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gundys record Year School G W L T Pct SRS SOS AP Pre AP High AP Post Bowl Notes 18 Yrs Oklahoma State 226 155 71 0 .686 10.20 3.55 11 2005 Oklahoma State 11 4 7 0 .364 -6.28 1.72 2006 Oklahoma State 13 7 6 0 .538 6.04 1.12 Independence Bowl-W 2007 Oklahoma State 13 7 6 0 .538 6.67 4.06 Insight Bowl-W 2008 Oklahoma State 13 9 4 0 .692 13.09 3.78 7 16 Holiday Bowl-L 2009 Oklahoma State 13 9 4 0 .692 8.01 2.78 9 5 Cotton Bowl-L 2010 Oklahoma State 13 11 2 0 .846 16.62 2.39 10 13 Alamo Bowl-W 2011 Oklahoma State 13 12 1 0 .923 24.14 7.67 9 2 3 Fiesta Bowl-W 2012 Oklahoma State 13 8 5 0 .615 13.50 4.96 19 18 Heart of Dallas Bowl-W 2013 Oklahoma State 13 10 3 0 .769 16.83 3.76 13 6 17 Cotton Bowl-L 2014 Oklahoma State 13 7 6 0 .538 1.10 3.49 15 Cactus Bowl-W 2015 Oklahoma State 13 10 3 0 .769 8.50 1.57 4 20 Sugar Bowl-L 2016 Oklahoma State 13 10 3 0 .769 11.16 1.70 21 10 11 Alamo Bowl-W 2017 Oklahoma State 13 10 3 0 .769 13.09 3.02 10 6 14 Camping World Bowl-W 2018 Oklahoma State 13 7 6 0 .538 6.82 3.67 15 Liberty Bowl-W 2019 Oklahoma State 13 8 5 0 .615 7.39 3.46 21 Texas Bowl-L 2020 Oklahoma State 11 8 3 0 .727 10.46 4.92 15 6 20 Cheez-It Bowl-W 2021 Oklahoma State 14 12 2 0 .857 14.57 4.42 5 7 Fiesta Bowl-W 2022 Oklahoma State 8 6 2 0 .750 11.95 5.45 12 7

lord if it is mullen i will lose my mind. i assume the new AD knows better but never say never in this world. i am betting it is grimes now.

i say sixty to seventy percent.

sounds like caddy and the boys are working their tails off. Inside the 20: On today’s episode of Inside the 20 with Jeffrey Lee and Keith Niebuhr — an Auburn Live podcast — we focus on the Tigers’ efforts on the trail. We discuss … * How Auburn moves forward in recruiting without a permanent head coach. * Interim head coach Carnell Williams already is getting face time with recruits and the feedback is very positive. * At least four recruits already are locked in for official visits for the Texas A&M game. * The latest in the recruitments of former commitment Gernorris Wilson and current commitment Jeremiah Cobb. Watch or listen. Up to you.

from what i have read and it was last year that dabo has a bama clause in case they want him when saban retires. i would be super shocked if dabo is not the guy to replace saban. and you are right about kiff and bama. people forget they left him at least once at a stadium tho i do not remember why. people can change their minds of course but i agree kiff is not going to bama.

hey maybe i can fertilize your garden this spring..............i am cheap lol

mind if i use your toilet?

legends are not allowed to die.

