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do these people know how sick your son is bird? do they realize that covid might kill him if he and the folks around him are not vaccinated? i might be way off base but if i am correct it drives home a strong point. apologies if i spoke out of turn.

you missed the point. if the kids were pressured to take the vaccine so we can practice and have a chance to play games at full strength is it fair? coaches lead by example. now if harsin told auburn when he was being hired he would not take the vaccine ahead of time then it is on auburn and bot harsin.

it is called common sense. you think the fallout is bad on this site just imagine other places. and you know damn well there is pressure on this kids to get the vaccine so we do not lose or forfeit games. i said pressure and not demanding so lets get it right here. anyway you lead by example. do you think harsin would be happy with his record if his kids stayed sick all the time? and lets be clear because athletes have died from it.

i thought he was a jerk about the pampered star being locked in a storage shed until the real truth came out. i have been a big fan of his and pull for him unless we are playing him...............

come on i doubt it ever happens because auburn will lose too much fed money. i am sure auburn university is just like us with differing opinions so why be ashamed? losing money means losing jobs. would losing fed money weaken us more and thus give an advantage to bama? on this part i am asking because i have no idea.

did you see him discussing halloween candy? it is pure gold............it is on the videos below any of the rant pages and is a must watch.

well two things. i am old and fat but i am still damn good looking so why deprive you guys?

some did among my friends and some did not to be honest. i am a fat ass so i took it and could not get the shots quick enough. and there is enough misinformation out there to invalidate the vaccine i wonder how many might have died because they believed some bullcrap talking points. example.............fox news rails about freedom and the vaccine but they amde all of those guys take the vaccine. see what i mean? hell hannity was one of the first to get it.

he claimed the pirate exemption.

it is a dirty job indeed but someone has to do it. personally i am not as article sissy. they posted a really scathing article on bama yesterday and i almost posted it to show they do take shots at the turds as well.

if you do not take the vaccine and give it to someone and they die it becomes more than a choice or their opinion.

my thoughts are this. are the players being made to take the vaccine to play? if they are it is not fair to give harsin or anyone else a pass. and i am sorry but if harsin already took the vaccine and just said so this would not be an issue. man it seems it is always something with auburn. for the record i am pro vaccine but i have lost several friends to covid and most of them did not take the vaccine. my best friend,his wife, his two sons and their wives,a brother in law{ who died by the way} as a sister in law all got covid and none took the vaccine. my friend did great on the blood thing but he said it was close. and i get why folks are hesitant to take it. but if you go out driving and show your behind and kill someone you are responsible. my thoughts are unless you have a medical condition if you refuse the vaccine and pass it on and it kills someone you are responsibility. explain to me what the difference is? and lets be clear covid is passed around mostly by people.

