Filed under: Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Texas, USC, SEC, Recruiting
History has proven that the coach that ends up hoisting the crystal football designating his team the BCS National Champion typically reaps the recruiting rewards from that football's shine 13 months afterward in the following year's recruiting class.Not so for Auburn on Wednesday's annual National Signing Day, as coach Gene Chizik and the Tigers took full advantage of their BCS title wealth by raking in 24 top-flight recruits and potentially stealing a five-star lineman from their arch-rival.
"It's a great day for Auburn football," Chizik said. "But this is just another brick in our foundation. We are not there yet. We have not arrived."
Auburn's Wednesday began with a pleasant surprise when four-star DB Erique Florence (6-2, 181, Valley, Ala., HS) chose the Tigers over Southern Cal on national television. The Tigers also received a NSD letter faxed from five-star LB Kris Frost (6-3, 210, Matthews, N.C., Butler HS) upholding his commitment offered just eight days after Auburn downed Oregon, 22-19, in the BCS National Championship Game.
Signed letters-of-intent followed from OT Christian Westerman (6-5, 288, Chandler, Ariz., Hamilton HS) who had switched from Texas to the Tigers on Jan. 21, and C Reese Dismukes (6-4, 287, Spanish Fort, Ala., HS) who was an early Auburn commitment.
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