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247sports.com Auburn gets sneak preview of young safeties in bowl work Jason Caldwell 4–5 minutes Auburn's young safeties got some valuable experience in Nashville. With both Jaylin Simpson and Zion Puckett done at Auburn, the safety position is going to look much different for the Tigers following the loss of two of the most experienced players on the roster. Coach Ron Roberts and assistant Zac Etheridge got a sneak preview of what life is going to be like without them in the bowl loss to Maryland on Saturday, and while there were some struggles early, the group played well as they turned the page to 2024. A true sophomore, Caleb Wooden was one of the bright spots of the day for the Tigers with a caused fumble and an interception. It was also the first opportunity for the coaching staff to get a long look at true freshmen such as Terrance Love and Sylvester Smith. Playing in 10 games this season, mostly on special teams, Love made six total tackles as he learned the ropes from the older guys in the room. Getting his shot against the Terps, Love showed his ability to get downhill. It’s something that Roberts said is a strength of the big defensive back from Langston Hughes High in Fairburn, Georgia. “I think T. Love is a talented football player,” Roberts said. “He'll strike and run and all those things. He'll come and get you. I think he's a very talented football player, and he's a smart football player. Kind of got caught there early behind some older guys, and he didn't get his opportunity, as much reps as he probably should have got.” Playing in five games this season, Smith showed his versatility throughout the season. After working mostly as a nickel when he arrived on campus, the Munford native transitioned to his natural position of safety later in the season. Roberts said they needed him to be able to do both this season and he showed that he’s going to be a building block in the secondary down the road. “Sylvester kind of played -- he's probably the next one when you're looking at the free safety spot,” Roberts said. “Really for necessity for us this year, he came in and played the star position, the nickel, and did that as a role. That was his best pick coming in with the young guys, how was he going to get in that three spot and get a chance to go learn and compete. “We moved him back the first time we went to some bowl practices, and he's really showed tremendous range and all that. I think these practices are going to help him tremendously get ready to go. But he will strike you, and he will run. He's going to be a really good football player.” Auburn also has another true freshman, C.J. Johnson, that will be in the mix for the safety position when the Tigers get back on the field for spring practices. The coaches also got a look at early enrollee Kaleb Harris from Thompson, who was on campus and in Nashville for bowl practices. In addition, junior college signee Laquan Robinson and athletic Kensley Faustin add to what should be a talented, but inexperienced group next year.

