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oh no. bird is gone? good lord man when we lose you we are toast....................

are you questioning me suga? grins

thank gawd i am a member of this joint. i am the only one that keeps it going..............

the thing is trump opened pandora's box on all the political nut jobs and this is just the beginning of all the nuts.

go look at the popo and baltimore police and all the crap they did. it got where many of the cops were worse than criminals. in fact hbo i believe has a new series on it called we own this city. they destroyed countless lives and most of them black. my point is i am backing you up ichy.

you are not defending officers who are all for gun control tho............

oh that cannot be right because the gun lovers say cops want citizens to have more weapons and included in that is assault weapons. this is just not true and i have seen cops speak out on it over and over. it increases their chances of not coming home to their families. they preach about gun control and mental health. go talk to the caljoun county sheriff. he is tired of his jails being used for patients that should be in a hospital getting treatment.

also i know for a fact a friends older brother bought a thompson sub machine gun in the late seventies. he paid huge money and i believe he had to have training of some kind but i will not say because someone will accuse me of being loose with the truth. he had to have a special license and it had to be clipped on his shirt or somewhere it can be seen. the gun had to be in the backseat or in the trunk. all of this is very true. i have no idea how often he had to reup his license but i know he said his first one was super pricey. they probably all were because i joined a band and saw him very little after that. in fact i think he was required to keep it in a gun safe as well. so what has happened since then and now? there are a million ways to handle this mess but no one is throwing out any kind of idea's and we still allow our school children to be shot down in school and some so bad they need DNA to prove who is who because they were turned into hamburger meat. it is shocking and immoral to continue to allow this to happen. people like ted cruz will burn in hell if there is one because he knows he is taking blood money and acting like less doors and crap will protect our children. i hope ted pays one day because he thinks more of people playing with guns than he does the people dying. and before you folks start bashing let me remind you talk is cheap. you watch what a person does and not what he says. ted in my personal opinion is smearing religion over his thirst for money and power. people say he is a man of faith and god so those weapons must be A O K! am i right? if anyone...ANYONE .........in these forums are not about gun control then in my personal opinion you have blood on your hands.

i see no one wants to discuss the marine shooting instructor's video i posted. i agree with everything he said. i think that well regulated milita has been taken badly out of context. so i will try again.

I have a really hard time wrapping my head around the fact that the police at the school shooting were cowards. in fact the cop that handcuffed a mom until she calmed down and then uncuffed her she jumped a fence and she saved her childrens life if the yahoo article was true. i would just about bet my house it was a management type screw up. in fact in the same article the feds showed up to take down the shooter only to be denied entrance. what the hell? do you guys have any info i might have missed? we all know a bit of fear when we enter a dangerous situation but calling folks cowards is a bit much. there was something wrong going on and parents were begging and screaming for forty minutes to enter the building? there is something terribly wrong here which just makes the tragedy worse. it would appear there is blood on someones hand but who's? how many cops are going to wait outside while children are being killed? seriously? i am concerned because it seems some lives could have been saved that in fact were not.

To the editor: Don't blame the founders for our inability to curb gun violence. ("How many times has Biden said, 'We've got to act' on guns? What's taking so long?" Opinion, May 25) If the words that start the 2nd Amendment — "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state" — were respected, a person who wanted a gun would be required to first enlist in a local militia. They would take an oath to never use their gun except in defense of their home or community. The enlistee would then be required to follow the chain of command and regularly appear to prove proficiency in the maintenance and use of their weapon. Because our Supreme Court has not upheld the 2nd Amendment, we live in a country that is neither secure nor free. Ralph Tropf, Los Angeles .. To the editor: As an African American who is pro-2nd Amendment but reasonable about it, I have my concerns. We tend to speed-read over the first words: "A well-regulated militia." We are individuals interpreting the 2nd Amendment as if it would work in the present time. With that being said, the militia groups that have formed are (mostly) in place for nefarious reasons. The racial tensions and political division in this country have resulted in armed splinter groups that would fight each other, not to mention against the government. My support for the 2nd Amendment has very little to do with taking up arms against the government. My concern instead is about those who would bring harm to me or my family because of the color of our skin. Scott Crockett, La Habra .. To the editor: Our founding fathers were idealistic, educated men, but they were human. To understand some of what they did, follow the money. Most of them were slave owners or benefited from the slave trade. We have to recognize the true history of the 2nd Amendment and understand its complicated writing. According to some historians, the 2nd Amendment was crafted to protect the safety of slave owners in case of slave revolt. The armed white militias could protect slave owners by crushing rebellions. The 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with self-protection or fear of big government. Danute Handy, Santa Barbara .. To the editor: I cannot imagine what all those little 9- and 10-year-olds, along with their teachers, were thinking while being held captive in their classroom, just wanting their parents to come help and save them. And all you Republican congressmen should look in the mirror. During the Jan. 6 insurrection, you were hiding in closets, under desks and in locked offices. You were whisked away to safe rooms while officers tried to protect you from the mob. Did these Texas little ones have the same opportunity? And you still can't vote for any type of gun control? Lucinda Sanchez, Dana Point This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.

