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Auburn freshman using the power of Facebook to recruit for the Tigers
By Ben Volin | Thursday, March 26, 2009, 02:28 PM
Auburn freshman quarterback Tyrik Rollison is making life a lot easier for new coach Gene Chizik on the recruiting front.
Rollison, a four-star quarterback prospect from Sulphur Springs, Texas who will join the Tigers this fall, utilized the far-reaching power of Facebook Wednesday to try to bring former Michigan receiver Toney Clemons to Auburn.
“”He is no longer with Michigan and is looking for a new place to ball,” Rollison wrote in a public note on Facebook. “We could use him at WR and I was asking for your help. Send him a message saying how much Auburn could use and how much you would like to see him on our squad. Anything from the heart will go a long way. Thanks for the help.”
Rollison also posted Clemons’ Facebook page, a photo and a video of Clemons’ high school highlights.
(http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/shared-blogs/palmbeach/ufblog/upload/2009/03/auburn_freshman_using_the_powe/clemons-thumb.jpg)
High school photo of Toney Clemons
Clemens, a 6-foot-3, 205-pound receiver from the Pittsburgh area, was the No. 10-ranked receiver prospect by Scout.com for the class of 2007 and is the cousin of former Michigan receiver and current Arizona Cardinal Steve Breaston
Clemens had 11 catches for 101 yards and zero touchdowns in 2008. He announced Tuesday he is leaving Ann Arbor with two years of eligibility remaining.
Rollison posted his note around 12:30 p.m. today, and within two hours had 20-plus Auburn fans on board.
“Attaboy Ty, recruit your heart out!” one fan wrote.
“Big Toney, we are ready for you big man. Come be a Tiger. The fans will show you much love,” another fan wrote.
Clemons received so much support he wrote a note to Rollison and War Eagle Nation that was half thank you letter, half plea to Chizik to bring him aboard.
“I want to thank you all for the support,” he wrote. “It means alot to me to know there are people that dont truly know me to have my back and welcome and wish me well. I am seriously looking into Auburn and I have plans of contacting the university to see what the interest level and situation would be for me there. I have no problem competing with the best talent daily to win and keep a job and I have no aspirations of going into a situation where things would be easy for me because competition within a program is what truly makes a player better and I know Auburn has that on both sides of the ball. I just want the opportunity to be able to showcase my skills in a manner that will benefit me and the program that I am involved with. Thanks again.”
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Fucking awesome, we need a penis movement emoticon.
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Fucking awesome, we need a penis movement emoticon.
maybe something like this......... :bowl: LOL
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Wasn't this posted like 6 weeks ago here? Also, what is with running down Tubs? You make it sound like he didn't do shit for the university the past couple of years...
I understand posting this but why run down Tubs? If you worship Chizik, do you have to hate Tuberville?
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Wasn't this posted like 6 weeks ago here? Also, what is with running down Tubs? You make it sound like he didn't do shit for the university the past couple of years...
I understand posting this but why run down Tubs? If you worship Chizik, do you have to hate Tuberville?
I never saw it here.
I don't worship Chizik.
I do think Tubs had gone stale in the last year or two. To compact this, everyone acting as if Tubs was some infallible God, and everything Chizik's done so far pales in comparison to what "Tubs woulda done" is :puke: ish and sounds like bammers talking about how "Bahr woulda done it".
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I'm not going into the whole Tuberville thing again other than to say, I liked the guy. I was seriously pumped back when Auburn hired him and loved how he always represented the University. He did great things at Auburn but things were beginning to unravel the last year or two and all the mistakes were magnified 100X by the positive things going on across the State.
Bottom line for me, and I think the point of the thread title, is that we haven't seen this type of thing on the recruiting front in some time. Chizik and his staff..and now the players...are doing aggressive, innovative things to reach recruits and get some big time guys to look at Auburn. That just wasn't happening under CTT the last couple of years and it seemed like every time we turned around, Saban was at some kids school, his game, doing some video conference that skirted the rules etc.
I'm not downing Tubs, just happy to see the excitement for a change.
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I'm not going into the whole Tuberville thing again other than to say, I liked the guy. I was seriously pumped back when Auburn hired him and loved how he always represented the University. He did great things at Auburn but things were beginning to unravel the last year or two and all the mistakes were magnified 100X by the positive things going on across the State.
