re: 2018 Football Recruiting Thread -- Final OP Update Edition

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Not true

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Yes true numb nuts. We started every one of those OVs behind another team.

This is precisely why I didn't want to bring facts to your meltdown

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Disagree. Just because you have a bunch of 4*s doesn't necessarily make a good class

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LOL, go to talk to the other schools in the conference not named UGA and Bama.

We still have one more day, but OL recruiting is sort of disappointing. But I'm reminded that Grimes is back and we should see an improved offensive line next year. We have a lot of athletes at the skill positions and I'm still rolling the dice on Langham.

Not to some of those teams listed that it looks like they will sign with. So somebody closed from further back than us and passed us.

For example, nobody was talking about Langham signing with Florida when he was visiting. It was all "visit is great don't know if it will be enough to catch bama", "staff feels if we get him on campus we will get him to sign"... Now all the sudden he's trending Florida.

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or example, nobody was talking about Langham signing with Florida when he was visiting. It was all "visit is great don't know if it will be enough to catch bama"... Now all the sudden he's trending Florida.

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FWIW Bama insiders were saying before AU's OV that UF was the bigger threat. I will admit I thought it was bullshite but I guess not

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Just because you have a bunch of 4*s doesn't necessarily make a good class.

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Holy frick......


Other than missing on the OL (which is understandable given that the OL coach left), I'm not sure what there is to bitch about? Auburn will always be in that top 8-15 recruiting class ranking. We can win with those recruits.

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Winning is directly related to recruiting.

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Completely agree

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Clemson is very dimilar to AU and compare their jugernaut of a program

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Except they play in a much easier conference. They are 1-2 vs Bama just like we are over the past 3 years. They didn't look supremely more talented than us past 2 years, we just sucked offensively (so did they)

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No reason not to aspire to be that level of program and not be honest when we fail.

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I don't think anyone here is saying we shouldn't aspire to win championships. We are all pissed about how season ended

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This class is “good” not great.

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I really like this class. Sucks we whiffed at OT but overall I am happy with the talent we are bringing in

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We missed on our top targets at qb (fields), rb (see UGA), db, lb, and Oline.

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Fields only popped up on the radar until this past summer. We would not have pursued another QB until the mass QB exodus. I agree we probably should have gone after Fields earlier but he was an unknown when we landed Gatewood. We beat Bama out for top RB target. We whiffed at CB but hit on our top safety targets including stealing from Monday from Clemson. Michael Harris & Zakoby McClain were top targets at LB but we did miss on Channing Tindall/Quay Walker but not sure overall how that's a bad class. OL sucks, we all agree

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Being late to offer is something we have heard alot.

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Who outside of Langham have we been late to offer that you think we should have gotten in earlier on?

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I’m no insider but until we can do an honest assessment and stop the positive spin, we will not do better.

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Hate to bust your bubble but nothing we do on this message board has an affect. FWIW I don't mind reasonable discussion on class. Blind homerism & blind melting are equally annoying. This class has holes but it also has some big wins

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When the quality of play goes down, when we only have one rb that tge cosches play, our line fails to protect our qb, we will rrsslize the impact of sibpar recruiting.

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Did you have seizure writing this?

Of course recruiting mattesr. Part of reason AU blew the frick out of a bunch of teams this year is Gus has raised the talent bar at AU. Obviously frustrated by watching what both UGA & BAMA are doing but it's disingenuous to not also recognizes some of the successes in this class. We are having a disappointing finish but that doesn't null out the rest of the class which is strong

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Confidence on Tannor was at like 80% before we magically learned that he wasn't coming here, hence all the CB picks that were flooding our way. Now you want to pretend like we were actually "way behind" the whole time?

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You are drastically misrepresenting what I said to fits your narative. Boy! That's something new & refreshing for you. I never said "way behind". I just said behind. Never said nor implied how far behind. Yes we started that OV behind. We didn't even know if we would take him at the time for Pete's sake. None of the picks came before the OV, which is what we are discussing.

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You are playing revisionist history.

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No. You are just showing a severe lack of reading comprehension. Something that should not be a problem w/ someone of your intelligence.

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The staff pulled his offer because they thought they had him, they don't pull offers like that out of nowhere for no reason.

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Not even remotely relevant to the discussion we are having right now.

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We really dicked up this last month of recruiting, that's a fact. Don't know why some of you get so upset at that being pointed out.

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There is no disputing there have been some misses but some of your statement you have made to support this thesis is way off base wrong. That was our only point of contention.

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You're the only one getting your panties in a wad here. Well maybe a few others.

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The bammer recruiting thread is pretty melty. You'd think they're signing 3*. I'd love to get Langham and see Walker flip somewhere, preferably Tennesse, but I think he's all UGA.

just gotta get use to head scratchers with Gus whether it is playcalling, recruiting, personnel, etc.