i love when you go all beast mode david. come see me suga...............lol

oh so that makes him trust worthy now? if he was a lib you guys would be all over it.

DINESH D'SOUZA GUILTY OF ELECTION FRAUD | JANUARY 6TH 2-3 minutes Dinesh D’Souza is set to release his film documentary 2000 Mules in May 2022. The film is supposed to substantiate evidence of election fraud. (Read Film Summary and Fact Check). However, the film does not mention D’Souza’s personal history of committing election fraud. In 2014, D’Souza pled guilty and was convicted of felony election fraud. He was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to five years of probation, with eight months served in a community confinement center, after pleading guilty to violating the federal campaign election law by making illegal contributions to a United States Senate campaign in the names of others. He was later pardoned by President Trump in 2018. On Twitter, Trump said D'Souza was "treated very unfairly by our government” for being convicted for the election fraud felony. The White House later issued an official statement saying D'Souza was, "in the president's opinion, a victim of selective prosecution" — an opinion that was roundly rejected by a federal judge when D'Souza was sentenced. The White House also noted that D'Souza "accepted responsibility for his actions" and completed community service. Since his pardon, D’Souza has continued to make election fraud accusations at anyone but himself. D’Souza has claimed the January 6th riots were an inside job carried out by the U.S. government. He even donated $100,000 to support the January 6th rioters who were arrested for trying to interrupt the electoral process. Trump's tweet on his pardon of Dinesh D'Souza. Most recently, D’Souza claimed that “2000 mules” harvesting ballots tipped the election results in Biden’s favor, even though countless election audits (both state and GOP funded) have confirmed election integrity and the 2020 election results. you boys will believe anything good grief.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speakers at the National Rifle Association annual meeting assailed a Chicago gun ban that doesn't exist, ignored security upgrades at the Texas school where children were slaughtered and roundly distorted national gun and crime statistics as they pushed back against any tightening of gun laws. A look at some of the claims: TEXAS SEN. TED CRUZ: "Gun bans do not work. Look at Chicago. If they worked, Chicago wouldn’t be the murder hellhole that it has been for far too long.” THE FACTS: Chicago hasn’t had a ban on handguns for over a decade. And in 2014, a federal judge overturned the city’s ban on gun shops. Big supporters of the NRA, like Cruz, may well know this, given that it was the NRA that sued Chicago over its old handgun ban and argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled the ban unconstitutional in 2010. ___ FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: “Classroom doors should be hardened to make them lockable from the inside and closed to intruders from the outside.” THE FACTS: As commonsensical as that might sound, it could backfire in a horrific way, experts warn. A lock on the classroom door is one of the most basic and widely recommended school safety measures. But in Uvalde, it kept victims in and police out. Nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway outside of the classrooms school for more than 45 minutes before agents used a master key to open the classroom’s locked door. And Trump’s proposal doesn’t take into account what would happen if class members were trapped behind a locked door and one of the students was the aggressor in future attacks. ___ CRUZ: “The rate of gun ownership hasn’t changed." THE FACTS: This is misleading. The percentage of U.S. households with at least one gun in the home hasn’t significantly changed over the past 50 years. But the number of assault-type rifles, like the one used in the Uvalde school shooting and dozens of other school shootings, has skyrocketed since legislators let a 1994 ban on such weapons expire in 2004. In the years leading up to and following that ban, an estimated 8.5 million AR-platform rifles were in circulation in the United States. Since the ban was lifted, the rifles — called “modern sporting rifles” by the industry — have surged in popularity. The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimated there were nearly 20 million in circulation in 2020. ___ CRUZ: “Had Uvalde gotten a grant to upgrade school security, they might have made changes that would have stopped the shooter and killed him there on the ground, before he hurt any of these innocent kids and teachers.” THE FACTS: This claim overlooks the fact that Uvalde had doubled its school-security budget and spent years upgrading the protections for schoolchildren. None of that stopped the gunman who killed 19 pupils and two teachers. Annual district budgets show the school system went from spending $204,000 in 2017 to $435,000 for this year. The district had developed a safety plan back in 2019 that included staffing the schools with four officers and four counselors. It had installed a fence and invested in a program that monitors social media for threats and purchased software to screen school visitors. The grant that Cruz claims would have been life-saving was from a failed 2013 bill that planned to help schools hire more armed officers and install bulletproof doors. Uvalde's school did have an officer but the person wasn't on the campus at the time the shooter entered the building. And, Cruz's call for bulletproof doors might not have worked in this case, given that police were unable to breech the locked door of the classroom where the shooter murdered children and teachers. ___ EDITOR'S NOTE — A look at the veracity of claims by political figures. ___ More on the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas: https://apnews.com/hub/school-shootings ___ Find AP Fact Checks at http://apnews.com/APFactCheck Follow @APFactCheck on Twitter: https://twitter.com/APFactCheck