Lacking transparency, Bryan Harsin puts Auburn in limbo By Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com 7-8 minutes If Bryan Harsin is going to throw it all away because he refuses to get the vaccine then he wasn’t the guy for Auburn anyway. There have been some great days for Auburn football recently, but Monday was not among them. The Tigers play the Ole Miss Rebels on Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium, and we’re fairly confident that Harsin will be on the sidelines instead of in the unemployment line. Come Dec. 8 … who knows? With his university now requiring employees to be vaccinated or face termination, Harsin once again refused to show the world his vaccination card on Monday afternoon during a news conference. It’s baffling behavior for someone in Harsin’s position, but it shouldn’t be this complicated. Why isn’t Harsin being transparent about his vaccine status? He needs to be because that’s what this lofty perch of leadership entrusted to him by a public university demands. We know he tested positive for COVID-19 around Aug.19, so if he was treated with plasma or antibodies then he’ll be eligible for a vaccine in time to meet Auburn’s Dec. 8 mandate. Or maybe he’ll be fired. What a nightmare hire for Auburn this coach would be if Auburn’s boosters spent all that money buying out Gus Malzahn to blow it all on a guy who refuses vaccines. Harsin was asked straight up if he was vaccinated, and if not then when. He ducked the question. The red flags are flying, folks. “I appreciate you have to ask the question and understand it, but it doesn’t change — I mean, the executive order, all those things, it doesn’t change the fact I’m not going to discuss any individual’s decision or status on the vaccine or anyone else’s, including my own, like I said before. “From the beginning I think I’ve made it clear that wasn’t something I was going to talk about, or discuss. I wasn’t going to go down that road, and don’t feel like right now that is any different. I’m focused on Ole Miss.” RELATED: What does Gov. Kay Ivey’s executive order do? The only thing we really know for certain is that nothing Harsin has said about vaccines has made any sense and has the clarity of chilled squirrel-brain soup. At the same time Harsin was mealy-mouthing his way through non-answers, coincidentally, Gov. Kay Ivey issued a statement further politicizing vaccines and selfishly endangering public health. But also maybe throwing some cover to Auburn’s football coach. From Gov. Ivey’s statement: “The federal government’s outrageous overreach has simply given us no other option, but to begin taking action, which is why I am issuing this executive order to fight these egregious COVID-19 vaccine mandates. “Alabamians — and Americans alike — should and must have the choice to roll up their sleeves to get this shot and certainly not forced by government. While President Biden laughs at the idea of protecting your freedoms, I will continue fighting for Alabama businesses and their employees.” If you take away anything of value from this column, then please let it be this. Understand that Alabama schools require proof of immunization for many diseases, and this latest plague of the earth, COVID-19, should be no different, but that’s not how politicians win votes these days. Let’s not forget that Gov. Ivey once wore blackface while at Auburn, but recently signed into law legislation banning “critical race theory.” It’s all so sad and pathetic, these games people play with the good people of this state. Gov. Ivey promised that COVID-19 mandates were going to be challenged in court. Good luck with that. Something tells me no one wants measles or mumps making a comeback so Gov. Ivey can score political points. As for Auburn changing course after Ivey’s announcement about an executive order, that’s likely not happening. The university relies on federal money to operate, and has a duty to the state of Alabama to actually serve the best interests of the people. As for state politicians, the standards of service are obviously not the same. Thousands and thousands of people in the state of Alabama have died from COVID-19, and every person in the state, the country and the world has been affected by this disease and its ongoing pandemic. Every person needs to do their part. Charles Barkley said it best. The vaccine isn’t about the individual. It’s about protecting everyone around them. It’s about all of us. At some point, amid all the toxic sludge that people in the state of Alabama are forced to ingest because of the cowards, crooks and conmen in charge, someone with Barkley’s backbone needs to stand up. Hopefully it will be Harsin, who could always come out in support of vaccines after confusing the message. At this point, it seems more likely that he’ll just be fired if he’s not vaccinated. AUBURN BEAT: Auburn’s Jeremiah Wright out for the season These are not moments of strength for the proud Auburn Tigers, or the first-year coach who is trying to persuade recruits to play for his team instead of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Clemson and all the rest. Harsin, who is from Boise, Idaho, has his selling points, and the two road wins against SEC West foes are positive steps. Unfortunately for Harsin and Auburn, though, transparency and truthfulness on vaccines are not among his strengths, and so that’s not a great sign here in the early going of his time among the Plainsmen. There is already a precedent for a college coach being fired over vaccines. Washington State coach Nick Rolovich was dismissed last week after refusing to be vaccinated before that university’s deadline. Harsin doesn’t need to play this thing out any longer and turn Auburn into a national embarrassment. Alabama coach Nick Saban has done PSAs encouraging vaccines. Auburn quarterback Bo Nix has done them, too. Auburn’s coach refused to promote vaccination, and now it looks like he’s willing to put the future of Auburn football in danger for his own pride or personal convictions. Vaccinated or not, it’s unacceptable that he would rather evade questions than answer honestly in public when a simple explanation might save Auburn so much shame, and, more importantly, probably help save lives in Alabama, too. Who really knows how long Harsin is even going to be at Auburn now that his employer is requiring all of its employees to have fully formed antibodies from the COVID-19 vaccine by Dec. 8? Definitely not the recruits. Joseph Goodman is a columnist for the Alabama Media Group.

i am posting it in this thread so people can read exactly what was said. and i will catch hell for it but so many are invested in this thing everything should be covered.

i saw him open for the stones in the mid seventies in dc and then he was their keyboard player when the stones hit the stage.

when i was a wee lad i never dreamed we would be wearing orange instead of my beloved navy blue. i have a cam t that is orange but orange makes me look fat. i guess i will have to suck it up.

