Jerry over at War Eagle Reader savors the moment.

Weren't the Auburn whiners

the ones saying that the only reason we’ve had top classes the last few years is because of their quantity. Seems to me that gloating when the only reason you’re up is because you have four more 3-star recruits and we haven’t finished is a little gutsy.

by rugman11 on Feb 2, 2010 8:50 AM CST reply actions

Wow. I’m starting to think AU fans only approve of their class because it’s ranked higher than Bama’s class. Little brother syndrome at it’s finest.

How about we take the past two years classes and compare it to where AU finished up?

by brandonh on Feb 2, 2010 9:05 AM CST reply actions

Yikes

Two years ago Auburn mocked our “recruiting national championship.”

Now they’ve been beaten on the field, the crystal football is in Tuscaloosa, basically everything Bama fans predicted upon Saban’s arrival has come true, and they are now going bonkers over the prospect of finishing one solitary spot over Alabama in recruiting rankings.

I guess you claim your victories where you can find them, but it’s not hard to tell which is the dominant program in this state.

by Paranormal on Feb 2, 2010 11:53 AM CST up reply actions

You can have 22 - 5 star starters...

but without good coaching, it doesn’t mean sqaut.

"When you give a Gatorade bath, you're not suppose to hit the coach in the head with the bucket !" - Saban

by skycaster on Feb 2, 2010 9:11 AM CST reply actions

squat....I mean.

"When you give a Gatorade bath, you're not suppose to hit the coach in the head with the bucket !" - Saban

by skycaster on Feb 2, 2010 9:11 AM CST up reply actions

Funny

how all the sudden Auburn people are very interested in recruiting these days.

"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken

by Bens4vcobra on Feb 2, 2010 9:49 AM CST reply actions

Agreed

The two previous recruiting years, the Auburn meme was we take 3-stars and make them 5-stars. The current meme is that Chizik has to get better players into the program, and Tubberville was a sleep at the wheel. Some Auburn fans are delusional enough to believe that Chizik will have a year two turn around like Nick Saban.

by Kenny483 on Feb 2, 2010 10:10 AM CST up reply actions

Interesting... what about this?

by billycthulhu on Feb 2, 2010 10:55 AM CST reply actions 3 recs

by brandonh on Feb 2, 2010 10:59 AM CST up reply actions

+1

Actually, kudos to Abarn for recruiting well. It will be all the more gratifying to beat them again and again, with fewer and fewer excuses on their part. I think it is a tad premature for them to be crowing, but go ahead. Personally, I like the #1 team ranking, and I like the distributoion of our recruits. As another poster noted, it’s the distribution of those stars that drives the points. And I like the names and the talent behind our distribution.

You can't win. You can't break even. You can't get out of the game.

by StablerRaider on Feb 2, 2010 12:04 PM CST up reply actions

Well done, sir

Minor deduction for the overplayed “Barn” spelling, but other than that, full marks.

While I’m here:

1. As the post makes clear, I don’t actually see this as a big deal or even a situation that’s going to last through tomorrow night. I start by apologizing for posting that. But after the endless “Saban’s going to wipe the floor with Chizik in recruiting” talk over the last year, I think we’re entitled to crow a bit.

2. It’s true, an awful lot of Auburn fans have become hypocrites over the past few years by claiming that Alabama’s recruiting rankings meant nothing and then going bananas over Auburn’s successes. I’m not one of them. I said after Signing Day ‘08 that “The days of Alabama going 6-6 and 4-7 are done … Alabama is going to be very good, very soon”; I said in 2009 that “Auburn football now shares a state with a USC, a Florida, a Texas.” Complain about Auburn fans in general, if you like, but: I’m pleading innocent on all … well, most charges.

by JCCW Jerry on Feb 2, 2010 12:36 PM CST up reply actions

Sorry, it was too easy

I think we’re entitled to crow a bit.

The only crow you’re entitled to is the crow you will inevitably have to eat.

by Espyonage on Feb 2, 2010 3:45 PM CST up reply actions

Congrats and everything, but which recruits have Saban and Chiznicks actually battled head-to-head for?

I know the Sanders kid switched early on, but I know a coach who has seen him personally and knows he is overrated. We got Hubbard and Hill shortly after which were far better prospects.

Mosley was another, but Bama won that easily. The only true battle is over Coleman, which we will see how that ends up tomorrow.

Good luck to you because you are good peoples, it just seems like you ascribe a straw man to Bama fans with your Saban v. Chiznick recruiting analysis.

by brandonh on Feb 2, 2010 4:58 PM CST up reply actions

Nice....

Nice Crow that is!

"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success." -Coach Bear Bryant

by Tokeisch on Feb 2, 2010 3:58 PM CST reply actions

Since Auburn will sign 30+....

They very well could beat us points wise on Rivals. Still, Scout and ESPN still have us ahead… not that it matters.

Fumbles. It was always Fumbles

by DocFumbles on Feb 2, 2010 10:16 PM CST reply actions

well... it does matter.

as jerry points out. for all the derision we aimed at chizik, he’s gotten the barn’s recruiting lines back up and running. that’s the lifeblood of a program. we might be comfortable in the sense it’s not likely they will be competing with us as a program, sure. but they certainly are collecting enough talent in the plains to win an iron bowl and steal a chance at post season glory from us. remember how near a thing it was in november and picture that situation with significantly better depth.

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by kleph on Feb 3, 2010 8:59 AM CST up reply actions

talent means nothing

unless you have the coaching to develop it. Chizik hired himself a staff full of recruiters. Seldom do great recruiters also make great talent developers. They’re really just glorified salesmen. We shall see if he can come through on “Step 2” and get these boys to produce on the field. Case in point: Lance Thompson is a recruiter, Joe Pendry is a developer

"Yeah, it's Tennessee, that's the way it is sometimes." - Corey Zickefoose, Pulitzer Prize winner and robbery victim

"This is not the end. This is the beginning." - The Great and Powerful Saban

by Thomas Walker Esq on Feb 3, 2010 12:32 PM CST up reply actions