Alexander Nazaryan·Senior White House CorrespondentWed, November 2, 2022 at 8:03 PM 5-7 minutes WASHINGTON — Speaking on Wednesday evening from Union Station, mere blocks from where rioters shook American democracy to its core on Jan. 6, 2021, by storming the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the previous November’s presidential contest, President Biden warned that assaults on free and fair elections were worsening, as was the incidence of political violence. “My fellow Americans, we’re facing a defining moment, an inflection point. We must — with one, overwhelming, unified voice speak as a country and say there’s no place — no place — for voter intimidation or political violence in America,” Biden said. He opened his remarks by acknowledging the attack late last week on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a favorite nemesis of the right. Pelosi was assaulted in his San Francisco home by a disturbed suspect motivated by conspiracy theories he had encountered on the internet. “Where’s Nancy?” the man — later identified as Paul DePape — wondered as he searched for the speaker, who was in Washington at the time. Unable to find her, he roused her husband and struck him with a hammer. Though he suffered serious injuries, Pelosi is expected to recover fully. “Those are the very same words used by the mob when they stormed the United States Capitol on January the 6th," Biden noted of DePape’s haunting call. Without tethering the entire Republican Party to baseless conspiracies about the 2020 election — the most persistent of which have been debunked, to no seeming effect — he argued that voting for pro-Trump candidates would amount to voting against democracy. Democrats have used Jan. 6 as a centerpiece of their argument for why they should maintain control of Congress, depicting Republicans as untrustworthy custodians of the institutions that sustain the democratic process. President Biden delivers remarks on protecting democracy from Union Station in Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. (Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images) “American democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the United States refused to accept the results of the 2020 election," Biden said, returning to the practice of not mentioning Trump by name. He pointed out that next Tuesday would mark “the first national election since the events of January 6th,” which were organized by supporters of President Trump in an effort to keep Congress from certifying the presidential election held on Nov. 3, 2020, which Biden won. Trump refused to accept the results, and many Republicans followed suit. And while the scene at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was unruly, the plan to subvert the democratic process involved the highest levels of government, conscripting a broad array of Trump supporters, from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to far-right militant Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers, who is now on trial along with several accomplices. “I wish I could say the assault on our democracy ended that day,” Biden said. “But I cannot.” Increasingly, election conspiracy theories are becoming part of the political mainstream, making it more and more difficult to distinguish reality from fiction. In his speech, Biden asked Americans to keep those considerations in mind as they cast their votes. “Extreme MAGA Republicans aim to question not only the legitimacy of past elections, but elections being held now and into the future,” he said, using a favorite epithet for pro-Trump candidates. One analysis has found that there are 249 GOP candidates across the country who have engaged in election denialism. “That is the path to chaos in America,” Biden warned. “It’s unprecedented, it’s unlawful and it's un-American.” Pro-Trump rioters storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Wednesday’s address was billed as a Democratic National Committee event; the speech was intended to bolster Democratic candidates across the country, not all of whom, of course, are facing off against election deniers — but who, on the whole, have struggled to find the kind of coherent argument that powered Democratic midterm gains in 2018, thanks to disciplined messaging on healthcare. In the days after Jan. 6, as images of violent chaos and purposeless destruction dominated cable news and social media, there was hope that Trump’s false claim to victory in the presidential election would finally loosen its grip on the Republican Party — and that, perhaps, the Trumpian fever would break. Such hopes were quickly dashed. Even as he retired to Florida, stripped of his social media accounts and condemned by a few members of his own party, Trump continued to exert immense sway over the GOP. Biden sought to remind voters of their own agency — urging them to vote for Democrats without quite saying so outright. “You have the power,” he said. “It’s your choice. It’s your decision. The fate of the nation, the fate of the soul of America, lies where it always does — with the people, in your hands, in your heart, in your ballot.” The speech was partly written by prominent historian Jon Meacham, who has advised Biden in the past, Politico reported. In some ways, the address echoed the one Biden gave from Philadelphia in September, when he denounced Trump-aligned Republicans as political saboteurs. But as much as the president clearly had his own political party’s prospects in mind, he aspired to an appeal beyond partisanship. “This is not about me,” the president said. “It’s about all of us.”