i took lexapro which was prescribed by a doc for anxiety and depression. it was an eye opening experience. before i realized what was happening i was laying in bed with a pistol aimed at my head trying to get the nerve up to pull the trigger. when the thirde time rolled around it finally became clear this drug changed me and my perception of life. my anger was worse and i just wanted to die but i could never quite pull the trigger. i got smart enough to quit the lexapro after a little over three months. i lost a ton of friends and i almost left this world to early. my family was all gone so i had no backup but a doc. once i quit those meds the suicidal stuff went away. my anger actually got somewhat better even tho it got worse on those meds. now paxil and another drug which i have forgotten worked great but they just quit working after a while. it has been a nightmare i can tell you. at the end of the day my shrink told me to self mediate with pot. he said he had other elderly patients who could not tolerate most meds and he advised them to to the same. so yes meds are a tricky business. some work. some do not. and some make it worse. and pot helps but as much as i love it i am not gonna stay stoned 24 7. look at all the vets taking their selves out. cops. dentists. we are failing badly in the mental health arena. i have younger friends that came back from the middle east with ptsd and from appearances they do not get any help. but one of the biggest culprits is i think some people have just gotten tired of the same ol same ol and are angry as hell. they feel alone and abandoned. they do not think anyone cares enough to help them out. and when you cannot help yourself what comes next?