Bottom line for me, and I think the point of the thread title, is that we haven't seen this type of thing on the recruiting front in some time. Chizik and his staff..and now the players...are doing aggressive, innovative things to reach recruits and get some big time guys to look at Auburn. That just wasn't happening under CTT the last couple of years and it seemed like every time we turned around, Saban was at some kids school, his game, doing some video conference that skirted the rules etc.
I'm not downing Tubs, just happy to see the excitement for a change.
Harumph Harumph
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Harumph Harumph
I think Ricolla makes a cough drop for that.
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I'm not going into the whole Tuberville thing again other than to say, I liked the guy. I was seriously pumped back when Auburn hired him and loved how he always represented the University. He did great things at Auburn but things were beginning to unravel the last year or two and all the mistakes were magnified 100X by the positive things going on across the State.
Bottom line for me, and I think the point of the thread title, is that we haven't seen this type of thing on the recruiting front in some time. Chizik and his staff..and now the players...are doing aggressive, innovative things to reach recruits and get some big time guys to look at Auburn. That just wasn't happening under CTT the last couple of years and it seemed like every time we turned around, Saban was at some kids school, his game, doing some video conference that skirted the rules etc.
I'm not downing Tubs, just happy to see the excitement for a change.
Thanks for articulating that better than I could.
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I'm not going into the whole Tuberville thing again other than to say, I liked the guy. I was seriously pumped back when Auburn hired him and loved how he always represented the University. He did great things at Auburn but things were beginning to unravel the last year or two and all the mistakes were magnified 100X by the positive things going on across the State.
Bottom line for me, and I think the point of the thread title, is that we haven't seen this type of thing on the recruiting front in some time. Chizik and his staff..and now the players...are doing aggressive, innovative things to reach recruits and get some big time guys to look at Auburn. That just wasn't happening under CTT the last couple of years and it seemed like every time we turned around, Saban was at some kids school, his game, doing some video conference that skirted the rules etc.
I'm not downing Tubs, just happy to see the excitement for a change.
100% agree! But the title makes people think Tubby didn't do shit IMO. I was not bothered one bit when Tubs left. Not one bit. Matter of fact, I said something had been missing over the last couple of years when Tubs was here. But now that he is gone, I don't understand why you would even bring his name in the discussion. It makes us look like we are making excuses for the past couple of years. Tubs is gone. Chizik is the man. I just think we should focus on the positive things that are happening now instead of making excuses for the past.
And I really feel like some people do have the Chizik/Dye vs Tubs attitude...and that if you like one, you can't like the other. I am appreciative of what Tubs did for our program. And I was also fine that his era is over and Auburn brings in new excitement. I just don't like the fact that Tubs name has to be brought down in the process...that's all I am saying...
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100% agree! But the title makes people think Tubby didn't do shit IMO. I was not bothered one bit when Tubs left. Not one bit. Matter of fact, I said something had been missing over the last couple of years when Tubs was here. But now that he is gone, I don't understand why you would even bring his name in the discussion. It makes us look like we are making excuses for the past couple of years. Tubs is gone. Chizik is the man. I just think we should focus on the positive things that are happening now instead of making excuses for the past.
And I really feel like some people do have the Chizik/Dye vs Tubs attitude...and that if you like one, you can't like the other. I am appreciative of what Tubs did for our program. And I was also fine that his era is over and Auburn brings in new excitement. I just don't like the fact that Tubs name has to be brought down in the process...that's all I am saying...
I agree with you 100%. I wasn't trying to shit on Tubs there. Hence the "Last few years" portion of the title. I also didn't expect it to be analyzed in such a way...
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I agree with you 100%. I wasn't trying to shit on Tubs there. Hence the "Last few years" portion of the title. I also didn't expect it to be analyzed in such a way...
We're breakin' you down, bitch.
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Take it from someone who worked there - Tuberville quit recruiting when he got that 2007 class. I'm not saying it was the sole reason for the 5-7 season, but Tubs disappeared in the recruiting office. He was once VERY active. I think he saw Kodi Burns and Co. as a solid base for a few years. Perhaps he never planned on staying past Kodi's AU tenure. Who knows?
