re: Are Bama and Auburn tooling LSU in recruiting right now?

It will be interesting to see how things work out with Auburn's staff.

They were built to recruit, but Malzahn (sp?) is a good offensive coach and while there's still huge questions about Chiznitt's head coaching abilities he has been proven as a defensive coordinator. And while I doubt he'd have done much at Iowa St, if Malzahn can help their O and Cheeztick can focus and improve the D, they may be fine.

The problem with these staffs where the head coach is just a figure head without real control over his staff is that a guy like Gus could leave and even if they do well will probably leave someday and leave them in a bad situation. In summary, I wouldn't be all that surprised if in the next few years (certainly not this season) they had some relative success, but I doubt it lasts.