bigsixfive 328 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 http://theauburner.com/recruitgrades.html ...And this doesn't even include our only 5-Star Raven Gray. So its a safe bet that our impact players are overall even better than last year. If last year's class was so awesome, then this year's class will be too. Chill out Auburn, it's going to be even more fun beating Bama when they don't have any excuses. And some more good stuff: http://www.theauburner.com/ryan_superwed.html Those of you who say that this year’s recruiting class is a huge disappointment don’t really know much about football. Making the transition from high school to Div-I football is similar to the transition that college football players make into the NFL. There are some players that are brilliant in college but totally suck it up in the NFL, for instance: 4 out of the last 6 Heisman winners (before 2007). Similarly, a lot of the guys who could run over 150 pound cornerbacks with finesse in high school simply can’t do the same to the 225 pound linebackers that run a 4.5 forty in the SEC. Here are the last several players that Auburn has put into the NFL and how many stars they’ve received by scout.com (had to have been recruited by Auburn since 2002):Devin Aromashodu: **** Tim Duckworth: **** Ben Grubbs: * Marquis Gunn: ** Will Herring: *** David Irons: **** Kenny Irons: *** T.J. Jackson: **** Brandon Jacobs: ***** Stanley McClover: **** Marcus McNeill: **** Ben Obomanu: **** Courtney Taylor: * John Vaughn: *** Breakdown: *****: 1 ****: 7 ***: 3 **: 1 *: 2 So as you can see, almost half the players that we end up putting into the NFL received 3 stars or less from scout.com. Tubs is usually pretty good about picking players that he knows he can mold into killing machines, but it certainly is nice when we inherit a ready-made killing machine (Brandon Jacobs/Tray Blackmon/etc). So in summary, while most of the 4 and 5 star recruits actually turn out to be pretty great, there are also a TON of players that seem to slip through the cracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssgaufan 0 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Was Blackmon a five star? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssgaufan 0 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Was Blackmon a five star? Nevermind, I answered my own question. What happened to Tilley the big OL from Ohio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baseballman8388 0 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 He is still on the team. Just must not have developed the way the coaches hope yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirForceforAU 0 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Leon Hart was a 5 star recruit as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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