Auburn recruiting update: Fifteen commitments, none are rated in the top 150 in the country, four are not rated, and none are ranked in the top 35 at their respective positions. That is exactly how it has been for the past four years. Unless you have the athletes on both sides of the ball you will not be successful, especially in the SEC. Just ask Al Borges.
Dee Finley, the Auburn High School safety committed to Florida. He is rated the No. 2 safety in the country. This is not taking care of your own backyard.
imatigerfan said:Auburn recruiting update: Fifteen commitments, none are rated in the top 150 in the country, four are not rated, and none are ranked in the top 35 at their respective positions. That is exactly how it has been for the past four years. Unless you have the athletes on both sides of the ball you will not be successful, especially in the SEC. Just ask Al Borges.
Dee Finley, the Auburn High School safety committed to Florida. He is rated the No. 2 safety in the country. This is not taking care of your own backyard.
Funny how we have one of the best defenses in the nation with our poor recruiting we've had.
Dee Finley probably won't go anywhere due to grades and attitude problems. There are also reports that he wants to get out of Auburn due to personal issues.
Maybe in three to four years Auburn will be the worst in the SEC, of course maybe it will turn out CTT is just good at finding under-developed talent, who knows. I do know Notre Dame always gets a top class, and they are still terrible, so it ain't everything.
With that being said, I do agree that having a top 3 class can't hurt, I just don't think all this recruiting is a deal breaker. Of course that is coming from the guy whose team is ranked 30 something.
kudzu said:
But...but...but...says the Auburnite...pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
imatigerfan said:But...but...but...says the Auburnite...pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
Oh my bad. I forgot that if one sport's columnist writes it then it must come to pass. I mean how could I be so stupid? I mean of course he can predict who will be good in 2008 and which recruiting classes are going to be best before the kids even enroll. My bad guys.
And to think, this coming from the people who scorned the media as soon as they said a bad thing about Saban. Yet now everyone jumps on board.
You think Auburn's class will even come close to Bama's? Let's not play stupid, something is wrong in Auburn. Tubby hasn't had this bad of a class since he's got to Auburn, lets not make excuses...lord knows we know some of the best. Now either Tubby isn't doing something right or Coach Saban is doing just that good. Take your pick.
imatigerfan said:You think Auburn's class will even come close to Bama's? Let's not play stupid, something is wrong in Auburn. Tubby hasn't had this bad of a class since he's got to Auburn, lets not make excuses...lord knows we know some of the best. Now either Tubby isn't doing something right or Coach Saban is doing just that good. Take your pick.
I would pick Saban is doing a good job. There is no doubt that this is not Auburn's best year for recruitment. I just don't think this is necessarily the end all be all like some people seem to think.
imatigerfan said:You think Auburn's class will even come close to Bama's? Let's not play stupid, something is wrong in Auburn. Tubby hasn't had this bad of a class since he's got to Auburn, lets not make excuses...lord knows we know some of the best. Now either Tubby isn't doing something right or Coach Saban is doing just that good. Take your pick.
I would pick Saban is doing a good job. There is no doubt that this is not Auburn's best year for recruitment. I just don't think this is necessarily the end all be all like some people seem to think.
It's the end alright,the end of an uneven playing field. With the recruiting Saban is going to do in the next couple years we will have the talent we have been lacking for several years. No more easy years ahead for tubs. The heats about to be turned up in barnerland
imatigerfan said:It's the end alright,the end of an uneven playing field. With the recruiting Saban is going to do in the next couple years we will have the talent we have been lacking for several years. No more easy years ahead for tubs. The heats about to be turned up in barnerland
See here is your fundamental problem: You seem to think that a good recruiting class, that has the potential to be a good team talent wise is all Alabama needs to become great. You think you have the recruits, you have the coach, and that good old tradishun. But the problem is, you have had talent in past years, and that didn't solve the problem. Yes, there are attitude problems and probation, and coaching changes, and that is my point. You don't know what is going to happen next year. A good recruiting class is just a small part of what it takes.
Look Saban is a great coach, I truly do believe that, and he has recruited some great players, that can't be doubted. But the SEC is full of great coaches, Miles, Meyer, Tubbs, Spurrier, Richt, and now old Bobby at Arkansas. That is not all there is. Does Bama have a chance to be a great team, sure, but God you talk about it like we all just ought to give up because Bama got themselves a coach so what point is there now. I mean C'mon. Everytime something new happens at Bama then I hear the heat is about to get turned up, but so far I'm still feeling pretty chilly.
Bamapossum said:I noticed that as well PC.
It is such a blatant piece of plagiarism that it should probably deserve a reprimand from an editor.
Since I live down here, maybe I'll drop off a couple of copies of Forde's article with the stolen items underined over at Tallapoosa Publishers. As a writer and a teacher of writing, I despise intellectual theft.
imatigerfan said:You think Auburn's class will even come close to Bama's? Let's not play stupid, something is wrong in Auburn. Tubby hasn't had this bad of a class since he's got to Auburn, lets not make excuses...lord knows we know some of the best. Now either Tubby isn't doing something right or Coach Saban is doing just that good. Take your pick.
I would pick Saban is doing a good job. There is no doubt that this is not Auburn's best year for recruitment. I just don't think this is necessarily the end all be all like some people seem to think.
bear facts said:Bamapossum said:I noticed that as well PC.
It is such a blatant piece of plagiarism that it should probably deserve a reprimand from an editor.
Since I live down here, maybe I'll drop off a couple of copies of Forde's article with the stolen items underined over at Tallapoosa Publishers. As a writer and a teacher of writing, I despise intellectual theft.
Don't even get me started. I have had folks pay dearly for that kind of thing.
Nice catch, Chopper. You missed your calling.
Not to mention incorrect English usage, as in:porkchop said:bear facts said:Bamapossum said:I noticed that as well PC.
It is such a blatant piece of plagiarism that it should probably deserve a reprimand from an editor.
Since I live down here, maybe I'll drop off a couple of copies of Forde's article with the stolen items underined over at Tallapoosa Publishers. As a writer and a teacher of writing, I despise intellectual theft.
Don't even get me started. I have had folks pay dearly for that kind of thing.
Nice catch, Chopper. You missed your calling.
I guess I'm just in a mood today, but that irks me. Since I've been doing writing for the site here I notice things like that more. For guys like Terry, bamafan4ever, eleven, Randy, Porter or me who work for a small internet site with limited resources it irritates me to no end to see that stuff from professionals who you would think have a lot more access than we do.
Oh and, by the way, you're in-state rival Alabama is well on their way to a great recruiting class for 2008. Don't look now, but they have moved up to No. 3 in both recruiting polls.