The Auburn Tigers football brain trust had talked about August 1 being a major date on the schedule for recruiting purposes. Well, 8/1 came and went and not one commitment was landed.
Third-party NIL payments were at risk of being discontinued when Hugh Freeze and John Cohen made those insinuations, but regulation ended up being the decision from the U.S. government's college sports task force.
Bama Hammer's Ronald Evans blamed Auburn's lack of recruiting wins after the calendar turned to August on a lack of spending power.
Evans labeled the Tigers as "short on funds.