Auburn football signees expected in for summer session Jason Caldwell 4-5 minutes AUBURN, Alabama—With over half of the 2022 signing class on campus for spring practices, Coach Bryan Harsin and the Auburn Tigers are expected to add eight more players this weekend heading into Tuesday’s first summer workout on the Plains. While junior college cornerback Keionte Scott is still finishing up classwork this summer and won’t be on campus until July, the rest of the signees will get an opportunity for an early start with the Tigers. "These guys have been itching," Harsin said. "They want to get here. It's just at the point now where they're ready -- they're ready to get here, they're ready to move into the dorms, they're ready for their lives at Auburn, and obviously the football piece. We have that, and maybe a few other guys we'll sign. So really, we're at full strength with our team, and I want to see what that looks like. And let the older players lead and do a good job with the younger players and see where we go through the summer." On the offensive side of the ball, running back Damari Alston is one of the 2022 signees that has an opportunity to come in and make an impact. The Woodward Academy standout joins a running back room that features Tank Bigsby as the clear No. 1 and sophomore Jarquez Hunter as the likely backup heading into the season, but there will be a chance to earn playing time with a strong preseason camp. Another player with a chance to earn some early playing time is physical wide receiver Camden Brown from St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale. Helping his high school team to a state title last season as a senior, Brown is a 6-3 body on the outside that brings something different to the table for an Auburn wide receiver group that is looking for playmakers to step up. He’s joined in the newcomer group by Omari Kelly from Hewitt-Trussville High. A player that could have easily played safety as a collegiate player, Kelly is physical and dependable over the middle. While he’s athletic enough to be a big-play threat, Kelly could earn a role as a dependable possession guy in the Auburn offense. A transfer from Miami and a former teammate of Kelly’s at Hewitt-Trussville, Dazalin Worsham begins his Auburn career officially next week when the Tigers begin summer workouts. Putting up huge numbers for the Huskies during his high school career, Worsham has two years of a college weight program under his belt, which should give him a leg up to get on the field early for the Tigers. On the defensive side of the ball, Auburn is in good shape in the secondary, but big cornerback Austin Ausberry is talented enough to come in and make a run at playing time. Capable of playing corner or nickel, the 6-0, 200 Ausberry has the size to play early if he can pick up the defense. A player Auburn is counting on to potentially be a starter this season is Iowa State safety transfer Craig McDonald. A big body, McDonald could team up with Zion Puckett on the back end of the defense and allow the Tigers to move Donovan Kaufman back to the nickel. With experience playing in the Big 12, getting McDonald in this early is a big deal for the Tigers. 4COMMENTS Up front, Auburn will have Memphis transfer Morris Joseph on campus along with signee Enyce Sledge to help bolster the defensive line. A graduate transfer with a great deal of experience under his belt, Joseph is someone that could play end or slide inside for the Auburn defensive line. A bigger body, Sledge is a true interior defender that will try to get into the mix with guys like Jayson Jones and Marquis Burks. Rounding out the group is All-American kicker Alex McPherson from Fort Payne. With perhaps the strongest leg in the country and a pedigree being the younger brother of former Florida and current Cincinnati Bengals kicker Evan McPherson, he’s got the talent to make a push right away. With Anders Carlson back for another season, McPherson may have the opportunity to learn from a veteran this season and take his turn in 2023. ">247Sports

Gators Wire ponders if the Auburn-Florida annual matchup could resume Patrick Conn follow May 27, 2022 4:00 pm CT There was a time when the Auburn Tigers and Florida Gators tangled on an annual basis. Those days have been gone for some time. From 1945-2002 this game was a staple on the schedule. The teams met twice in 2000 when they faced off in the SEC Championship game. The Tigers came out on the losing side in both of those games. Despite Florida owning the series from 1995-2000, Auburn still owns the series 43-39-2. Since the annual streak ended in 2002, the two schools have met on the football field just four times with Auburn winning the first three. Florida bested the Tigers in 2019, 24-13. Pat Dooley of Gators Wire discussed this very game in his “12 ways scheduling changes could affect the SEC” for Gators Wire What Gators Wire Says… John Reed-USA TODAY Sports (Some rivalries could be shortchanged) This includes Florida–LSU, which has become one of the fiercest rivalries in the conference (mostly going back to the hurricane game in 2016). My guess is Florida will lobby to keep that game on an annual basis because it is an automatic big gate. But the league is going to be trying to figure out how to keep multiple rivalry games together in this new world and it will not be easy. Still, if LSU is no longer a permanent opponent, the two teams would likely play every other year. (…and Auburn could return) That was such a big game in the Steve Spurrier era. Certainly, Florida fans were not happy when the other Tigers were dropped from the yearly schedule because it’s the easiest place to get to from Gainesville (other than Jacksonville, of course), but there is a good chance Auburn will come back as one of Florida’s permanent opponents. Could this be fixed in the near future? With the additions of the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns by 2025, there will be changes to the scheduling. The SEC could go with pods or smaller divisions of four teams. The makeup of those pods could include plenty of variations. Perhaps the conference decides to go with two eight-team divisions. The conference could move Alabama and Auburn out of the West to bring in the two newcomers. There are a lot of moving parts and likely something that could be ironed out in the near future for scheduling purposes. Share this article 42 shares

