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she stood her ground against the idiot known as trump. screw him and good riddance and i hope he lands in jail and when he dies he burns in hell. the fact you hate her and love trump speaks volumes about you. she never was anything close to the trashy trump.

Trump sued for Police Officer Brian Sicknick’s Jan. 6 death Published: Jan. 06, 2023, 7:50 a.m. ~3 minutes FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, a U.S. Capitol Police officer holds a program during a ceremony memorializing U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, as an urn with his cremated remains lies in honor on a black-draped table at the center of the Capitol Rotunda in Washington. The D.C. medical examiner’s office says Sicknick, who was injured during the Jan. 6 insurrection, suffered a stroke and ruled the officer died from natural causes. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)AP By Sabrina Willmer and Zoe Tillman Bloomberg News (TNS) Tribune Media Services Donald Trump is being blamed for the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was assaulted during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, in a lawsuit that claims the former president is responsible because he riled up his supporters with false election claims and calls to take action. That “cost” Sicknick his life, Sandra Garza, Sicknick’s former girlfriend and representative of his estate, said in a complaint filed in Washington Thursday. It’s the latest civil lawsuit seeking to hold Trump legally responsible for the violence at the Capitol. He’s previously argued that he’s immune against being sued over his words and actions in connection with the events of Jan. 6. A federal appeals court is set to weigh in on the merits of that defense later this year. Garza also sued Julian Khater and George Tanios, both of whom pleaded guilty last year to offenses tied to the riot. As part of his plea, Khater admitted to spraying Sicknick and other officers with bear spray. Tanios admitted to buying the bear spray and bringing it to the Capitol. Khater then took the canister from Khater’s backpack and used it on the officers, according to the complaint. Sicknick later collapsed at police headquarters and died the next day. A medical examiner determined that he died of natural causes, though Garza’s complaint notes the examiner also previously stated that “all that transpired played a role in his condition.” The government didn’t charge the men in connection with Sicknick’s death. Garza’s lawyers placed the blame squarely on the former president. “Trump put out a clear call to action, and the crowd — including defendants Khater and Tanios — responded,” Garza’s lawyers said. Garza is seeking at least $10 million in monetary damages from each defendant as well as punitive damages. ___ ©2023 Bloomberg L.P. Visit bloomberg.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

Paul Finebaum on Bobby Petrino: ‘He’s always been a snake in the grass’ Published: Jan. 05, 2023, 4:42 p.m. 3–4 minutes FILE - Missouri State head coach Bobby Petrino is shown in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Oklahoma State on Sept. 4, 2021, in Stillwater, Okla. Petrino will return to Fayetteville on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, when he will lead Missouri State against his former program in a much-anticipated game for an FCS program that he's quickly turned into a juggernaut. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)AP Desperate people do desperate things, Paul Finebaum contends. That’s the reaction the SEC Network analyst shared Thursday during an appearance on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 when asked about Jimbo Fisher’s decision to hire Bobby Petrino as his offensive coordinator. “We forget about JetGate Petrino,” Finebaum said. “We fixate on the Harley motorcycle Bobby Petrino, but this guy has always been a snake in the grass.” Petrino was last in the SEC in 2011, his fourth season as head coach at Arkansas. He was fired the following spring after it was revealed he was untruthful about an extramarital affair with an athletic department staff member. The photo of Petrino - with a neck brace on - will forever commemorate the incident in which he misled officials about being alone on a motorcycle. Long before that, in 2003, on the Thursday before the Iron Bowl, Auburn officials flew to an airport near Louisville to talk to Petrino, who, at the time, was the head coach of the Cardinals, to talk about the job at Auburn behind then-coach Tommy Tuberville’s back. Petrino had worked at Auburn under Tuberville the season before. “We act like Bobby Petrino is a savant, that he’s never failed, but, quite frankly, he did fail at Louisville. He got fired there in his second go round. That’s on top of the other malfeasances that has occurred in his clock.” Finebaum is referring to December of 2007, when Petrino - the head coach of the 3-10 Falcons - resigned to become head coach at Arkansas for the second time. The move was less than 24 hours after personally promising owner Arthur Blank that he was staying in Atlanta. Petrino informed his players of his departure with a four-sentence note left at each player’s locker. While Petrino brings luggage with him, Finebaum contends, the hire is more of a reflection of Fisher than Petrino. “I don’t know how to interpret this,” Finebaum said. “Jimbo Fisher finally woke up and realized he may be down to his last swing. He’s going to go down in flames or roll the dice with someone who is, quite frankly, one of the most disliked people in modern football history.” Check out the full interview here. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

i bet that deer is not much of an Auburn fan right now...........and now i am craving deer sausage and deerburger..........good eatting.

No. 22 Auburn hosts Council and No. 13 Arkansas ~2 minutes Arkansas Razorbacks (12-2, 1-1 SEC) at Auburn Tigers (11-3, 1-1 SEC) Auburn, Alabama; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: No. 13 Arkansas faces the No. 22 Auburn Tigers after Ricky Council IV scored 25 points in Arkansas' 74-68 win against the Missouri Tigers. The Tigers have gone 8-0 in home games. Auburn is 9-3 against opponents over .500. The Razorbacks have gone 1-1 against SEC opponents. Arkansas has a 0-2 record in games decided by less than 4 points. Follow every game: Latest NCAA Men's College Basketball Scores and Schedules The Tigers and Razorbacks match up Saturday for the first time in SEC play this season. TOP PERFORMERS: Wendell Green Jr. is averaging 12.3 points and 3.5 assists for the Tigers. Johni Broome is averaging 12.1 points over the last 10 games for Auburn. Anthony Black is averaging 11.7 points, 3.8 assists and 1.7 steals for the Razorbacks. Council is averaging 18.4 points and 3.3 rebounds while shooting 48.1% over the past 10 games for Arkansas. LAST 10 GAMES: Tigers: 7-3, averaging 71.1 points, 33.9 rebounds, 13.9 assists, 7.3 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 64.7 points per game. Razorbacks: 8-2, averaging 78.3 points, 32.9 rebounds, 13.0 assists, 9.5 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.5 points. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