Auburn vs. Penn: Stream, injury report, broadcast info for Tuesday’s game in Neville Arena Taylor Jones Tue, January 2, 2024 at 6:00 AM CST·3 min read The Auburn Tigers play the Penn Quakers at Neville Arena on Tuesday, and if you’re wondering how you can watch the action live, you’ve come to the right place. The Auburn Tigers (10-2) look to close out the non-conference slate in style on Tuesday night by hosting the Penn Quakers (8-6) of the Ivy League. Auburn is feeling confident heading into this game, as they have won five straight games by a margin of 24.8 points. In their last game against Chattanooga on Saturday, the Tigers were able to empty their bench and 10 players scored at least six points in Auburn’s 101-66 victory over the Mocs. The Tigers will get one final tune-up in before traveling to Arkansas on Saturday to open the SEC slate. Penn is 1-2 this season against teams ranked in the top 25. Penn has dropped games to Kentucky and most recently Houston, but upset then-No. 21 Villanova in November, 76-72. Below, you will find everything you need to know ahead of Auburn’s final nonconference game of the season against Penn including a broadcast guide, injury report, and a projected starting five. How to watch Tuesday's game Jamie Holt/Auburn Tigers Here’s when you should tune in to see the game: Date: Tuesday, Jan. 2 Time: 8 p.m. CT TV Channel: SEC Network (Dave Neal, Dane Bradshaw) Live Stream: fuboTV (watch here) How to listen to Tuesday's game The Montgomery Advertiser The Auburn Sports Network will have live coverage of Tuesday’s game at Neville Arena. Pregame coverage with Andy Burcham and Sonny Smith will begin at 7:30 CT. Find your local Auburn Sports Network affiliate below. Sirius/XM Ch. 190 Abbeville 98.7 FM Albany, Georgia 102.9 FM Alexander City 97.5 FM Andalusia 93.7 FM Atlanta, Georgia 1010 AM Auburn 94.3 FM Birmingham 100.5 FM Centre 100.5 FM Centre 990 AM Columbus, Georgia 540 AM Cullman 92.1 FM Cullman 98.3 FM Demopolis 106.5 FM Dothan 102.5 FM Evergreen 101.1 FM Flomaton 105.1 FM Florence 94.9 FM Foley 92.5 FM Foley 1310 AM Fort Payne 100.9 FM Fort Payne 1250 AM Gadsden 1350 AM Greenville 94.3 FM Hackleburg 95.5 FM Huntsville 100.3 FM Jasper 88.5 FM LaGrange, Georgia 102.3 FM Mobile 106.5 FM Montgomery 92.3 FM Moulton 97.9 FM Ocean Springs, Mississippi 106.5 FM Oxford 92.7 FM Panama City, Florida 104.3 FM Pensacola, Florida 105.1 FM Roanoke 102.3 FM Scottsboro 1050 AM Selma 1490 AM Sylacauga 100.3 FM Sylacauga 1290 AM Thomasville 95.5 FM Troy 970 AM Tuscaloosa 100.5 FM Vernon 100.7 FM Vernon 1380 AM Auburn's projected starting five The Montgomery Advertiser Pos. Name Class PPG RPG APG G Aden Holloway Fr. 11.2 1.3 3.8 G Denver Jones Jr. 7.7 2.7 1.8 G Chris Moore Sr. 3.7 2.0 1.3 F Jaylin Williams Gr. 11.8 5.1 1.9 C Johni Broome Jr. 15.1 8.4 1.6 Penn's potential starting five Maria Lysaker-USA TODAY Sports Pos. Name Class PPG RPG APG G Clark Slajchert Sr. 17.4 2.9 3.0 G Tyler Perkins Fr. 14.6 5.7 2.1 G Sam Brown Fr. 11.4 3.6 1.8 G George Smith Jr. 4.6 3.4 1.8 C Nick Spinoso Jr. 10.0 7.2 3.4 Auburn's injury report The Montgomery Advertiser No Injuries Reported Penn's Injury Report Ben Queen-USA TODAY Sports No Injuries Reported Auburn's key players to watch Jamie Holt/Auburn Tigers F Jaylin Williams F Johni Broome G KD Johnson Penn's players to watch Nelson Chenault-USA TODAY Sports G Clark Slajchert G Tyler Perkins C Nick Spinoso Story originally appeared on Auburn Wire

milroe looked a lot like brody..................lol

slim pickings folks. i will check back later and see if anything new has been posted.