Goodman: Three big questions for SEC spring meetings By Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com 8-9 minutes Coaches and administrators around the SEC will be unpacking their suitcases this weekend for the league’s annual spring meetings in Sandestin, Florida. SEC spring meetings begin on Tuesday and run through Friday, but everyone knows the real fun happens before the reporters arrive. I’m imagining surf, sand and Sam Pittman announcing his arrival to the pool deck by screaming a signature “Yessir!” followed by a running cannonball into the deep end. Or maybe that’s just my early prediction for the SEC West’s surprise contender. RELATED: Alabama recruits face NIL ‘education gap’ RELATED: LSU’s new coach joined SEC to beat Nick Saban RELATED: Harsin, others weigh in on NIL debate RELATED: Memphis transfer fills need for Auburn GOODMAN: Nick Saban strikes back at Jimbo Fisher The SEC’s annual spring junket is meeting in person for the first time since 2019, which means only four — FOUR! — football coaches were around back then when LSU basketball coach Will Wade participated in one of the most bizarre news conferences I’ve ever attended. The infamous FBI tape featuring Wade’s “strong-ass offer” line had been leaked a couple months earlier, and the SEC spring meetings were Wade’s first time with reporters. Think about how much has changed for major collegiate athletics since Wade’s awkward exchange with reporters back at the Sandestin Hilton in 2019. These SEC spring meetings come on the heels of Alabama coach Nick Saban accusing Texas A&M of paying all of the recruits from the Aggies’ historically great 2022 signing class. Hey, Nick, got any of that on tape? Wade was fired back in March after an NCAA investigation that took years. These days, the NCAA can’t even investigate pay-for-play for fear of an antitrust lawsuit. From Wade’s opening statement in 2019: “As the leader of the basketball program, I’m here today to start the process of rebuilding trust. I think certainly as I’ve had time to reflect since I was out for 40 days or so, there were some mistakes that I made. But ever since that, when I was able to sit down and talk with LSU and meet with LSU and meet with the NCAA, I was fully cooperative. I disclosed everything and answered any and all questions completely and fully with LSU and with the NCAA.” There was a time not too long ago when Wade was viewed as Public Enemy No.1 in the SEC. Perceptions have changed since then. Paying players via NIL collectives is becoming a common practice around the country. I don’t see much of a difference in the end. Only now the kids can make even more money. Pour a Bushwacker out at the Red Door Saloon for Wade, y’all. He was simply a man before his time, and should be remembered not as some filthy bayou pariah, but as a progressive Southern innovator. Now NIL collectives across the country are cutting deals with recruits for the rights to their name, image and likeness, and college sports will never be the same again. As far as I’m concerned, these are the Will Wade Memorial SEC Spring Meetings, and anyone who disagrees is probably under a gag order by conference commissioner Greg Sankey anyway. We can only hope for this year’s meetings to be so awkward, and, thanks to Saban and Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher our seaside coastal dreams might come true. For reporters, SEC spring meetings are all about the questions. I got three that need answering. QUESTION ONE: WHY IS THE SEC SO WHITE? Saban, Fisher, Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Kentucky’s Mark Stoops are the only football coaches in the SEC who were around for those memorable 2019 SEC spring meetings. Since then, 10 new head football coaches have been hired and they all have one thing in common besides envying Texas A&M’s deep-pocketed NIL collectives. Every coach is white. It begs the question, why is the SEC so white? One of the biggest problems facing the SEC (which, let’s be real, is so rich it doesn’t have many problems) is its lack of diversity among head football coaches. All 14 coaches are white, and when Texas and Oklahoma join the conference it will be 16. It’s a clear example of systemic racism, which means the processes by which these football coaches are hired needs improving. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey is pretty much powerless in this arena, but I know he would love to affect change if he could. If only there were a mechanism out there to balance the economy of the SEC and take away power from the boosters? Oh, wait. There is. It’s called paying players. If the SEC wants to begin being a force for change, then maybe some of these school leaders can at least begin acknowledging the problem at SEC spring meetings. QUESTION TWO: WHO’S IN FAVOR OF SECESSION? Secession is a trigger word in the Deep South, but what else are we going to call it if the topic of breaking away from the NCAA is discussed at SEC spring meetings? Hey, what if the SEC broke away from the NCAA … and then started to pay players? Now wouldn’t that be a twist? Most likely, these SEC spring meetings will only serve as a chance for Sankey to continue his saber-rattling rhetoric. If he talks about the SEC having an intra-conference, eight-team playoff, then we’ll know he’s gone full troll. Sankey, of course, was in favor of a 12-team national playoff, but other conferences wanted eight. The Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC backed away from the College Football Playoff negotiation table this spring, and now the awful four-team playoff format will continue for at least the next several years. The four-team playoff format, which represents the worst postseason in American sports, is threatening to stunt the growth of college football at best and ruin it at worst. Major changes are coming to the SEC with the addition of Oklahoma and Texas in a couple years, and myriad possible alignment and postseason scenarios will be discussed during SEC spring meetings. An intra-conference postseason playoff is an awful idea, though, and one that can’t even be taken seriously. The SEC playoff idea was suggested in a report by ESPN last week. Back on May 18, the NCAA announced conferences could determine their champions anyway they wanted. The Pac-12 immediately dropped the requirement for division champions and changed its championship game to feature the two Pac-12 teams with the best winning percentage. It was a smart way to game the current system of a four-team playoff. Maybe the SEC thinks the threat of an eight-team SEC playoff will intimidate everyone back to the negotiation table, but a more sensible approach would be for the league to expand conference schedules to nine games and realign the divisions. A four-team pod system has been suggested, but that just sounds like a good way to mess up a great thing. This isn’t a World Cup. It’s the SEC. My new SEC East: Auburn, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt. My new SEC West: Arkansas, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Texas and Texas A&M. CAN JIMBO FISHER KEEP HIS COOL? Sankey’s current gag order on football coaches discussing NIL and the feud between Fisher and Saban will be tested at SEC spring meetings. Will Sankey lift the ban? Might as well. That’s what everyone is going to be talking about anyway. Will all know what Will Wade would want, and that would be for everyone to offer really strong tips to their bartenders. Fisher is still mad about Saban accusing him of paying recruits, and SEC spring meetings will be a good time for Texas A&M’s coach to practice new ways of anger management. I’ve heard deep breaths between sentences helps. Joseph Goodman is a columnist for the Alabama Media Group, and author of “We Want Bama: A season of hope and the making of Nick Saban’s ‘ultimate team’”. You can find him on Twitter @JoeGoodmanJr.

