pdfield34

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Both the idea of losing talent, and the reality that these players don’t care about the fans or university…

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Hopefully the movement will settle down after a few years and after a lot of players get burned.

I'm not sure who could resist the idea of an extra $50K - $250K simply to change schools.

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Looks like M Simmons was downgraded to a 3* on on3. He wont like his offers.

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Seems like he would kill it at UGA.

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The key is being to actually identify, coach up, and successfully use that talent (and then retain it).

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There is no identification. The guys have been identified by everyone with as much success has you are ever going to have for the at least the last 20 years.

Just name the teams and years that have consistently competed for championships with high 3 stars.

To have success, defined by winning championships, you amass as much 4 and 5 star talent as you can, then provide coaching that doesn't screw them up. Talent level trumps everything else.

This is not debatable as all you have to do is look at results.

LOL at anyone who thinks Saban UA and UGA 4 and 5 stars were all hard workers who never got the rules bent for them.

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All these star ratings don’t mean a thing if it doesn’t translate to the field.

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Obviously, star ratings don't mean anything after the fact.

But it has been proven over and over and over that star ratings (potential) from high school are really the only thing that matters in terms of seriously winning.

At some point you have to pay big time for potential and star ratings are an excellent gauge actual impact.

Either the staff will bring in 4 and 5 star depth at QB, OT, Edge, OLB, and CB or they will be getting paid a workable buy out in 3 years.

Hard to believe they wouldn't be aware of this.

There will be no avoiding awkward financial situations with 4 and 5 star busts.

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Good not elite?

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Just thrilled to death that DJ is going over and above to do what he thinks is upgrading the staff.

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Just trying to understand it all.

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The guy knows and can coach QBs. And he took great advantage of the portal, - something that was not possible in the past.

With that in 2024 he became better than a lot of really, really bad teams on his schedule.

Two good and clutch wins in 2025 - credit to him.

But you can't overlook that down the stretch, IU played:
Michigan State, UCLA, Maryland, Penn State, Wisconsin and Purdue.
These teams are really, really bad.

Cignetti doesn't suck and he knows QBs, and most other coaches suck.
No miracles here. Pretty similar to Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss.

Byrum Brown get your arse to Auburn!

Thank you Auburn.

This is so satisfying.

Years of mediocrity and lackluster hires -

Jack Crowe
Frank Orgle
Tommy Bowden
John Lovett
Noel Mazzone
Hugh Nall
Tony Franklin
Ted Roof
Scott Leffler
Brian Van Gorder
Chip Lindsay
Derek Mason
Eric Keisau
Ron Roberts
Philip Montgomery
Hugh Freeze

A few good ones along the way but

Auburn could always do so much better.

Numerous people have reported that Cohen knew Golesh was a lock to say yes from early in the process.

Sumrall was not Cohen's favorite - but sure, he would have gone along with the Troy area crew.

Florida saves the day by going all in for Sumrall and Sumrall complies wonderfully! Even though the UF people hate him.

I'm sure it would have been an agonizing decision if DJ would have won.

But he didn't and that opened the door for Golesh.

Given Ole Miss was in limbo and Scott Stricklin was lusting after Sumrall,
Golesh would probably always be available. So why in the world would you do anything before the Iron Bowl and at minimum create a giant distraction?

This in no way implies that Golesh was always Cohen's absolute #1 choice. But he was always more than acceptable. The guy just blows some other candidates away as far as intelligence.