the middle of this article has some basketball stuff i find very alarming about our play this year. it is in the middle of this post and takes up the majority of it as well. Auburn football, basketball & gymnastics Tiger Tidbits Mark Murphy 8–11 minutes Manage Join Trending Starting with football: * With the Tigers still needing help at a variety of positions in putting together the 2023 roster the coaches have through Sunday to get players on campus for the second round of visitors from the transfer portal. The prospects are checking out the new football headquarters, which is still getting the finishing touches added to the $90+ million project. One of the recent additions is a large sign over the front entrance that reads Woltosz Football Performance Center in honor of the major donors for the facility, Walt and Ginger Woltosz. Walt Woltosz earned bachelor’s (1969) and master’s (1977) degrees in aerospace engineering from Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. Early in his aerospace career, Walt Woltosz pioneered the development of innovative simulation and modeling software for key space and military systems. In 1996, the Air Force veteran and his wife founded Simulations Plus, Inc., applying similar technologies in healthcare to create software used by more than 200 pharmaceutical firms, including the world’s top 25, helping to analyze new products and saving millions of dollars in research and development costs. * On the subject of Woltosz Football Performance Center, Auburn’s athletic department is thanking the major donors to the project with a dinner event on Friday night at the facility. I was told that approximately 100 Auburn families made substantial gifts to the project. * Former Tiger Daniel Carlson’s sixth season in the NFL has been his most prolific for field goals of 50 yards or longer. He has hit 10-12 and for the season and has made 32-35 for the Las Vegas Raiders going into the season finale on Saturday vs. the Kansas City Chiefs. As a pro he has made 23-28 field goals from 50 yards or longer and is on track to finish above 90 percent on his overall field goals made for a third consecutive season. Carlson has the Auburn record for carer field goal percentage making 92-114 for 80.7 percent. As a pro he is making 88.1 percent of his field goals. In men’s basketball: *With Coach Bruce Pearl saying that he was disappointed with his team’s play at the guard spots following the loss to Georgia, here is a statistical comparison of how the returning guards are currently performing compared to two games into SEC play last season. Wendell Green: –Scoring down from 12.7 to 12.3 points per game –Field goal shooting down from 40.8 to 36.8 percent –Three-point shooting down from 36.1 percent to 26.3 percent –Rebounding down from 4.1 to 3.7 per game –Assists down from 4.6 to 3.5 per game –Turnovers increased from 2.3 per game at this time last season to 3.2 –Minutes played per game 24.9 this season compared to 25.4 through 14 games in 2021-22 K.D. Johnson: –Scoring down from 12.1 to 9.2 points per game –Field goal shooting down from 39.1 to 35.0 percent per game –Three-point shooting down from 31.1 percent to 28.6 percent –Rebounding down from 2.4 to 1.8 per game –Assists up to 1.6 from 1.3 per game –Turnovers up to 1.8 per game from 1.7 at this time last season –Minutes played per game 21.4 this season compared to 25.2 at this time last year Wendell Green is in his second season playing for the Tigers. (Photo: Jason Caldwell, 247Sports) Zep Jasper: –Scoring up to 3.4 from 3.1 points per game –Field goal shooting up to 35.3 from 34.7 percent last season –Three-point shooting down from 57.1 to 28.1 percent –Rebounding down from 1.1 to 0.9 per game –Assists down to 0.5 from 3.0 per game –Turnovers have improved to 0.2 per game from 1.2 last season –Minutes played per game at 18.3 this season compared to 24.6 last season * A player who has improved his numbers from last season is junior forward Chris Moore. His scoring average is up from 3.1 points per game at this time last season to 6.7. His field goal shooting is up from 45.5 to 54.2 percent. Last season through 14 games he was 0-5 on threes and has hit 8-16 (50.0 percent) this season. His rebounds are up from 2.2 to 2.8 per contest. Moore’s playing time is up from 11.6 minutes per game to 18.4. * As a team here is a comparison of Pearl’s 2021-22 Tigers and 2022-23 squad in several key statistical categories going into Saturday night’s home game vs. Arkansas compared to what it was through 14 games last season: –Field goal shooting is down to 43.4 percent from 44.9 percent –Three-point shooting is down to 28.9 percent from 34.9 percent –Free throw shooting is down to 66.9 percent from 71.3 percent, but free throws made per game is up to 14.3 from 13.3 –Rebounding margin is up to 5.7 per game from 3.4 per game last season –Auburn’s field goal defense was better at this time last season when the Tigers allowed opponents to make 38.1 percent of their shots. It is currently at 39.3 percent –Auburn’s three-point defense has improved with the opposition making 27.0 percent of those attempts compared to 31.8 percent in 2021-22 –Threes made per game is down to 6.1 from 9.1 last season –Assists are down to 14.3 per game from 15.4 last season –Turnovers per game have increased to 13.9 from 11.8 at this time last season –Turnovers forced have dropped to 14.1 from 16.9 at this time last season –Points per game is at 72.1 this season, down from 80.3 last season –Points allowed per game is at 62.8 per game, an improvement from 64.3 through 14 games in 2021-22 In women’s basketball: *After facing unbeaten, defending national champion and No. 1 ranked South Carolina on the road Thursday night the Tigers will play Alabama at 4 p.m. CST on Sunday in Neville Arena for the team’s annual Alumni Weekend game. Aicha Coulibaly is back from her knee injury and is averaging 16.9 points per game, which ranks fifth in the league. She is still working on getting back to 100 percent physically and the same is true with the team’s second-leading scorer, Honesty Scott-Grayson (15.8?points per game), who has missed the previous two games due to injuries to her ribs and ankle. She is questionable for tonight’s game, but she made the trip to Columbia. There is a good chance she will be available for Sunday’s game vs. Alabama. In gymnastics: *On the subject of injuries to ribs, returning All-American gymnast Sophia Groth cracked one of her ribs in the intrasquad exhibition during warmups for the bars event. However, she is expected to compete on Saturday night in Las Vegas in the season-opening Super 16 event at Orleans Arena. The competition will be televised on the Big Ten Network at 8 p.m. CST. Auburn, which finished fourth at the 2022 NCAA Championships, is ranked fifth in the coaches preseason poll. The Tigers will face defending national champion and preseason No. 1 Oklahoma along with No. 4 Michigan and No. 10 UCLA. Coach Jeff Graba notes that interest in his sport continues to grow and it is a nice honor for the program to be invited to the Super 16 event. While it would be a good thing for his Tigers to do well in Las Vegas the coach notes the important thing is to be a team that steadily improves and is performing well in the postseason in the spring 19COMMENTS * Graba said that with sophomore Suni Lee planning to compete in the USA trials for the 2024 Paris Olympics that she will be doing skills in college meets that will be part of her training for international competition, which she will resume after the 2023 collegiate season ends. The Auburn coach noted that he and Suni’s coach (his twin brother, Jess) are working together to give the defending Olympic champion the best plan for being ready to win more medals in 2024. A perfect score is 10.0 in an event that features skills that college judges can award a perfect 10 based on difficulty. Graba said that Lee will be doing skills worthy of an 11.0 score with a perfect performance. ">247Sports

this i thought many of you might find amusing of LSU sex parties.............

Auburn visit makes big impression on Georgia State transfer wide receiver Jason Caldwell ~4 minutes AUBURN, Alabama—A talented and productive receiver that played his high school football just down the road at Troup County High in Georgia before starring at Georgia State the last four seasons, Jamari Thrash is a player the Auburn Tigers have targeted from the transfer portal and he’s currently on campus visiting what Tigers. Listed at 6-0, 180, Thrash has put up monster numbers for the Panthers in his four seasons in Atlanta with 104 receptions for 1,752 yards and 12 touchdowns. His best season came last year when Thrash caught 61 passes for 1,122 yards and seven touchdowns to lead the team. A first-team all-state performer as a senior while catching passes from former Auburn and current UCF receiver Kobe Hudson, Thrash caught nearly 100 passes in his final two years at Troup County with 28 touchdowns. New Auburn wide receiver coach Marcus Davis and the Tigers are looking to add a veteran presence to a room that needs productive help immediately in year one under Hugh Freeze. Thrash is a player that could deliver that type of ability right out of the gate in Philip Montgomery's system. "I was really highly impressed with the new facility and talking with coach Freeze and coach Davis," Thrash said. "They really showed me I was going to be a point of emphasis in the recruiting process. Auburn really made a nice impression on me today." Planning a second visit this weekend before sitting down and making a decision this weekend, Thrash said he's basically down to just two schools and it's all because of what Auburn showed him on Thursday. "I'm going somewhere this weekend," he said. "I really already had my mind made up where I was going, but today made a big impact on me. It's going to be a long car ride home." One of the biggest things for Thrash was getting to sit down with Davis and get a feel for what the new wide receiver coach is all about. "I feel like he's a unique coach," Thrash said. "He's still a young guy, so I feel like I could relate to him a lot more. He's from Florida and my dad is from Florida, so I get along with Florida people good. I like his personality. He brings a lot of juice during the meeting room. I feel like I get a long with him pretty good." Already very familiar with Auburn after making multiple visits during his high school career, Thrash knew Auburn went the Tigers were very run-heavy. With Freeze and Philip Montgomery running the show, he believes it's going to be a new day on the Plains. "I actually did my research on coach Freeze and coach Montgomery," Thrash said. "Coach Montgomery was the head coach at Tulsa last year and I know they threw it around a lot, too. I'm really excited to see how things are going to be." 16COMMENTS As to the question of what the quarterback position could look like for the Tigers, Thrash said the coaches told him all about it. "I have to know who's getting me the ball," he said. "They told me about Robby (Ashford) and how he feels like he can polish Robby to the quarterback he can be. Last year Robby didn't have to throw the ball a whole lot, but obviously he probably will now. Coach Freeze has a lot of confidence in Robby and he talked highly about him in the meeting. I'm excited to see what happens in the future." ">247Sports

Auburn football adds walk-on WR/KR Will Upton Lance Dawe ~2 minutes Home Auburn Daily Football A quarterback doesn't promise a better season Auburn adding another quarterback via the portal does not promise a better season. 0 seconds of 1 minute, 17 secondsVolume 90% Upton eclipsed 1,000 yards receiving during his senior season at Jackson Prep. Auburn has added preferred walk-on Will Upton to its roster. Upton, a kicker/wide receiver, played at Jackson Prep High School in Jackson, Mississippi. This season Upton accumulated 1,071 receiving yards and 16 touchdowns, both of which led the 12-1 Patriots. He averaged 18.8 yards per catch. He also had 30 yards on eight carries. The 5-foot-9, 165-pound receiver should remind fans of former walk-on WR/KR Will Hastings, who while slightly larger than Upton was an important part of Auburn's 2017 receiving core. Auburn needs more depth in their receiving core, and a quick slot option like Upton could work his way up the depth chart like Hastings did.

