Auburn Football: Unexpected Fallout from Previous Bad Recruiting

While reading an article that was describing the current Alabama head coach in a less than positive way, I came across some more unexpected fallout from previous poor recruiting.

Here is the article I was reading:

http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/54634/a_commitment_to_nick_saban_is_an_iron-clad,_one_way_street

I was looking at some of the supporting evidence behind the article. I was shocked at first to find Auburn appear in one of the supporting data spreads. I know Auburn is listed for a totally different reason than Alabama, but much of the nation will not.

Over the last nine years, Auburn University accepted 253 letters of intent for football players. We all know as Auburn fans that many of those never made it to qualify and enroll in class. Tommy Tuberville was well known for signing players he knew were never going to make it to class to boost his recruiting numbers.

The problem is that most of the country does not know this. When the negative media storm that is building over this explodes, Auburn will be assumed to be doing the same things.

While we are used to negative national media for our upstate rivals rubbing off on us, this is one we truly do not deserve.

This is simply one more way the great disappearing recruiting classes of the Tuberville era are going to damage the Auburn football program.

Here is the link to the data that was referred to: http://www.oversigning.com/