Story behind sleeping Auburn fan wearing Tennessee gear at Crimson Tide game: ‘I just hate Alabama’ By Mark Heim | mheim@al.com 2-3 minutes A baseball fan named Jeff was interviewed by the SEC Network and claims he is an Auburn fan and said he was wearing Tennessee gear during Alabama's game in the SEC baseball tournament on Wednesday, May 25, for one reason. (SEC Network) Meet Jack Beck. It appears he’s an Auburn fan. Yet, there he was sitting at Alabama’s game Wednesday during the SEC baseball tournament in Hoover wearing Tennessee gear. If you are confused, you aren’t the only one. To add to the intrigue, SEC Network cameras caught him snoozing. And here’s the best part: He’s from Tuscaloosa. Here’s what happened. Beck, a freshman baseball player at Marion Military Institute, didn’t get home Tuesday night from the SEC tournament until at 12:45 a.m. because of rain delays. He then returned to the park for Auburn’s 9:30 a.m. first pitch, which, of course, was delayed for hours. He remained at the park to wait for his other team, Tennessee, to play. Beck’s mother, Jacki Beck, confirmed to AL.com her son wore his Auburn colors for the Tigers’ upset loss to Kentucky 3-1 in a single-elimination game of the SEC baseball tournament at the Hoover Met. He is also a Tennessee fan, thanks to a friendship he developed with one of the players, so he came prepared with his second outfit. Both Jack and Jacki are Auburn fans in a house divided. As you can see from the video below, he was spotted for snoozing during Alabama’s 4-3 win over Arkansas. So why was an Auburn fan sitting at an Alabama game wearing Tennessee gear? In four words he explained his predicament. “I just hate Alabama.” Jacki Beck confirmed to AL.com her son “cheers for any team playing Alabama.” Jack Beck’s four words have achieved him a certain level of status among Tennessee fans on Twitter. The video has been viewed more than 85,000 times. When it comes to the SEC, yep, it just means more. Mark Heim is a sports reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.

not really. i have heard several people say it. even bill maher who is just about ready to turn republican. i can promise you it is just not me. lots of people were sick of trump and had enough.