Do Republicans bear any blame for the Pelosi attack? Peter Weber, Senior editor 8-10 minutes A hammer. Illustrated | Getty Images The Justice Department and San Francisco district attorney's office laid out a handful of federal and local felony charges Monday against David DePape, formally accusing him of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) home early Friday morning, waking up her 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, and threatening to bind him up for days until his wife came home so he could interrogate her and break her kneecaps to teach Democrats that their unspecified actions have consequences. The charging documents make clear that Paul Pelosi was the victim of a home invasion by a fully clothed stranger with a hammer who was trying to abduct and harm the speaker of the U.S. House. When Pelosi managed to call 911 from the bathroom, the Justice Department charges, DePape decided not to flee "because, much like the American founding fathers with the British, he was fighting against tyranny without the option of surrender." And when the police arrived and Paul Pelosi rushed to open the door, DePape hit him on the head with a hammer because Pelosi's actions meant he was "taking the punishment instead" of his wife. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told reporters on Monday that the attack was clearly politically motivated, based on DePape's own statements and comments. "It is incumbent upon us all to watch the words we say and to turn down the volume of our political rhetoric," she said. Republicans have vilified Nancy Pelosi using charged, sometimes violent rhetoric and imagery for more than a decade, and so "for a wide swath of Republicans, Pelosi is Enemy No. 1 — a target of the collective rage, conspiratorial thinking, and overt misogyny that have marked the party's hard-right turn in recent years," The Washington Post reports. Does the Republican Party share any responsibility for this attack? Of course Republicans brought this on "Political violence is not an unintended consequence of the MAGA movement," Jennifer Rubin writes at the Post. "Much like Nike's swoosh, it is at the center of the movement's brand." The Republican Party has "spent years normalizing violence and violent rhetoric," and it got worse under former President Donald Trump, culminating in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, where pro-Trump rioters tried to hunt down Pelosi and "hang Mike Pence." "When the MAGA movement turns someone such as Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two and injured another during protests following a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, into a folk hero, Republicans hold out the promise of fame to those who follow violent cues," Rubin writes. Also, "when you convince people that politicians are rigging elections, drink babies blood, etc, you will get violence," tweeted Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.). Republicans have been targeted for violence — Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) was shot at a congressional baseball game, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh and New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin were threatened by men with knives — but "Americans should recognize that only one party has instrumentalized this sort of violence," Rubin argues. After those attacks, "no Democratic officeholder cracked jokes about it. Instead, President Biden and other party leaders have swiftly and unequivocally condemned each act of violence regardless of the victim's party." You can't blame Republicans for a violent individual Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, who asked an Ohio GOP rally "Are you ready to fire Nancy Pelosi?" hours after the Pelosi attack, told Fox News Sunday that "it's just unfair" to blame Republicans for the violence done to the speaker's husband. "You can't say people saying 'fire Pelosi' or 'take back the House' is saying 'go do violence.'" she said. "If this weren't Paul Pelosi, this criminal would probably be out on the street tomorrow" in liberal San Francisco. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, defended his recent "#FirePelosi" video featuring him firing a gun, on CBS's Face the Nation. "I'm sure people like to talk about anything but what the Democrats have done to this country," he said. There has clearly been "a meteoric rise in the number of threats against public officials in recent years," and the threats are "all over the ideological map," writes Seamus Hughes at George Washington University's Program on Extremism. "Threats against right, left, and center. The central theme is that if you're a public official in the news, you're getting a threat." More than anything, "it's a reflection of our politics," Hughes adds. "We can't disagree without being more than disagreeable. The mood music of extreme rhetoric without explicit calls for violence results in most not acting but the few that do can draw a straight line to that rhetoric." Republicans did start this, but Democrats aren't blameless "As communications director for the Republican National Committee in the 2010 election cycle, I was part of the 'Fire Pelosi' campaign" in 2010 that included "a picture of Pelosi engulfed in flames (fire, get it?)," and its wild financial success "felt like a political gift," Doug Heye writes at the Post. Still, when a gunman shot Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) in 2011, "we discussed the need to roundly condemn the shooting and to do what we could to make sure none of our more caustic members said the wrong thing," he adds. The GOP attacks on Paul Pelosi suggest that's no longer possible. "More and more in our politics, the loudest, angriest, most divisive voices get the most attention (and money)," Heye writes. "As a Republican, I know the original sin begins with us," but "if the Republican embrace of Trump represents our sin, Democrats should not be sharpening stones to throw." Before the aborted attack on Kavanaugh, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he had "released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price" for overturning Roe v. Wade, for example, Heye notes. "Now, was Schumer calling for supporters to attack Kavanaugh? Of course not. No more so than an old political banner led to last week's assault of Paul Pelosi. But what we say is often not what people hear and everyone in political life has a duty to do better." But Republicans are still attacking the Pelosi family "I think Pelosi's attacker is a lot like the guy who shot Scalise," but "there are two differences," writer Tom Nichols suggests. First, "there seem to be a lot more unstable people motivated to violence on the right," and second, "more pundits on the right celebrating the violence." But "this incident feels like a turning point," and not for the better," he adds. "If we're not going to ostracize people who are yukking it up over taking a hammer to a man in his 80s, then we're a different society." Regardless of what Republicans did before the attack, many of them have continued making it worse and trying to "justify the violence" by spreading "insane, offensive, and false conspiracy theories" about the attack, including the "deranged smear" that Paul Pelosi was in a sexual relationship with the man who nearly killed him, CNN's Jake Tapper said Monday night. "In addition to being an inhuman and inhumane response to a tragedy, it's a lie," and "part of the same sickness that got Paul Pelosi injured to begin with." The conspiracy about "Paul Pelosi's leftist gay lover" will almost certainly "be accepted by a sizable percentage of the GOP base" within a week, because the right has carefully nurtured a "parallel media ecosystem" tailor-made "to create and propagate conspiracy theories like the latest drivel about the Pelosi attack" Matt Gertz writes at Media Matters. "Sprawling conspiracy theories like 2020 election denial, QAnon, Pizzagate, and Gamergate — all of which DePape had championed — worked their way through these networks." The right-wing conspiracy theories that sprung up around the Pelosi assault also aim to make the attack about "the depravity of the left," Gertz adds. "They cannot accept that the assailant believed right-wing conspiracy theories without taking on responsibility, so they've developed an alternate explanation instead." Democrats don't have anything like this — or any way to pierce the right-wing bubble.