Can Auburn rev up its running backs against Ole Miss? ByNathan King 5-7 minutes Biggest Takeaways From CFB Week 8 (Late Kick Cut) AUBURN, Alabama — Bryan Harsin’s staff, of course, has film of every Ole Miss game this season in preparation for the matchup Saturday inside Jordan-Hare Stadium (6 p.m. CST, ESPN). But the Tigers have been focusing more on the Rebels’ recent games, particularly on defense, as opposed to their efforts early in the season. A common knock against Lane Kiffin’s Ole Miss teams the past two seasons has been that their defenses haven’t allowed Kiffin’s high-flying offenses to truly take off. And it’s true; the Rebels’ defense, for the most part of Kiffin’s tenure thus far, has been a liability. But heading into a game where it sorely hopes to establish a consistent rushing attack, No. 18 Auburn (5-2, 2-1 SEC) will face an Ole Miss defense that looks to be improving in that department. “I’ve seen them on television a few times, but now as you study them, they are getting better,” Harsin said Monday of the Rebels’ defense. “They’re improving. They have momentum. I thought the defense played really physical against LSU. LSU ran the ball early, looked physical, did some things in that first drive and then the defense turned it on. “At the end of the day, their schemes — it’s a little bit different, unique to what they do — but their guys play hard and they play physical.” In four games against FBS opponents at the start of the season, No. 10 Ole Miss (6-1, 3-1 SEC) allowed 34.5 points and 446.8 yards per game. In its last two outings, however, both SEC wins against Tennessee and LSU, those numbers have dropped to 21.5 points and 386.5. Most recently over the weekend, Ole Miss, which entered the game with the nation’s No. 114 run defense, held LSU to 77 rushing yards after the Bayou Bengals went for 321 the week prior. With the win over Tennessee also ending with a couple defensive stands by Ole Miss in the fourth quarter, Kiffin said “We really did a good job stopping the run for a team last week (LSU) that had run the ball extremely effective against a really good Florida team,” Kiffin said Monday. “... It was an unusual-feeling game for us, in our two years here, because we were playing really good on defense.” A matchup that, on paper, looked primed to be a cathartic outing for an inconsistent Auburn running game could instead present a decent challenge. Since the Georgia State game, where Auburn’s offensive line seemed to be pushed around by a Sun Belt defensive front, the Tigers’ running backs are averaging 4.3 yards per carry. Auburn’s per-rush average as a team has dropped to 3.7 yards per carry in SEC play. Tank Bigsby, the SEC’s preseason first team running back selection, is averaging 3.3 yards per carry in his last four games. Of course, as Harsin made sure to note a couple weeks ago, Auburn’s offensive game plans were altered when the Tigers trailed for more than 10 of 12 quarters played from the Georgia State game to the Georgia game. In that three-game span, Auburn’s quarterbacks averaged 45.6 dropbacks per game. But even in its last game against Arkansas prior to the bye week, Auburn still found its most productive offense was through the air. Bigsby and Jarquez Hunter combined for 28 carries but had less than 100 yards, and Auburn had only two carries by its running backs go for double-digit yardage. Of course, the Tigers were riding the hot hand of Nix, who put together one of the best road performances of his career in a three-touchdown outing. But the run game remained a concern for Harsin and his offensive staff heading into the bye week. “What the bye week gives you an opportunity to do is go back and look: alright, what was good, what was bad and why?” Harsin said. “... We could say, what front, what looks are we going to get? That may change during the game; they could do whatever the hell they want to do on defense. They can give you whatever look they want. So we've got to teach guys how to handle that and still be able to run the ball. It's not like you call a play and line up a certain defense.” If Auburn’s pass protection can put together another stellar showing (zero QB pressures allowed by an offensive lineman in the Arkansas game), and the receivers can be sure-handed again (one drop against Arkansas was the team’s low this season in a Power Five game), then Harsin and Mike Bobo will likely look to Nix again to pace Auburn’s offense against Ole Miss. The Rebels’ run defense has been gettable this season, but certainly not last week. But as Harsin has harped on all season, Auburn can’t simply choose to abandon the run; doing so would severely limit play calling options. “You can't just decide you're not going to run the ball; you have to know how to do it,” Harsin said. “”So we've taken advantage of the opportunity to do that (during the bye week) — kind of teach the guys the different looks we had seen.”

