re: 2023 Recruiting

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What's the deal with M'Ba?

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Not giving up on him just yet. He has the tools to be another Nick Fairley. And Fairley wasn’t Fairley until his final season. M’ba is still learning the game.

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I said it before; the JUCO success rate is pretty damn bad.

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Yes but you can not ignore it. Our best seasons over the past 15 years are because of JUCO

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The Prep School route is completely dead as well,

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IMG is doing pretty well still


But I do agree with your direction and I think with the portal, you should spend more time and money there. But you cant just ignore the historical places to get easy talent

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Yes but you can not ignore it. Our best seasons over the past 15 years are because of JUCO

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Yeah, but those were two guys that were kicked off premier SEC teams and were forced to go to JUCO lol. Cam Newton was a 5-star out of HS. There is a big difference between that and evaluating a highly ranked JUCO recruit today who was an unranked player out of HS.

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IMG is doing pretty well still

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I was more-so talking about the practice of good HS players who had terrible grades and couldn't qualify being able to go to places like Hargrave Military for 1-year to fix their transcripts. IMG is more of a full 4-year HS for their elite recruits, it's not known as a place where kids with horrible grades go to become eligible.

And that's the whole point I was making: most kids who are good enough to be recruited by us are going to have good enough grades to qualify into Auburn out of HS in today's climate. That wasn't always the case, as before the JUCO's used to get a lot of legitimately great talent who had horrendous transcripts and couldn't get in anywhere out of HS.

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Auburn coaches will be out in FULL FORCE tonight.

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They better be. We have to take advantage of our bye week, because we're already down on some prospects that we were contending for

They better not slip-up on this

Edit: Looks like Rueben Bain might commit to Miami, but there's a slight chance we may get him

Looks like Tyler Scott will go to Tennessee (Wiltfong predicted this and he's almost always spot on)

Hope we can use this bye week to our advantage

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Hopefully the kids commit to the school and not the coach....

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Agreed

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Edit: Looks like Rueben Bain might commit to Miami, but there's a slight chance we may get him

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Might commit when? What are you reading?

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Looks like Tyler Scott will go to Tennessee (Wiltfong predicted this and he's almost always spot on)

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He put this in a week ago at medium confidence. Since then, Oklahoma and USC have offered. Bama offered last week.

Looks like he’s going to keep his recruitment open a while. Wiltfong is nails when the decision is soon. His record is pretty clean because he almost always changed his CB when he’s wrong

As of the last month, AU has felt very confident.

To write him off to Miami is just premature.

Trying to figure out if I’ve missed something new or not. Bain’s whole family is connected to Miami. Dad went there. Brother is on the staff. They’re gonna be a factor no matter what

Well said

As long as Caddy stays, I’m not worried about Cobb.