re: Tony Barbee has been fired

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Auburn is in a good recruiting spot. They can raid the heck out of Atlanta with the right guy. Solid players come out of Alabama all the time as well.

No reason that program can't be a solid one.

Get a coach who gets up and down the floor that let's his players play. Run baby run. Screw trying to play in sets and scoring 50-60 a game.

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Auburn's in a horrible position. While geographically we are in a good spot overall we are in a bad one. UA is a problem as well as the AAU ban that is causing issues and the fact our AD doesn't understand every basketball program out there is dirty period end of story, if you want to run a clean basketball program you are going to have to accept the fact you will suck.

Coaching change threads on this board tend to be pretty civil overall for some reason.

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Auburn's in a horrible position. While geographically we are in a good spot overall we are in a bad one. UA is a problem as well as the AAU ban that is causing issues and the fact our AD doesn't understand every basketball program out there is dirty period end of story, if you want to run a clean basketball program you are going to have to accept the fact you will suck.

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You make it out to be worse than it is in reality, going to Nike isn't going to fix the problems.

What Auburn has to realize is there is not quick fix for Auburn, yes, some major programs can sign talent good enough to turn things around in less than 3 years, but Auburn is not one of these programs.

Arkansas had a AAU issue, Nolan wouldn't play their games, got into it with a HS in the process, and as a result players were steered to programs other than Arkansas, mainly Ole Miss.

Nolan went out and got athletes from other areas (Louisiana, Texas, Kansas City, etc) who were as good if not better than the instate guys but did not have the AAU baggage. If the recruiting rankins existed back then he would have replaced instate 4*s with out of state 2-3*s, the talent was as good and perfect for what he wanted to do, Arkansas was a solid tourney team, other issues held them back after 96, mainly a witch hunt by the NCAA.

Look at our roster, Clarke is a very good player who never should of gotten out of Alabama, either Bama or Auburn should have got him from Birmingham. Jacory Williams is a great athlete who should develop into a solid player by his junior year, again taken from Birmingham.

Birmingham, Atlanta, and Florida are good enough talent pools for Auburn to find players good enough to make it to the tourney and be a solid contender without having to play the AAU games of the highly rated players.

It will take coaching, but Auburn isn't a place where recruiting is 90% of the job like Kentucky, Duke, UNC, Kansas, etc.