Auburn lands walk-on quarterback John Colvin JD McCarthy 1–2 minutes Hugh Freeze and Co. are working to replenish the depth on Auburn’s roster and on Wednesday they landed a quarterback who will do just that. John Colvin, a Birmingham, Alabama, native, announced his commitment to Auburn as a preferred walk-on at quarterback. Freeze extended the offer to him in December and he is officially a Tiger now. Buy Tigers Tickets The 6-foot-3, 185-pounder has not reported any scholarship offers but has had a decorated high school career. He threw for 2,450 yards and 21 touchdowns and led Mountain Book High School to the 6A state title game as a senior. He finished his high school career with a 25-5 record, completing 65% of his passes for 4,350 yards and 50 touchdowns. He is the second quarterback for Auburn to land in the 2023 recruiting cycle, three-star Hank Brown signed with Auburn during the early signing period. The addition of Brown and Colvin helps keep the depth of Auburn’s quarterback room healthy after Zach Calzada and Trey Lindsey both entered the transfer portal.

Auburn football, basketball & gymnastics Tiger Tidbits Mark Murphy 8–11 minutes Manage Join Trending Starting with football: * With the Tigers still needing help at a variety of positions in putting together the 2023 roster the coaches have through Sunday to get players on campus for the second round of visitors from the transfer portal. The prospects are checking out the new football headquarters, which is still getting the finishing touches added to the $90+ million project. One of the recent additions is a large sign over the front entrance that reads Woltosz Football Performance Center in honor of the major donors for the facility, Walt and Ginger Woltosz. Walt Woltosz earned bachelor’s (1969) and master’s (1977) degrees in aerospace engineering from Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. Early in his aerospace career, Walt Woltosz pioneered the development of innovative simulation and modeling software for key space and military systems. In 1996, the Air Force veteran and his wife founded Simulations Plus, Inc., applying similar technologies in healthcare to create software used by more than 200 pharmaceutical firms, including the world’s top 25, helping to analyze new products and saving millions of dollars in research and development costs. * On the subject of Woltosz Football Performance Center, Auburn’s athletic department is thanking the major donors to the project with a dinner event on Friday night at the facility. I was told that approximately 100 Auburn families made substantial gifts to the project. * Former Tiger Daniel Carlson’s sixth season in the NFL has been his most prolific for field goals of 50 yards or longer. He has hit 10-12 and for the season and has made 32-35 for the Las Vegas Raiders going into the season finale on Saturday vs. the Kansas City Chiefs. As a pro he has made 23-28 field goals from 50 yards or longer and is on track to finish above 90 percent on his overall field goals made for a third consecutive season. Carlson has the Auburn record for carer field goal percentage making 92-114 for 80.7 percent. As a pro he is making 88.1 percent of his field goals. In men’s basketball: *With Coach Bruce Pearl saying that he was disappointed with his team’s play at the guard spots following the loss to Georgia, here is a statistical comparison of how the returning guards are currently performing compared to two games into SEC play last season. Wendell Green: –Scoring down from 12.7 to 12.3 points per game –Field goal shooting down from 40.8 to 36.8 percent –Three-point shooting down from 36.1 percent to 26.3 percent –Rebounding down from 4.1 to 3.7 per game –Assists down from 4.6 to 3.5 per game –Turnovers increased from 2.3 per game at this time last season to 3.2 –Minutes played per game 24.9 this season compared to 25.4 through 14 games in 2021-22 K.D. Johnson: –Scoring down from 12.1 to 9.2 points per game –Field goal shooting down from 39.1 to 35.0 percent per game –Three-point shooting down from 31.1 percent to 28.6 percent –Rebounding down from 2.4 to 1.8 per game –Assists up to 1.6 from 1.3 per game –Turnovers up to 1.8 per game from 1.7 at this time last season –Minutes played per game 21.4 this season compared to 25.2 at this time last year Wendell Green is in his second season playing for the Tigers. (Photo: Jason Caldwell, 247Sports) Zep Jasper: –Scoring up to 3.4 from 3.1 points per game –Field goal shooting up to 35.3 from 34.7 percent last season –Three-point shooting down from 57.1 to 28.1 percent –Rebounding down from 1.1 to 0.9 per game –Assists down to 0.5 from 3.0 per game –Turnovers have improved to 0.2 per game from 1.2 last season –Minutes played per game at 18.3 this season compared to 24.6 last season * A player who has improved his numbers from last season is junior forward Chris Moore. His scoring average is up from 3.1 points per game at this time last season to 6.7. His field goal shooting is up from 45.5 to 54.2 percent. Last season through 14 games he was 0-5 on threes and has hit 8-16 (50.0 percent) this season. His rebounds are up from 2.2 to 2.8 per contest. Moore’s playing time is up from 11.6 minutes per game to 18.4. * As a team here is a comparison of Pearl’s 2021-22 Tigers and 2022-23 squad in several key statistical categories going into Saturday night’s home game vs. Arkansas compared to what it was through 14 games last season: –Field goal shooting is down to 43.4 percent from 44.9 percent –Three-point shooting is down to 28.9 percent from 34.9 percent –Free throw shooting is down to 66.9 percent from 71.3 percent, but free throws made per game is up to 14.3 from 13.3 –Rebounding margin is up to 5.7 per game from 3.4 per game last season –Auburn’s field goal defense was better at this time last season when the Tigers allowed opponents to make 38.1 percent of their shots. It is currently at 39.3 percent –Auburn’s three-point defense has improved with the opposition making 27.0 percent of those attempts compared to 31.8 percent in 2021-22 –Threes made per game is down to 6.1 from 9.1 last season –Assists are down to 14.3 per game from 15.4 last season –Turnovers per game have increased to 13.9 from 11.8 at this time last season –Turnovers forced have dropped to 14.1 from 16.9 at this time last season –Points per game is at 72.1 this season, down from 80.3 last season –Points allowed per game is at 62.8 per game, an improvement from 64.3 through 14 games in 2021-22 In women’s basketball: *After facing unbeaten, defending national champion and No. 1 ranked South Carolina on the road Thursday night the Tigers will play Alabama at 4 p.m. CST on Sunday in Neville Arena for the team’s annual Alumni Weekend game. Aicha Coulibaly is back from her knee injury and is averaging 16.9 points per game, which ranks fifth in the league. She is still working on getting back to 100 percent physically and the same is true with the team’s second-leading scorer, Honesty Scott-Grayson (15.8?points per game), who has missed the previous two games due to injuries to her ribs and ankle. She is questionable for tonight’s game, but she made the trip to Columbia. There is a good chance she will be available for Sunday’s game vs. Alabama. In gymnastics: *On the subject of injuries to ribs, returning All-American gymnast Sophia Groth cracked one of her ribs in the intrasquad exhibition during warmups for the bars event. However, she is expected to compete on Saturday night in Las Vegas in the season-opening Super 16 event at Orleans Arena. The competition will be televised on the Big Ten Network at 8 p.m. CST. Auburn, which finished fourth at the 2022 NCAA Championships, is ranked fifth in the coaches preseason poll. The Tigers will face defending national champion and preseason No. 1 Oklahoma along with No. 4 Michigan and No. 10 UCLA. Coach Jeff Graba notes that interest in his sport continues to grow and it is a nice honor for the program to be invited to the Super 16 event. While it would be a good thing for his Tigers to do well in Las Vegas the coach notes the important thing is to be a team that steadily improves and is performing well in the postseason in the spring 19COMMENTS * Graba said that with sophomore Suni Lee planning to compete in the USA trials for the 2024 Paris Olympics that she will be doing skills in college meets that will be part of her training for international competition, which she will resume after the 2023 collegiate season ends. The Auburn coach noted that he and Suni’s coach (his twin brother, Jess) are working together to give the defending Olympic champion the best plan for being ready to win more medals in 2024. A perfect score is 10.0 in an event that features skills that college judges can award a perfect 10 based on difficulty. Graba said that Lee will be doing skills worthy of an 11.0 score with a perfect performance. ">247Sports

