That's some revisionist history, Snags.
Bowden was an abysmal recruiter. Tubs was the 3* coach-em-up champ.
Nope, Tubs became that later when he quit trying and only signed those that "camped well". Before that, he was inking Jason Campbell, Ronnie Brown, Caddy, Obewondabomino, Aromatherapydo, Anthony Mix, Carlos Rogers, Brandon Cox, Kenny Irons, Kodi Burns, Lee Ziemba, Pat Sims, Sen'Derrick Marks and on and on and on.... These were not nobody's he coached up. Most were very high profile kids coming out of high school.
Bowden started well but had already made the decision to change the entire direction of the program. He said before he coached his first game that he wanted to run Diddy's offense. In doing so, he changed the entire focus of recruiting in general. He wanted the next Warrick Dunn in the backfield, hence the collection of mighty mites. He turned away from our traditional recruiting grounds in Georgia and started trying to tap heavily into Florida.
Agreed that he sucked. But that was his own doing in trying to change the whole football culture at AU.