david many have hated me on here since my first post against trump, then they started lying taking up for this trump fellow. so i jumped on that. then i really pissed them off when i decided to treat republicans like trump treat his enemies. they tried to get me banned over that one. funny they still say it is ok for trump to be an ass but nor me. but i made my point. the difference is i could sit down and break bread with most of the folks that hang out on the pol boards. i still fondly remember those trying to claim trump did not make fun of the handicapped reporter even tho every swinging huckleberry in america say it. the difference is i am not trying to save face i am trying to report the truth. poor ol fiddy, right? grins

i wonder how many jailbird interviews we will see the next couple of years for trump and company? hell they are all tied up in court. funny how breaking the law will make that happen. i can deflect too pen.

Looks Like Sean Hannity Was Caught In A Big Fat Lie Ron Dicker Thu, November 3, 2022 at 6:32 AM Sean Hannity appeared to utter a big fat lie on Fox News this week, claiming no Republican has ever said they wanted to take away Social Security. Cue the riposte from the Twitter user Acyn, who shared 2010 video of Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), then a candidate, saying his objective was “to phase out Social Security ― to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it.” Hannity’s comment on Tuesday’s “Hannity” added to the conservative channel’s dismissal of Democratic Party concerns over the fate of Social Security as “scare tactics” before Tuesday’s midterm elections. The New York Times reported Wednesday that congressional Republicans “have embraced plans to reduce federal spending on Social Security and Medicare, including cutting benefits for some retirees and raising the retirement age for both safety net programs.” Some lawmakers have revealed a few specifics on the table if the GOP retakes the House, including raising the Social Security eligibility age to 70, requiring the elderly to pay increased premiums for health insurance, and imposing a strict government debt ceiling that could adversely impact entitlement programs, according to Bloomberg Government and the Times. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has proposed sunsetting all federal spending legislation in five years, forcing a dysfunctional Congress to act if it wants to keep Social Security and Medicare. President Joe Biden has used the developments to claim that Republicans are aiming to tear down Social Security, and the message has intensified as the election nears. As for Utah’s Lee, who faces a reelection challenge from independent Evan McMullin, the incumbent denied ever saying he would seek the dismantling of Social Security despite the video evidence. “I don’t recall ever having advocated for dismantling those — that’s sensitive stuff,” Lee told the Utah newspaper Daily Herald on Oct. 29. “I vaguely remember a time in 2010 when we were talking about a bunch of things. And it was talking about you know, we need to, we need to end this pattern of the federal government occupying space that it wasn’t intended to occupy and spending too much money. Perhaps that was close in time and in proximity to another conversation about Social Security.” CORRECTION: Evan McMullin is campaigning as an independent against Lee in next week’s election. A previous version of this article misidentified him as a Democrat. Related...

mr el let me know if i am stepping on any toes. should i post all basketball articles in one thread? would you rather me not post? let me know guys as i know this is a different animal from the football board.

there is very littl out there today but i will check off and on today for more.