al.com How Hugh Freeze believes his first season at Auburn could’ve gone differently Published: Jan. 02, 2024, 6:30 a.m. 5–6 minutes For Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze, it’s painfully easy to isolate a trio of football games and look at them with a “would’ve, could’ve, should’ve” lens. “If you look at the Georgia game, I wish we would have protected better because we had some shots,” Freeze said Saturday night after Auburn’s Music City Bowl loss to Maryland. “If you go to the Ole Miss game, I wish we would have gone more tempo,” Freeze added. “If you go to the Alabama game, I wish we’d have been able to punch better and I wish we’d have taught 4th and 31 defense better,” Auburn’s first-year head coach concluded. Freeze and the Tigers lost each of those games by one possession – a moral victory for some, considering all three opposing teams finished in the Top 12 of the final College Football Playoff rankings. During moments of those losses, the often-referenced talent gap that hindered Auburn shone through. In the Tigers’ losses to Texas A&M and LSU, the talent gap argument remained valid. “We can all say we need to improve our roster, and we’ve said that, and we’re working on that, and we’re going to do that,” Freeze said. Against New Mexico State and then again against Maryland on Sunday, however, it’s hard to say the talent gap argument still applied. While New Mexico State wasn’t a bad team by any stretch of the imagination as it finished the 2023 campaign 10-5, the Aggies finished their season 10-5 after a two-possession loss to Liberty in the Conference USA Championship, followed by getting crushed at the hands of Fresno State in the New Mexico State Bowl. Meanwhile, Maryland, which hung around with top-ranked Michigan in the regular season, had its way against Auburn in the Music City Bowl Saturday afternoon. And the Terrapins did so after being bit harder by the same “opt-out bug” that got ahold of the Tigers’ roster. And it’s in those two losses that the talent gap argument holds little meaning, leaving the blame searching for somewhere else to reside. As head coach, Freeze knows that blame will eventually find its way back to him – and it should. “Even with the roster we had, I felt like we could have gotten more out of it if I had done a better job,” Freeze said. Auburn started out to a crawl against Maryland on Saturday. As a result, the Terrapins climbed to a 21-0 first-quarter lead, which proved too deep of a hole for the Tigers to dig their way out of. It also proved the Tigers hadn’t learned their lesson in needing to “get up” for every game on its schedule – not just the “big games” or games being played at Jordan-Hare Stadium. “We felt like we competed really, really well in some games and we had some letdowns in others,” Freeze said. “We didn’t complete some games we could have won, and we weren’t consistent in the level of competitiveness that you have to have to win at this level, particularly in our conference or against Big 10 teams.” Against SEC and Big 10 teams, Auburn finished the season with a combined 3-6 record. And for the first time in 45 years, the Tigers have finished with a losing record in each of their last three seasons as Auburn continues looking for its first postseason win since the 2018. And that all keeps Freeze up at night, wondering how he and the Tigers could’ve finished the season with different results. “Every game is different as to what you would have done differently, but you certainly don’t enjoy having to say that or feel that. Bit that’s the way I feel right now,” Freeze said. “We’re going to improve the roster and all of that, but we still could have gotten more out of this season, I believe, for our young men and our wonderful fans.” Following Saturday’s season-ending loss, Freeze mentioned his goal in 2024 is to help Auburn “figure out how to be a real team.” Minutes later, Freeze was asked why he didn’t feel his current roster was a “real team.” He chalked it up to a “disease of me” diagnosis, which he feels isn’t just plaguing the Tigers’ locker room, but society as a whole. Fortunately, if Freeze learned anything in his first season on The Plains, it’s that it’s easy to buy into the words of the Auburn Creed. He believes in Auburn and he loves it. “We’re incredibly blessed to be at Auburn. Incredibly blessed by our administration and fans, and it hurt like heck to let them down and not compete on given days,” Freeze said. “But my takeaway is that I’m still confident as ever that this can be an elite football program again.” However, that doesn’t happen overnight. It’s going to take work – hard work. And it starts from the top. “I think our staff and our young men, starting with our staff, starting with me – we have got to create a standard of the way we consistently work, consistently compete and figure out how to be a true team,” Freeze said. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. 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Cam already showing out!

i watched freeze at liberty and they beat some big boys. they knew what they were doing or looked like it. i think freeze took a chance and it bit him in the behind not calling the plays. but that is my opinion and nothing more.

i try to throw some baseball stuff out but i do not want to overwhelm myself. i have a timer so it will not let me post faster. actually i imagine we all do............happy new year back to you. i spent my night calming my dogs.it got bad.................

some days i am a quick wit........some days i am a nitwit...................

i would think crime dawg probably decided to move on after the problem arose. i like it and the kids seem to like him. but that is my guess hank. i am sure they offered to keep crimedog. i am not saying who is wrong or who is right. i just want folks to be treated fair and i want a damn winner on the field.

