That's not how any of this works.
I've been around this for centuries. Our current recruiting status is worse than I've seen in my lifetime which dates back to pre-Barfield days.
I don't know how many ways I can say this, but there is no energy, excitement or enthusiasm about the program. It's a dead, rotting skunk lying on the highway. Zero street rep. None. The rest of the SEC is kicking our dicks in. We are legitimately standing at the precipice of a Tennessee-like trek through a desert the likes of which most of you have never experienced.
Guess what? We aren't getting to 5-0. We aren't getting to 4-1. 3-2 is the most likely outcome, but 2-3 isn't a stretch. After that, losing four of the next five isn't out of the question.
I liked the Harsin hire initially. For maybe a day. Then I saw his family/entourage and had immediate misgivings. Once he fucked the goat at Penn State, everything from that point had the stench of shite about it.
We're on the verge of unrecoverable blue-screen error, the kind of fuckery from which there is no easy return.
I know you want to honk the trumpet, wes, but you're farting into a cat-5 hurricane bearing down on us.
I get the "show me" state of many recruits....except.....a lot of these guys were SOLID SOLID AU Leans (some silent verbals) and LEGACY kids even after the fuckery that ended last year with MSU and SC, and then that dumb bowl travesty, followed by 0 for NSD while in Cancun, followed by the Feb investigation thingee.
Even after all that....we had a solid group of kids - prob 10-15 that were "on board" and in the 80%+ column by most experts takes. Something in May and June happened to these kids. I dunno what. Most of them have either flipped, committed elsewhere, or are ABOUT to commit elsewhere.
They aren't waiting around to see what were going to do. They've already left. They gone. And ESD is in December. Rarely do these kids make major moves or shifts in season. All of that is the troubling part to me.
Kids like Brock Glenn (whose name is actually AUBURN - for a reason) and Rico Walker. Legacy kids who were as good as on campus in May. Now, they're gone. Countless others ive named pages back. Something is going on, and its not the losing streak to end last season, or the February crap, or waiting to see what were gonna do our first 5-6 games, or NIL coffers (although that is pathetic too). Were getting passed over by lower rated recruits as well, getting beat out to the final 3 by Pittsburgh, Syracuse, UNC, Va Tech, Mizzou. Were not getting mopped on all of these by UGA and Bama. Its those lower rated schools and lower rated 3 star project type recruits that really burn me.
Its weird. Ive followed recruiting a long while, and this one has even the sunshine pumping recruiting AU Gurus stumped and depressed. We are whiffing like I've not ever seen at this stage in the game, and its concerning.
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