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Walk-on Auburn linebacker and former Marine named team captain for Saturday's game against Texas A&M Rick Karle 3-4 minutes It's a story that may have slipped under the radar, but it's a story that is as inspirational as they come, just in time for Veterans Day.Jonathan LeGrand is a walk-on linebacker at Auburn. While I can't say if he will see action Saturday night, I can say that LeGrand will be honored in a heartfelt way.LeGrand is everybody's All-American.A high school star in football and baseball in Dothan, Alabama, LeGrand joined the Marines after high school and served our country for five years.After serving, LeGrand attended Troy-Dothan, and always dreamed of playing football at Auburn.He enrolled at Auburn, where, in 2020, he failed to make the football team.LeGrand joined the Auburn fly fishing club and the Auburn Rugby Club, where he helped AU win a national championship.LeGrand kept working hard and, last spring, once again tried his hand at football.How did it turn out? Saturday night, Auburn linebacker Jonathan LeGrand will be an honorary team captain when the Tigers host Texas A&M.Coach Carnell Lamar "Cadillac" Williams is honoring LeGrand for his service and dedication.Fans at Jordan-Hare Stadium will be going crazy Saturday night. And while No. 41 will see limited or no action, he will have the respect of teammates, coaches and fans from Americans around the world.Let's thank LeGrand for serving our country. Let's give him a hand long before the game begins. It's a story that may have slipped under the radar, but it's a story that is as inspirational as they come, just in time for Veterans Day. Jonathan LeGrand is a walk-on linebacker at Auburn. While I can't say if he will see action Saturday night, I can say that LeGrand will be honored in a heartfelt way. LeGrand is everybody's All-American. A high school star in football and baseball in Dothan, Alabama, LeGrand joined the Marines after high school and served our country for five years. After serving, LeGrand attended Troy-Dothan, and always dreamed of playing football at Auburn. He enrolled at Auburn, where, in 2020, he failed to make the football team. LeGrand joined the Auburn fly fishing club and the Auburn Rugby Club, where he helped AU win a national championship. LeGrand kept working hard and, last spring, once again tried his hand at football. How did it turn out? Saturday night, Auburn linebacker Jonathan LeGrand will be an honorary team captain when the Tigers host Texas A&M. Coach Carnell Lamar "Cadillac" Williams is honoring LeGrand for his service and dedication. Fans at Jordan-Hare Stadium will be going crazy Saturday night. And while No. 41 will see limited or no action, he will have the respect of teammates, coaches and fans from Americans around the world. Let's all thank LeGrand for serving our country. Let's give him a hand long before the game begins.

REPORT: Alex McPherson will kick field goals for the Tigers against Texas A&M Andrew Stefaniak 2 minutes This is going to sound crazy, but for the first time since 2014, Auburn's kicker won't have the last name, Carlson. Justin Hokanson of Auburn Live has reported ($) that true freshman kicker Alex McPherson will take over the place-kicking duties against Texas A&M for the Tigers. Anders Carlson, the incumbent placekicker, is just 12-of-17 on the year kicking field goals. He is second in Auburn career scoring with 403 points, right behind his brother Daniel. Anders missed a field goal in overtime against Mississippi State this past weekend. McPherson is the brother of Cincinnati Bengals kicker Evan McPherson who was money in the playoffs a season ago to take the Bengals to the Super Bowl. Last year, McPherson broke the Alabama high school state record by nailing a 61-yard field goal. Which, for the record, would have been good from about 65 yards. He's next up. Let's watch McPherson nail his state-record-setting field goal from a season ago in high school.

Tiger Buzz: Auburn vs. Texas A&M TV info, key matchups and what to watch for Published: Nov. 11, 2022, 8:00 a.m. 5-6 minutes Texas A&M (3-6, 1-5 SEC) at Auburn (3-6, 1-5) When: 6:30 p.m. CT, Saturday Where: Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn. TV: SEC Network Line: Auburn -1.5 This game will determine... Whether either of these teams can keep their fleeting hopes of a bowl game alive, as well as who will finish at the bottom of the SEC West this season. Both Auburn and Texas A&M need to win out to become bowl eligible, with three games remaining on the schedule. The winner will also move out of the division basement and hold the head-to-head tiebreaker with one conference game remaining. Three things to look for... 1. A rockin’ Jordan-Hare Stadium. Cadillac Williams knows the atmosphere that awaits him in his first home game as Auburn’s interim coach. So, too, do his players. There has been growing buzz leading into this game, which was announced Wednesday as a sellout under the lights. Expect Jordan-Hare Stadium to have a big-game feel—think Iron Bowl or Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry levels of insanity. It would typically be hard to imagine that for a game between two last-place teams, but Williams has ignited hope and excitement within the fanbase, and Auburn faithful want to reciprocate in his home debut. 