re: 2022 Recruiting Thread

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The two situations are not comparable.

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You're the one that made the comparison and asked the question.

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Is it really that baffling? It is almost as if recruits don't trust our program after what it has become

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I kind of don't understand this thinking. Its like overnight some of you feel we turned into Vandy or something. On a bad day we are still like the 5th or 6th best team in the SEC. The only schools def ahead right now are Bama, UGA, A&M and Florida.. anyone else is debatable.

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I don't know why anyone is surprised right now. I said this form day one. Recruiting is going to be absurdly slow until we actually play football.

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I have said similar. Anyone expecting some top level place in recruiting this cycle are setting themselves up.

It absolutely sucks, but I did not expect anything different than what is happening (hoped for different). I will expect to see improvements next year, and AU competing in the top 10 by Harsin's third cycle. I will be worried if we aren't by then.

KN had a post saying AU is real excited about the next 4 weeks in recruiting.

That's kind of what we've been hearing all along though. Alston, Story, MRD, McPherson and Robertson transferring in.

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Right, and nothing has happened, which means that we're obviously closing out this class with 3 signees. We've lost everyone else.

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I meant that as in that matches up with the news we've been hearing lately, that those players we're leaning towards us.

Who's over reacting here? No one has said we won't get any commits. We are reading the tea leaves and it looks like we will finish outside the top 20 for a second straight year. That puts you in South Caroliina, Mississippi State area.

Auburn should be top 6 in the conference year over year just by being Auburn University.

As fans we don't mind some 3 star project players. I actually think we will be pleasantly surprised in a couple years by Powell Gordon. Problem is Powell Gordon might be your starter and not just a special teamer or a 15 snaps a game player.

What it reminds me of right now is the Bret Bielema hire at Arkansas. Bret was/is probably a very good coach just a cultural fish out of water in the SEC.

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Who's over reacting here? No one has said we won't get any commits. We are reading the tea leaves and it looks like we will finish outside the top 20 for a second straight year. That puts you in South Caroliina, Mississippi State area.

Auburn should be top 6 in the conference year over year just by being Auburn University.

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How are you NOT overreacting by basically giving up on a recruiting class before they've even played a single game. Before they've even showcased anything. It's literally a chicken-shite reaction.

Do me a favor and go look at where Florida State was ranked last season in Mike Norvell's first recruiting class and where they're currently ranked in his 2nd this year. What happened? Why weren't they pulling in stars last year? Did he all of a sudden go from not knowing how to recruit at all, to being an elite recruiter? Or do you think that there is an obvious, common sense answer?

Ok Done. they signed 16 players and then took 10 transfers. Look at the schools the transfers came from compared to where our transfers came from. All came from P5 schools except for McKenzie Milton which is a dark horse heisman hopeful.

It's a message board to discuss Auburn football. Geez calm down. If you can't see this class setting up to be a complete failure then you are the one with your head in the sand. Who gives a flip if it's first year or not. We are Auburn the expectations are to compete for championships. Every coach says it, every administrator, every fan. Like I said at the hiring of Harsin the one thing I don't want to hear about is it will take time. Everyone agreed then we had talent to win now. So chill out sorry people disagree with you. Hell half the people on here disagree with every post I make. It aint about you or me. The people you are calling overreacting and chicken littles are just going off what they see. We can't say next year we will be in the top 2 or where ever because we see no evidence of that being remotely correct. Plus norvell has his highest rated player committed since March of 2020 the number 2 player in the country.

here is the take on harsin and recruiting on recruiting from the insider on another board. take it with a grain os salt of book mark it.

" Just want to say one thing here about recruiting. Don't get caught up in the hype that these pay sites like Rivals and 247 are saying, the negative on the recruiting. These sites have been cut off by Harsin and it's become sour grapes. Just like the coaching search, recruiting isn't in the tanks. It's 10x more organized and run like a well oiled business now. Like the other schools we are up against. This will spill over to on and off field results here very shortly. I'd be very surprised if it didn't.

Sure Harsin and staff are behind on this class. We all knew they would be. Gus and his band of idiots left us in a bad place. OL, DL. Sure it going to be an uphill battle this year. But I'm told we are about to see some kids pull the trigger. So be patient. "

Aubierawks sounds like some "insider" bullshite WDE would say. Trust me he has no inside sources. He's been wrong on almost every prediction he's ever made.

Like I have said before Biscuits is the only one there that has some contact to the coaches.