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Thanks for posting, notkiffen. Welcome to the board, Glad to see you are on the mobile site, too. Half our traffic is mobile - and the percentage is climbing.

You know, 2011, I have never in my 8 months as a member of 24/7 hit ignore on any poster. But, dude, you're really tempting me...your agenda is seriously getting old.

I got you.
+1 to level it out.

Thanks Bro! The real Vol fans need to stick together.

It's important to note that before the coaching change a lot of these guys were AU commits, all Malzahn (who is a good coach and recruiter) had to do was keep them. Same thing for Dooley his first year because Kiffin had laid the ground work. CBJ had no groundwork laid for him and he had to start completely from scratch, I think he has a done a real good job with that and he is already getting on the 2014 class which is a good start.

Explain to me where I bashed anyone, I made the observation that Jones would have been better served to hire more people with southern recruiting ties than he did. I never said he has or has not done the best job he could. Some you just get butt hurt if anybody isn't down on their knees worshiping these coaches. It is pretty pathological.

You have absolutely no way to know he would have done better with different recruiters....

I had about a paragraph typed out, then realized I needed to KCCO and not feed the troll.

I think most people just want to try and look forward. If you as a coach had had success everywhere you had been with the the coaches you had working with you, you are going to want to bring those people with you. A trust has been developed in each other that goes ABOVE AND BEYOND hiring a bunch of recruiters you don't know and throwing them together into a cohesive team and expecting results. These guys know what Butch wants and what his style of football is and can sell that to recruits. Its called STABILITY and we have had VERY LITTLE of that for a long, long, time. Take away some of the bone head calls, and, frankly, some of the prima dona attitude of Dooley's, and.....well we all know it could have been totally different last year. I think Butch can take this group and improve on last years record. That, my friend, will help recruiting more than anything. The past several years of turmoil, (much more than Auburn has had) have hurt us more than some of us care to admit. Let go of the I want it now attitude and let it happen. If we build it, they will come!

Gotta jump in on this one. CBJ was not working from scratch. Yes, the recruiting class was ranked very low...however that was because there were so few players committed. The one thing Dooley in his tenure that he mentioned several times was try to establish relationships with players so when they committed they were more certain than some schools are. Therefore, in December he was never going to have a top 10 class but it would have risen as those relationships were formed and players started taking official visits.
Now, has CBJ done a good job of adding to the class and attacking some big fish?...absolutely!!! But let's not make it sound as if Dooley wasn't fired he had La. Tech's recruiting class coming in next year. That simply isn't the case. Maybe one of the more experienced posters (LWSVOL, SamVolSam, Ghost) or the mods can tell us what an expected Dooley class would have looked like hypothetically.