i never heard about the curse but i do curse too much..................grins

al.com After another dismal game from Auburn’s offense, where does the blame go now? Published: Dec. 30, 2023, 7:13 p.m. 5–7 minutes Auburn fans frustrated after tough loss to Maryland in Music City Bowl Why Auburn has found itself unable to maintain consistency this season may trace its way back to an offensive coaches’ meeting room that has appeared to be a brain trust with differing means to achieve their ends. And after a 31-13 loss to Maryland in the Music City Bowl to close out a 6-7 season, that starts with head coach Hugh Freeze and his inconsistent involvement. That see-saw began before the 2023 season with Freeze giving primary play-calling duties to offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery and significant struggles of the offense that followed. After Auburn lost to Ole Miss in October, seven games into the season, Freeze claims he “put his foot down” and took more involvement in offensive planning. That seemed to be what was credited for a turnaround during Auburn’s three-game SEC winning streak late in the year. Freeze commented at points this season on how the coaches he hired would allow him to focus on recruiting. But he had to step back on that plan to help with the offense. During the regular season when Freeze was asked about the well-done job of defensive coordinator Ron Roberts, Freeze said he likes to step out of his assistant’s way until they prove they can’t do the job. At that point in the year, Freeze had already stated how he’d stepped in more with the offense. The history made Freeze’s comments about what he described as a poor offensive game plan against Maryland, especially fascinating. “Well, obviously I don’t feel like it was an effective one,” Freeze said after the Music City Bowl loss. “I didn’t get too involved in it for most of the part until this week because of recruiting, and really wanted to kind of evaluate everything about our program.” Based on Freeze’s comments throughout the season, it would be fair to assume the offense was good when Freeze was heavily involved in preparation, and bad when he wasn’t. Whether that’s the full story is unclear. “I think honestly he’s always been a part of it,” Montgomery said Friday before the Music City Bowl. “We went into this with that mindset. He’s always had influence on it from fall camp to now and will continue to do that. We went into this with our eyes wide open with the honest approach of trying to put the best thing on the field for our players and giving them the best opportunity to go win.” Freeze was willing to take blame on himself after the loss, saying the criticism should start with him as the head coach. But statements that he wasn’t heavily involved with the plan until after the Dec. 20-22 early signing period and then saying it was not a good plan instead is passing blame around the staff. The main complaint Freeze had centered on not running the ball well. Auburn only had 76 rushing yards and averaged 2.2 yards per carry. Freeze’s blame there went not to the players’ execution but more to the schemes Auburn used. “We have to go look at the run schemes that we had, and did we not play hard up front,” Freeze said. “It’s really hard for me to tell. But they really dominated the line of scrimmage against us. They did load the box now.” That inability to run the ball plus a three-score deficit in the game’s first quarter meant Auburn essentially had to rely on its passing game — which has been among the 10 worst in the nation this season by yards per game. Both Payton Thorne and Holden Geriner struggled mightily. Thorne completed only 13 passes out of 27 for 84 yards. Geriner only completed one pass. Third-string quarterback Hank Brown was the only productive passer. The blame could go on the offensive line’s poor blocking. It could go on the schemes Freeze mentioned. It could go on ineffective quarterback play from Thorne that led Freeze to backtrack on his previous vote of confidence in his starting quarterback. It could go on a group of pass catchers that have failed to create separation or any form of dynamic contributions throughout the 2023 season. The continually spreading blame surrounding the team’s inconsistency leaves Auburn further emphasizing questions it seemed to believe it had solved. Freeze’s evaluations going into 2024 will focus on a quarterback position that could have a competition he wasn’t previously expecting. And it could take a reflection on an offensive staff that Freeze on multiple occasions, including Saturday, has suggested did not get the job done as needed. Or at least not done his way. “I’m constantly evaluating players, staff, everything, and if we see that my evaluation has been wrong, then we have to change gears and reevaluate to make us better, then that’s the steps we should make,” Freeze said. “That position should be an interesting one certainly in spring practice.” Matt Cohen covers Auburn sports for AL.com. You can follow him on X at @Matt_Cohen_ or email him at mcohen@al.com