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I won't sleep nights knowing Auburn needs "just one more" recruiting class. So Chiznik needs 5 years to build a program when most coaches need 3 or 4.



The steady drumbeat of construction equipment pounded through Gene Chizik's office Thursday morning, a sign of the work in progress at Auburn.

That national championship 15-plus months ago didn't mean the Tigers had finished the rebuilding job remarkably ahead of schedule. To Chizik, Auburn's fourth-year coach, a positive sign his program is closing in on that completion came during the spring with all the competition for starting jobs on a team that has only a handful of vacancies.

''If you look at our senior class this past year, it's very representative of the crater there in our numbers,'' Chizik told The Associated Press. ''We've had to really significantly work through the last couple of years in terms of building our numbers up in recruiting. We're definitely on track. This upcoming recruiting class is going to be huge in what we consider solidifying four really great foundational recruiting classes.



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This comment is typical for the barn coach. After 4 recruiting classes he is still saying his team is young. Of course it takes him longer than most coaches because his players keep getting arrested, kicked off the team or just plain leaving the program. I don't think the barn has 85 scholarship players again this year.