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Auburn QB Payton Thorne talks about getting ready for his first game with the Tigers. AUBURN, Alabama—It’s time. We’re a day away from Auburn kicking off the 2023 season and coach Hugh Freeze and the Tigers will do it with a quarterback that has just been on campus for a little over three months. A veteran and experienced starter at Michigan State before making the move to the Plains, Payton Thorne heads into Saturday knowing what to expect on the field as a player, but excited about doing it at a new home for the first time. “I’m really excited just to get it started,” Thorne said. “It’s going to be fun getting out there in front of our amazing fans. I have only heard great things about this place and our fans. The whole game day atmosphere is going to be fun. My main goal is, I’m just excited to go out there and play.” Even though he’s still learning about his new home, it hasn’t taken Thorne long to show his new coaches and teammates what he brings to the table. That’s as much about what he’s done off the field as it is playing quarterback. A strong leader and experienced in what it takes to run an offense, Thorne has been so good in his short time at Auburn that his teammates voted him as one of four team captains this week. “It’s an honor,” Thorne said. “At a place like this and being here for only two and a half of three months, it’s pretty cool to be voted by your teammates. I have had a chance to build some really good relationships already. It’s just an honor. It’s something you can look back on later in life. It’s something you’ll always be able to hold and say ‘I was a captain for my football team.’ That’s something you can tell your kids about. It’s definitely an honor.” Now it’s time for Thorne and the Tigers to put it on film for the first time as an offense. Trying to mesh a big group of newcomers, including himself, while also learning and fine-tuning the offense, Thorne said he’s seen some good things this week as Auburn gets closer and closer to squaring off against UMass in Saturday’s opener. “You’ve got a chance to visualize it and see it and layer it on film and then go out there and do it,” Thorne said of what happens when you start to focus on an opponent. “It helps a ton. To be able to sit down with the receivers and say ‘hey, we’re going to see this this week and if we get this, let’s run this.’ Putting together five good days of practice and days of preparation that go into it, it’s going to help a lot.” At 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Auburn’s team will run onto the field to officially kick off the first season of the Freeze era. Thorne said that’s what it’s all about and he can’t wait to see what the Tigers have in store. “I’m excited just to play as a team and not be playing against each other,” he said. “Get to watch our defense play and get to see all of our guys working together, completing balls, getting into the end zone, all of that stuff. It’s going to be fun.” Freeze explains Auburn's 'Perfect Thursday' practices "If we’re still not doing it right on Thursday, are we really smart coaches to expect that in two days’ time, we’re going to get it right?" VIDEO: Highlights: Florida at No. 14 Utah On Thursdays, Hugh Freeze wants perfection — or as close as he can get — out of his Auburn football team. Two days before kickoff should be the Tigers’ best day of work all week. That was the case for many position groups this "Perfect Thursday" ahead of Auburn’s season opener, Freeze said, including quarterback, where Payton Thorne was “really accurate” and had one of his best practices leading the offense. But for as much emphasis as Freeze puts on Thursdays, as soon as practice concludes, he sends everyone home — coaching staff included. He doesn’t want anyone back in the building until Friday morning. During that time, he challenges his coaches to take advantage of a free night with their families. “I give them kind of an assignment with their families, and they have to report back to me,” Freeze said Thursday with a laugh. When Friday morning hits, though, the assessment of Thursday’s film is pretty cut and dry, Freeze said. “Thursday should look pretty mistake-free,” Freeze said. “If it’s not, they’ve got to convince me why in the world are we to carry this (play). If we’re still not doing it right on Thursday, are we really smart coaches to expect that in two days’ time, we’re going to get it right? “Convince me of that. If not, get it off the dang call sheet and let’s go with something else.” For players, Friday is “really light.” The coaches go over their final checklists — making sure to touch on special teams and situational work. In Friday’s walkthrough practice, players will be in just shirts and shorts — no pads or helmets. That will be a difference for those who were coached by Bryan Harsin, as the Tigers would practice intensely on Fridays before home games. “I’m big on never having a team on the field that looks tired,” Freeze said. “Friday is really mental and loose. Friday night at the hotel is loose for me. I don’t like Saturday to be that way, but Friday night they can be loose.” Kickoff for Auburn’s season opener against UMass is set for 2:30 p.m. CDT (ESPN). *** Subscribe to Auburn Undercover for the latest news and intel, podcasts, recruiting coverage and more *** *** Get Auburn news straight to your inbox with the Auburn