2. Will Auburn’s offense benefit from a more normal week? Last week was, as Williams put it, “a rare one,” as well as a hectic one for Auburn, particularly its offense. Along with the firing of Bryan Harsin, the Tigers also saw offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Eric Kiesau and tight ends coach Brad Bedell get shown the door. Auburn promoted Will Friend and Ike Hilliard to co-offensive coordinators, and the entire offensive staff took on new or expanded roles on a shortened week. Gameplanning was difficult, to be sure, and Friend and Hilliard scrambled to familiarize themselves with an offensive play-sheet that wasn’t their own. Auburn’s offense showed progress in the second half at Mississippi State, despite a rough start, and Williams is confident the offense will have a more cohesive and successful gameplan against Texas A&M after things slowed down for everyone this week. 3. Can Auburn improve its discipline? Williams was just trying to keep things from falling apart last week, putting out fires left and right after being named interim coach. His message was “serve, discipline, believe” — but the discipline part wasn’t emphasized until late in the week. That showed against Mississippi State, when Auburn committed a season-high 14 penalties for 115 yards (the team’s most penalties in a single game since the 2019 LSU game, and its most penalty yards since 2014 at Ole Miss) with some costly ones along the way. Williams plans to address that this week and hope for a cleaner game for the Tigers at home. Key matchup Auburn’s passing offense against Texas A&M’s passing defense. Robby Ashford is coming off a game in which he struggled to get anything going through the air, completing just 7-of-22 passes for 75 yards against Mississippi State. Now the Tigers face an Aggies defense that leads the SEC in passing defense (173.6 yards per game) while limiting opposing quarterbacks to 6.1 yards per pass attempt, which is ninth nationally this season. Williams said Wednesday that Auburn needs to find a way to get a more efficient and effective performance from Ashford, because being one-dimensional offensively against a team of Texas A&M’s talent won’t cut it. By the numbers .791 — Auburn’s all-time winning percentage in November home games. The Tigers are 105-40-5 all-time at home in November games. Key injuries Auburn — OL Nick Brahms out (retired), OL Tate Johnson out (elbow), OL Austin Troxell out (knee) QB Zach Calzada out (shoulder), Edge Eku Leota out (pectoral), RB Jordon Ingram out (knee), WR Landen King out (transfer), WR Tar’Varish Dawson Jr. out (transfer), DL Zykeivous Walker out (transfer), CB A.D. Diamond out (transfer), QB T.J. Finley out (shoulder), S Donovan Kaufman questionable (foot). Texas A&M — WR Ainias Smith out (ankle), QB Max Johnson out (hand), OL Bryce Foster out (knee), OL Aki Ogunbiyi out (knee), OL Jordan Spasojevic-Moko out (ankle), DB Denver Harris out (suspension), OL P.J. Williams out (suspension), WR Chris Marshall out (suspension), DB Antonio Johnson out (undisclosed), WR Chase Lane questionable (undisclosed), DB Myles Jones questionable (undisclosed). Texas A&M player to watch Devon Achane, running back. For the third time in four games, Auburn’s defense will face one of the SEC’s top running backs. After recent matchups with Ole Miss’ Quinshon Judkins and Arkansas’ Raheim Sanders, Auburn will be tasked with slowing down Achane, who is third in the SEC in rushing this season. Achane has run for 887 yards and six touchdowns, averaging 5.61 yards per carry on the year. In SEC action, he’s averaging 6.17 yards per carry and 115.17 yards per game on the ground. He’s coming off back-to-back 100-yard rushing performances against Ole Miss and Florida. He has also caught three touchdowns for the Aggies. Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

Auburn's Cadillac on what this has meant to him: 'makes me want to sell out even more for this university' Jason Caldwell 4-5 minutes AUBURN, Alabama—As the Voice of the Auburn Tigers, Andy Burcham has done hundreds of broadcasts of different sports and hosted Tiger Talk countless times. On Thursday night at Baumhower’s Victory Grille, Burcham said he saw something he’s never seen before. Heading into his second game as Auburn’s interim head coach after taking over for Bryan Harsin last week, former standout running back Cadillac Williams walked through the front door of the restaurant along with Derick Hall and Robby Ashford. They were greeted by a very loud standing ovation, something that Burcham said was amazing to see. “I have never seen a standing ovation for any head coach of any sport walking through the door coming in to Tiger Talk like we saw with Carnell tonight and Derick Hall and Robby Ashford,” Burcham said. “It’s indicative how this Auburn family has rallied around Cadillac, his coaching staff, and this team.” A player that was a first round draft choice by the Tampa Bay Bucs after playing on Auburn’s undefeated season, Williams was named the NFL’s Offensive Rookie of the Year for 2005 and has had his share of big moments. None of those prepared Williams for what he walked into on Thursday night, however. “I’m so honored and blessed to be part of the Auburn family,” Williams told Auburn247. “To see people show up in this pouring rain and to have a packed house and to see these people cheering for the players and the Auburn family, it’s just special. It just gives me so much strength while I’m doing this and makes me want to sell out even more for this university.” Veterans of Tiger Talk and fixtures when the broadcast is on location, Sandy and Sally Heely knew something was going to be different for Thursday’s edition. The expectation was exceeded by the reality of the situation. “I have been here since they started and I graduated in 1968,” Sandy said. “I have been a GAF giver and hold season tickets. Tonight is a big night. “It was magic. When we saw Caddy walk in, he represented about as much as he could of an Auburn man. He’s not Pat Dye, but he’s right there with him. He is the Auburn man. He brings the excitement we haven’t seen for years and years and years.” As the owner of Baumhowers for the last four years, Auburn native and graduate Kevin Tudhope said he's seen the program and university from close range for his now 50 years. What he saw Thursday night and has seen the last week is exactly what he thinks about when the term 'Auburn family' is used. "I have seen the good and bad times over those years," Tudhope said of his life. "But what I saw tonight was special. I have never seen the alumni, this town, and this fan base rally around each other like they did tonight. We honestly haven't seen crowds like that for Tiger Talk in years. It was refreshing. It was exciting. It's what the Auburn family is all about." 7COMMENTS With Auburn putting the finishing touches on the plan for Saturday night’s game against Texas A&M, Thursday night’s excitement points to what should be a wild atmosphere at Jordan-Hare Stadium. While this game might not have championship implications, it has become a very big game for Auburn and Burcham said he can’t wait. “You wouldn’t expect that for two 3-6 teams, but considering what has happened on the Auburn campus, who is the head coach, the way the Auburn family has reacted to that, and the fact that it’s going to be fabulous weather and a night game at Jordan-Hare Stadium. All of those go into what should be a phenomenal atmosphere for football. I cannot wait to call the game.” ">247Sports