Auburn Football What we’ve learned about Bryan Harsin since the A-day game Published: May. 27, 2022, 9:21 a.m. Coach Bryan Harsin get lemonaid on the course Wednesday. Regions Pro-Am Golf on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 in Birmingham, Ala. Todd Van Emst/AU Athletics Todd Van Emst/AU Athletics 234 shares By Nubyjas Wilborn | nwilborn@al.com Auburn head football coach Bryan Harsin gets back to the business of coaching football next week when the Tigers report for summer workouts. Harsin and his staff will get eight hours a week of instruction time with the athletes for the next eight weeks in preparation for the September 3 home-opener against Mercer at 6:00 CT on ESPN Plus and the SEC Network Plus app. The former Boise State quarterback and head coach has endeavored on a barnstorming tour connecting with alumni and friends of the program since the A-Day game ended in early April at Jordan-Hare. Harsin started on April 23 by attending Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson’s ‘Bo Bikes Bama’ event, and less than 24 hours later, he drove the pace car at Talladega. Harsin threw out the first pitch at a Tigers baseball game against Alabama a few weeks later. His coaching staff visited 683 high schools during the spring evaluation period. Head coaches can’t travel during spring evals, but assistant coaches can, and Harsin’s staff visited over 300 high school programs in Alabama even if the school didn’t have an Auburn recruit on the current roster. Harsin attended at least 20 events starting with Jackson’s event and culminating on Thursday with the L’Arch Mobile football preview, where he was a keynote speaker. “The nice thing about the end of April and May, this is a chance for our coaches to get out and recruit,” Harsin said before an Auburn alumni club meeting in Columbus, Ga. “This is the opportunity to get out and do a little bit different recruiting, you know, just seeing people, and really, covering the state is what we want to do, just like we did with the coaches last week, so, but it’s been good, you know, we’re still getting football done. And we’re still getting recruiting done.” Several challenges loom around Harsin’s second season on the Plains. Last season ended with a historic losing streak on the field. Harsin and new offensive coordinator Eric Kiesau have to pick between Zac Calzada, TJ Finley, Robby Ashford, or freshman Holden Geriner as the starting quarterback to replace Bo Nix after Nix transferred to Oregon. “From May through June, July, and into August, they have time to prepare to compete to be the guy. If they maximize that, we’ll see where they all are. We’ll be better for it,” Harsin told reporters. We’ll have somebody ready to play, competition will have pushed him, but he should be able to go out there and compete and help us win.” Harsin showed a bit of tongue-in-cheek bit humor when giving an update on Texas A&M transfer Calzada. Auburn lost against the Aggies last season on the road in a game where Calzada suffered a shoulder injury. Calzada was a limited participant in spring football because he was recovering from the ailment. A twisted bit of irony that wasn’t lost on Harsin. “Zac had a shoulder injury in the game we played,” Harsin said during an event in Columbus. “I’m like, Damn, you know what, if we hadn’t landed on his shoulder, he’d be getting all these reps. That’s the transfer portal for you right there. He’s eager to get reps this summer. We expect him to be full go.” After the season ended, the Tigers parted ways with offensive coordinator Mike Bobo and defensive coordinator Derrick Mason. Nearly 20 players entered the transfer portal. To Auburn’s credit, there were players such as wide receiver Ja’Varrius Johnson, who returned after entering the portal. Harsin survived a university-led inquiry into the program from February 4 until February 10, when now-former president Jay Gogue announced that Harsin would remain as Tigers coach after one season. Getting to the bottom of how the unrest started is becoming more complex. Board of Trustees member Jimmy Rane held a charity golf tournament last week that Harsin participated in, where Rane denied booster involvement in the university’s investigation. “Trustees don’t hire and fire football coaches,” Rane said last Thursday, according to the Montgomery Advertiser. “We hire and fire presidents. So, I’m not aware of any role the trustees played in that at all. I think there were questions that the administration had, and (Gogue) is the kind of a president that wants facts. He’s going to do thorough investigations, which was a providence of the administration. Certainly not the trustees.” Is Rane telling the truth? Who knows? But, for now, it doesn’t matter. Harsin has around 100 days before the Tigers begin a pivotal season. Auburn starts the season with five home games, including a rematch with Penn State, set for 2:30 CT on September 17 on CBS. Harsin is doing his best to rally the base at Auburn. Will it result in wins? We’ll see, but Harsin is feeling the support from Tiger lovers. It’s been an exciting time to get out there and have a chance to meet people and see people and do the things we wanted to do last year, just different circumstances with COVID,” Harsin said. It’s been fantastic. Everybody that I’ve had a chance to be around has been amazing. I’m enjoying all the events. It’s been great to get an opportunity to hear their opinions on our program and talk to people about how excited they are about what’s happening at Auburn.” Nubyjas Wilborn covers Auburn for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @nwilborn19

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