Auburn football just had its signature recruiting event, Big Cat Weekend, to conclude the month of July. It may be set to do its job, as the No. 98 overall prospect in the 2023 class, the No. 13 offensive tackle, and the No. 6 player in Georgia could be flipping from Georgia to the Plains.
That would, of course, be Bo Hughley — a 6-foot-7, 295-pound tackle entering his senior season at Langston Hughes High School in Fairburn, Georgia. Hughley already has a connection to Auburn via teammate Terrance Love, a DB commit (and the only defensive commit) for the Class of 2023.
Besides that, he has also experienced life as a potential Bulldogs defector. As it turns out, merely having eyes elsewhere gets you berated on Georgia message boards in ways not worth repeating, since we’re talking about a teenager committing to a college to play football. Animals.
As one Auburn football fan pointed out, that behavior is being noticed by Hughley himself, who liked a tweet saying (hypothetically) that he’d ‘rather play for the fans dying to have me’ and ‘not the ones questioning my intelligence and character:
Straight from Bo Hughley’s liked tweets 👀👀👀 pic.twitter.com/BCuFxTk0w9
— Aubie’s son🦅 (@AubieSon) August 1, 2022
Bo Hughley would be biggest recruiting get of Bryan Harsin’s time as Auburn football HC
As the Montgomery Advertiser pointed out, Auburn has not landed a top-100 recruit yet in the Bryan Harsin era. To say Hughley would be the biggest get of the current coaching staff’s tenure would be an understatement the size of an SEC lineman.
Of course, there’s always the caveat that Harsin and co. will need to stick beyond this season for their recruits to not consider de-committing. In a perfect world, that doesn’t happen, and Auburn football enters 2023 with an OL recruit that Tiger fans could have only dreamed of landing the last decade plus.