Auburn Basketball Rewinding Auburn’s 67-59 win against USF Updated: Nov. 11, 2022, 9:25 p.m.| Published: Nov. 11, 2022, 6:35 p.m. Bruce Pearl during the game between George Mason University and the #15 Auburn Tigers at Neville Arena in Auburn, AL on Wednesday, Oct 26, 2022. Zach Bland/Auburn TigersZach Bland/Auburn Tigers NEW! By Nubyjas Wilborn | nwilborn@al.com Wendell Green scored 18 points in the second half to help the Tigers overcome a nine-point halftime deficit in Auburn’s 67-59 win against South Florida. Green led the Tigers with 20 points. Allen Flanigan had 18 points off the bench on 6-10 shooting, and Dylan Cardwell had seven points. Auburn is 2-0 and hosts Winthrop next Tuesday at Jordan-Hare. Pregame Greetings and salutations from Neville Arena, where #15 Auburn (1-0) will compete on Friday against the South Florida Bulls in the second home game of the 2022-23 season. Auburn won its home opener on Monday against George Mason with a 70-52 final score. The Bulls dropped a close opening-night game to SE Missouri State, 64-61. Wendell Green Jr. registered a game-high 16 points in the Tigers’ season opener versus George Mason. He has now scored in double figures in 43 of 64 career games played. The Tigers have won 39 consecutive non-conference games at Neville Arena. Tigers head coach Bruce Pearl is 49-3 at Auburn in non-conference home games. Auburn hopes to continue the streak of good fortune against foes outside the Southeastern Conference. We’ll have live updates right here on AL.Com. Auburn’s starting lineup is the same as the opener against George Mason: Green, Zep Jasper, Chris Moore, Jaylin Williams, and Johni Broome. 1st Half Auburn 21 USF 30 1st Half 0:03 Broome missed both free throws with 3.4 seconds left. Auburn is shooting 6-24, 2-14 from three, and 7-13 from the free throw line. Auburn 18 USF 26 1:37 1st Half The Bulls are on a 6-0 run over the last 1:44, while the Tigers are shooting 2-13 and on are on scoring drought over the previous 2:20 minutes. Auburn 18 USF 20 3:53 1st Half Auburn is 5-25 from the field and 2-11 from three. Credit to Auburn’s defense for holding USF to 8-22 and keeping the game close. Flanigan hit two free throws to draw the Tigers within two points. Auburn 14 USF 18 5:34 1st Half Flanigan hit a three with 5:51 left to pull the Tigers within four. Auburn 11 USF 16 6:57 1st Half Auburn is shooting 3-14 from the field and 1-9 from three. The Tigers are on a 2:14-minute scoring drought. Miguel Selton’s three at the 8:05 mark put the Bulls up 15-11. Auburn 11 USF 12 9:10 1st Half Broome hit the first free throw and missed the second with 9:10 left. Auburn 8 USF 12 10:57 1st Half Auburn is shooting 2 8 and 1-6 from behind the arc. Freshman guard Tre Donaldson hit a shot inside the paint to bring Auburn within four points at the 11:25 mark in the first half. Auburn 6 USF 9 12:42 1st Half Allen Flanigan hits a corner three at the 12:42 mark to break Auburn’s scoreless streak. Auburn 2 USF 7 13:25 1st Half Scoring woes continue for the Tigers, who’ve gone nearly five minutes without a point while the Bulls are on a 9-0 run. Auburn 2 USF 5 15:11 1st Half Auburn has four turnovers in the last 3:06 and hasn’t scored,d while the Bulls take a three-point lead on a Sam Hines jumper at the 15:46 mark in the first half. Auburn 2 USF 1 16:56 1st Half Both teams are 0ff to a slow start on offense. Auburn is 0-5 from the field, and the Bulls are shooting 2-6 through the game’s first five minutes. Auburn 2 USF 0 18:17 1st Half Green scores the first points of the game on two free throws. He got fouled in the lane on a drive to the basket for a layup. Auburn is shooting 0-2 from the field. 2nd Half Auburn 62 USF 54 2nd Half 0:44 Green hit two free throws to stop a scoring drought that went nearly three minutes for the Tigers. Auburn 60 USF 52 2nd Half 2:56 Wendell Green has Auburn’s last six points. He’s the Tigers’ second-leading scorer with 14 points. Green’s ability to get to the cup is a problem for the Bulls. Auburn 52 USF 49 2nd Half 6:24 The Tigers are shooting 11-19 and 3-8 from three in the second half. They shot 6-24 and 2-14 from three in the first half. Auburn 51 USF 44 2nd Half 7:59 The Tigers have outscored the Bulls 30-14 with less than eight minutes left in the second half. Flanigan leads all scorers with 17 points. Auburn 47 USF 42 2nd Half 9:05 Cardwell connects on two free throws to increase the Tigers’ lead at the 9:34 mark. Green connects with Cardwell on an alley-oop that got the crowd at Neville Arena on their feet. Auburn 41 USF 39 2nd Half 11:28 Flanigan gives Auburn its first lead since 2-0 on a corner three, and Dylan Cardwell increases the advantage on a two-handed dunk. Auburn 36 USF 37 2nd Half 13:16 Flanigan scored on a layup with less than five seconds left on the shot clock at the 13:43 mark, and Auburn trails 37-36 against the Bulls. The Tigers have hit six of their last eight field goal tries. Auburn 34 USF 35 2nd Half 14:19 Green scores again on a layup driving to the basket to bring the Tigers within four points. Traore hit a three with 14:56 left to get Auburn within one point. Auburn 29 USF 33 16:41 2nd Half Green missed the second free throw after getting by USF on a jump-shot attempt. Moore scored Auburn’s first bucket of the half on a dunk. He also scored the second with 17:25 on a jumper. Green swished a three with 17:00 left. Nubyjas Wilborn covers Auburn for Alabama Media Group. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we

