National Signing Day had been decently uneventful up until the moment when Rashaan Evans, the 5-star linebacker from Auburn High School, was set to commit. I predicted that he would attend Auburn and that decision made sense: Evans grew up in Auburn, his parents attended Auburn and his dad played there.
Even Auburn thought he was committing to them.
Minutes before Evans began his announcement, the Auburn Athletics website posted a full bio of the linebacker – highlight reel, stats, everything – as if he was on the team. The decision was apparently already made, someone at Auburn had inside information, and he would be staying home with the Tigers. Unfortunately for them, he committed to Alabama.
The webpage has been taken down. Auburn’s sports information director Kirk Sampson tweeted that the website did not post the bio and that it was hidden by code.
Auburn Athletics did not prematurely post a bio of a recruit. Bios are pre-built and hidden by code in anticipation of signing day.
— Kirk Sampson (@AuburnSID) February 5, 2014
But it clearly wasn’t hidden by anything. We all saw it, and nothing ever really goes away on the Internet.
So now Alabama and their now-anxious fans await the fax from Rashaan Evans with his National Letter of Intent, and Auburn is probably searching for another person to run their website.
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