TUSCALOOSA | It's been three years since the reality about the level of football talent at the University of Alabama hit its fan base like a cold splash of water. Three years since an entire National Football League Draft came and went without a single player from the Capstone hearing his name called. Three years since players like Wallace Gilberry, D.J. Hall and Simeon Castille - each an All-Southeastern Conference talent - nevertheless carried the Crimson Tide's flickering NFL torch as undrafted free agents.
Three years later, Alabama football is expected to occupy three first-round NFL Draft choices for only the second time in school history.
Marcell Dareus, Julio Jones and Mark Ingram represent a complete turnaround for Alabama's contributions to the NFL Draft that began as soon as UA coach Nick Saban arrived at the Capstone.
"The thing about Alabama, what they do there, they recruit good players, and they make them even better because of the coaching job they do," said NFL.com senior analyst Gil Brandt, who helped build some of the greatest Dallas Cowboys teams in franchise history during 30 years as vice president of player personnel. "Alabama fell down there for awhile. In fact one year they didn't even have a player drafted. They have some real good younger players there, the Richardson kid and Mark Barron. They get the right players, but they also know how to prepare them to be better players."
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