Instant analysis: Auburn hoops shakes off ugly 1st half, rallies past USF Updated: Nov. 11, 2022, 11:01 p.m.|Published: Nov. 11, 2022, 9:20 p.m. 8-11 minutes Allen Flanigan pump-faked, then took a dribble before collecting himself and pulling up from the corner just in front of The Jungle. The eruption behind him was equal parts exhilaration and relief. Flanigan drilled a corner 3-pointer with 12:50 to go Friday night in Neville Arena, and suddenly an evening of frustration turned into one of celebration. Flanigan’s 3-pointer gave Auburn its first lead since the opening minutes against USF — as well as its last. The 15th-ranked Tigers overcame a horrendous first half offensively and survived a rock fight against the Bulls, 67-59, on their home court to improve to 2-0 on the season. “It was big,” Flanigan said of the shot. “He came closing out fast, so I had to shot-fake. Just seeing that one fall was big.” Flanigan’s timely triple was followed by a steal and fastbreak dunk by Dylan Cardwell, capping a game-altering 12-2 run for Auburn, which trailed by nine at halftime and early in the second half before coming alive on its home floor. Flanigan finished with 18 points for Auburn, while Wendell Green Jr. led the way with 20 -- much of his damage coming down the stretch -- as the Tigers survived an early scare in nonconference play. “Auburn’s defense was pretty good, and right now, that’s going to have to be what carries us, because we’re not very good offensively right now,” Auburn coach Bruce Pearl said. “Our defense is going to have to carry us, and it did tonight.” Here are AL.com’s takeaways from Friday night’s Auburn win: About that first half… Auburn couldn’t have imagined a worse first half offensively than the one it conjured up against South Florida. The Tigers shot just 25 percent from the field (6-of-24), 14.3 percent from 3-point range (2-of-14) and 53.8 percent from the free-throw line (7-of-13), while committing 11 turnovers and scoring just 21 points. Auburn went into the break down 30-21 in a first half that was somewhat reminiscent of last year’s against USF in Tampa. “Eerily similar to last year,” Pearl said. “I knew South Florida would do a good job guarding us and I knew they would do good preparation and scout. I thought it would be a low-scoring game, but we weren’t sharp.... Glad we got the win.” Auburn’s only lead in the first half came in the opening minutes, when it knocked down a pair of free throws to go up 2-0. After that, offense was difficult to come by. Neither team made a basket until three-plus minutes into the game, when USF’s Sam Hines Jr. hit a fadeaway in the key. Before that, the two teams combined for eight turnovers and five missed shots through the game’s first three minutes. Auburn didn’t make its first basket until 12:42 to go in the first half, when Allen Flanigan drilled a 3-pointer from the right wing after the Bulls jumped out to a six-point lead. Flanigan’s shot snapped a 0-for-5 start from the field for Auburn. It didn’t get much better from there for the Tigers, despite getting quality looks. Among the misses that mounted throughout the first half: a short baby hook from Johni Broome that went halfway down before rattling out of the rim, a corner 3-pointer from Zep Jasper that took three seemingly friendly bounces off the rim before caroming off it, an early 3-point attempt from Wendell Green Jr. that refused to go through the net and even an air-balled free throw by Broome in the waning seconds of the first half. “We didn’t execute, we didn’t make shots and we turned the ball over too much,” Pearl said. “Despite all of our best efforts to get them ready to go, I just didn’t think we had that edge.” The last time Auburn had a first half that dreadful offensively was last season’s SEC Tournament loss to Texas A&M, when the Tigers had 21 points and shot just 16.2 percent from the field and 15 percent from beyond the arc at Amalie Arena. Coincidentally, that was also the venue in which Auburn struggled against USF last season. The Tigers turned it around in the second half, shooting 53.6 percent after the break and knocking down 13-of-19 free throws, including several to seal the game late. “Our defensive energy, it stepped up a lot, and that led to offense,” Green said of the second half. “We scored in transition more, we hit -- I don’t think we hit too many shots, but we were getting to the basket, and we finished. We were looking for contact and finished through contact, and we scored in transition, so I think our defense was the main thing that picked up.” Allen Flanigan was that dude Allen Flanigan was the only person in Neville Arena who didn’t have trouble finding the bottom of the net early on Friday night. Flanigan opened the game 2-of-3 from beyond the arc, with the first 3-pointer representing Auburn’s first made basket of the night and coming more than seven minutes into the game. Flanigan was crucial to Auburn’s second-half rally, chipping in five points during that 12-2 run—including the corner 3-pointer that put the Tigers in front for good. At one point in the second half, he was responsible for one-third of Auburn’s points (15 of the team’s 45 after a thunderous dunk with 9:39 to play). “We need him,” Green said. “We need Al. I told him that last year. We need Al. So, it’s great to see him back out there. I told y’all before the season, I’ve been seeing it all summer, all fall, and now it’s showing. He had 18 tonight -- an efficient 18. It’s showing. He’s going to keep going as the season keeps going.” Flanigan finished with 18 points to go along with four rebounds, an assist and a block, and while he committed five turnovers, it was his highest-scoring performance since the Achilles tear he suffered last preseason. The last time Flanigan scored at least 18 points in a game was the final game of his breakout sophomore season, when he finished with 22 against Mississippi State. “It felt good just being able to go out there and see the rim again, see the goal, see shots fall in,” Flanigan said. “It was a blessing.” Wendell Green Jr. took over down the stretch While Flanigan did his part to keep Auburn in it early and then mount a comeback in the second half, it was Wendell Green Jr. who shut the door on any chances of a USF upset and sealed the win down the stretch for Auburn. Green ignited Auburn Arena with an absurd alley-oop to Dylan Cardwell to give Auburn a seven-point lead with 9:22 to play, which was the Tigers’ largest lead to that point. Then Auburn’s floor general made three straight