when he was recruiting me to Georgia, and I first met coach Dugans heading into my junior year at a camp."

Of where his recruitment stands overall, Simmons said, "I'm mainly committed to Alabama right now, but I'm looking at Miami. And Georgia is still heavily recruiting me too (he visited there officially earlier this month), so we'll see how that goes."

Simmons says ... assuming he goes ahead with the visit plans ... that he'll take the UM trip with his father and stepmother.

CaneSport's Take

There probably wouldn't be a better stamp on Mark Richt's first recruiting class than stealing away an Alabama commitment on signing day. Well, fans can dream about that for now. Let's see if he visits first...