SMU football started spring practice Tuesday, and it ended with an exciting bonus.
2017 Fort Worth (Texas) Timber Creek offensive tackle Alan Ali committed to SMU Tuesday night, shortly after visiting for spring practice, he announced on his Twitter account.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Extremely excited and blessed to announce that I have committed SMU <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/PonyUpTempo?src=hash”>#PonyUpTempo</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/StangGang17?src=hash”>#StangGang17</a> <a href=”https://t.co/hPZdxHkKNf”>pic.twitter.com/hPZdxHkKNf</a></p>— Alan Ali (@Alan_Ali76) <a href=”https://twitter.com/Alan_Ali76/status/709889935478628352″>March 15, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
Tuesday was Ali’s second visit to SMU since Feb. 20. He is a three-star prospect and a top-50 prospect in Texas, per the 247Sports composite rankings.