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Pat Dye Field => War Damn Eagle => Topic started by: AU_Tiger_2000 on February 24, 2011, 02:20:42 PM

Title: Best formerly unheralded recruits in college football next season.
Post by: AU_Tiger_2000 on February 24, 2011, 02:20:42 PM

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/andy_staples/02/23/all-two-star-team/index.html?eref=sihp

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LB Daren Bates, Auburn (two stars in class of 2009): When Auburn has to flip a recruit, it's usually a guy committed to another SEC school. Not Bates. As late as January 2009, he planned to attend Arkansas State. Auburn was one of several SEC schools to make a late run at Bates, and he decided to head to the Plains. Bates started immediately as a safety. In 2010, he moved to linebacker. He was slowed late in the season by a shoulder injury, but Bates still finished with 48 tackles, seven quarterback hurries and two forced fumbles.