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Signing Day / Re: Boom 2025!!!
« Last post by WiregrassTiger on May 15, 2024, 11:28:38 AM »Auburn is going to get better talent without Saban in the picture but so will the others in our region.Agree on losing Henderson at the same time I believe our RB depth hurts us with recruiting top backs. And it will be easier next year.
Re:Henderson
The Big Ten and has to look for skill players from this region to pair athleticism with its neverending pool of homegrown offensive and defensive linemen. So we are going to inexplicably lose a few here and there to guys like Franklin. I'd rather lose a kid to an outlier than a head to head against a rival.
SEC baseball is a prime example of why coaches from the Big Ten have to troll the southeast. We have better year round weather, tastier food, beaches and pretty, pretty, pretty hot girls. Why would a eighteen year old boy leave all of that?
And I realize that Saban has stacked the room season after season, I’m simply saying that it hurts us. And we would have gotten him without the depth.
That’s where I grew up and was a phenomenal 3 sport athlete in the very program where Henderson is. Almost 4 sport. But it was 4A. It has shrunk to 1A. The level of competition simply isn’t the same. Sure, a great 1A can beat a terrible 7A or other one offs. But the week in/out is usually tougher the higher up you go. We all can agree on that.
I’m not saying the kid isn’t good. I believe that he is and that he would still be good in 7A. I’m only saying it would be more challenging. And if he sticks with Penn state, it actually may be better for him.
Hugh offering the RB from Auburn High is encouraging. He’s now starting to get more and more offers, though. I don’t know who his biggest Div 1 offer was but we are early. And he is really good.