Auburn bounces back, holds on

[shabby 2,039]

Auburn is 7-2 with a true freshman qb and our fans boo, and our message boards melt.  perhaps we should all become arkansas fans for a season and get some perspective. At the beginning of the season most were predicting 7-5 or 8-4.   war eagle. wild game. hope we get 2 out of our next 3 and finish 9-3 strong

[ToraGirl 5,498]

20 minutes ago, Auctoritas said:

(Edit to add: this gets ranty and philosophical, and I'm not getting ranty at you, and hold no grudge)

Here's the issue, though - this is not powerlessness. Those bought tickets, or received tickets because they gave money. A much better message is not giving money. Or just walking out at halftime and leaving empty seats on national TV. If they truly wanted to effect change, it will take a realization that it is slow in coming and that it will take deliberate, economic action.

In this case of "powerlessness", though, the boo is not being directed at the persons holding the levers of power. The boos in that moment were not to let the BoT or the PTB or the AD know about displeasure, they were solely to punish Gus Malzahn. And, unfortunately, such punishment is not selective and the blows were raining down on the people around him too, the players.

To what end? What was the boo going to do? They didn't start until the players were running off the field after the clock hit zero. Gus couldn't petition to go back in time and run a drive instead of going to the locker room. The boo was in the moment was ONLY to try to make Gus Malzahn feel bad, and that was because he was making THOSE people who feel entitled to feeling good instead feel bad and they wanted to reciprocate. That's not redressing an imbalance of power, that is vengeance.
 

Agree. But if I said don't buy tix, then umpteen would pop up on here and lambast me for being unsupportive. Against the buyout, we ARE powerless. That is where a lot of the hopelessness is coming from. And there is no access to the PTB. The anger isn't simply directed at them, to be truthful. I think it is underestimated, just how widespread, multidirectional, and deep the irritation runs. It screams of the need for change. I wouldn't do what they did. But I can see why they chose to exercise their free speech in such a way, and though it's not a good look, the new levels of expressed displeasure need to be taken into consideration.

It's time to OWN IT.

[ShocksMyBrain 9,666]

55 minutes ago, shabby said:

Auburn is 7-2 with a true freshman qb and our fans boo, and our message boards melt.  perhaps we should all become arkansas fans for a season and get some perspective. At the beginning of the season most were predicting 7-5 or 8-4.   war eagle. wild game. hope we get 2 out of our next 3 and finish 9-3 strong

We had 500 yards of offense and ended with 20 points. Rah rah. 

[nixtosanders94 2,180]

8 hours ago, shabby said:

Auburn is 7-2 with a true freshman qb and our fans boo, and our message boards melt.  perhaps we should all become arkansas fans for a season and get some perspective. At the beginning of the season most were predicting 7-5 or 8-4.   war eagle. wild game. hope we get 2 out of our next 3 and finish 9-3 strong

It doesn’t say something to you that in year 7 thats the best folks were hoping for in the preseason? Wow, just wow.

[AU64 10,122]

Wondering if we have a back-up kicker. ?

Someone suggested we should have punted on that last possession...which might have gained us 15 yards considering field position whereas AC had the chance to "win" the game with a good kick.     Generally it was a good call IMO to let AC seal the deal. 

Those misses by AC were not chip shots but are pretty common distance in college football these days.  Game would not have been in doubt with any one of those missed three FGs going through.  Hoping he shakes off whatever is affecting his FG work....plenty of leg on the long kicks.....but missing them again this year. .

[SumterAubie 3,085]

On 11/3/2019 at 12:10 AM, Auctoritas said:

(Edit to add: this gets ranty and philosophical, and I'm not getting ranty at you, and hold no grudge)

Here's the issue, though - this is not powerlessness. Those bought tickets, or received tickets because they gave money. A much better message is not giving money. Or just walking out at halftime and leaving empty seats on national TV. If they truly wanted to effect change, it will take a realization that it is slow in coming and that it will take deliberate, economic action.

In this case of "powerlessness", though, the boo is not being directed at the persons holding the levers of power. The boos in that moment were not to let the BoT or the PTB or the AD know about displeasure, they were solely to punish Gus Malzahn. And, unfortunately, such punishment is not selective and the blows were raining down on the people around him too, the players.

To what end? What was the boo going to do? They didn't start until the players were running off the field after the clock hit zero. Gus couldn't petition to go back in time and run a drive instead of going to the locker room. The boo was in the moment was ONLY to try to make Gus Malzahn feel bad, and that was because he was making THOSE people who feel entitled to feeling good instead feel bad and they wanted to reciprocate. That's not redressing an imbalance of power, that is vengeance.
 

Of course, the FSU product on the field was bad. But this is what got Taggart fired.

The Seminoles were 9-12 in Taggart’s second season. Average attendance at Doak Campbell Stadium (capacity: 79,560) had dropped to 54,213, the lowest in more than 30 years

[Auctoritas 2,906]

1 minute ago, SumterAubie said:

Of course, the FSU product on the field was bad. But this is what got Taggart fired.

The Seminoles were 9-12 in Taggart’s second season. Average attendance at Doak Campbell Stadium (capacity: 79,560) had dropped to 54,213, the lowest in more than 30 years

And it was super noticable, too, particularly because the big games in the beginning of the season were pulling that average up. And not all those 54K were staying for the blowouts.