Auburn football: Paul Finebaum links 1 current and 1 former Ole Miss coaches to HC job Andrew Hughes 3 minutes Paul Finebaum linked 1 current and 1 former Ole Miss head coach to the likely imminent Auburn football head coaching vacancy Mandatory Credit: Petre Thomas-USA TODAY Sports Auburn football losing for the third straight matchup by at least two touchdowns has pulverized any remaining faint sliver of hope for most fans regarding the 2022 season. AU hasn’t been on the winning side of a game since September — and they didn’t even deserve to win that one as much as Missouri had an unbreakable will to lose. Talk of hiring a new athletic director is reaching a fever pitch, with Mississippi State’s John Cohen — a former baseball head coach with a pair of College World Series appearances under his belt — looking like the guy. Of course, AU is taking its time and there is some pushback to the potential hiring per On3’s Justin Hokanson, but the first step to removing Bryan Harsin could soon be upon us. With that in mind, and with the Tigers continuing to lose football games in soul-crushing fashion, the talking heads continue to forecast the directions the Plains is headed in with new direction likely needed by season’s end in the coaching department. Paul Finebaum weighed in with his own prediction, and it included a former coach and the current play-caller for the Ole Miss Rebels: “So Harsin is gone, whenever that is. He just did a miserable job. Hugh Freeze I think is going to be the coach to watch. (Lane Kiffin’s) name comes up, but I do think there’s a lot of interest for Hugh Freeze there.” Hugh Freeze’s potential price point for Auburn football recently revealed If Hugh Freeze is committed to sticking in Lynchburg and leading Liberty forward, it doesn’t matter how big the bag is that Auburn football, or any program for that matter, throws at him. If, however, the Flames are a springboard to something bigger, the Tigers now have an understanding on what his price range will be. Freeze will earn nearly $5 million per season under the terms of his new deal, which will run for the next eight years until the turn of the decade. That is the price of a coach with some past baggage over at Ole Miss, but a coaching resume that has a far better chance of holding up in the current SEC than the incumbent’s has.

check out the basketball section for some fun article i posted there this morning............

Auburn takes care of UAH in exhibition Taylor Jones 2 minutes The No. 15 Auburn Tigers provided their fans with a fine first look on Wednesday by taking down Division II Alabama-Huntsville, 87-69 at Neville Arena. Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl played a total of 15 players on Wednesday, with only four players getting over 20 minutes of floor time. Buy Tigers Tickets Jaylin Williams made the most noise for Auburn in a short amount of time. The senior forward shot 100% on the night, going 6-for-6 from the field, 3-3 from the free throw line, and made his only three-point shot on his way to scoring a team-leading 16 points. The most interesting note of Williams’ night, is that he fouled out in 12 minutes of game time. “Jaylin Williams was terrific,” Pearl said after the game. “Great pop, great energy, making plays, bouncy.” Pearl was complimentary of senior guard Allen Flanigan on Tuesday during his preview press conference, saying that he has been consistently good at practice, and has had the best couple of weeks of his career. That boast translated to the game on Wednesday, as Flanigan scored 11 points, recorded three steals, and pulled down six rebounds. “Seeing (Flanigan) healthy, seeing his athleticism and making plays, that was really good,” Pearl said. “Al was so productive. He was able to get downhill, score through contact. He was effective defensively.” Auburn opens the season on Monday, Nov. 7 at Neville Arena against George Mason. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. CT, and can be seen on SEC Network+. STAT LEADERS Points Jaylin Willams (16) Rebounds Tre Donaldson (7) Assists Allen Flanigan (4) Minutes Allen Flanigan (23)