This stat about Hugh Freeze recruiting is ridiculous Zac Blackerby ~2 minutes The biggest item in the "pro" category when hiring Hugh Freeze to be Auburn's next head football coach was his ability and love for recruiting at a high level. In his first month on the job, he's doing things at Auburn that have not been done in quite some time. According to a tweet by Auburn Barstool, "Freeze has now had the same number of offensive tackles sign with him the past three weeks (four total) than auburn has had in total since 2017. Absurd." Freeze has added Tyler Johnson from the high school ranks, Izavion Miller from the junior college level, and Dillon Wade and Gunner Britton from the transfer portal. He and his coaching staff's late push to get the 2023 class inside the top 20 was remarkable but the fact that he is adding players at positions of need does not need to be overlooked. Yesterday at Auburn Daily, we put out a way too early depth chart projection after Britton committed to Freeze and the Tigers. Four of the five projected starters are newcomers to the roster.

rollingstone.com 'Troubled Teen Industry': Inside Abuse Allegations at Agapé School Adam Piore 30–38 minutes Skip to main content Inside the Christian Reform School From Hell At Missouri’s Agapé school, a devout Baptist boarding facility for boys, students say they were subjected to isolation, restraints, and treatment that bordered on torture Nathan Papes/Springfield News-Leader/Imagn W hen Andrew Breshears arrived at the Agapé Boarding School in 2018, he was a sandy-haired 12-year-old who weighed less than 100 pounds. He enjoyed watching movies, listening to Elvis, and playing soccer with his friends. “I was sheltered,” Breshears says. But he struggled at home. When he was told he couldn’t live with his mother after her stint in rehab, he threatened to kill himself, and another person from the household. His grandparents sent him to a mental hospital, then to Agapé. At first glance, the facility for “at-risk and unmotivated boys” — a Baptist institution in Stockton, Missouri — wasn’t so terrible. Passing under the majestic cross affixed to its towering arched entryway, Breshears gazed over a beautiful campus. The foothills of the Ozarks sat in the distance. There were horses, a swimming pool, and a football team. It appeared to be a vast improvement over his previous digs. But Breshears got a rude welcome. Right away, staff shaved his head, handed him an orange shirt and a pair of Wranglers, moved him into a dorm that looked like Marine barracks, and introduced him to a dizzying litany of rules. Chapel was daily. Church was on Wednesday and three times on Sunday. Hymns blared in the classrooms. To keep order, Agapé instituted a military-like hierarchy, indicated by colored shirts that denoted ranks. The fastest way for a student to attain a coveted burgundy or red shirt, Breshears soon learned, was to embrace the Lord and help Brother Bryan — Bryan Clemensen, the school’s co-founder and eventual director and principal — enforce the rules. That meant calling out and even disciplining classmates for infractions like cursing, talking in line, refusing to pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, or talking about their pasts. It was easy to get in trouble for “stupid s***,” Breshears recalls. Punishments allegedly ranged from calisthenics to “wall time,” where kids stood with their foreheads and noses touching the wall, except when sleeping, doing schoolwork, or eating. It could last for days on end. When more severe penalties were required, according to students, civil suits, and a search warrant filed later by state investigators, Agapé staffers would hold the boys facedown on the floor while pressing their elbows, knees, and fingers into students’ pressure points, a “pain compliance” method known as a “restraint.” Or worse. Former students say Clemensen, a paunchy middle-aged man with a buzz cut, a soft chin, and a stern manner, had a technique that he called “Jurassic Elbow” — which entailed slamming his elbow into the back of a student’s skull, face, ribs, or down between the shoulder blades. (Clemensen says this was a nickname the boys had for an elbow injury, and denies the abuse.) These punishments, former students say, were often administered in a small room down a dark staircase, in the basement of the church, with blue padded floors and holes punched in the wall. Staff called it the “intake” or “restraint” room. Students called it the “Padded Palace.” For a time, Breshears stayed out of trouble. But he would soon come to suffer horrifying abuse, he says — experiences in line with what at least 18 former Agapé students have recently alleged in lawsuits. The state attorney general’s office claims that Agapé staff threw students into walls, pushed them to the ground, ordered them to perform 1,000 pushups, intentionally starved them, and forced them to sleep in handcuffs and wear them for as long as eight days. In civil suits, Agapé students describe being choked with rebar and electrical cords, pushed through drywall, having their noses broken, and hit in the testicles hard enough to cause “traumatic groin injury.” They say several boys attempted to hang themselves, in what they call a “pandemic among students.” Agapé, through its attorney, denies the allegations, and says that no student there has ever killed himself. The Agapé case is just the latest scandal to emerge from the billion-dollar “troubled-teen industry,” a loosely regulated network of therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment centers, religious academies, and wilderness camps set up to help teenagers with drug addiction and behavioral problems. Many of these programs, which are estimated to serve as many as 200,000 kids at any one time, are allowed to operate with virtual impunity, thanks to federal inaction and permissive state laws. A 2007 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found thousands of abuse allegations between 1990 and 2007 — in 2005 alone, 33 states reported 1,619 staff members involved in incidents of abuse. The report, which also examined 10 cases where teenagers had died, noted that “there are currently no federal laws that define and regulate residential treatment programs.” More than a decade later, legislators are finally making headway. In 2021, Paris Hilton, who has also been lobbying in Washington D.C., testified at a Utah Senate committee hearing about her own experience in a troubled-teen facility there, alleging that she was “verbally, mentally, and physically abused,” involuntarily drugged, and locked in isolation. Meanwhile, tales of abuse continue to emerge. Just last summer, former students at a pair of Wyoming ranches alleged in an NBC investigation that they had been forced to perform backbreaking manual labor and subjected to traumatic physical and emotional abuse. One student said staffers had branded him with a cross. Still, administrators at many of these schools insist they are a force for good. When speaking with Rolling Stone, Clemensen denied the allegations against him and explained his approach to reform. “It’s about getting these kids to a place in their life where they have to look to God for help,” he says. “Where they stop looking to drugs, or their friends, and say to God, ‘I need your help to feel better.’ If you don’t save their souls, it ain’t going to stick.” TOUGH-LOVE SCHOOLS CAN BE traced back to the 1950s, when a secular group called Synanon pioneered an approach to curing heroin addiction with isolation, humiliation, and sleep deprivation. Agapé, which according to its parent handbook costs $39,000 a year, is also influenced by Lester Roloff, a radio evangelist and pastor who founded schools for teenage girls in the late 1960s that relied on physical abuse and immersion in biblical teachings to reform them. Missouri has been a particular hotbed for religious schools since 1982, when the state passed a law exempting faith-based residential child-care facilities from state oversight. Today, it’s home to at least 28 such institutions, though some estimates place the number at upward of 100, many of which are still operating under the radar. In recent months, Clemensen has become the face of the controversy — a fearless leader doing God’s work to those fighting to save his school, a sadistic villain to those who aim to close it. Former students and their attorneys allege that for years Clemensen has been a toxic presence at the school, encouraging his staff to use violence to maintain order. It was Clemensen who introduced the practice of restraints in the early 2000s, says Ryan Frazier, attorney for Monsees and Mayer PC, which is representing 18 former students in suits against the school. “He ran the school on fear,” says Colton Schrag, a former gang associate who attended the school twice between 2004 and 2010, and is not suing because the statute of limitations has expired. “I watched him choke, slam kids into the floor, and just basically beat the s*** out of them. He smacked me in the face with his elbow for saying the f-word. And he encouraged that kind of crap from staff members.” In an interview with Rolling Stone, Clemensen said that the abuse allegations are lies, and suggests they are inspired by the political ambitions of State Attorney General Eric Schmitt — who was elected to the U.S. Senate in November — and a small group of disgruntled former students “hoping for a big payday.” “What they are claiming would never be OK,” he says. “We’ve had 6,000 students and only a small percent are making these claims, and I could give you the names of many who thank me.” Rolling Stone contacted one of them, Matt Carlson, who says he spent the better part of a year at Agapé in the early 2000s. Carlson said he never witnessed abuse and credited the school with temporarily keeping him off meth and teaching him how to lay tile. In response to a detailed list of follow-up questions, Clemensen, through Agapé’s attorney, says he “has never abused any boy in the history of Agapé,” and denied that restraints