re: FYI: Best Auburn Recruiting Thread on the internet, updated 24/7...

Auburn's JaQuay Williams:

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@BMatt247: RT @JWilliamssss: Its bout 7 college coaches a day coming by the school trying to talk me out of going to Auburn.

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Donald Hawkins Is a new Offensive lineman we're recruiting he was in Auburn for the Iron Bowl and Grimes visited him today.

Damn, that's a huge guy. I wonder where we would play him.

From AL.com

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AUBURN, Alabama -- Three Auburn coaches visited Hueytown quarterback prospect Jameis "Jaboo" Winston Sunday night, indicating that a shaky season has pushed the Tigers back in the hunt for another quarterback and the school's self-imposed recruiting restrictions on Winston are apparently no longer in effect.

Winston, a two-sport standout who has committed to play football for Florida State and is also a top major league baseball prospect, was once a target for Auburn. But the Tigers were forced to curtail their recruitment of Winston after coaches made inadvertent contact with him during the 2010 "Tiger Prowl."

Auburn then got a commitment from top Kentucky quarterback prospect Zeke Pike and was thought to be done recruiting quarterbacks, including Winston.

That apparently changed after the Tigers concluded their season with a 42-14 loss to rival Alabama on Saturday, ending a year in which the Tigers were one of the nation's least productive teams, finishing 104th nationally in total offense.

Antonor Winston, the quarterback's father, told The Birmingham News Tuesday his family hosted Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzhan, running backs coach and recruiting coordinator Curtis Luper and receivers coach and assistant head coach Trooper Taylor from about 7 to 10 Sunday night.

"They were apologetic over how everything went down," Antonor Winston said. "They apologized about how Jameis got caught in that (Tiger Prowl) situation and how it all came about how they could not recruit him for so long."

Documents released to the media earlier this month under Alabama's open-records law detailed secondary violations during Tiger Prowl, a coaches' caravan used during the 2009 and 2010 spring evaluation periods. The documents list self-imposed penalties, including limits on the recruitment of Winston.

"We have imposed a 60-day period...of no off-campus contact...beginning with the off-campus contact period in November of 2011," said the letter to SEC Commissioner Mike Slive from Auburn attorney William King. "Therefore, the football staff will not be able to make off-campus contact with (Winston) until late January 2012."

That changed Sunday with the visit from Malzahn, Taylor and Luper.

While Winston's name is largely redacted from the documents, the context makes it clear that he is the prospect in question.

It's not clear what has changed since then with the self-imposed restrictions. Asked to clarify the apparent discrepancy, an Auburn spokesman declined to comment, saying the school could not discuss prospective student-athletes.

What is clear is that Auburn remains interested in signing Winston, a leading candidate for the 2011 Alabama Sports Writers Association's "Mr. Football" honor and one of the nation's most coveted quarterbacks.

Winston's father called it a "full-force" recruiting pitch Sunday.

The 6-foot-4, 199-pound athlete completed almost 70 percent of his passes this fall for 2,424 yards and 28 touchdowns. Winston also ran 144 times for 1,065 yards and 15 touchdowns. He averaged 7.4 yards per rushing attempt for a 13-1 team that was beaten by Vigor in the Class 5A semifinals last Friday.

Antonor Winston said Auburn head coach Gene Chizik told him to expect a visit in early 2012.

"He told me that he'd make a visit to see us in January," Winston said. "He would come in with the last wave in January 2012."

Winston's father said the family is "making sure they made the right decision" to make a verbal commitment to Florida State in August. He said his son was still "strongly committed" to FSU, but it was such a big decision it was worth considering other schools.

Alabama, LSU and Stanford are considered in the mix with Auburn, as they were in the spring, the elder Winston said. He said his son would also wait to see who new Ohio State coach Urban Meyer selects as his quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator before deciding whether to add the Buckeyes to that list.

Auburn has three quarterbacks on its current roster in junior Barrett Trotter, sophomore Clint Moseley and freshman Kiehl Frazier. Pike is seeking to enroll in January and participate in spring practice.

But Auburn's offensive woes, as well as possible off-the-field problems involving Pike, may have forced the Tigers to take a closer look at the quarterback position.

Trotter won the starting job in August, but relinquished it to Moseley in mid-October. Frazier played sporadically as a wildcat option, but all three struggled for large parts of the season.

Pike was suspended twice during his senior year at Dixie Heights High School near his home in Fort Mitchell, Ky. He missed Dixie Heights' only playoff game

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I still have hope for Frazier. I'm not gonna judge him off very few passes in set packages as a freshman

I never understood his utilization this year. Why didn't AU let him throw the ball some? UF ran Tebow a ton in '06 much like AU did Frazier this year. However, they would run it 8 times in a row with Tebow, then let him do a PA pass, and he would complete it for a ton of yardage because nobody would be within 15 yds of the WR. I think AU should have done something similar with Frazier. JMO.

Anyone wanna put odds on us getting Winston?

We tried that and it got picked off. I think they told him who he had to thrw it to, no reads just throw it to a certain guy no matter what. He then proceeded to stare the man down and throw a pick.

I'd say 15%

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TTsTowel

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Sup bro..

Who you want for QB next yr?