Selma native to start on Auburn O-line - The Selma Times‑Journal James Jones 3–4 minutes Published 6:00 am Friday, September 1, 2023 When Auburn hosts UMass on Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium, a Selma native will be starting on the Tigers’ offensive line. Jeremiah Wright is starting as left guard for Tigers. The junior won the starting position during spring drills and held onto it during fall camp. “I’m ready to hunt, I’m ready to block and I’m ready to get good pancakes,” Wright said before the start of fall practice last month. “I want to be one of the greats to do it.” Email newsletter signup Latasha Roller, Wright’s mother and other family members will be sitting in Jordan-Hare Stadium to watch the Tigers, who plays the Minutemen at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN. Mary Wright, Edward Roller, Sh’Naya Johnson, Bre’Anna Rogers, Jennifer Rogers, Ka’Marrion Fuller,Malexus Sanders are the other family members who will attend the game. “I am super excited about going to the game,” Roller said. “I am beyond grateful and excited to see what God and Jeremiah [are] going to do.’’ Wright signed a national letter of intent with Tigers in 2019. The Selma Times-Journal’s All-Dallas County selection was moved to the defensive line, but coaches eventually returned Wright back to offense. Auburn offensive line coach Jake Thornton said during spring practices that Wright had potential to become a standout. “He’s going to be a huge part of our offense, and he’s going to be somebody we’re going to build this unit around,” Thornton said. The 6-foot-5, 335-pound Wright made his only start last season, against Ole Miss. He saw limited action over the next three seasons. Roller said she’s proud of her son for overcoming adversity to play down on the Plains. “Playing at Auburn has not been a walk in the park, but Jeremiah’s faith was not wavered,” Roller said. “Playing on an SEC level is different, and you have to have the work ethic, the heart, the mind, body and soul, and love what you are doing. Jeremiah’s love for God and passion for football is what keeps him going.” More News - Main story