were ever used for punishment. Clemensen, who left the school from 2008 to 2018, says he has two master’s degrees, in education and counseling and psychology, and “would challenge the boys’ thinking processes, and he still does that to this day.” Breshears and others paint a different picture. They claim Clemensen was on a power trip and seemed to enjoy brutalizing the kids in his charge. He is “a manipulator,” says Breshears. “He likes to get in people’s heads.” Whatever the case, Clemensen has many allies where it perhaps counts the most: in the community. Cedar County, Missouri, where Agapé is located, is in the heart of the Bible Belt — and Clemensen, his stepfather, Jim, who died in October 2021, and his mother, Kathy, long ago convinced the locals they answer to a higher authority. The way Bryan tells it, in the 1970s, Kathy was a single mom who’d found Jesus but still had a mischievous streak. James Clemensen was a California State Highway patrolman with a “death wish” so extreme the wives of his fellow troopers forbade their husbands from hanging out with him. The couple met when Jim pulled Kathy over for drag racing a beat-up Ford Pinto around the East Bay. Within months, Jim was both saved and married, and Bryan had a new stepdad. Sick with a heart condition, Jim left the force in 1979 and moved Kathy, Bryan, and his siblings to Stockton, a sweltering agricultural city on the once-mighty San Joaquin River. Throughout the 1980s, Kathy and Jim fostered children whose parents were in jail. Bryan, by then in his twenties, was working in a state-funded group home. “Many of the kids my parents took in would be back six months later in worse shape,” Bryan says. “We felt they needed God in their lives.” The state, he says, “had no clue how to get to a kid’s heart.” So they constructed wooden bunks on the second floor of their modest home, set up cubicles in the garage, and obtained work booklets produced by Accelerated Christian Education. The curriculum included traditional math and English. It also taught creationism and that women should be subservient to their husbands, while weaving biblical references into the materials. They called the school Agapé, meaning God’s love for man. In 1991, Todd Bindley, then 13, moved in. He liked Metallica and Garbage Pail Kids cards, and had a tendency to cause trouble. His religious mother wasn’t having it. “She thought heavy metal was like witchcraft,” he says. One night, he got into an argument with his mom and stepdad that turned physical, and they accused him of being possessed. That was the last straw; they had him committed. Jim and Kathy appeared at the hospital a few weeks later. “They said that they were bringing me to my parents,” he says. Once in the car, Bindley says, they took him to their home. Bindley remembers learning quickly that retribution for breaking the rules was swift and sometimes painful. One morning, he overheard one of the Clemensen daughters asking for help with a math problem, to which Bindley shot back a smartass remark. Moments later, Bindley says, Bryan yanked him backward, slamming his chair — and his head — into the concrete floor. (Clemensen denies this happened, but says he considers Bindley one of Agapé’s “top success stories.”) Meanwhile, Agapé was growing. In 1992, the Clemensens announced to their troubled wards that they were moving to a promised land of sorts: an old Air Force base six miles outside of tiny Othello, Washington. There, according to Bindley, he was put to work painting, roofing, and helping to dismantle a web of lead pipes covered in asbestos, which he was told to carry to the top of a hill and throw into a pit used to burn garbage. Within a few months, he says, three students ran away. He says one told local police that he had escaped from a “Nazi camp.” In 1995, county officials shut them down after health inspectors found the school — which by then had 140 students and 25 staffers — had rotting food, holes in the walls large enough to allow rodents to enter, and exposed wiring. The site was littered with old barrels, wood piles, abandoned cars, and insulation containing asbestos. Seven boys tested positive for tuberculosis. The criminal division of the EPA investigated and charged Jim Clemensen for improperly disposing of hazardous material. “I have concerns about every inch of that place,” County Commissioner Sue Miller said. It was time to go. The Clemensens sent 100 boys home, and moved the rest to base housing. Soon they’d be in a place where they were untouchable. IN THE MONTHS AFTER HIS ARRIVAL, Breshears’ feelings about Agapé changed. “When I first got there, I just stayed on the low, trying to do my best, hoping to get out,” he says. “They promoted me — I was the youngest person to go red. And I did get saved.” But then, Breshears made friends and began to reconsider his allegiances — particularly, he says, after he witnessed classmates getting restrained. To him, it seemed arbitrary and needlessly brutal. His outrage became open defiance. By 14, Breshears says, he was fully in staffers’ crosshairs. He says he was once ordered to perform 4,500 pushups for cussing and told if “I didn’t get it done, I couldn’t eat my next meal.” (Though Breshears says he couldn’t do it, Agapé denies ever denying a student a meal.) He lost his red shirt and became familiar with the one place no student wanted to end up: “Brown Town.” That status, characterized by the brown shirt a student was forced to wear, according to lawsuits and depositions, came with extreme workouts, the loss of talking privileges, and a restricted meal plan that often consisted of a slice of bread and peanut butter, or a tortilla with a scoop of cold refried beans. And they would never tell you how long your stay in Brown Town will be, Breshears says. The staff often singled out members of Brown Town for abuse, depositions filed by former Agapé students suggest. One student, identified only by his initials, describes being forced to run outside while a staffer tailed him in a four-wheeler with a stick attached to the front, threatening to ram anyone who wasn’t moving fast enough. Another describes a staffer holding a pocket knife to his throat. (Agapé denies any knowledge of these allegations.) Such alleged retribution was not necessarily confined to Brown Town. One deposed student describes attempting to jump off a staircase at Agapé in a gesture of suicidal desperation — which prompted a staffer to grab him, throw him six feet across the floor, sit on his back, and bash his head into the floor multiple times, leaving him in a pile of snot and blood, while screaming, “Is this what you want?” (Agapé confirms restraining the student, but says it was “not a form of abuse but an attempt to prevent harm to the boy.”) Another former student said under oath that he was yanked out of bed and slammed to the floor for waking up late, kicked and punched in the balls by former dean of students Julio Sandoval, and kicked in the ribs and face in front of the rest of the school by Bryan Clemensen. (Agapé denies these allegations.) Other students describe staffers encouraging classmates to fight one another, and cutting off communication with loved ones when they complained. “They would put you down,” says Breshears. “They would say, ‘You’re nothing. You’re dirtbags, you’re hoodlums. You’re never gonna make it out.’” MANY OF THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST Agapé staffers are easily found on podcasts and interviews on YouTube. Yet Agapé’s neighbors insist they never had any idea. Indeed, the version of the school students describe, community members say, is starkly different from the Agapé the town has come to know. Stockton is located 130 miles south of Kansas City, a lazy drive down sunbaked roads lined with oak forests and rolling fields. Home to a population of 1,600, it has a tiny main square, the world’s largest processor of eastern black walnuts, and 21 churches. Though the area is largely Baptist, Cedar County has a tradition of religious tolerance. On the wooded roads near Agapé, Amish men drive horse-drawn buggies; hundreds of members of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints live on a nearby compound called “the Ranch.” In 1996, the Clemensens purchased 40 acres just outside of town. The site, designed as a Christian camp, had cabins, a shower facility, a mess hall, and a small chapel. They moved their wards in and set them to work clearing the site and fixing the property. Locals says the Clemensens ingratiated themselves by offering tours, and hosting Boy Scout breakfasts and luncheons for the local Methodist group. They held a blood drive, organized a Fourth of July fireworks spectacular, and began holding an annual rodeo. They insisted everyone call them “Brother Jim” and “Ma’am,” and their son “Brother Bryan.” They have law-enforcement ties, too. According to AG Schmitt’s office, the Cedar County Sheriff’s Department employs at least three people who used to work at Agapé. One of them is Robert Graves, a student turned staffer who joined as a sheriff’s deputy and married Kathy and Jim’s daughter, and is listed as a member of the board of an Agapé-affiliated church. Sandoval, Agapé’s dean of students, worked shifts at the county jail. He would later set up a transport business to collect teens, hiring off-duty deputies to help him. Former students wonder if it’s because of this that authorities failed to act sooner. Schrag says he tried to escape around 2007, when he was 15. “I got picked up by the Cedar County Sheriff’s Department, and I tried to tell the guy, like, ‘They’re beating us, don’t take me back there,’” he says. “And he said, ‘No, they’re not.’ He cuffed me up and dropped me back off at Agapé. I tried to find a record of it, but there was none.” (The Cedar County Sheriff’s Department did not return calls seeking comment.) Many Stockton residents consider Agapé a mark of honor. (“They do so much good for this town … and you cannot believe the difference they have made in these young men,” says Jackie Cargell, who has lived in the town for 57 years.) Several former staffers opened up similar schools nearby: There was the Legacy Academy Adventures, on a property owned by David Smock, Agapé’s longtime doctor who would later be accused of molesting students; there was the Master’s Ranch Christian Academy, which later opened two more campuses. None of these raised eyebrows — until former Agapé staffers Boyd and Stephanie Householder opened Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch. That’s where someone went too far. LAST MARCH, BRESHEARS SAYS, he was on kitchen duty when a staffer said some chocolate milk was missing from the fridge, and accused Breshears and several other students of stealing it. They denied it. The argument grew heated, he says, and the staffer told the kids they were going to Brown Town. They were marched downstairs, where things escalated, until, Breshears alleges, he was lying facedown with a staffer sitting on his legs and two others digging their kneecaps into his pressure points. The next morning, Breshears made a plan with the other students to start a “riot.” That evening, as Agapé’s 150 students and staffers were finishing up dinner, Breshears spotted a fellow conspirator flash a thumbs-up. On cue, at least two others started beating up an unsuspecting student to create a distraction. In the ensuing chaos, a third pulled the fire alarm. Breshears spotted a baseball bat poking out of an equipment bag. “I was just like, ‘Screw it,’” he says. He grabbed the bat, charged toward the front of the cafeteria, and shattered a plate-glass window. “The glass flew everywhere,” he says. Staffers grabbed Breshears and, he claims, threw him onto the glass. (Agapé denies this.) By the time he ended up in the Padded Palace, he recalls, “I was bleeding all over my head and hands.” So he scrawled the words “**** Agapé” on the wall using his own blood. He’d hoped to get kicked out, which didn’t happen. But in July, his mother rewon custody and sprung him from Agapé. It was then he discovered an effort far more worthwhile than smashing windows: At least 18 other former students were filing lawsuits accusing the school and its staff of emotional, sexual, and physical abuse. The AG was on board. It was a video secretly recorded at nearby Circle of Hope Ranch that finally moved state authorities to get involved. In March 2020, a former Agapé student named Joseph Askins stopped in to visit, and witnessed abuse that shocked him. Appalled, he used his phone to surreptitiously record Boyd Householder, who appeared to be ordering Circle of Hope students to physically assault one of their classmates. (“Knock her out!” he can be heard saying.) Askins reached out to Child Protective Services and then shared the video with the Householders’ estranged daughter, Amanda. Amanda, then 29, says her parents kicked her out when she was 17. By the time Askins contacted her, she had been in therapy for years, and was deeply enmeshed in an online community of former Agapé and Circle of Hope “survivors.” She posted Askins’ video to TikTok, followed by a second post alleging her parents regularly beat her and had forced a student to eat until they threw up, then eat their own vomit. The posts went viral — even receiving a thumbs-up from Paris Hilton. They led to a front-page story in the Cedar County Republican. Five months later, authorities raided Circle of Hope, seizing evidence and removing 25 girls from the ranch. The Kansas City Star ran a series of exposés detailing shocking allegations — first about Circle of Hope, then Agapé. The Missouri AG launched a joint investigation with Cedar County authorities. Lawmakers held hearings and introduced a bill that would give the state some oversight. For the first time, religious schools would be required to register with the state and undergo inspections; the attorney general would now have authority to close down facilities that posed a threat to students. On March 9, 2021, AG Schmitt announced 102 charges against the Householders, including rape and physical abuse. Their lawyer denies the allegations and says that “their innocence will prevail” in court. In May 2021, the law requiring religious schools to register with the state passed. By then, Circle of Hope had shut down after the state removed dozens of its students. Closing Agapé wouldn’t be so easy, but throughout 2021 and 2022, the lawsuits began. Recently, individuals associated with Agapé have been accused of a growing list of crimes. Earlier this year, Smock, the school’s longtime physician, was charged with 12 felony sexual-molestation crimes against those in his care. In August, Sandoval was charged with arranging the kidnapping of an emancipated teen in Fresno, California, on behalf of the boy’s estranged mother, and then having him driven, handcuffed, 27 hours to Agapé. (Both have pleaded not guilty.) In November, a man who is reportedly a former Agapé employee was charged with 215 counts of possession of child pornography. Nonetheless, the outcome of the civil suits is far from certain. After a months-long investigation, the AG’s office recommended 65 charges against 22 staff members, accusing them of abusing 36 children. (The recommendations are not public, so the implicated staff members are unknown.) But under Missouri law, it was up to Cedar County prosecutor Ty Gaither to file charges. In September 2021, he charged five Agapé staff members with a total of 13 counts of third-degree assault, the lowest degree of felony. Bryan Clemensen was not among those charged. (As of publication, one defendant’s case was dismissed, three pleaded guilty to misdemeanors, and one is awaiting a hearing this month.) Gaither declined to comment, but told the Cedar County Republican that Agapé has the right to administer corporal punishment. “In Missouri, parents are allowed to discipline their children,” he said. “People who have care, custody, and control of those children have that right, as well. In other words, Grandmother can spank the children …  as can Agapé.” ON SEPT. 7, 2022, ATTORNEY GENERAL SCHMITT and the State Department of Social Services (DSS) filed to close Agapé. They noted that DSS had confirmed a case of child abuse and added the name of the Agapé staffer responsible to the Child Abuse and Neglect Central Registry, prohibiting him from working at a residential facility. A judge ordered the school closed — only to put the order on hold after Agapé fired the staffer in question. The state has been fighting to close Agapé ever since. In addition to the fired staffer, DSS has substantiated findings of child abuse or neglect against Bryan Clemensen and two other Agapé employees, according to The Kansas City Star. So far Clemensen has kept his name out of the registry; he lost an appeal on Nov. 17, and filed for a judicial review in circuit court, which granted him a temporary restraining order keeping him off the list. It was renewed on Dec. 7. On Dec. 21, a judge issued a preliminary injunction that will keep him off the list until he receives a full trial (with testimony and subpoenaed witnesses) “or until further Order of this Court.” In the meantime, Clemensen is prevented from having physical contact with students, but can continue working at the school. Meanwhile, Agapé has phased out the boarding school, instead running multiple group homes on its property, which detractors fear is a “shell game” aimed at shielding it from the new laws. Clemensen has said the move was necessary because negative publicity has caused enrollment to plummet, and it was not financially feasible to stay open. Yet the delays have frustrated state lawmakers. “We are faced with the horrifying truth that a network of immoral individuals have engaged in what amounts to organized crime against children,” Rob Vescovo, the Republican speaker of the Missouri House, wrote in a letter to U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore, urging her to employ the FBI to investigate. Federal lawmakers say they plan to introduce legislation to curtail abuses in the industry. Advocates are watching the Agapé case, and suggest it illustrates why federal legislation is needed. But a Senate staffer helping to write the legislation cautions that in order to get a bill passed, they will likely have to tie compliance to funding, and are unlikely to mandate it. Which means that even if Missouri does end up shutting down Agapé, the school could open in another state — just as the Clemensens did when they were driven out of Washington. South Carolina is a possibility; it still does not require religious schools to register with the state. For many survivors of Agapé, that would be tough to accept. They say they’re still haunted by nightmares, hypervigilance, and other symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. One former student reportedly mentioned Agapé in a suicide note. Bindley, who Clemensen calls “one of Agapé’s top success stories,” says the experience left him with lasting trauma, and “left a stain on my childhood growing up.” Colton Schrag says he decided to speak after PTSD drove him into counseling. “I realized I can’t be the only former student to have these problems,” he says. “I can at least try to show others that you don’t have to keep it inside. You can start to heal.” For his part, Breshears is grateful to be free. He is living in California with his mother, Jennifer, and attending a public high school. Jennifer says she knows it will take a while to reconnect, and she worries about the psychic scars left by the school — she’s already noticed that her son hates horses now. Though he is 16, he is a freshman; Agapé’s curriculum is often not compatible with local requirements. But he’s not complaining. “It’s good to be back with family,” he says. “I’m trying to aim for a decent life, you know what I’m saying? A decent life.” Editor’s Note: This story, which appears in the January 2023 issue of Rolling Stone, has been updated to include additional details on court cases that had not been decided until after the print deadline.

