re: 2022 Recruiting Thread

Meta four is correct here. Nothing to add other than I didn’t think he’d pick Bama over Auburn. That being said, I could see him switch it still

Told y’all if Bama offered he was gone. Our recruiting sucks arse.

So we put eggs in the basket for Quick and haven’t even contacted Finkley. Makes sense.

And when Perry commits to somewhere besides AU and Finkley goes to Texas we gonna keep saying the chicken littles just are roaming everywhere.

Can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shite.

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and haven’t even contacted Finkley

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I gotta admit this has bothered me from the moment I found out. He's going to be a REALLY good player for someone.

Finkley has been my biggest want in this class for 3 years. Reminds me of Carl Lawson. Maybe a little more motor then Carl just a hair slower top end speed. Finkley could also give you snaps inside as well in a crunch. Negative for both is length but as a college player Carl was great when healthy.

What concerns me is how picky we are being and we don't have shite in either hand at this point.

I don’t think we are being picky I just don’t think we have good recruiters as a whole. Bobo and Friend are good. I expect we will get some OL. We already have our QB. Caddie has shown he’s very average on the trail. Any running back should be climbing over other recruits to play for AU. WR recruiting has been worse then OL considering the amount of 4 stars out there. Eason although a likable guy once players get to know him hasn’t been a recruiter and I suspect will jump to the NFL at the first sold offer. The other coaches on the beat know that. Same can be said for Mason they can even use his own words against him on the trail he said when he got to AU he was wanting to get back to the NFL. C. Will has us in line to get maybe a 40ish ranked WR and possibly a couple in the 70’s range. The rest of the recruiters are just unknown commodities in the southeast.

With all that being said we better win this year. 2 crap classes will not go far at all in year 4 and 5. Doesn’t matter what kind of culture and development comes with these coaches. I like the out of the box hire but you better bring in some salesmen early then bring you old crew with you after getting established some. No expert out there is predicting us to have a top 20 class this year. We didn’t have a top 20 class last year except for Tennessee fricking up and in getting Brooks to prop up the class some.

I will just leave the question here. With 20th ranked classes even if Harsin and crew turn out to be great X’s and O’s Teachers which of the following teams will we beat once much less regularly… LSU, aTm, Bammer, UGA, UF?

My hope is once one picks us others follow. If not, I think Harsin will start to hear how unreasonable Auburn fans are.

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I don’t think we are being picky I just don’t think we have good recruiters as a whole.

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Then explain the transfer portal success. Or do you believe they know how to recruit transfers, but not HS kids...for some reason? Juxtapose us doing extremely well in the transfer portal vs. Tennessee which lost half their team, and then look at HS recruiting where Tennessee is loading up on low 3-stars while we seemingly "can't get a commit from anyone". We literally cancelled the OV of a WR who was about to commit a few weeks ago. They are, in fact, being selective and this is expected to be a small class. The Emory Floyd kid went to USCar because they put priority on him and we didn't. Some of this is also going to come down to accepting that perhaps they aren't recruiting the players that you want them to recruit.

It's really not going as bad as it "appears", I promise. Lost in the shuffle is that 4* RB Damari Alston is looking more and more likely every day, on top of Riley-Ducker, Story, Pollard, McPherson, etc.