baskets for the Tigers in the final five minutes -- all coming on strong drives to the hoop -- to keep South Florida at arm’s length. Green scored 12 of Auburn’s final 13 points on the night, icing the game at the free-throw line in the process, and finished with a game-high 20 points, four rebounds and four assists. Eighteen of Green’s 20 points came in the second half after he shot 0-of-3 in the first half, including 0-of-2 from beyond the arc. “You got to put the ball in your point guard’s hands, let him go score and let him get fouled,” Pearl said. “Obviously, that’s what Wendell was able to do, and he had good command out there. And defensively, he’s not taking possessions off, which is huge.” Quick hits -- Dylan Cardwell had five blocks against USF and now has 10 through Auburn’s first two games. He also added seven points on 2-of-2 shooting and 3-of-4 shooting from the free-throw line. “His effort and energy, his ability to block shots and rebound... Dylan Cardwell was a factor,” Pearl said. -- Along with Flanigan’s big game at the three, Chris Moore chipped in seven points and five rebounds in his second straight start. In all, Auburn got 25 points and nine rebounds from its wings, which helped make up for a rough night from the two-guard spot, where K.D. Johnson and Zep Jasper combined to shoot 0-of-8 from the field and 0-of-5 from deep. “When Chris Moore came in, it really started picking up physically,” Pearl said. “If you look at both Chris Moore and (Allen) Flanigan together, they had an incredible stat line. If you add Allen’s 18 points and four rebounds with Chris’ seven (points) and five (rebounds), that’s a great stat line except for the turnovers. That’s something they need to work on.” -- Johni Broome also had a rough night, finishing with three points on 0-of-6 shooting. He also added eight rebounds and a pair of steals but committed three turnovers. Pearl said Broome is still dealing with an ankle injury he sustained in the preseason. “He can’t jump off that thing, so we got to do something about it,” Pearl said. “He just is not the same player, because he is playing on a bad wheel.” Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

no sir. they were made to stop by someone. it could have been friendly forces or a different party. but i read where cheney and company are sitting on some stuff they got from trumps on staff they have not been allowed to bring forth yet.

out of the dozens on here that were huge fans of trump and did not care what trump did i think it is great i am and salty will admit they made a mistake. that is good enough for me. they have admitted the truth when many of their fellow trumpers still refuse to. i find it refreshing.

i see you must have slept in a holiday inn recently............lol

i thought you spoke out about poor ol trump going through all the impeachments, investigations, and probably indictments and how unfair it was? and then bitching because of the timing would hurt your side? i might have you mixed up with someone else. i sure do not remember you ready for trump to be gone two months after he was elected? does anyone else remember? and who it was. i know dozens attacked me for my stance and got kind of ugly but i was right the whole time about him. i just wonder where all those folks are. and i am so hurt none of you came out and admitted i was i might not be able to ear super tonight.

No Red Wave, but Maybe an Orange Crush 333 Yuval Rosenberg, Michael Rainey Wed, November 9, 2022 at 5:18 PM·8 min read So there was no red wave. In defiance of polls showing significant Republican momentum leading up to Election Day, Democrats managed to avoid a 2006-style midterm “thumpin’” and a 2010-style “shellacking.” The expected Republican wave today looks more like a puddle, as Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty put it. President Joe Biden had faced criticism from members of his own party who suggested that the White House messaging strategy in the closing days of the campaign was misguided, and that Democrats had failed to focus enough on voters’ top concerns, which polls consistently found were inflation and the economy. On Wednesday, White House staffers and allies were reportedly feeling a mixture of relief and vindication. “While any seat lost is painful — some good Democrats didn’t win last night — Democrats had a strong night,” Biden said at an afternoon news conference. “We lost fewer seats in the House of Representatives than any Democratic president’s first midterm election in the last 40 years. And we had the best midterms for governors since 1986.” Biden’s job just got more complicated — as did Kevin McCarthy’s: There may not be much time for Biden to celebrate — or, in the end, all that much reason to crow. Even as Democrats may have bucked historical trends and outperformed the direst predictions, Republicans remain poised to win the House by a narrow margin. Control of the Senate is still up for grabs with races in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada yet to be called. It could again come down to a December runoff in Georgia, just as it did two years ago. The narrow Republican edge in the House likely gives conservatives such as those in the Freedom Caucus more leverage to push their priorities on Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the presumptive speaker. Looking ahead to the next couple of years, Biden said Wednesday that he understands that voters are frustrated, but he believes the public will embrace his agenda even more strongly once the benefits of legislation he’s enacted become more visible in the coming months. Where compromise may or may not be possible: He emphasized, though, that he’s prepared to compromise with Republicans on some issues. “Regardless of what the final tally in these elections show, and there’s still some counting going on, I’m prepared to work with my Republican colleagues,” Biden added. “The American people have made clear, I think, that they expect Republicans to be prepared to work with me as well.” Biden specified that he hoped to see continued bipartisan support for Ukraine in its war against Russia’s invasion and said he would not support any Republican proposal that would make