re: 2022 Recruiting Thread

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You baffle me...you have decent posts, then 'bam' you derail it all with 'negative' comments...

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There is nothing to be baffled by, I'll lay it out for you:

He's an Auburn fan who obviously got way too emotionally attached to Gus Malzahn, to the point that he swayed too far from "Auburn football" itself. That led to him spending years defending a failing coach. After that coach was rightfully fired, the ego is put under attack because one is challenged to come to grips with having to admit to themselves that they were wrong after all those years of blind support. The other option is to feint being an "Auburn fan" while secretly hoping that the new coach fails. This option pleases and protects the ego, because if the new coach does in fact fail, then the individual was never "wrong" in the first place; in fact their years of foolishly defending a failing coach are confirmed! "See, I told you all along that Gus Malzahn was great and we were wrong to chase him away!". The ego naturally gravitates to this option when one's own reputation/competency is put into question.

This "group" would rather be proven "right" and die on the molehill of "Gus Malzahn was a great Auburn coach who we'll regret firing", than shift gears and admit they were wrong after all these years and choose to get excited and support a new coach and new vision for Auburn football. That's why he literally can't prevent himself from finding any little thing to complain about. This was an incredibly easy exercise during the expected slow start to recruiting, but now that recruiting is stabilizing back to normalcy and trending back upwards - he's forced into shifting the goal posts and reaching to find things to paint Harsin's staff as failures for; like what you just witnessed where he's trying to find a failure in the fact that we "only" have 8 commitments and not the "predicted" 11, even though we're literally going to pick up another commit in 2 days (Albert), and potentially Drew Bobo right after that. Oh no! The "predictions" were off by ~1-2 weeks! Harsin sucks!

The most ironic part of this saga is that while these Gus Bus clowns were yucking it up and going on about our "recruiting failure", they failed to realize that their golden-boy hasn't picked up a commitment in almost a full month. UCF is stuck at the same amount of commits as we currently have (and they're about to get passed), and Gus hasn't even been able to out-recruit Sonny Dykes and SMU in the AAC. But wait, I thought this was one "one of the best recruiters in the country" (CorchJay literally described Malzahn as such in a different thread recently) who carried the hype of being a proven SEC head coach, moving down in level/competition to UCF - a school that realistically should be the crown-jewel of the AAC. Shouldn't Gus Malzahn be dominating recruiting in that conference by now? What's going on there? Isn't it interesting that Bryan Harsin coming into a completely different geographical region with no connections and no recruiting visits taking place due to COVID doesn't get a "pass", but Gus Malzahn with all his advantages and name-brand luster who moved to a school within the same region he already coached/recruited in, hasn't even been able to do what these clowns have literally been spending months ragging on Harsin about? Isn't Gus Malzahn literally recruiting the same players/schools that he would have been recruiting for years now at Auburn? So what is HIS excuse? He should already have a pre-established relationship with the high schools he's recruiting and should already be a "known commodity" to all those players. Is he bleaching his hair because he's already finding out that he can't recruit without the 'Auburn Tigers' name brand to sell?