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    Reminiscing On Past Signing Days

    in AU Recruiting Forum

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    17 hours ago, Viper said:

    And as I said in another thread, Dye came in when bahr was retiring, making it an even bigger shift in recruiting momentum.

    If bahr had been young enough and healthy enough to continue an extra 10 years, I don’t believe Dye would have had the superb recruiting success he ended up with.

    The same (or similar) effect can be predicted for the Freeze intro / Saban outro.

    (Sorry to double post) but I'll believe Nicky is retiring when I see it. He strikes me as a Bobby Bowden/JoePa type (minus the well...you know).

    Reminiscing On Past Signing Days

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    1 hour ago, tinman1 said:

    It was food and diapers.  Eric came begging to Dye telling him he had no $$$ to support his family.  The entire thing was orchestrated by Eric's wife Twilitta and Donald Watkins, a big time Birmingham attorney at the time.  He worked independently but was also involved the Birmingham city affairs.  Twilitta had already tried to get $$ from someone else by recording their conversations, which she  also did with Auburn coaches.  Many people, myself included, think the entire thing was done to get back at Dye for moving the Iron Bowl from Birmingham.

    Long story short, Auburn got hammered for trying to do good for a young family.

    Jelks, Langham and Means provided a nice big helping of karma over the next decade at least.

    Napier vs Harsin

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    35 minutes ago, ScotsAU said:

    Venables?

    Went 6-7 last year. Lost to Kansas this year. Take away the win over Texas, and he really hasn’t performed that well, especially considering where Oklahoma was prior to his arrival. 

    Perhaps. Their entire roster *did* bolt when LR left though. So we shall see. Oh how satisfying it would be to show him how aligned we truly are on 9/28!

    (In fairness, at the time he was pretty spot on.)

    Napier vs Harsin

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    Posted · Edited by AUwent

    1 hour ago, ScotsAU said:

    But I do have to point out that a lot of people did. When there was first talk about ousting Gus, Napier, Cristobal, Fickell, and Bill Clark we’re kinda the top floated names. The first three have severely underperformed, and Bill Clark outright left football. 

    Jury's still out on Fickell. It's clear that Miami is in a process with Cristobal. Venables is looking like a success. 

    But, just goes to show how difficult it is to predict if a coach will be a success.

    And I'll freely admit it (and as everyone probably remembers), I thought BN would be a damn good coach.

    2024 Football Schedule

    in AU Football Forum

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    Just now, ellitor said:

    If we win our bowl game eight will only be one more win next season and that would not make it great. That would make it solid at best.

    Yeah, I decided to not really factor non-playoff bowl games into my expectations. Not that I don't care, it's more because. I can have a better gauge on progress earlier. 🤷‍♂️

    2024 Football Schedule

    in AU Football Forum

    Posted · Edited by AUwent

    Not saying much but this is definitely our most favorable even year schedule since 2010.

    (For some reason, I always preferred even years being more favorable, which obviously changed when A&M and Missouri joined. I liked having all our toughest games aside from UAT being on the opposite rotation.)

    2024 Football Schedule

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    Posted · Edited by AUwent

    Just now, AEAugirl said:

    We have that tough stretch of Oklahoma/Georgia/Mizzou but aside from that this schedule is definitely not the worst.  

    Florida’s schedule would make me cry as a UF fan.  Brutal.  

    Strickin is going to get fired for scheduling UCF and Miami alone. My goodness.

    2024 Football Schedule

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    I'd say poor Billy, but feeling some schadenfreude. Him, BV and MC accepting other jobs a year after turning us down was one fo my very lowest moments as a fan.

    8/31--MIAMI

    9/7--SAMFORD

    9/14--TEXAS A&M

    9/21--Mississippi State

    10/5--CENTRAL FLORIDA

    10/12--Tennessee

    10/19--KENTUCKY

    11/2--Georgia (Jacksonville, FL)

    11/9--Texas

    11/16--LOUISIANA STATE

    11/23--MISSISSIPPI

    11/30--Florida State

    2024 Football Schedule

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    Posted · Edited by AUwent

    8/31--ALABAMA A&M

    9/7--CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY

    9/14--NEW MEXICO

    9/21--ARKANSAS

    9/28--OKLAHOMA

    10/5--Georgia

    10/19--Missouri

    10/26--Kentucky

    11/2--VANDERBILT

    11/16--LOUISIANA-MONROE

    11/23--TEXAS A&M

    11/30--Alabama

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    2024 Football Schedule

    in AU Football Forum

    Posted · Edited by AUwent

    8 minutes ago, W.E.D said:

    So many moving variables.

    Will we have a good QB?

    Will our young WRs contribute quickly or will we do a better job evaluating portal WRs who can contribute?

    Will we have any SEC Level offensive tackles on our roster?

    Will we have any SEC level DTs on our roster?

    Will Hugh Freeze take over the offense or just take credit during weeks we aren't terrible?

     

    Those are massive TBDs right now.  I think 9 wins is our ceiling and that's being pretty generous.  I think vegas sets or o/u at 7 wins.  I feel like that is where we land.  7-5.  Hopes of 8-4.  

    Auto losses to Bama & UGA.  Probably going to lose at least one at Kentucky or at Mizzou or Oklahoma.

    My stance has been a one (reg season) game improvement next year, MAYBE two. Take the three cupcakes (year 2 improvements and all), Vandy, Cal, Arky, and one of Kentucky or A&M. Sux that Missouri came out of nowhere.

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