re: 2015 Auburn Football Recruiting Thread

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I'm sorry this is a bs excuse. It's not like garner is new to the sec and these recruits. This is simply moving the goalpost because it was only one year needed to build relationship when Rocker first got here.

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It's not BS. It's reality whether you want to believe it or not. He was in fact new to a lot of the recruits he has to bring in for AU's 4 man front as opposed to UGA's 3 man front. For the most part you recruit different kinds of DL for a 4 man base front to a 3 man base which is what Garner was under at UGA. The only DL that translates to both styles is the nose guard in the 3 man front to a 0 technique DT in a 4 man front. While at UGA Garner was likely not establishing relationships with guys that would be DEs and the 3 technie DT in a 4 man front D. An example of a top AU DL target in this class that was not a DL target at UGA is D'Andre Walker. He's is a smaller guy out of HS that draws comparison's to Dee Ford out of HS. AU wants DW at DE while if UGA was recruiting him when Garner was there it would have been LB and Garner likely was not the recruiter. As it is now UGA is recruiting him as a hybrid LB/DE but my bet is Pruitt is just tell him that to try to land DW as he wants to play DE not LB.