Auburn's Hugh Freeze had his first Tiger Talk on the road on Thursday night. AUBURN, Alabama—The fans started arriving two hours before the 6 p.m. start of Thursday’s Tiger Talk at Baumhower’s Victory Grille. They were hungry, but not for just the food. Auburn fans have continued to build the excitement level since Hugh Freeze was hired in late November. Just two days away from his first game as the head coach and with a sellout crowd of over 88,000 expected at Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday for the season-opener against UMass, Freeze got a taste of what to expect in his first game when he walked into the restaurant for his first Tiger Talk on location. “It’s just incredible,” Freeze tells Auburnundercover. “The love and passion these people have for Auburn football and their appreciation for the work our staff has done since we’ve been here is quite humbling really. It just makes you want to deliver for them. I know there’s hope out there. I just want to keep hope alive.” For one night at least, there wasn’t a game to worry about and no plays to call. It was all about celebrating the current and the future of Auburn football. You could see it on the faces of the fans in attendance at Tiger Talk and it started early. As someone who grew up in Auburn, attended Auburn University, and now owns Baumhower’s Victory Grille in addition to his recent purchase of Byron’s Smokehouse, Kevin Tudhope knows all about the Auburn spirit and how important it is to everything associated with the town and university. He also knows how important football is to making that happen. He sees big things ahead with Freeze and this staff running things on the Plains. “Wow,” Tudhope said of the crowd in attendance on Thursday night. “I literally haven’t seen this place like this in 10 years.” With a crowd packed around the room, Freeze finished his portion of Tiger Talk on Thursday night before turning things over to Jayson Jones and Gunner Britton on the mics. But his night wasn’t done. He stayed around and signed autographs and took pictures with dozens of fans that were still waiting. Tudhope said as much as anything he saw on Thursday night, that was the most important thing. “That’s what you would expect from a coach that’s buying in and that gets it,” he said. “You saw some of that with Cadillac (Williams) last fall. The excitement and everything around what Hugh is doing, he’s bought in. The city has bought in and the university and the players. It’s just exciting. Everybody is excited.” It's just another step in the right direction, not only for Auburn football, but Auburn athletics in general. With a new president and new athletic director both focused on getting Auburn back to the top of the heap across the board, Auburn's Deputy AD for External Affairs, Rhett Hobart, said Thursday night showed what is possible on the Plains. "You have been able to see for the last few months now through ticket sales and events, just the excitement from the Auburn fan base," he said. "That continued tonight. Standing room only crowd for the first Tiger Talk of the year. The Auburn family is excited and hopeful for a great season of Auburn football." Kickoff for Saturday’s game is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. The game can be seen on ESPN. Quick Quotes: Hugh Freeze previews UMass on Tiger Talk We're now less than 48 hours until kickoff of the Hugh Freeze era at Auburn VIDEO: Late Kick: LSU vs Florida State will be an excellent matchup We're now less than 48 hours until kickoff of the Hugh Freeze era at Auburn. And on the first in-season edition of Tiger Talk, Auburn's in-house radio program, Freeze will be joined by offensive lineman Gunner Britton and defensive tackle Jayson Jones to preview the Tigers' season opener against UMass (2:30 p.m. CDT, ESPN). Follow along here for live updates, with the show set to get under way at approximately 6 p.m. CDT. * Freeze came straight from Thursday practice. To prove it, he blew his whistle for the crowd. * What's the week of practice been like? "It's time to play." * Freeze said he's "pretty comfortable" with where the offense stands heading into the first game because of the control he has on that side of the ball. * Freeze calls Thursday's practice "Perfect Thursdays." Says it should be the best day of practice of the week. The coaching staff will watch Thursday's film Friday morning. If there's issues in the film, Freeze asks his coaches why they should still be running those plays Saturday. * Freeze says Friday is the lightest day of the week for the team, mostly mental preparation and studying other than a walkthrough: "I'm big on having a team on the field that never looks tired." * Will Auburn fans see a fast offense Saturday? "If you don't, there's a problem." Says he's adapted over the years in terms of tempo because at Ole Miss he learned that it can hurt his defense by getting off the field too quickly. * Freeze still declines to comment whether running back Jarquez Hunter will play. * Freeze says he may take a series or two in terms of play-calling from offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery, just depending on how the game is flowing. * Freeze thinks the advantage goes to UMass for having a game under their belt, even outweighing the fact Auburn has game film now. * Freeze said Payton Thorne had a good practice Thursday and was "really accurate." Admits he's still missing some deep throws. * Freeze's final message to Auburn fans before the opener: "I don't know if we're deep enough or good enough at every spot yet. But I promise if you give us a little time, we're going to get it done for you." * Freeze on his gameday mindset as a coach: "I can be pretty critical in practice. But on game day, I'm their biggest fan."

i have often wondered if their coach would be a monster somewhere else with better talent. he has whipped a lot of teams i thought would clean his clock.

to me they did. they have a greatr receiver but he looked slow. the one wearing the jorts he made out of his pants? lol

i tried for the longest to find the play money they were throwing at the team. my hope was tog et cam to sign it. but no money and i finally bought an auto rookie card of cams..........

corndogs? is that for us cheap bastids that might come around mooching? grins

i share your frustration. there would be two or three places to listen to bama and in many areas you are lucky if you find one. and i dislike am radio. if just sounds pitiful compared to fm. i hope you find what you are looking for.

awesome! thanx for posting.

the shame in all this is unless it is changed we lead in infant deaths in the country. yep bama is number one or was and i doubt it has changed. it is shameful and it breaks my heart.

