Auburn has pulled in 1 great class. LSU/Bama/UF consistently pull in classes like that EVERY year. Auburn needs top 5 classes 3 or 4 years in a row before they will have the talent that UF/Bama/LSU have.

Our enrolled recruiting rankings over the last 4 years on Rivals have been:
2007 - #4
2008 - #10
2009 - #2
2010 - #4
Current Class:
2011 - #3

Florida's has been:
2007 - #1
2008 - #3
2009 - #10
2010 - #2
Current Class:
2011 - #9

Bama's has been:
2007 - #10
2008 - #1
2009 - #1
2010 - #5
Current Class:
2011 - #2

Auburn's has been:
2007 - #7
2008 - #20
2009 - #19
2010 - #6
Current Class:
2011 - #16

Usually a team will need their top 50 players to get through a season. These are the guys that will play and letter on the football team. Players 23-50 will provide the depth and special teams play that come into play in late season conference games and close games. While I think Auburn has a starting 22 good enough to compete with anyone, you still don't have 23-50 to compete for a championship. JMHO.

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Posted by MattP598

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Posted on 9/28/10 at 1:07 pm to XbengalTiger

Ok so with all that talent why can't you pass for over 100 yards a game?

And Chizik has only had 1 full recruiting period. Why are you comparing him to several years of recruiting?

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Posted by Aubie83

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Posted on 9/28/10 at 1:26 pm to XbengalTiger

quote:
Auburn has pulled in 1 great class.

In all fairness the current class is only Chizik's second class at Auburn that he has been in control of...therefore this is only the second year we have had a HC that is focused on recruiting....

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Posted by TTsTowel

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Posted on 9/28/10 at 3:45 pm to XbengalTiger

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XbengalTiger

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Auburn has pulled in 1 great class.

quote:
2010 - #6

And that was the first full class Chizik has had. He hasn't been there as long as Saban, Miles, Meyer, etc..

And as far as us being 16th right now, we haven't landed many of our talented players yet.