No. Bama went after Riley, Malik, Robby and Wayne Hard. Riley was their top TE target and the #2 TE in the nation when he commited. And Saban wanted Robby real bad, made multiple pushes to flip him . Saban wanted 2 Wrs from South FL: Robby and Innis. Wayne was also one of his top targets at DE and Popo as well for LB. All of those guys were #1 options for Bama and of course Bama being Bama they turned to "Plan B" kids that were also elite.
Had Mario not been here most of those dudes would have been Bama bound and they would have probably been top 100-150 players in the nation. Wayne would be a 5
️ DE right now for example.These were the exact battles that we have been losing to Bama since forever. Now because we are winning them it is not because these were plan b kids for Saban.