rollingstone.com Is Weed Legal? Biden Could Move Weed to Schedule III Tessa Stuart 9–11 minutes Skip to main content Weed At Walgreens?: What Biden’s Push to Make Marijuana Less Illegal Could Mean President Biden recommended moving marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. Now the DEA decides Minh Connors/The Washington Post/Getty Images The Biden administration’s Health and Human Services Department has recommended that the Drug Enforcement Administration move cannabis from Schedule I — a drug category that includes heroin and LSD — to Schedule III, where it will be considered roughly as addictive as Tylenol with codeine. It’s a big deal: the first time in history that an arm of the federal government has formally suggested reclassifying the substance since Congress stuck it there in 1971, at the beginning of the War on Drugs. While the move, which must be approved by the DEA before it would become official, falls short of the total delisting that advocates have long pushed for, it would still have far-reaching implications. First of all, how plausible is it, really, that the federal government will make the change? It’s still a big ‘if’! The DEA is the final authority on the matter, and, according to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), it has rejected the idea of rescheduling no less than four times before: “In the past, the DEA has employed its own five-factor test (which differs from HHS’ criteria) to determine whether or not cannabis ought to be rescheduled. On four prior occasions, the agency has determined that cannabis failed to meet any of its five criteria.” As recently as 2016, NORML notes, the DEA maintained that, “Based on the established five-part test for making such determination, marijuana has no ‘currently accepted medical use’ because … the drug’s chemistry is not known and reproducible; there are no adequate safety studies; there are no adequate and well-controlled studies proving efficacy; the drug is not accepted by qualified experts; and the scientific evidence is not widely available.” Much has changed since 2016, though. Back then, recreational weed was only legal in four states and the District of Columbia; today, 23 states have legalized recreational use, while medical marijuana is legal in 38 states — and a whole research industry has cropped up around it. Editor’s picks Let’s say someone has a prior conviction for marijuana possession — would this change anything about that person’s criminal record? (Asking for a friend.) Sorry to your friend, but no, relocating cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III will not clear their record, nor is it likely to change any state laws regulating marijuana. “It would not have an immediate criminal justice impact,” Brian Vicente, a lawyer and decriminalization advocate, tells Rolling Stone. “Ninety-nine percent of cannabis arrests and convictions are at the state and local level, and this would not impact those individuals with records. But for that one percent of federal crime — which tends to be folks with 1,000 pounds, like, really, really big cases — there is some potential that we could see a downgrading of some of those offenses moving forward. And perhaps an expedited expungement for people that have been busted consuming cannabis on, say, national parkland.” If it were rescheduled, weed would be in the same category as some types of Tylenol — does that mean I could pick it up at my local pharmacy? Yes, actually! It’s likely that this move could mean weed would be made available at a drugstore near you in the not-too-distant future. “If the proposal to move to Schedule III were to be fully adopted, there would be a path where, after FDA research, cannabis could be sold through pharmacies,” Vicente says. Right now, of course, that’s not the case — it’s currently sold only through licensed dispensaries. And that reality is a ways away, he adds. “I think we’re talking years for the FDA to study this product and to get it, essentially, behind the counter at Walgreens.” Related So, is this good or bad news for folks in the weed industry? It’s good. For one thing, moving cannabis from one schedule to another would have a significant impact on the tax obligations of marijuana business owners. “This would remove cannabis from the 280E tax provision that has absolutely crippled cannabis business owners for years,” Vicente explains. (Section 280E prohibits business owners from deducting business expenses from income derived from the “trafficking” of Schedule I or II substances.) “You’re gonna see these business owners pay a typical tax rate, instead of a 60 percent tax rate. There would be a very significant business impact,” he says. It wouldn’t do much to immediately solve the banking issues that many businesses in the cannabis space face, though, since most banks still won’t lend to weed businesses out of fear of aiding a federal crime. “This change we’re talking about would send a real message to banks that this is a product that’s being increasingly accepted as a legitimate industry, and they should look at banking it, but it would not have an overnight impact on how banks approach this issue,” Vicente says. Trending But, wouldn’ total legalization be, um, better than this half-measure? What would that look like? If the government chose that route instead, Vicente says, the way weed would be regulated in this country would look a lot like the way we regulate alcohol. “We would have the federal government engaged in a limited amount of regulation of cannabis, similar to how they regulate alcohol in a limited fashion. The bulk of regulation would go on at the state level, and the bulk of criminalization would go on to state level too,” he says. “So for instance, it could be illegal for adults to use in Alabama — they could [even] make it the death penalty if they want, right? — whereas it would be fully legal in Colorado.”

sounds fun! i hope you guys have a blast!

WOW! i cannot believe i never heard this before! how awesome. you should post a story of it. i would read it.

i love this one red! thanx for posting. if they made an official poster of something like this i would have it on the wall.

what you guys cooking? and i thought you lived in tejas for some reason...

are there not any radio stations online you might can find? those were big at one time.

it is brand new so i am not sure but i would bet it is but i am just guessing. they have advertised it so it would be a bad look not to be able to tune in to andy and company.

you got big plans for the game? i might get me some cooter brown ribs so me and the dogs can pig out during the game. they are big auburn fans they just do not know it.

i laugh at billy and his smart mouth concerning us. his team looked badly coached and lost half the time.

Auburn Is Coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAR EAGLE BABY!