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Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:04 am to AA7
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:04 am to AA7
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Sources: Auburn executes major coup, nabs top executive Will Redmond from LSU LINK … via
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Looks like we got a high ranking player personnel guy from LSU
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Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:12 am to jangalang
Hugh is getting serious about roster management in the NIL/Portal world.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:18 am to aubiecat
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Hugh Freeze is making big-boy moves heading into Year 2 at Auburn.
And Freeze's gain is yet another loss for Brian Kelly and LSU.
Multiple sources tell FootballScoop that Freeze and the Auburn Tigers are plucking away Will Redmond from LSU to become Auburn's brand-new general manager of football.
The reigning FootballScoop Director of Player Personnel of the Year, Redmond has in short order become one of the top personnel executives in all of college football..
The Scoop - Wednesday January 24, 2024
Scott Roussel
He's the off-the-field architect of LSU's roster overhaul under Kelly and was the lead scout on Jayden Daniels when the Tigers recruited the former Arizona State quarterback out of the NCAA Transfer Portal.
Moreover, it was the work of Redmond -- and a top-notch staff he helped hire -- that accelerated LSU's rebound under Kelly.
The Bayou Bengals had fewer than 40 scholarship players when Kelly arrived in late 2021 after he had established the mark as Notre Dame's all-time winningest coach; work in the Portal and on the traditional recruiting trail helped LSU turn in consecutive 10-win seasons in Kelly's first two years and also saw the Tigers appear in the 2022 SEC Championship game.
Redmond's move to Auburn, however, could be viewed as quite literally generations in the making.
A Franklin, Tennessee, native, who climbed from sports information student-assistant at the University of Tennessee to deeply experienced personnel professional, Redmond's grandparents first met at Auburn -- even before the school was known as Auburn University.
Moreover, Redmond has a cousin who is a former NCAA Champion with a star denoting the stellar career on the Auburn campus.
In addition to Redmond's undergraduate work on Rocky Top, he also logged time at MTSU and Kansas before Austin Thomas plucked him away from the Jayhawks to help run LSU's personnel efforts.
LSU in the past two years signed 247Sports Composite top-7 classes, and as Redmond prepared for his exit from one of the SEC's three sets of Tigers to another one, LSU already garnered commitments from the top-ranked quarterback, running back and wideout, per some industry rankings, in the 2025 class.
Redmond and his wife, Jessica, have two children.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:20 am to jangalang
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He's the off-the-field architect of LSU's roster overhaul under Kelly and was the lead scout on Jayden Daniels when the Tigers recruited the former Arizona State quarterback out of the NCAA Transfer Portal.
Good. Hopefully that’ll help Hugh not get another dud QB from the portal.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:26 am to jangalang
Boom.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:27 am to jangalang
Needed this guy earlier in the year, but good hire. There has to be GM oversight of the roster at this stage of NIL and transfer portal.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:39 am to sbr2
I don't know what is happening with RW but when Chex led with this story Saban was still at Alabama. Saban retired and lots of players left, freeing up lots of NIL money. Alabama was in a frenzy and Chex continued to piss on the Gump anthill and it was great entertainment whether RW signs with Bama us or anybody else. And you knuckleheads want to ban him from this board? Come on man...
This post was edited on 1/24/24 at 8:40 am
Posted on 1/24/24 at 9:14 am to jangalang
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Scott Roussel
An interesting tidbit about him. He owns Football Scoop.com - lives in Baton Rouge - and has a daughter that attends Auburn
Posted on 1/24/24 at 9:18 am to Auburntiger
He seems to romanticize Auburn a lot. I imagine he is a closet Auburn fan.
His article on "the most interesting team on the radio" was great.
See my topics I shared to find that story if you never got to read.
His article on "the most interesting team on the radio" was great.
See my topics I shared to find that story if you never got to read.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 9:34 am to jangalang
Sounds like Redmond could be another great hire.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:10 am to jangalang
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He seems to romanticize Auburn a lot. I imagine he is a closet Auburn fan.
I know he's pretty well connected with the athletic department at Auburn - that makes sense
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:14 am to Auburntiger
LSU fans think we hired a coffee bitch
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:24 am to jangalang
quote:this is how you know we got a good one
LSU fans think we hired a coffee bitch
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:26 am to auzach91
quote:I hate to admit that I looked at a high school player's Twitter likes, but they're public, sooooo
It’s not just this visit. It’s everything. If he’s trolling them he’ll be my favorite player of all time, I just don’t see it. At all.
Anyway based on that he's 1,000% Bama
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:26 am to TheSandman
I mean yall are trolling about an off field hire. Think yall are getting a little too excited from it.
People got fired up when Harsin hired that one GM in his second year with the same articles written about him. I never heard that guys name again and can’t even remember what it was now.
People got fired up when Harsin hired that one GM in his second year with the same articles written about him. I never heard that guys name again and can’t even remember what it was now.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:31 am to Weagle25
we want to think we have a shot at RW. It seems kind of obvious that ship has sailed. I hate we missed on him, but that happens.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:34 am to MrAUTigers
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we want to think we have a shot at RW. It seems kind of obvious that ship has sailed. I hate we missed on him, but that happens.
Unless you believed Chex before then nothing has changed.
As long as he takes the OV then I think we have a shot but we’ll see.
This post was edited on 1/24/24 at 10:34 am
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:36 am to Weagle25
Not gonna lie, I would love for RW to troll the shite out of Bama, but I think he is being transparent and that is trolling the shite out of everyone. 
He’s a special talent but we can always hope for him to transfer to AU another day.
He’s a special talent but we can always hope for him to transfer to AU another day.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:37 am to Weagle25
It wasn't just Chex. When RW decommitted from bama, Auburn was the hot name for the flip from the national guys.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:41 am to Weagle25
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mean yall are trolling about an off field hire. Think yall are getting a little too excited from it.
This dude was getting recognition for being one of the best before we ever got him. Hiring great staffers is a good thing lol
This post was edited on 1/24/24 at 10:42 am
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