does auburn seem to be getting worse instead of better? it just seems like after the final four we have been going slowly backwards. i think sometimes taking these one and done freshmen guards is hurting us. i know the one kid sat out most of the year to be safe and when he finally got to play it seems to have hurt him.i just always thought getting great talent to auburn under pearl was a given. to me we seem to be wors than we were when he first started. i know bruce was hurt and had an op and it might have been a distraction but i am just grasping at straws here. i have not given up on auburn for the record.

One big issue Bruce Pearl identified after Auburn basketball's loss to Georgia Richard Silva, Montgomery Advertiser Thu, January 5, 2023 at 2:55 AM CST ATHENS, Ga. — The sky isn't quite falling yet for Auburn basketball, but coach Bruce Pearl needs to make some adjustments. The No. 20 Tigers (11-3, 1-1 SEC) lost 76-64 against Georgia (11-3, 1-0) at Stegeman Coliseum on Wednesday. There was more than enough blame to go around — Jaylin Williams shot 1-of-9, Wendell Green Jr. missed 10 of his 12 attempts from the floor and the freshman duo of Tre Donaldson and Yohan Traore scored just one point. But there's a glaring issue in each of Auburn's losses this season that can't be overlooked. Senior guard Terry Roberts lit the Tigers up for 26 points Wednesday. In a loss against Memphis on Dec. 10, fifth-year guard Kendric Davis poured in 27. Facing USC on Dec. 18, senior guard Boogie Ellis exploded for 28 points. THE LOSS:Johni Broome shines, but rest of Auburn basketball offense struggles in loss to Georgia - ADVERTISEMENT - PEARL'S THOUGHTS:Why Bruce Pearl said expect season-long 'rock fight' after Auburn basketball tops Florida Notice a pattern? The Tigers, despite having elite rim protection, have struggled to contain high-level guards. "We do the best we can in ball-screen coverage to try to help the guards get through," Pearl said after the Georgia game. "Our guards have been having a hard time staying in front of people. You can go under and kind of build a wall a little bit, and maybe you do that against teams that really struggle to shoot the ball and let them shoot behind. That could be something we go to. "It's not something that I've done before very often. But keeping guards in front of us has become an issue. And our bigs do a pretty good job of helping them. But getting the guards back in front and competing to stay in front is an issue." Ellis came into the game against Auburn last month shooting 37.3% from beyond the 3-point arc. Davis entered the matchup with a 31.1% mark, and Roberts was a 30.6% shooter from long range ahead of Wednesday's game. Would the Tigers have been better off baiting these opposing guards to shoot from deep, rather than trying to stay in front of them and forfeiting driving lanes? That's for Pearl to decide, but he has to do so quickly. Auburn forward Johni Broome (4) shoots over Georgia center Braelen Bridges (23) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) The level of competition with conference play now in full swing won't lighten up, in fact, it'll stiffen. Auburn beat Florida in its first game against an SEC foe this season before dropping the meeting with Georgia, but those two teams aren't exactly the toast of the conference. The Gators were picked to finish seventh by the preseason media poll, and the Bulldogs, even worse, were ranked second to last. Auburn plays host to No. 13 Arkansas (11-2, 0-1) on Saturday (7:30 p.m., SEC Network), and still has multiple games remaining against nationally-ranked teams like No. 7 Alabama, No. 9 Tennessee, No. 21 Missouri and No. 25 Kentucky. There are several other issues at hand, too. For the struggles the Tigers have had defending opposing guards, their offense is arguably an even bigger problem. Johni Broome played exceptionally against the Bulldogs, sans his four turnovers, dropping the third double-double of his young Auburn career with 22 points and 12 rebounds. But there wasn't that second option for Auburn to go to when Broome was getting smothered inside. Allen Flanigan shot 5-of-10 and scored 11 points, but the Tigers need a consistent, and efficient, offensive threat to go along with their center. Maybe it'll prove to be Flanigan. Maybe it's Williams. Or perhaps most likely, it's Green. Regardless, the time for that player to step up is now. "We needed to win more one-on-one battles," Pearl said of the loss to the Bulldogs. "Jaylin Williams needed to win his matchup. We can't win if Jaylin Williams goes 1-for-9. "We just can't." Richard Silva is the Auburn beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at rsilva@gannett.com or on Twitter @rich_silva18. This article originally appeared on Montgomery Advertiser: One big issue Pearl identified after Auburn basketball's loss to Georgia

