It didn’t take long for Jamal Brooks and Aubrey Miller to click on July 23 during Missouri’s Night at the Zou camp.
“I really don’t know why,” Brooks said. “I just remember going to the Night at the Zou camp and (Tigers defensive coordinator DeMontie) Cross telling me Aubrey was the other linebacker he really wanted.”
Brooks remembers Cross saying, “You and him together would be perfect.”
Brooks, a Rivals three-star inside linebacker from Bessemer (Ala.) City High, introduced himself to Miller, a three-star outside linebacker from Whitehaven High in Memphis.
During the next six months, an epic recruiting bromance between “The Bash Brothers” — a nickname bestowed by a Tigers’ staffer during a photo session at the camp — was forged.