From one of the few Auburn fans that were at Hoover today....

[The Prowler]

BTW, he's the guy in the white shirt in one of the Hoover Tiger Prowl pictures.

I stood there and talked with every coach on that staff, one on one, UNREAL. Malzahn is all kinds of down to earth. Even asked me who some kids are at Hoover that we should keep an eye on. Talked QB's, etc. Awesome guy.

Rocker gave a War Damn Eagle walking in. Luper and Trooper were awesome greeting people, laughing, having a good time. You could tell meeting people was cool, but when I gave them that "War Eagle" they lit up like, heck yea War Damn Eagle!

Then we went into the school, me and Aubs actually walked Trooper through the school back to the athletic offices. He had just finished doing the PF interview. We were talking about that, about how the Prowl was going, etc. Once again, ridiculous doing that.

Then we hung around with all the coaches, they talked with head coach at Hoover Coach Niblett. Malzahn and Lolley talked with him for 10 minutes or more. Coach Rocker said the tour was going great.

Then talked with Coach Roof about the defense and linebackers. Just talked about not trying to get people hurt in A-Day, etc.

A Auburn fan brought his son in with an Auburn jersey to meet the coaches. Trooper immediately saw him and went and shook his hand. Took him to meet Malzahn because he said he was a QB. Kid got pics with Trooper, Rocker, and Malzahn.

Then back outside before they left, I had the chance to talk with Lolley. Talked about instate recruiting, and how he knows bama will get their share, they just have to get their 3,4,5 for sure, you can't walk out of the state with zero big time players from instate. I asked Lolley if some bama coaches were showing up, he said yea a few of them have. He said, "We don't care though. We're not intimidated by anyone, they could all show up. Wouldn't matter to us." Classic. Lolley also said the only reason bama fans were mad is because they didn't think of it, that's all it is. Awesome guy to talk to.

They headed out, Luper and Trooper to Oklahoma, Lolley back to Jess Lanier, then the other four coaches to Spain Park.

Let me say this, EVERY coach was down to earth, unreal to talk to all of them. Awesome guys. Seriously one of the best days ever, ridiculous. HERE'S THE QUOTE OF THE DAY from Coach Malzahn. Aubs and I were talking to him about last year, how rough it was. His response was, "It's a new day. We have a great staff and it's a new day."

I seriously wanted to go play right then. It's a new day. Awesome.

[boartitz]

I been trying to tell yall about Gus. If yall can keep him and let him do his thing, yall will be in for a fun ride. Limo or no.