Rewinding Auburn basketball’s 87-69 exhibition win against UAH Updated: Nov. 02, 2022, 9:16 p.m.|Published: Nov. 02, 2022, 6:41 p.m. 7-9 minutes Auburn gave its home crowd a sneak peek of what to expect this season with a convincing tune-up victory against in-state Division II program UAH. In its lone preseason exhibition ahead of Monday’s season opener against George Mason at Neville Arena, No. 15 Auburn cruised to a 87-69 victory against UAH, the 24th-ranked team in Division II. Auburn went with an 11-man rotation until the final minutes, when it cleared the bench and got some walk-ons into the game late. Ten of those 11 rotation players scored against the Chargers, with Stretch Akingbola the lone one without a point. Read more Auburn basketball: Auburn lands two on coaches’ preseason All-SEC team Bruce Pearl: New AD John Cohen understands Auburn’s challenges, goals A slimmer K.D. Johnson hopes to be more “explosive” this season Jaylin Williams scored 16 points before fouling out late to lead four Auburn players in double figures. Wendell Green Jr. finished with 12 points, four rebounds, three assists and two steals. Allen Flanigan had 11 points, six rebounds, four assists and three steals, as he looked more like his sophomore self. Freshman Tre Donaldson, meanwhile, added 10 points and a team-high seven rebounds in his soft opening at Neville Arena. Below is a blow-by-blow recap of the game. Stay tuned to al.com/auburnbasketball for full postgame coverage. FINAL: Auburn 87, UAH 69 -- Lior Berman and Chandler Leopard have checked in, making it 13-deep for Auburn tonight. Tigers up 22 with 2:14 to play as Jaylin Williams fouls out with 16 points and four boards. -- Auburn 80, UAH 61 (3:51) | Under-4 timeout: Jaylin Williams checks back in, hits a hook shot and grabs a defensive rebound, which leads to an Allen Flanigan layup in transition. Williams with 14 points and four rebounds in 11 minutes. Flanigan with nine points, six boards, four assists and three steals. -- Tre Donaldson with a dunk in transition. He has eight points in his soft opening at Neville Arena. That’s five unanswered for Auburn to go up 75-58 with 6:14 to go, as UAH calls a timeout. -- Wendell Green Jr. snaps Auburn’s drought with a pair of free throws out of the timeout. He’s got 12, tied with Jaylin Williams for the team lead. -- Auburn 68, UAH 56 (7:37) | Under-8 timeout: Auburn hasn’t scored in the last 2:10 of gametime. UAH within 12, which is the closest the Chargers have been since opening the second half with that 5-0 spurt to cut Auburn’s lead to nine. -- Another big dunk from Allen Flanigan, this time in transition off a lob from Wendell Green Jr., who started the fastbreak with a steal. Flanigan now with seven points, six rebounds, three steals and two assists. Third assist for Green, who also has 10 points and four boards. -- Auburn 64, UAH 51 (11:52) | Under-12 timeout: Auburn is shooting 50 percent overall as a team, just 30 percent from 3-point range and 60 percent from the free-throw line. UAH has hit five of its last seven shots and now has outscored Auburn 19-18 in the second half. -- Chris Moore with a pair of free throws for his first points of the night. Ten of the 11 Auburn players who have seen the court have scored now. Stretch Akingbola the lone player without a point. -- Freshman Tre Donaldson now with six points, four rebounds, a pair of assists and a block in nine minutes off the bench. Nice drive just now through traffic for a layup. -- Auburn 56, UAH 40 (15:27) | Under-16 timeout: K.D. Johnson gets fouled on a drive and will go to the line for two. Johnson has been aggressive, and he has played well, but he has not been able to find his shot. He’s just 1-of-6 from the floor and 0-of-5 from deep, but he has six points and has been active. -- Williams picks up his fourth foul with less than 17 minutes to play. Stretch Akingbola back in for him. -- Johni Broome splits a pair of free throws, but Jaylin Williams gets the rebound off the second one and puts it in. He finishes the three-point play at the line, and Auburn has its biggest lead of the game: 54-37 with 17:08 to play. Williams has 10 points, three rebounds and a block in just seven minutes. -- UAH with five unanswered to open the second half, including a 3-pointer from Jack Kostel, who leads all scorers with 13 Wendell Green Jr. finally answers for Auburn with a midrange pull-up. Auburn’s up 48-37. HALFTIME: Auburn 46, UAH 32 -- Nine Auburn players scored in the first half, with six scoring at least five points. Wendell Green Jr. leading the way with eight points, two assists and two rebounds. Yohan Traore has seven points and two boards. K.D. Johnson has four points and is a team-best plus-13, even as he’s shooting 1-of-5 overall and 0-of-4 from deep. -- Back-to-back dunks by Dylan Cardwell to put Auburn in front, 42-30, with 1:12 to play in the half as UAH calls a timeout. Auburn has hit four of its last five shots and now has its largest lead of the game. Cardwell has six points, all on dunks. -- Auburn 36, UAH 25 (3:02) | Under-4 timeout: Auburn starting to settle in some and create some space between themselves and UAH, hitting five of its last seven shots, but still not quite getting jumpers to fall (just 5-of-15 from deep). Tigers have also gone 11-deep in the rotation, with Stretch Akingbola getting some first-half run. -- Wendell Green Jr. is starting to get it going. He’s got eight points since the last timeout, including a pair of 3-pointers. Allen Flanigan also had an emphatic baseline dunk after UAH overextended on the perimeter. -- Auburn 21, UAH 19 (7:39) | Under-8 timeout: Johni Broome with back-to-back buckets to put Auburn up four, but UAH answers with a CJ Williamson basket. Broome is about to head to the free-throw line for a pair of shots after getting fouled before the timeout. -- Johni Broome with a steal on the perimeter. He dishes it to Zep Jasper in transition, and Jasper finds him for the alley-oop to put Auburn back in front. -- Auburn 17, UAH 17 (10:34) | Under-12 timeout: Jack Kostel is 2-of-2 from beyond the arc for UAH, which is keeping pace with Auburn midway through the first half here. Auburn is just 3-of-11 from deep and 2-of-6 from the free-throw line (including a Dylan Cardwell airball) early on. -- Yohan Traore with a nice stroke from the wing for a 3-pointer. Auburn leads, 17-12, with under 13 minutes to go in the first half. The freshman has five points early on here. -- Auburn 11, UAH 7 (15:36) | Under-16 timeout: Jaylin Williams drills a 3-pointer from the top of the key, and then a stoppage in play after a foul by Allen Flanigan. Auburn is 4-of-8 shooting early on. -- Tre Donaldson checks in for Green, and now Auburn has gone 10-deep in the rotation less than four minutes into the game. -- Bruce Pearl’s first substitution of the game is essentially a line change, with Wendell Green Jr. staying in at point. K.D. Johnson, Allen Flanigan, Jaylin Williams and Johni Broome all check in. Johnson quickly gets a basket. -- First points of the preseason: Dylan Cardwell with a put-back dunk after missing a shot near the rim and grabbing his own rebound. -- Auburn wins the tip, then calls a quick timeout 11 seconds into the game after UAH comes out pressing. PREGAME -- Auburn starting lineup: G Wendell Green Jr., G Zep Jasper, F Chris Moore, F Yohan Traore, C Dylan Cardwell -- UAH starting lineup: G Luke Barnett, G CJ Williamson, G Jack Kostel, G Chaney Johnson, G Max Shulman. Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

