Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[Rishvol]

The debate is whether we'll ever be great again. Heupel has definitely made us good again. Can he take that next step and make us great again?

Do we vote for it to happen?

 

[Weezer]

Do we vote for it to happen?

Nope. We use a message board for that which it is intended. To talk about it as fans and offer up opinions.

 

[GVol1966]

I don’t know why anyone is trying to fire Banks, offense has been the real problem. We’ve often looked totally listless out there.

Because he’s not the HC.
You’re right about the offense, it’s been worse than the D but nobody wants to fire Heupel .

Both the O and D pad their stats vs weak teams.
It’s about the Good teams or equally talented teams that we seem to get outcoached against that puts Banks in the Cross hairs.

I’m hoping he parlays those padded stats into a HC gig .

Of course I’m terrified that Heupel will promote the water boy to DC.

 

[VOL608]

If Heupel wants to take the next step, he needs to upgrade the OC and OL coaches. What the hell happened to the offense since 2022?

Edit: but he also needs to upgrade the talent level all around.

 

[GVol1966]

This would've been much better

Yep. The way it should have been. Competitive games likely

 

[tnhunter 10]

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How is Auburn doing so well in recruiting? Where do they get their $?

 

[Adam Sandler]

damn cam Carr leaving that’s unfortunate. Likely gonna miss him by march. Woulda been nice to have a shooter with fresh legs come tourney time.

 

[TrippieRedd]

Wonder if Boise or ASU will have any studs that leave

 

[volinbama256]

If we want a home run threat at this point, we need to hope someone from these playoffs team enter, or someone gets upset and enters during the spring portal.

I thought I saw several high end WR's enter the portal at the start, but I guess they already got scooped up or knew where they were going (tampering)... Per usual we are late to the party...

 

[Christian Lowe]

Wonder if Boise or ASU will have any studs that leave

I thought they were the team that pate was talking about having to pay to keep their players for the playoffs and was excited with that prospect

But now it seems like it was us lmao. Either way beggars can’t be choosers. We need some transfers in rather than out asap

 

[TrippieRedd]

Bothwell to Miss State

 

[Vol423]

Whereas Sampson was the bell cow last season, next year will likely be RB by committee.

I expect Lewis to dominate carries in 2025.

 

[Girth Brooks]

How is Auburn doing so well in recruiting? Where do they get their $?

The promise of ( _ ! _ ) is a powerful drug to an 18-year-old kid.

 

[Vol423]

Squirrel to the draft - I messed up, it was on Squirrel's story.

...to the draft? That's crazy.

 

[volinbama256]

Love these folks saying good luck and wishing well to Carr... the dude is leaving us and putting us in a very bad situation midseason... he's been hurt... selfish and chasing potential money. GTFO.

 

[Christian Lowe]

Love these folks saying good luck and wishing well to Carr... the dude is leaving us and putting us in a very bad situation midseason... he's been hurt... selfish and chasing potential money. GTFO.

Hard to blame him. No one plays for the logo anymore, it’s full on pro sports. Looking out for #1 is the only option. Mashack is the last of a dying breed.

 

[volinbama256]

Some obvious holes in this team going into next season, and I'm not sure there's enough quality portal options to plug those holes.

Nope.

I think we waited too long on some position groups... you can't tell me the staff didn't know or were completely blindsided by all the WR's leaving or some of the other portal jumps... You would think they would at least be having some conversations with kids already in the portal... Moving forward I hope we start to take a proactive approach to the portal and check the temp on some talent instead of just waiting and watching kids go to other teams and being late to jump again.

 

[jave36]

Hard to blame him. No one plays for the logo anymore, it’s full on pro sports. Looking out for #1 is the only option. Mashack is the last of a dying breed.

I just don't know why you'd leave the top team. He can get minutes and play once he's not injured. He can get NIL money too. I think it's strange, more than just chasing money.

 

[volinbama256]

Hard to blame him. No one plays for the logo anymore, it’s full on pro sports. Looking out for #1 is the only option. Mashack is the last of a dying breed.

Hard to blame him? How many kids have you seen jump midseason? Didn't even know that was possible. This means he's had one foot out the door for a while. Guess we'll see where he lands.

 

[Christian Lowe]

I just don't know why you'd leave the top team. He can get minutes and play once he's not injured. He can get NIL money too. I think it's strange, more than just chasing money.

He can take a redshirt if he doesn’t play. Someone probably offered a bag and playing time for him to leave now

 

[volinbama256]

Damn Malachi Fields just committed to ND. Another pretty good portal WR gone

you are making my point.

 

[Christian Lowe]

Hard to blame him? How many kids have you seen jump midseason? Didn't even know that was possible. This means he's had one foot out the door for a while. Guess we'll see where he lands.

UNLV’s QB quit two games into the season because he wasn’t being paid what he wanted this year

 

[PYSCHO]

He can take a redshirt if he doesn’t play. Someone probably offered a bag and playing time for him to leave now

If he does not want to be here, do you really want to play with someone like that? Not me and good riddance no matter who you are.

 

[beneVOLence]

I know TLDR.
First time I’ve been on since Saturday. I was just to devastated with the game. Logically looking at it, OSU’s blue chip ratio is around 80-85% and ours is around 45-50%. It’s showed significantly. The sad thing is Bama and Georgia blue chip ratio are similar to OSU’s and we were not dominated by them and actually beat bama. So the question is “what happened the other night?” It could just be that we had our number 1 RB, and our number 1 & 3 WR hurt with an redshirt QB ant the helm. Along with that, I think some coaches need to be changed out and CJH needs to look in the mirror and figure out why his teams play so poorly on the road. Will CJH make changes to his staff and not hold on to coaches because they’re his buddies? Can we fill holes from the portal? Can we keep our top talent out of the portal? Is CJH our Mark Richt? How these questions are answered will determine next years potential. I’m afraid it’s a rebuilding year at best. I wish it was like the beatdown we had against Nebraska in 1997 and the team used it as motivation for next year like the 1998 team did. The biggest problem is the 1998 team was way more talented than the 2025 will be.

 

[Christian Lowe]

If he does not want to be here, do you really want to play with someone like that? Not me and good riddance no matter who you are.

If you got rid of everyone who was just playing for money, you wouldn’t be able to field a team anymore