inflation worse, rejecting a potential GOP effort to repeal a recently enacted Democratic measure to lower prescription drug prices. Biden also rejected the idea of tax cuts for the wealthy. “As we look at tax cuts, we should be looking at tax cuts for working people and middle-class people,” he said, promising to stick to his pledge to not raise taxes on people making less than $400,000 a year. He added that “under no circumstances” would he support GOP proposals to cut or make fundamental changes to Social Security and Medicare. “That’s not on the table,” he said. “I will not do that.” An Orange Crush election? As the final results are clarified in the coming days, perhaps the biggest outstanding question will be whether 2022 goes down in history as the Orange Crush election instead of a red wave — whether it will turn out to be the Republican letdown that loosens former President Donald Trump’s clementine-hued grip on the party. Republican pols and their allies in the chattering class are already raising the prospect of dumping Trump — and it’s no coincidence that the New York Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., splashed Florida’s Ron DeSantis on its front page after the Republican governor cruised to reelection Tuesday night. The Post’s cover line: “DeFUTURE.” “Regardless of the reality with GOP primary voters, Republican elites — and other anti-Trump Republicans — sense blood in the water,” Axios’s Mike Allen writes. “There's an increased likelihood of a larger, more boisterous primary field competing against Trump in 2024.” On the other hand, we’ve heard Republican talk turn against Trump before only to see party members fall back in line as it became evident that the MAGA base still backed their guy. It will take time for all that to shake out. For now, here’s a look at more of the smartest — or most entertaining — reactions to the election developments. Independents broke blue: “Independent voters, who were expected to break for the GOP due to economic anxiety, instead backed Democratic candidates by 4 percentage points nationally, according to a large survey of the 2022 electorate called AP VoteCast. Independents broke for Democrats by far bigger margins in many states with competitive Senate races—by 18 points in Pennsylvania, 28 points in Georgia and 30 points in Arizona.” – Wall Street Journal’s Aaron Zitner and John McCormick It wasn’t just the economy, stupid: Inflation clearly was a top concern for voters, but the Biden strategy of emphasizing a range of topics may have paid off — and issues including abortion rights and preserving democracy clearly were still powerful drivers, as this exit poll from NBC News shows. Inflation beats unemployment: “Some vindication in this for the full employment hawks — obviously in an ideal world you would neither undershoot nor overshoot, but the public backlash to inflation in 2022 does in fact look smaller than the backlash to unemployment in 2010.” — writer Matthew Yglesias Economics writer Zachary D. Carter of the Hewlett Foundation suggested on Twitter that the “political toxicity of inflation has been significantly overstated.” He added that expansionary fiscal policy was the biggest winner of the night. “Compare these results to the 2010 midterms and the economic strategy that led up to them. Across the two recoveries, voters punished unemployment much harder than inflation. Evidence that the most serious political risk in a macro crisis is undershooting on economic relief.” Saying no to extremists: “Republicans misread the mood of the country, and many political analysts went along. Young voters backed the Democrats, and enough voted this year to make a big difference. Americans are quite capable of being angry about the state of the economy without letting their unhappiness push them into the arms of extremists. And for the Republican Party, Donald Trump is a stone cold loser.” — Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. A reckoning for Republicans? "We had the worst inflation in four decades, the worst collapse in real wages in 40 years, the worst crime wave since the 1990s, the worst border crisis in U.S. history. We have Joe Biden, who is the least popular president since Harry Truman – since presidential polling happened – and there wasn’t a red wave. That is a searing indictment of the Republican Party. That is a searing indictment of the message that we have been sending to the voters. They’ve looked at all of that and looked at Republican alternative and said, no thanks. That is, the Republican party needs to do a really deep introspection look in the mirror right now because this is an absolute disaster for the Republican Party and we need to turn back.” — former speechwriter for George W. Bush and Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen “If Republicans had simply nominated bland moderate business types, held their tongue on abortion, and run on inflation and crime, I have no doubt they would have won a smashing victory. But aside from a few outliers — like Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, who won by almost 50 points — they just don’t have people like that anymore. The party is simply crawling with bug-eyed psychos, conspiracy theorists, and gutter racists at every level.” – American Prospect’s Ryan Cooper Biden, about to turn 80, may be emboldened to run again: “He has every reason in the world to run again,” Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod told Politico. “And there are a lot of Democrats waking up today — and not just Democrats by the way, independents — who are saying, ‘I hope he runs again, because look at the night that we had.’” But the president still isn’t popular, even if he didn’t drag down other Democrats. “This was a choice election, even as midterms are usually a referendum on the party in power,” notes The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake. “Also driving that home: Democrats actually won voters who disapproved of President Biden ‘somewhat,’ 49 percent to 45 percent.” Responding to a recession may have just gotten harder: “Reaching agreement on fiscal policy is likely to become more difficult,” Goldman Sachs analysts said in a research note. “Congress will need