I hope Tyrik can get a few guys to come to AU. We'll need all the offensive weapons we can get over the next few years.
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Take it from someone who worked there - Tuberville quit recruiting when he got that 2007 class. I'm not saying it was the sole reason for the 5-7 season, but Tubs disappeared in the recruiting office. He was once VERY active. I think he saw Kodi Burns and Co. as a solid base for a few years. Perhaps he never planned on staying past Kodi's AU tenure. Who knows?
I hope Tyrik can get a few guys to come to AU. We'll need all the offensive weapons we can get over the next few years.
THS, having been there, done that..can you give us a little insight into what goes on recruiting wise around campus? You mentioned a "Recruiting office". Is there an area of the athletic complex designated for that...a War Room, if you will? What's a typical day for a recruit that takes an official visit to campus and are the hosts aware of who is a big time prospect? Different treatment?
Enquiring minds (Well, mine anyway) want to know.
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I do think Tubs had gone stale in the last year or two.
This is bullshit and revisionist history. The class with Burns, etc. was considered one of his best.
The "staleness" is one year -- 2008 -- and stale only in comparison to what Alabama was supposedly doing.
2008 class ranked 20th *
2007 class ranked 7th
2006 class ranked 10th
2005 class ranked 13th
2004 class ranked 21st (after the firing fiasco)
2003 class ranked 11th
2002 class ranked 6th
Yeah, he'd REALLY fallen off the last few years. What the fuck ever. I'm sick of this shit.
*Rivals rankings
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Nope. He had pretty much locked up his 2009 when he walked. That class, as it stood, was going to be about the worst one he'd signed.
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I thought I read over on woopig about a kid (average joe fan, I believe) getting in trouble for using facebook to contact recruits and attempt to woo them.
Hmm...
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This is bullshit and revisionist history. The class with Burns, etc. was considered one of his best.
The "staleness" is one year -- 2008 -- and stale only in comparison to what Alabama was supposedly doing.
2008 class ranked 20th *
2007 class ranked 7th
2006 class ranked 10th
2005 class ranked 13th
2004 class ranked 21st (after the firing fiasco)
2003 class ranked 11th
2002 class ranked 6th
Yeah, he'd REALLY fallen off the last few years. What the fuck ever. I'm sick of this shit.
*Rivals rankings
As Harvey pointed out, 2008 & 2009 = "past year or two".
Not only this, but nowhere in my statement did I say his "staleness" was exclusively in the recruiting department.
The it's being generous to describe downward decline in wins since 04 that spiraled into freefall in 08 as "going stale in the last year or two".
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I thought I read over on woopig about a kid (average joe fan, I believe) getting in trouble for using facebook to contact recruits and attempt to woo them.
Hmm...
I thought I heard that if you didn't post on ***kx , you weren't shit. :)
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I thought I heard that if you didn't post on ***kx , you weren't shit. :)
What if you posted for a few weeks and then got tired of it?
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I thought I heard that if you didn't post on ***kx , you weren't shit. :)
I've got my bases covered. I am, apparently, shit.
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What if you posted for a few weeks and then got tired of it?
There is a new feature that I think you would find very intriguing.
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I thought I read over on woopig about a kid (average joe fan, I believe) getting in trouble for using facebook to contact recruits and attempt to woo them.
Hmm...
Yes the NCAA has rules against things like fans contacting prospective student-athletes using facebook or any other means. Now enforcing such a rule is nearly impossible.
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As Harvey pointed out, 2008 & 2009 = "past year or two".
Not only this, but nowhere in my statement did I say his "staleness" was exclusively in the recruiting department.
The it's being generous to describe downward decline in wins since 04 that spiraled into freefall in 08 as "going stale in the last year or two".
Can't count 2009. Class wasn't signed and you have NO idea how it might have turned out. Up until 2008, Tuberville had always closed well and pulled in a few late surprises.
But yeah, it's so much better now that that fucked up loser is gone and we've got the proven winner and class act Gene Chizik in his place. :taunt:
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Can't count 2009. Class wasn't signed and you have NO idea how it might have turned out. Up until 2008, Tuberville had always closed well and pulled in a few late surprises.
