Auburn's SEC schedule will look like this:
Sept. 8 at Mississippi State
Sept. 22 LSU
Oct. 6 ARKANSAS
Oct. 13 at Ole Miss
Oct. 20 at Vanderbilt
Oct. 27 TEXAS A&M
Nov. 10 GEORGIA
Nov. 24 at Alabama
The toughest road game will obviously be the Iron Bowl, but we get most of the tough games at home. Very favorable home schedule, but still very tough teams we'll be facing in those home games.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
12/22 Auburn Recruiting status......
Here we are, sitting in the final dead period, just waiting......
Everyone seems to feel that Auburn has a lot of negative momentum pulling against them because of the recent coaching vacancies that have come about, as well as the shocking TJ Yeldon recruitment. It's easy to see that as that case if you just glance, but if you look into it for more than a glance everything is about to really take off for Auburn.
First of all, these coaching changes at the coordinator positions have been in motion for a while. Gus was always going to be a HC sooner than later, and things just didn't work out well with Roof here and we needed a new attitude on the defensive side of the ball. He wouldn't have been back even if UCF hadn't accepted him as the new DC there. So there's that....
With Yeldon flipping to Bama, it hurts our recruiting ranking more than it hurts the future of the Auburn football program. The running back position, even if Dyer and McCalebb do not return, is in fantastic hands with great talent. We would still return Mike Blakely, Tre Mason, Corey Grant, and bring in Jovon Robinson. Not to mention we will possibly pursue a second RB for this class. So I'm not concerned there.
Now in regards to why we're about to see a dramatic uptick in recruiting momentum and see Auburn finish, once again, as one of the best staffs of "closers" in the business. We're about to hire two new coordinators. That means new blood, new attitude, and new excitement around the program. In my humble opinion, and from what I've seen, I genuinely feel that we've already hired our guys on the offensive and defensive sides, we're simply waiting for the dead period to end to release the info so that we can contact our commits and recruits immediately after the announcements and get into those living rooms right away and make a big impact right before the All-Star games, which could lead to a whole 'nother surge of recruiting momentum before heading into the official visit periods of January, which are always huge.
We may not see a lot of big news and probably have no reason to be optimistic with a lot of the big fish left on board, but I'm telling you, as we announce/make these new hires the kids are going to get very excited about Auburn that were already high on Auburn.
This could be as big of a finish as I can remember in my time following AU recruiting. We're only at 16 commits right now and will no doubt take 25. That leaves 9 guys in a period of just over a month that will be joining the Auburn family. Most of the targets are guys that would be considered top 250 type of players, nationally. This 2012 class should be THE class that gets Auburn to 85 scholarship players, and finally allows us to have a full roster of high 3, 4 and 5 star talent. This is a huge class for us, depth wise.
That being said, here is what I feel Auburn's 2012 class looks like in the end, as of now (knowing tons will probably change):
QB- Zeke Pike
RB- Jovon Robinson
WR- JaQuay Williams
WR- Ricardo Louis
WR- Stefon Diggs
TE- Ricky Parks
TE/ATH- Darrion Hutcherson
OT- Shane Callahan
OT- Will Latu
OT- Robert Leff
OT- Avery Young
OG- Alex Kozan
OT- Menelik Watson
DL- Gimel President
DE- Channing Ward
DL- Leonard Williams
DT- Tyler Nero
LB- Cassanova McKinzy
LB- Javiere Mitchell
LB- Kwon Alexander
CB- Joshua Holsey
CB- Jonathan Jones
CB- TJ Davis
CB- Ronald Darby
DB- Deon Bush
That would make 25 guys. Here would be the general ranking breakdown:
5*- 1 (Diggs)
4*- 18
3*- 6
That, my friends, is how you build a roster.
War Damn Eagle!
Everyone seems to feel that Auburn has a lot of negative momentum pulling against them because of the recent coaching vacancies that have come about, as well as the shocking TJ Yeldon recruitment. It's easy to see that as that case if you just glance, but if you look into it for more than a glance everything is about to really take off for Auburn.
First of all, these coaching changes at the coordinator positions have been in motion for a while. Gus was always going to be a HC sooner than later, and things just didn't work out well with Roof here and we needed a new attitude on the defensive side of the ball. He wouldn't have been back even if UCF hadn't accepted him as the new DC there. So there's that....
With Yeldon flipping to Bama, it hurts our recruiting ranking more than it hurts the future of the Auburn football program. The running back position, even if Dyer and McCalebb do not return, is in fantastic hands with great talent. We would still return Mike Blakely, Tre Mason, Corey Grant, and bring in Jovon Robinson. Not to mention we will possibly pursue a second RB for this class. So I'm not concerned there.
Now in regards to why we're about to see a dramatic uptick in recruiting momentum and see Auburn finish, once again, as one of the best staffs of "closers" in the business. We're about to hire two new coordinators. That means new blood, new attitude, and new excitement around the program. In my humble opinion, and from what I've seen, I genuinely feel that we've already hired our guys on the offensive and defensive sides, we're simply waiting for the dead period to end to release the info so that we can contact our commits and recruits immediately after the announcements and get into those living rooms right away and make a big impact right before the All-Star games, which could lead to a whole 'nother surge of recruiting momentum before heading into the official visit periods of January, which are always huge.
We may not see a lot of big news and probably have no reason to be optimistic with a lot of the big fish left on board, but I'm telling you, as we announce/make these new hires the kids are going to get very excited about Auburn that were already high on Auburn.
This could be as big of a finish as I can remember in my time following AU recruiting. We're only at 16 commits right now and will no doubt take 25. That leaves 9 guys in a period of just over a month that will be joining the Auburn family. Most of the targets are guys that would be considered top 250 type of players, nationally. This 2012 class should be THE class that gets Auburn to 85 scholarship players, and finally allows us to have a full roster of high 3, 4 and 5 star talent. This is a huge class for us, depth wise.
That being said, here is what I feel Auburn's 2012 class looks like in the end, as of now (knowing tons will probably change):
QB- Zeke Pike
RB- Jovon Robinson
WR- JaQuay Williams
WR- Ricardo Louis
WR- Stefon Diggs
TE- Ricky Parks
TE/ATH- Darrion Hutcherson
OT- Shane Callahan
OT- Will Latu
OT- Robert Leff
OT- Avery Young
OG- Alex Kozan
OT- Menelik Watson
DL- Gimel President
DE- Channing Ward
DL- Leonard Williams
DT- Tyler Nero
LB- Cassanova McKinzy
LB- Javiere Mitchell
LB- Kwon Alexander
CB- Joshua Holsey
CB- Jonathan Jones
CB- TJ Davis
CB- Ronald Darby
DB- Deon Bush
That would make 25 guys. Here would be the general ranking breakdown:
5*- 1 (Diggs)
4*- 18
3*- 6
That, my friends, is how you build a roster.
War Damn Eagle!
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