to raise the debt limit by Q3 2023. Under a Republican House and Democratic Senate in 2011 and 2013, debt limit uncertainty disrupted financial markets and led to substantial spending cuts. A similar scenario could play out next year, though a Democratic Senate would make it less likely that a debt limit deal would involve spending cuts of the sort enacted in 2011. A legislative response to a potential recession would also be more difficult, we believe, as the House and Senate would likely pursue different approaches and the odds of gridlock would be somewhat higher than if Republicans controlled both chambers.” Divided government could mean a policy response to an economic downturn is harder to pass and ultimately smaller in scope. Like what you're reading? Sign up for our free newsletter. TRENDING 1. The chances of a messy debt ceiling fight have gone up because of midterms 2. Bankman-Fried Resigns From FTX, Puts Empire in Bankruptcy 3. 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Auburn basketball team looks for more offensive punch as USF visits Mark Murphy 4-5 minutes AUBURN, Alabama–The Auburn basketball team will look to improve to 2-0 as its plays host to the University of South Florida, an opponent that nearly upset the Tigers last year at Tampa. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. CST on Friday at Neville Arena. “We were down 25-10 in the first half,” Coach Bruce Pearl said of last year’s low-scoring affair won by the Tigers 58-52. “We were down at halftime. We were down most of the game. It was a tough matchup for us.” Friday’s contest will be streamed on SEC+ as the Tigers face an opponent that dropped its home opener on Monday by a score of 64-61 to Southeast Missouri. Auburn is 6-1 all-time in games vs. the Bulls. “South Florida is a really good defensive team,” Pearl said. “Brian Gregory, the coach there, was a Tom Izzo disciple among several others. They do a great job defensively. They guard you, they scout you, they take away things that you are good at. “They were as prepared for us as any team we played against and it was obviously a real struggle,” Pearl said. “The things they did defensively really bothered us, and we had a hard time scoring. We had, I think, 10 points in about 15 minutes of basketball, something like that. “They will guard us the same way so we will have to do a better job executing ourselves offensively, but at the same time continue to guard them because it’s not going to be a high-scoring game,” Auburn’s coach predicted. “They have got a lot of transfers. “The kid, Harris, from Memphis, the kid, Bryant, from South Carolina we have played for a million years now, and play him again this year, and several others.” Keyshawn Bryant, a 6-6, 190 graduate transfer, scored 19 points in the opener. He averaged 8.7 points and 4.0 rebounds per game last season for the Gamecocks. Tyler Harris is a 5-9, 150 graduate student guard who scored nine points and dished out two assists in the opener. He averaged 8.9 points per game last season at Memphis. “It is a talented roster from the American league, a good league,” Pearl said. “It’s a team we struggled with last year so we’ll have to play better.” Wendell Green drives to the basket on Monday night vs. George Mason University. (Photo: Jason Caldwell, 247Sports) Auburn opened the season with 70-52 home victory over George Mason University on Monday night despite a poor shooting performance. The Tigers made just 33.8 percent of their field goals and were just 4-25 on three-pointers. Pearl also wasn’t thrilled with the free throw shooting as the Tigers connected on 18-29. “We have got to shoot it better from the free and three,” the coach said. The 15th-ranked Tigers weren’t seriously threatened as they held the Patriots to 37.5 percent shooting from the field and took a 48-37 rebounding advantage. Auburn also enjoyed a 21-9 edge in points off of turnovers. Eleven players scored for the Tigers led by 16 from junior point Wendell Green, who reached double figures for points for the 43rd time as a collegian. Johni Broome, a first-year Tiger who played two seasons at Morehead State, scored 12 points and pulled in six rebounds vs. George Mason University. He is four shy of reaching 1,000 points as a college player. Another junior guard, K.D. Johnson, added 12 points and a team-high four steals. 2COMMENTS Junior center Dylan Cardwell led the Tigers in rebounds with a career-best total of nine and he was the blocked shots leader with four. Auburn Basketball Notes & Quotes *** Subscribe: Receive the latest Auburn intel, opinion and scoops*** ">247Sports

Auburn hoops freshman Chance Westry 'close' to returning, making debut Published: Nov. 10, 2022, 3:05 p.m. 2 minutes Auburn freshman Chance Westry is being asked to learn three positions in Bruce Pearl's system ahead of the 2022-23 season. (Tom Green/tgreen@al.com) Auburn is inching toward a return to full strength. Four-star freshman Chance Westry is nearing a return to the fold for Auburn, coach Bruce Pearl announced Thursday. Westry has been sidelined since early October after undergoing an arthroscopic knee procedure on the same day Pearl underwent a similar procedure. Read more Auburn basketball: “Auburn being Auburn”: AD John Cohen wants to change the connotation of familiar JABA refrain Scarbinsky: John Cohen’s big fat take THAT serves notice to naysayers Takeaways from Auburn’s season-opening win against George Mason Westry underwent surgery Oct. 6, and a timeline of three to four weeks was given at the time for his return. It has taken a little bit longer for the freshman to make his way back, but Wednesday marked the first time he was able to go full-speed with the team during practice, though Pearl noted Westry did not go “live” during practice. The ninth-year head coach added that Westry “probably won’t do much more” when the team practices Thursday afternoon, as the team works to not rush his return. While Westry is “close” to returning, he’s not quite there yet. Pearl said he doesn’t think the versatile 6-foot-6 guard/wing will play Friday when No. 15 Auburn hosts USF at 7 p.m. in Neville Arena. His Auburn debut could come soon, though. 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.

