Dan Mullen remembers calling Bo Nix to kick the tires when the now Auburn quarterback was still at Pinson Valley High School in Alabama. Mullen knew it was a long shot with Nix being an Auburn legacy but it’s recruiting, you make the calls anyway.
“I wasn’t holding my breath,” Mullen joked on Monday. “I remember watching all the high school film last year, I thought he was one of, if not the best, certainly one of the best high school quarterbacks coming out in the class. We ranked him very close to the top.”
Mullen and the Gators didn’t hit on Nix but they hope to hit him this weekend when the undefeated Tigers come to Gainesville.