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Has Lewis visited us yet?

I know Keionte would've left if we had kept Roberts, but between the panic of him and Wade leaving it does partially feel like we have Harsin PTSD. 🤷‍♂️

Nvm

Oh god, they're actually bringing the Cavemen back?

I mean yeah, but does cheating really mean anything anymore? After all the cheating done throughout the SEC, I wouldn't be sorry. 🤷‍♂️

33 minutes ago, WFE12 said:

The latter

Was concerned that running off CPM would run off Wade.

I don't care, I'm just thankful UAT, UGA, Clemson and Oklahoma aren't in it!

19 minutes ago, TeamZero77 said:

I will say this though, Bo was a true freshman that year and we beat the Pac 12 champions Oregon and we beat Alabama. We lost 23-20 in Baton Rouge to Joe Burrow's LSU team that went 15-0. Us and Alabama were the only 2 teams that LSU didn't beat by double digits. We lost to Georgia, lost in the Swamp to a really good Florida team then looked bad in our bowl game against Minnesota. So I agree with what you said but nobody outside of our fanbase will ever look at that season other than the 9-4 record. 

Hence why I’ve been yelling and screaming the last few years about scheduling fairness.

38 minutes ago, TeamZero77 said:

When I think of elite, I think of teams who have won 10+ games in back to back seasons more than one time like we have done.

When I think of elite, I think of teams that don't lose 4 or more games 21 of the past 26 years like we have. Or lost 5 or more games 16 of the past 26 years like we have.

When I think of elite, I think of teams that don't go 5-7, 8-5, 14-0, 8-5, 3-9 like we did from 2008 to 2012. 

Elite teams can win in Baton Rouge, Athens and Tuscaloosa more than once every 15 or 20 years. 

Elite teams don't lose to Minnesota, Northwestern, Maryland, UCF, Wisconsin when their AD coached the damn bowl game and beat us, Penn State back to back years and so on. 

Besides the 1980's, Auburn has always been a program that goes 8-5 most years and has a great year once a decade. There's a reason why numerous articles have been written through the years stating that the Auburn football program is the most inconsistent of the programs that has success. We brag about our 2017 season which garnered 10 wins but also 4 losses. Some brag about 2019 and it was a 9-4 season. Thats what our program has been reduced to since 2020 is bragging and calling a 9-4 or 10-4 season great. 

Maybe you view elite differently than me but I don't think our football program is elite and the ONLY time I would even consider it is 1983-1988 or 2004-2006. That's it. We are good most years with 1 great year per decade. We are WILDLY inconsistent as well.

Just my opinion.

Both 17 and 19 were better than the record though. They just had absolute killer schedules. Tipper said basically everything I’ve been arguing for the last few years.

44 minutes ago, DAG said:

One of the most logical post I have ever seen you make haha. My fear is if we suck on the offensive end, the recruits we got this year may transfer.

Haha thanks. I go back and forth between thinking my five year expectation timetable is just right or too low. As my sig states, I'm guessing the SEC goes to 9 games in 2026 so that *could* drag down the average SEC team's record a little.

2 hours ago, Bro Johnny Mac said:

I don’t see us contending next year, I don’t think CHF does either. But he’s reading the room correctly...our fans won’t settle for taking lumps with a freshman QB.. 

So he thinks he can squeeze out a couple of more wins with Thorne..

I think CHF would rather go with grooming the QBs he’s signed. The fans won’t have the patience.. So here we are 

Most of us aren't asking for contention yet, just some improvement (see sig).

12 minutes ago, AUY2K said:

I wonder how much Cam Newton would be worth today?  We definitely got a bargain at 280k !!!

There probably was $ thrown around but I'm not at all sorry, looking at what our peers have gotten away with.

1 hour ago, Browning4AU said:

You can apply hindsight to recruiting every year. Fact is, CHF flipped this roster last year by committing to the portal. Now everyone is on him about "losing" in the portal when he's been committed to HS recruiting. That was my only point. AU fans are super fickle. 

It remains to be seen if Freeze works out, but without teh job he did in the TP, we would've been possibly a 2-10 team.

I just don't understand any of this. How are we supposed to get ourselves upright again if everything collapses after the first year of no matter who we hire?

If he's just going to promote Kent Austin, would he have done it today?

2 minutes ago, GreenTiger said:

Salter got to Auburn…. got his NIL offer. Learned he will have to compete for the job. Talked to his WR buddy visiting at the same time and they both packed it up and went home 

Is that true or are you just speculating?

Is there even a deadline for players to withdraw?

YGTBKM, Salter withdrew from the TP.

So with that in mind, who's left? 

13 minutes ago, TAYLORKEETON said:

Given that we couldn't even get McCall on campus, hopefully this means he's eligible for us.

8 minutes ago, TigerOne said:

Freeze has failed as a head coach at Auburn up to now. Recruiting has been his saving grace. No more excuses, he can either coach and develop players to  reach their potential and play for Auburn or he will be gone sooner than later. I hope he is very successful and @Auburn a long time but so far he acts like he’s just passing through like some players use the transfer portal.

I've become as firm an advocate of getting a transfer QB as anyone--we're going to need to improve next year--but how are we going to pull ourselves up if we deem a coach a failure when their first year is inevitably rough? The goal for year one was ALWAYS to reach a bowl, period. 

On 1/2/2024 at 2:10 PM, AURex said:

 

The last time an SEC team was not playing for the national championship in football was the 2014 season when Oregon lost to Ohio State on January 12, 2015. Every year since then, at least one SEC team has played in the national championship game.

It was a rarity even going back into the BCS era. The most recent BCS championship game that did not include an SEC team was the 2004 season when Auburn got left out and the game was between USC and Oklahoma. That game was played January 4, 2005.

That's quite a track record of football dominance over the past two decades. I wonder if this might change beginning next season, with the pending big conference realignments and 12 teams in the playoff.

 

Two pairs of arch rivals, fascinatingly (in both rivalries, I prefer the 2023 teams--sorry Bo lol).

My proposal:

-12 team playoff...

-...BUT eliminate conference championship games.

-Every conference champion will be determined the way the ACC, Big 12 and (in its last two seasons, RIP) the Pac-12 determine two teams.

-The six highest ranked conference champions get auto bids, though not necessarily getting first round byes (will still be seeded via selection committee).

-Seeds 5 and 6 will host the first round, while seeds 7-10 play at neutral site games (rotating between Cotton and Citrus AND Peach and Las Vegas). 

-Seeds 1-4 get a first round bye. Seeds 1 and 2 host quarterfinals, while seeds 3 and 4 play at neutral site games (rotating between Rose and Sugar AND Fiesta and Orange).

-The NC is still bid on, just can't be a semi site that year.

Wa-la, I've negated at least SOME of my concerns about people being able to afford travel AND gotten two additional bowls in the mix (sorry, the Citrus Bowl should be on at least the same level as Cotton and Peach!).

Surprised no response to my post earlier...as much as on principle I dislike the idea of adding majors like that, unfortunately we really need to if it keeps getting us bit in the TP. Getting this guy could be EXTREMELY important.

Just found out his major is the same as McCall’s…can we still take him?

20 minutes ago, Viper said:

I'd like to think so, but (as per usual, admittedly) I'm a little nervous about if we can close this one. tOSU, Miami and USCw are also looking (though they'll likely take Will Howard, Malachi Nelson and Jordan McCloud).