No. 15 Auburn hoops bracing for low-scoring affair against South Florida Published: Nov. 11, 2022, 7:01 a.m. 4-5 minutes Bruce Pearl remembers all too well last season’s game against USF. It’s tough to forget a performance that was one of Auburn’s worst offensively during what was an otherwise historic season. Auburn shot just 34.4 percent from the field, 19.2 percent from beyond the arc, fell behind by 15 points in the first half and scored just 58 points total during last season’s visit to Tampa. And still gutted out a win, 58-52, in a game that could only be described as a rock fight at Amalie Arena. Read more Auburn sports: Freshman Chance Westry “getting closer” to making Auburn debut “Auburn being Auburn”: AD John Cohen wants to change the connotation of familiar JABA refrain Scarbinsky: John Cohen’s big fat take THAT serves notice to naysayers “It was a tough matchup for us,” Pearl said. “…The things they did defensively really bothered us.” Just how good was the Bulls’ defensive effort against the Tigers last season? It was Auburn’s second-worst shooting performance of the regular season, as the team only shot worse from the field (30.4 percent) in its 55-54 win against Missouri. The Tigers matched that clip in two of their postseason games, losses to Texas A&M in the SEC Tournament (also in Amalie Arena) and then in their season-ending loss to Miami in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Auburn’s 19.2 percent clip — 5-of-26 — from beyond the arc against South Florida was its worst 3-point effort of the regular season. It matched the team’s 3-point shooting in that season-ending loss to Miami. The only game that was worse from deep for Auburn was the SEC Tournament loss to Texas A&M (12 percent; 3-of-25). Auburn’s 58 points were also its second fewest of the season, only scoring fewer in that aforementioned win against Missouri. “They were as prepared for us as any team we played against,” Pearl said. “And it was obviously a real struggle.” Pearl expects more of the same Friday night, when No. 15 Auburn (1-0) hosts USF (0-1) at 7 p.m. in Neville Arena. “They’ll guard us the same way, so we’ll have to do a better job executing ourselves offensively, but at the same time, continue to guard them because it’s not going to be a high-scoring game,” Pearl said. This time around, of course, Auburn has the advantage of playing on its home floor, where even an off night shooting the ball can yield prosperity for Pearl’s team. Just look at Auburn’s season-opener against George Mason on Monday night. The Tigers shot just 33.8 percent from the field (24-of-71) and 16 percent from beyond the arc (4-of-25), yet still led the Patriots wire-to-wire — and by double-digits for much of the first half, as well as by as many as 20 down the stretch — and won, 70-52. It wasn’t that Auburn didn’t play well offensively against George Mason; quality shots just weren’t falling. The poor shooting wasn’t a concern for Pearl afterward, but if it persists, it could become an issue to address. Auburn knows it will rely plenty on its defense to carry it, particularly early in the season as players settle into still-evolving roles. Still, Auburn wants to do a better job of knocking down good looks, particularly from 3-point range. Pearl noted that Auburn shot decently on rhythm 3-pointers but struggled on shots off the dribble against George Mason. “It seemed like every time we had it and pulled it, we didn’t make any of those, so we just got to continue to do a better job of finding good 3′s to take and make,” Pearl said. If Auburn can do that, it may have better results against a South Florida defense that, despite losing to Southeast Missouri State in its season opener, limited its opponent to 35.7 percent shooting. The Bulls will rely on their speed, athleticism and ball pressure to try to make things difficult for the Tigers on their home court, and Pearl knows coach Brian Gregory will have his team well-prepared heading into Neville Arena. “It’s a team we struggled with last year,” Pearl said. “So, we’ll have to play better.” 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.

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Auburn AD faces 'critical decision' for new football coach play Nov 8, 2022 AUBURN, Ala. -- John Cohen carries around a sheet of paper with a list 58 items long mostly comprising qualities he wants in an Auburn football coach and things to ask them. There's no question regarding the No. 1 priority for Auburn's new athletic director: Finding a new football coach to replace Bryan Harsin, ousted hours before Cohen's own hiring was announced. And finding someone who fits better than Harsin, an outside-the-box hire from Boise State who won only nine of his 21 games and didn't survive to the end of his second season. ADVERTISEMENT "It obviously dominates my time, which it should," Cohen said Tuesday at his introductory news conference. "The football head coaching position at Auburn University is a critical decision and we take it with the utmost seriousness. Editor's Picks CFB coaching carousel: Latest buzz, top candidates and best jobs 2dAdam Rittenberg Eight-figure buyouts, the transfer portal and midseason CFB coach firings 11dESPN Auburn starting RT Troxell (knee) out for season 4d "There will not be anything we don't look at. Everything is on the table every day. I'm not going into dates and times and the process and when the finish line is going to be. We'll get there when we get there and we're going to make the right decision for this great institution." Some of the potential candidates for the job include No. 11 Mississippi's Lane Kiffin, No. 19 Liberty's Hugh Freeze and Jackson State's Deion Sanders. Interim coach Carnell Williams, set to lead the Tigers for the second time Saturday night against Texas A&M, was in attendance. The popular former Auburn player said Monday he had only briefly met Cohen and demurred when asked if he wanted to be considered a candidate. "I can't think beyond this moment," Williams said Monday. "I want to sit in this moment and live in this moment because I never could've dreamed of anything like this. I can't answer that question. This isn't about me." Auburn has lost five straight games, and recruiting struggles under Harsin could make for an uphill battle in the Southeastern Conference, which has five teams currently ranked among the top 11. Cohen was in his seventh year as Mississippi State's athletic director. He hired Joe Moorhead, who was fired after going 14-12 in two seasons, and current coach Mike Leach. "It's about fit. And there's not an exact science," Cohen said. "There's analytics. There's a little bit of gut feel. There's a lot of factors. I could read you off this list, a lot of this is commonsensical, a lot of this is really important to me as I've been through the hiring process several times." Cohen said he will make the final hiring decision but won't turn down input from others. Auburn will use a search firm to help with logistics and background checks, but not to provide names of potential candidates. "The 35-year-old version of myself would have stuck my chest out and said, 'This is how it's going to be,'" he said. "The 56-year old version of John Cohen says, 'I want all the information that is available to me from anyone I can possibly get it from at Auburn and beyond.'"