Recruiting watch

It's summer and that means the college football recruiting news picks up in terms of evaluation and ranking of prospects going into the season.

It's also the time of the year when you see which schools are hitting Louisiana the hardest.

In recent years, Ole Miss has been a big player in the state with several early offers to Louisiana players.

The Rebels have some company this year. Joining Ole Miss in recruiting Louisiana heavily is Alabama, which should come as no surprise since Nick Saban recruited the state just three years ago for LSU.

The question that won't be answered for awhile is just how much or little success Saban and Alabama will have here?

But much like Ole Miss in the recent past and Colorado and Florida State in the distant past, Alabama is very much apart of the Louisiana football recruiting scene.