Auburn Morning Rush: Football players nominated for awards, gymnastics sells out Share this article 99 shares Todd Van Emst/AU Athletics River Wells November 2, 2022 6:30 am CT It’s another Wednesday in football season, Auburn fans. It’s also the first game week without head coach Bryan Harsin at the helm, but that doesn’t mean that all Auburn football news this week has to be bad optics and gloomy futures. In fact, two Auburn football players have been nominated for awards amidst the chaos of the week. On top of that, Auburn gymnastics should expect full crowds for the 2022-23 season and the Auburn cross country team is being recognized for its SEC-best athletes. Buy Tigers Tickets Check out the newest Auburn news for this edition of the Morning Rush below on Auburn Tigers Wire: Owen Pappoe named as Butkus Award semifinalist John Reed-USA TODAY Sports Owen Pappoe has been recognized as being among the best linebackers in the country. Pappoe was named as a semifinalist for the 2022 Butkus Award on Tuesday, an award given out to the best linebacker in Division I college football. Although Pappoe has some stiff competition, making it to the semifinals is a testament to his production on this year’s Auburn defense. Pappoe has had 34 solo tackles and two forced fumbles on the year. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford) In other award news, Auburn long snapper Jacob Quattlebaum is getting some recognition of his own. Quattlebaum was announced as a nominee for the Burlsworth Trophy, which is given to the best player in college football that started as a walk-on. Quattlebaum has been with the team since 2021 and currently starts for the team as its long snapper. Auburn gymnastics sells out season tickets Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports Fans want more of Suni Lee and the Auburn Tigers. Lee helped the team make an improbable run to gymnastics’ Final Four, and it seems that the Auburn faithful are ready to see it again — the team announced on Wednesday that season tickets had sold out for the upcoming gymnastics season, but that single-match tickets will be available soon. Auburn cross country runners get All-SEC nods John Reed-USA TODAY Sports Auburn cross country can boast three All-SEC nods. Three runners — Ryan Kinnae, Gene Coetzee and Joseph Perry — were given All-SEC commendations on Wednesday. Kinnae was named to the All-SEC Second Team and Coetzee and Perry were named to the All-SEC Freshman Team.