But yeah, it's so much better now that that fucked up loser is gone and we've got the proven winner and class act Gene Chizik in his place. :taunt:
So wait, I'm confused, You like Chizik?
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So wait, I'm confused, You like Chizik?
He's finally seen the light.
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It's official. Kevin is a Chizite.
You should be receiving your Commemorative Coach Gene Chizik plate (The new one with his profile to highlite the manly, protruding chin) The cool thing is this one has all his Coaching stats on the back of the plate. And for seeing the light prior to the season starting, we'll waive the $14.95 S&H charge.
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Here's the picture that'll be on the plate....His coaching stats will be on the back. Also, to commemorate his Gold Chain, the rim of the plate will be 24K Gold plated.
(http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm42/theprowler64/Chizik-1.jpg)
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It's official. Kevin is a Chizite.
You should be receiving your Commemorative Coach Gene Chizik plate (The new one with his profile to highlite the manly, protruding chin) The cool thing is this one has all his Coaching stats on the back of the plate. And for seeing the light prior to the season starting, we'll waive the $14.95 S&H charge.
I'm so glad Kaos is happy about the hire, maybe he can start a Chizik wall of fame at his house.
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I'm so glad Kaos is happy about the hire, maybe he can start a Chizik wall of fame at his house.
Here come the horns from the bull.
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Here come the horns from the bull.
by "horns", you mean.....miniature baseball bat. :rofl: :rofl:
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Chizik will be the first coach since Earl Brown -- and I wasn't alive then -- and not including Bill Oliver who I have no intention of meeting. He will be the first coach from whom I will not obtain an autographed photo and football. I will not have his goofy mug leering from the wall of my study or my office.
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by "horns", you mean.....miniature baseball bat. :rofl: :rofl:
It won't feel so miniature when it's clubbing the fuck out of your pumpkin skull.
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You swing the bat at me, the next thing you'll see is the ceiling of the Emergency Room.
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You swing the bat at me, the next thing you'll see is the ceiling of the Emergency Room.
Yes. Where I will be fervently praying for your recovery.
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HEY EVERYBODY...INTERNET FIGHT..INTERNET FIGHT!!!!!
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Pull out your e-penises!!!
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by "horns", you mean.....miniature baseball bat. :rofl: :rofl:
Not a baseball bat - remember, Kev is the Master of the Shovel to the Face.
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Pull out your e-penises!!!
Luckily I was already stroking mine...um, I mean, YEAH BITCHES!!!
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This could get serious. Word on the street is Prowler just got a new keyboard. It's still in the box but he's just been waiting on the right time to whip it out.
TIFWIW
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Oh...it's on now. My keyboard is wireless, bitches.
/////!!!!!#####!!!!! Like that? HUH? #####!!!!!*****!!!!!///!!!*****!!!!!
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Oh...it's on now. My keyboard is wireless, bitches.
/////!!!!!#####!!!!! Like that? HUH? #####!!!!!*****!!!!!///!!!*****!!!!!
OOOOooooohhhh....that's gonna' leave a mark.
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OOOOooooohhhh....that's gonna' leave a mark.
And he did that from the toilet.
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This could get serious. Word on the street is Prowler just got a new keyboard. It's still in the box but he's just been waiting on the right time to whip it out.
TIFWIW
I heard on the Internet that he whips it out whenever he sees a picture of Gene Chizik. And then there's a dinky little mess to clean up. It was on the Internet. It must be true.
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Heard it from a friend who...
Heard it from a friend who...
Heard it from another you've been beatin' your schlong.
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Heard it from a friend who...
Heard it from a friend who...
Heard it from another you've been beatin' your schlong.
I never knew you were friends with a friend of Raven Riley
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There are several "Friends" in those pics that I could become real good "Friends" with.
As long as no one hears it from another I've been messing around.
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I heard on the Internet that he whips it out whenever he sees a picture of Gene Chizik. And then there's a dinky little mess to clean up.
This coming from a poster that posted this.....
Gene Chizik in his place. :taunt:
it seems to me that you like to think about Gene Chizik after you've whipped it out. Hey, whatever floats your boat :thumbsup:
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I just wanted to clarify my earlier comment, I did not want anyone to get preggers... I look out for people. Carry on.