Wednesday, January 20, 2010

4 Star OG to Choose Auburn or UF Today

South Carolina native Eric Mack de-committed from USCe last night and is scheduled to make a decision on whether to attend Florida or Auburn at 11 a.m. C.T. AuburnSports.com (Rivals.com) has a free article on Mack's decision. Rivals currently has Auburn's recruiting class ranked 4th nationally and 3rd in the SEC (Florida is 1st, BAMA is 3rd).

Update: Mack has committed to Auburn. Multiple sources are reporting the news. The HABOTN is one of them.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Tuberville's a Red Raider


Texas Tech hires former Auburn HC Tommy Tuberville as their replacement for Mike Leach. It should be interesting to see what style of offense Tubs installs in Lubbock. Texas Tech is known for their spread attack on offense, and Tuberville was unsuccessful with his '08 transition to the spread attack at Auburn. It lead to the firing of 1st year offensive coordinator Tony Franklin, and Tuberville's resignation.

Former AU assistant James Willis is rumored as a candidate for Defensive Coordinator.

Read more at ESPN.com

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Tuberville in Lubbock

Tommy Tuberville is in Lubbock, TX interviewing for the Texas Tech head coaching position. Fox34 has the developing story on their website here. Interim Head Coach Ruffin McNeill met with Tech's administration yesterday about keeping the position.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

2010 Under Armour Game Underway


Auburn rings in the New Year with a 38-35 W over Northwestern in the Outback Bowl. Gene Chizik is in the process of wrapping up his first recruiting class. Six recruits for Auburn are on the roster for this year's black and white teams in the Under Armour High School All-Star Game.

White Team Roster:

5 Michael Dyer RB Little Rock Christian (Ark.)
7 Antonio Goodwin WR Booker T. Washington (Ga.)
81 Dakota Mosley TE Little Rock Christian (Ark.)


Black Team Roster:
15 LaDarius Owens DE Jess Lanier (Ala.)
18 Cody Parkey K Jupiter Community (Fl.)
50 Jake Holland ILB Pelham (Ala.)

Full roster can be found here.

Auburn also picks up a verbal commit from Cam Newton (Blinn College) to ring in the New Year. Charles Goldberg's article on the pickup can be found here. Video Highlights from Youtube can be found here.