#PMARSHONAU: A special moment for an Auburn icon Phillip Marshall 4-5 minutes It was reporting day for Auburn’s football freshmen in the summer of 2001 when running back Cadillac Williams sat down to talk with assembled reporters. He was a 5-star running back from Etowah High School, the crown jewel of the signing class. The first question was predictable: “Do you expect to be the starter?” Williams pondered the question for a moment and smiled. “I have not proved one thing to anybody here,” Williams said. Asked if he had been promised a starting job, Williams laughed out loud. “Aw, man, that’s just recruiting talk,” Williams said. “I didn’t pay attention to anything like that.” Though he did not begin his first season as a starter, Williams quickly proved plenty to everybody at Auburn. He went on to become an Auburn icon, one of the great running backs in Auburn and SEC history, to be Rookie of the Year and play for eight seasons in the NFL. But he never really changed from the humble teen-ager who met reporters on that hot summer day. Williams grew up an Alabama fan. He committed to Tennessee before switching to Auburn. And he became a loyal Auburn man through and through. Ahead of the 2019 season, Gus Malzahn hired Williams to coach Auburn running backs. That was a big day in his life. On Monday, after Bryan Harsin was fired, interim athletics director Rich McGlynn informed him that he would be Auburn’s interim head coach for the remainder of the season. For Williams, it was a moment so special that describing it is difficult. He will be the first African-American to be the head coach in a football game for Auburn. “You know, just to hear that brings chills,” Williams said in his first appearance on the SEC coaches’ teleconference. “I get goosebumps. I never thought in a million years that I would honestly be in this position.” And I promise you he meant it. That is who he is. Auburn players stood and cheered when Williams stood in front of them for the first time. He is beloved by those players, and not just the running backs he has coached. He is a leader with so much to teach. Williams’ first two Auburn seasons were cut short by injuries, but he fought back. He grew up in a family of modest means, but that never took the smile off his face. He willingly shared the glory with friend and fellow running back Ronnie Brown to help Auburn go 13-0 in 2004. Injuries cropped up again in the NFL, and he became the league’s Comeback Player of the Year. And now, even if it’s on an interim basis, he has earned the opportunity of a lifetime. By the way, recruiting goes on. “One of the things I definitely want to get out to recruits and the rest of the world: Only at Auburn do dreams come true,” Williams said. “I’m forever indebted to this institution. It changed the whole trajectory of the Williams family. I met my wife here, (had) my two boys. Auburn has been so good to me. Every dream I wanted to accomplish, this place gave me the opportunity.” Auburn players haven’t stopped playing hard through a numbing four-game losing streak and 3-5 record, but they will play as hard or harder with Williams running things. Will they beat Mississippi State on Saturday? Will they win another game? 30COMMENTS “No promises,” Williams said. “One thing that’s going to make me happy is if we play good football -- and hard, Auburn football. Honestly, that’s what I want to get these kids to do - play hard and compete. At the end of the day, I told these kids, win, lose or draw, if we do that, not only will we make ourselves proud, but I know the Auburn family will be proud of us, too.” For more than two decades, Williams has made Auburn proud – on the field, in the NFL, off the field and in the way he has lives his life. ">247Sports

sorry it is courtside only i spoke too soon and apologize. it just shows the announcers...........

i am watching it as i type....................