re: Barfield vs Malzahn

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First, Fla St and Miami didn't grow into the program they are now until the 80's. They were closer to Arkansas St than the powerhouse programs they are/were now.

Second, I was on the hire Petrino bus, but I'm not on the hire Briles bus. Petrino loving women is not the same as turning a blind eye to rape. Sorry.

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OOC opponents and their records, 1976-80

1976 @Arizona (5-6) LOSS
1976 Baylor (7-3-1) LOSS
1976 @Memphis (8-3) (Yes, the program was in such a state we played AT Memphis) LOSS
1976 GT (4-6-1) LOSS
1976 FSU (5-6) WIN

1977 Arizona (5-7) WIN
1977 Southern Miss (6-6) LOSS
1977 N.C. State (8-4) LOSS
1977 @GT (6-5) LOSS
1977 @FSU (10-2) LOSS

1978 @KSU (4-7) WIN
1978 @Va Tech (4-7) WIN
1978 Miami (6-5) LOSS
1978 GT (7-5) LOSS
1978 Wake Forest (1-10) WIN

1979 KSU (3-8) WIN
1979 Southern Miss (6-4-1) WIN
1979 N.C. State (7-4) WIN
1979 @GT (4-6-1) WIN
1979 @Wake Forest (8-4) LOSS (Yes, AT Wake Forest)

1980 @TCU (1-10) WIN (Yes, AT TCU)
1980 Duke (2-9) WIN
1980 Richmond (5-6) WIN
1980 GT (1-9-1) WIN
1980 Southern Miss (9-3) WIN

Golly, I can sure see pining for the good ol' days when we were losing to teams like Baylor, Memphis, Southern Miss, NC State, and Wake Forest.

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Every AU fan alive at the time would have provided a two word response: Doug. Barfield.

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Indeed. In the Age of the Primacy of the Running Back, we had all those studs and could barely be average.

Average pts per game (1976-80)

1976 - 17.6
1977 - 18.5
1978 - 21.6
1979 - 30.0 (This was the year Cribbs was a senior and Brooks was a junior)
1980 - 21.3

All that talent and "development" (lol) and only one decent year on offense out of five. And some of those points came from the defense too, cuz I know Fast Freddie Smith picked off at least a couple of passes and took'em to the house.

Gus is his own worst enemy. When he gets out of his own way and doesn't insist on being cute and gimmicky as an offensive philosophy, he runs a brilliant offense. For whatever reason though, he currently can't see the forrest for the trees. His offense has regressed from innovative to running the wing t. At the rate he's going, he'll have us running the Notre Dame box before the end of the season. It sounds cliche, but until he gets back to football basics of one quarterback running the show and building an offense around his strengths, we will remain disjointed offensively. I know he said Sean is the guy yesterday, but Gus has burned up a lot of capital, and I refuse to believe it until I see it. I've seen him kill too drives with JJ, going all the way back to the Nick Marshall era. He can't help himself.

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Just laughing at all you bitches after one game vs the #2 team in the country.

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yeah, thing is, its not just one game this year. body of work is important.

and i don't think that will be the #2 team at the end of the year. maybe, but they didn't look like it Saturday.

I really think Massengill needs to set up a booth by the stadium so some of can douche the sand out of your vagina. It's been one game for the love of God.

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It's been one game for the love of God.

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How do you figure?

Didn't we have a losing record in conference last year that included some straight up coaching dumbassery not using Jovon Robinson, red zone play calls, twirly birds ad nauseum, etc.

Remember the play calls in overtime against Wisconsin. Remember Gus not going for 2 to beat Arkansas in overtime last year (rule #1 when playing on the road = when opponent gives you chance to win, take it.)

Then let's move to player development. Kiehl Frazier? Jeremy Johnson? Roc Thomas? Tony Stevens? How many 4 and 5 star athletes can we continue to see minimal output from?

And now let's talk defense. Does Gus have any idea or involvement in the defense at all? I've never seen a head coach that completely detached from 1/2 of his team. In fact, I'm not even sure Gus has any input on the O-line. Doesn't seem like it.

I'll sit down now.

Where's my bottle of jack?

they both suck. what do I win?

With exception of the team in turdtown, the SEC was pretty dreadful in the 70's. AU 72, UGA 76, UT 70, LSU had a couple 9-winners in the early going, but that's about it.

Malzahn now 14 - 12 all-time in SEC.

He's got to go 5 - 2 in conference the rest of the way this year to have a better 4 year record than Barfield.

Congrats Gus. Congrats