montgomeryadvertiser.com Here's how Auburn football's incoming transfers can help the team in 2023 Richard Silva 4–5 minutes AUBURN — Traditional recruiting will always have its place in college football, but in this new era of the sport, grabbing talent from the transfer portal every cycle isn't optional; it's a requirement to compete. Auburn football is no different than any other program. The Tigers, especially now, coming off a five-win season in which a coaching change was made, must turn to the portal to fill in some of the gaps present on their roster. Coach Hugh Freeze, who was hired less than 40 days ago, hit the ground running on the Plains, building his staff and coordinating which players he wanted to target during the early signing period last month. Auburn jumped from a recruiting class ranked toward the bottom of the SEC to a group rated in the top 20 nationally, according to the 247Sports Composite. RECRUITING EDGE:How was Auburn football so successful recruiting in December? A key retention on the staff TRANSFER PORTAL:A look at quarterback options via the transfer portal for Hugh Freeze, Auburn football Freeze also grabbed transfer commitments from offensive tackle Dillon Wade (Tulsa), edge Elijah McAllister (Vanderbilt) and tight end Rivaldo Fairweather (Florida International). The Tigers need, and will most certainly get, more athletes from the portal, but for now, here's how the first three newcomers could fit into Auburn next season. TE Rivaldo Fairweather Fairweather has the potential to be Auburn's most exciting acquisition. The 6-foot-5, 210-pound tight end isn't known for his inline blocking, but rather couples his build with a level of athleticism that makes him a difficult matchup for opposing defenses in the passing game. His stats at FIU weren't record-setting — he caught 28 passes for 426 yards and three touchdowns in 2022 — but his 15.2 yards per reception are eye-popping. The only tight end ranked higher in that category from last season was Louisiana Tech's Griffin Herbert, who averaged 18.7 yards per catch. With John Samuel Shenker's career at Auburn coming to an end, the door is open for Fairweather to be the No. 1 tight end for the Tigers next season. For an example of what an athletic tight end looks like under Freeze, look no further than what Evan Engram did in 2016 at Ole Miss: 65 receptions, 926 yards and eight touchdowns on the way to becoming a first-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. OT Dillon Wade Issues along the offensive line aren't unique to Auburn. Nearly every program in the country is looking to batten down that unit, which makes getting players from the portal at the position that much harder. Luckily for the Tigers, they had a connection to Wade that made acquiring his talents that much easier. Freeze hired Philip Montgomery to be his offensive coordinator in December. Montgomery spent the previous eight seasons coaching at Tulsa, including a span from 2020-22 with Wade on the roster. The 6-foot-4, 290-pound Wade started 12 games at left tackle for the Golden Hurricane last season, and with a void there on Auburn's roster, he should slide in smoothly and give Montgomery a familiar player to lean on. Edge Elijah McAllister With Colby Wooden, Derick Hall and Marquis Burks leaving for the NFL Draft, the Tigers desperately needed to replenish their defensive front. They accomplished that in part during the early signing period with recruits like Keldric Faulk and Daron Reed being brought in, but also added a veteran through the portal in McAllister. McAllister had been at Vanderbilt for the past five seasons, but did not see action in 2018 or 2020. As a sophomore in 2019 and from 2021-22, though, the 6-foot-6 defender appeared in 36 games for the Commodores totaling 65 tackles and 2.5 sacks. He also served as a team captain in 2016. His role at Auburn will likely be similar to what it was at Vanderbilt: A consistent presence up front that won't be the star of the show, but a veteran of the SEC that can help a younger unit. Richard Silva is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at rsilva@gannett.com or on Twitter @rich_silva18.

Auburn football 2023 projected scholarship chart Updated: Jan. 04, 2023, 12:56 p.m.|Published: Jan. 04, 2023, 11:19 a.m. 4–5 minutes Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford warms up before an NCAA college football game against Texas A&M Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022, in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)AP A new era is being ushered in on the Plains. Following Bryan Harsin’s disastrous tenure as head coach, which lasted less than two seasons, Hugh Freeze is now at the helm for Auburn, tasked with rebuilding the program to the point it can once again compete for championships. Freeze has quite the undertaking as he attempts to close the gap between Auburn and its top rivals, Alabama and Georgia, and get the Tigers back into national relevancy and the College Football Playoff discussion. Read more Auburn football: Meet Hugh Freeze’s 2023 Auburn football coaching staff Hugh Freeze: Auburn has ‘work cut out’ trying to close gap between rivals Alabama, Georgia Hugh Freeze confident Auburn can ‘get out of the wilderness,’ turn things around ‘fairly fast’ Freeze’s inaugural coaching staff is in place, but that’s only part of the equation. Roster management is a major component of the job ahead for Freeze, as Auburn works to retool its personnel and replenish the talent needed to compete with the nation’s top-tier programs. Between high school and junior college recruiting, the transfer portal and NIL, roster management has changed in recent years and is a much more involved year-round endeavor. We’ve already seen some of it with the early signing period in December, with Freeze and Co. signing the bulk of the Tigers’ 2023 class, as well as with the fall transfer window. The numbers will continue to evolve when it comes to Auburn’s personnel for the 2023 season, with some key needs yet to be met, but let’s take a look at the the Tigers’ roster situation as it stands today. Here is a look at Auburn’s 2023 projected scholarship breakdown. AL.com will update this scholarship chart every time the Tigers have a roster move: players graduating, leaving early for the draft, transferring, being dismissed from the team and committing to -- or decommiting from -- the next recruiting class. Below is the up-to-date scholarship chart heading into 2023, broken down by class. Some positions may be fluid -- like cornerback and safety, as well as defensive end and defensive tackle, depending on spring practices, scheme-based personnel decisions and potential position changes. Seniors: 21 Juniors: 17 Sophomores: 13 Freshmen: 25 Total projected scholarship players for 2023: 76 2024 commits: 2 Incoming transfers: 3 Position Seniors Juniors Sophomores Freshmen Commits QB T.J. Finley (redshirt) Robby Ashford (redshirt) Holden Geriner (redshirt), Hank Brown Adrian Posse (2024) RB Jarquez Hunter Damari Alston, Sean Jackson (redshirt) Jeremiah Cobb (2023) WR Ja'Varrius Johnson (redshirt), Malcolm Johnson Jr. Koy Moore (redshirt) Landen King (redshirt), Camden Brown, Omari Kelly, Jay Fair Daquayvious Sorey TE Luke Deal (redshirt), Tyler Fromm (redshirt), Brandon Frazier Rivaldo Fairweather Micah Riley-Ducker (redshirt) OT Dillon Wade (redshirt), Izavion Miller (JUCO transfer) Garner Langlo (redshirt), Colby Smith (redshirt) E.J. Harris (redshirt), Clay Wedin, Tyler Johnson OG/C Jalil Irvin (super senior), Kam Stutts (super senior), Jeremiah Wright, Tate Johnson Avery Jernigan (redshirt) Bradyn Joiner, Connor Lew DE/EDGE Elijah McAllister (super senior) Dylan Brooks (redshirt), Tobechi Okoli (redshirt) Wilky Denaud, Brenton Williams, Darron Reed, Keldric Faulk DT Marcus Harris Jeffrey M'ba, Jayson Jones (redshirt), Zykeivous Walker (redshirt), Quientrail Jamison-Travis (JUCO transfer) Enyce Sledge (redshirt), Stephen Johnson LB Wesley Steiner, Cam Riley, Desmond Tisdol, Eugene Asante, Kameron Brown (redshirt) Jake Levant Robert Woodyard (redshirt), Powell Gordon (redshirt) CB Nehemiah Pritchett (fifth-year senior), D.J. James, Jaylin Simpson (redshirt) Keionte Scott J.D. Rhym Austin Ausberry (redshirt), JC Hart, Kayin Lee, Colton Hood A'Mon Lane (2024) S Zion Puckett (redshirt) Donovan Kaufman (redshirt), Marquise Gilbert, Craig McDonald (redshirt), Cayden Bridges Caleb Wooden Terrance Love Sylvester Smith K Alex McPherson (redshirt) P Oscar Chapman Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

Baylor transfer offensive lineman Micah Mazzucca taking visit to Auburn Lance Dawe ~2 minutes Auburn is currently hosting a Power Five starting offensive lineman for a visit. That is a massive win that should not be taken lightly. Micah Mazzucca, a former three-star offensive lineman and 2022 starter for the Baylor Bears, is currently in Auburn, per his social media. Mazzucca appeared in 12 games for the Bears this season, totaling 759 snaps (392 running, 367 passing) and finishing with a Pro Football Focus grade of 74.9. That would have been the best PFF grade among Auburn offensive lineman by at least 5.5 points. Mazzucca's 78.5 run block grade was 22nd among interior offensive lineman in 2022. Auburn needs offensive line depth more than anything right now. Even after signing five offensive lineman following the early signing period and picking up the No. 2 OT in the transfer portal it's still clear that the Tigers have work to do if they want to revamp things in the trenches quickly. The 6-foot-5, 331-pound Mazzucca would certainly give Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze and offensive line coach Jake Thornton another starter to work with.