Like Tennessee’s Kiffin, Chizik found success in pulling in a top ranked recruiting class with very little time to prepare.
He landed the Tigers a top 20 class and boosted the confidence of those who were feeling weary from the long year they had watched unravel.
When all of the dust has settled, out of the top five recruiting classes in the country, three of them will be playing SEC football this fall.
If that's not enough, one-third of America’s top 100 recruits chose the SEC to showcase their collegiate careers.
Only two schools in the SEC finished outside of the top 25 in the 2009 recruiting class and both of them, Kentucky and Vanderbilt, won their bowl games.
Trent Richardson will try to add to the reputation of that Alabama has established with their power running backs. Reuben Randle will attempt to live up to what everyone in Louisiana expects and hopes that he is. Chizik is looking to start fresh and hopes his reputation didn’t make the trip to Auburn with him.
Florida will go for its third National Championship in four years, and Lane Kiffin will begin the process of having to prove on the field what he promises off of it.
With 5 slow months ahead of me, the only hope I can cling to is a couple of televised spring games and the chance that spring practice will present a few opportunities for Coach Kiffin to get in front of a camera.
If not, then I’ll just take my seat back here at mission control, sitting with nerves that are shot, waiting for us to finally regain contact and wondering why it’s taking so long.
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