Brian Harsen told reporters in Mobile earlier this week that the recruiting process, they were farther along this year than a season ago.

We get to the bottom of it on today's Lockdowne Auburn.

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I'm your host, Zach Blackaby.

Thank you so much for making Lockdown, Auburn, your first listen every single day. Even today, even on days like today where we

got a special Saturday show going on as we are joined by John Garcia, the recruiting expert

himself with Sports Illustrated, also our recruiting insider here at the Lockdown

podcast network. There are three guys I want to

jump into with you today, John Hunter Osborne, Nikai Poole, and T.J. Parker, before we get into any

of those guys, Brian Harson earlier this week, he kind of admitted that, okay, we're farther along

in the recruiting process this year than we were a year ago.

We talked about this last time you came on, how like, all right, it was a little bit

slower to get the ball rolling. But what do you think, are you a little surprised that he

admitted something like that? I'm not. You know, this is something where it's pretty clear to

see that things were slow last year and

i think from a talent acquisition standpoint Auburn was was really forced to go outside the box

we've talked about it right heavy juco heavy transfer you know situations to deal with so

i do think it was a bit different for the tigers and and brian admitted, and he's gone through a lot of assistant coaching turnover in the meantime.

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