The 2009 recruiting class was ranked as the tenth-best in the SEC, but in the top 25 nationally. Such is life in the land’s toughest conference, and such is life when you’re coming off of the worst season in a decade, after which your long-time head coach headed elsewhere. Meanwhile, the once-downtrodden program across the state is at a championship level in a surprisingly short time, and Auburn seems to have no answers.
Gene Chizik is hired as head coach, and we get the “We want a leader, not a loser” guy yelling at him from the fence at the airport.