Fourth-down chess match on tap for Auburn against Ole Miss ByNathan King 4-5 minutes Alabama Closing Gap On Cincinnati In CFB Top 130 Rankings AUBURN, Alabama — Some coaching tidbits Lane Kiffin picked up on in Tuscaloosa are now, seven years later, giving SEC defensive coordinators headaches. “We had started to see these analytics — the company and the details about them — in the time at Alabama,” Kiffin said this month during the weekly SEC coaches teleconference. “They were not, as you can imagine, really used there. And it doesn’t matter — some people like them, some people don’t.” No. 10 Ole Miss (6-1, 3-1 SEC) leads college football in fourth-down attempts this season with 30; that’s good for an average of 4.3 per game. Auburn’s defense, fresh off a bye week, will be tasked with defending at least a few of them in Jordan-Hare Stadium this Saturday. Why the aggressiveness? Kiffin said, since learning about the impact analytics can have on an offense during his time at Alabama, that the numbers his staffs have produced about the benefits of attempting a fourth-and-manageable versus kicking a long field goal are usually in the offense’s favor. “If you study the analytics on the field-goal attempts in the Alabama game (against Texas A&M), the analytics would tell you 100% to go the other way,” Kiffin said. “But everybody’s different. We’re way over on the other end of it, which I would say is new school versus old school in terms of believing in them — because they are factual.” As a result, Kiffin’s offense this season has gone for it on fourth down in close games, in the first half, on their own side of the field multiple times. And the Rebels tend to be successful; their 76.67% conversion rate is the second-best in the country among offenses with at least 25 fourth-down attempts. So Derek Mason’s Auburn defense was glad to have the bye week to start altering its mindset on downs and distances to more often expect four-down territory. The Tigers won’t always be seeing the punting unit after a third-down stop. But No. 18 Auburn (5-2, 2-1 SEC) was already stellar in that department. On 13 tries, the Tigers have allowed only three fourth-down conversions all season. Their stop rate of 76.9% is the best in the SEC and No. 4 in college football. As the saying goes, something’s got to give Saturday. “Close for them is probably a little bit more than what most people would do in a fourth-down situation,” Bryan Harsin said Monday during his weekly press conference.” “But they’ve been very good at it. They’ve gone for it quite a bit so you’ve got to be ready for that. And they’ve been successful with it, so they’re executing. A big part of that is their style of offense and their quarterback and his play.” As Harsin alluded to, a big component of Ole Miss’ success on fourth downs is the dual-threat ability of Matt Corral, who’s completing 67.6% of his passes on the season, with 15 touchdowns to just one interception. Corral also has 474 rushing yards on the year, and his nine touchdowns on the ground are tied for the second-most in the SEC among all players. His 24 total scores are the most in the conference. “Frontrunner for the Heisman,” Harsin said of Corral. “... Offensively, I’ve just been impressed with everything they’ve done.” Auburn is coming off a performance before the bye week at Arkansas in which it stuffed two fourth-and-short attempts by the Razorbacks, and forced an incompletion on fourth-and-long to seal the win. Kickoff inside Jordan-Hare Stadium is set for 6 p.m. CST on ESPN. 6COMMENTS

man i thought you guys were doing something nice for me................

good lord some of you people would argue with a stop sign.

ok who is selling popcorn?

i am all for it...

Auburn football coach Bryan Harsin declines to disclose vaccination status as mandate deadline looms 3:50 PM CT Chris LowESPN Senior Writer With Auburn University last week mandating a Dec. 8 deadline for all university employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, head football coach Bryan Harsin on Monday declined to disclose whether or not he had received the vaccine or planned to receive it. Harsin has refused multiple times to discuss his vaccination status going back to SEC media days in July and said it was a deeply personal decision for everyone. But his comments Monday were his first since the university announced on Oct. 22 that it had modified its vaccine policy to require all employees to be fully vaccinated or face termination. "I'm aware of the new policy and appreciate you have to ask the question and understand it, but it doesn't change -- the executive order and all those things -- that I'm not going to discuss any individual's decision or status on the vaccine or anyone else's, including my own," said Harsin, who's in his first season as Auburn's coach. "From the beginning, I think I've made it clear that wasn't something I was going to talk about or discuss and wasn't going to go down that road. I don't feel like right now that's any different." No. 18 Auburn, which has won three of its past four games, faces No. 10 Ole Miss on Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Editor's Picks Harsin 'not anti-vaccine' after testing positive 60dAlex Scarborough "We're focused on Ole Miss. We're focused on the things we have to do to get prepared for this week," Harsin said. "... We've had those conversations [about the vaccine], but that doesn't change what I've said before." According to Auburn's new policy, there could be limited circumstances where an employee is legally entitled to a medical or religious accommodation from being required to take the vaccine. The Dec. 8 deadline for providing proof of vaccination means employees need to have the second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines by Nov. 24 or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine by Nov. 24. Harsin tested positive for COVID-19 in August and said at the time that he was not "anti-vaccine" and that any narrative along those lines was "misinformed." "I fully support the choice for anyone to vaccinate and I also support getting reliable data-driven information into the hands of those who still have questions about the vaccine," Harsin said in August. "Anyone who has been in our facility knows that." Last week, Washington State fired head football coach Nick Rolovich and four assistant coaches after they refused to comply with a mandate that required all state employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Rolovich is suing Washington State for illegal termination, in part because of what his lawsuit calls "discriminatory and vindictive behavior" by athletic director Pat Chun. Some college football coaches, including Alabama's Nick Saban, have done public service announcements urging fans to be vaccinated.