re: Take this FWIW

I don't expect White to go through the season without getting nicked up. He gets hit too hard and he's not a guy with a big frame. JJ will play before the end of the year because I don't think we have any choice. Hope he doesn't quit.

I wish it wasn't the age of booing in college sports.

But I can understand why it is and sympathize... especially SEC football. Shits EXPENSIVE. And if you want to charge that much, people are going to demand (at the very least) COMPETENCE. And, in this case, I'm not talking individual players, I'm talking about the damn coaches who get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars and, in Gus's case, millions to put a COMPETENT product on that damn field.

So I feel bad that JJ got boo'ed. Whose fault is that? As I pointed out above, I ain't gonna blame the fans and supporters who bleed out the arse to fund this damn program.

So who is to blame?

Gus fricking Malzahn is to blame.

Where people booing JJ, or just the cluster that Malzahn was putting on. I felt it was directed more at him than any player.

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I wasn't at the game but the booing came across as if it was intended for Gus on TV not any particular player

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Yep.

I hope he catches a TD pass in the NC game. Damn

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JJ quit the team

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The boo birds were flying almost the entire first half. After that, people were just numb to the insanity that we were watching. Had a man from South Carolina sitting in front of me say that what Gus was doing was inconceivable, even at a high school level.

Now, i'm not one to boo at the game unless its at the refs, but I literally could not control it last week. What surprised me was how many people couldnt stop either. Boos were raining down like snow in Canada.

My mother who has been going to games since the 70s said to hell with it, I'm done. She said she was going to burn her Gus Bus shirt and stop buying season tickets....Thats how bad it was at the game.

It's NCAA D1 football. Thinking that someone is not good enough to play at that level is not unreasonable. I doubt anyone here sincerely wants anything less than the best for JJ. I don't think ANYONE would have complained if he really was the second coming of Cam Newton. Of course, when we all saw that he wasn't, it's well within our rights as Auburn football fans to want to see either A) JJ play MUCH better or B) someone else take his place on the field. There's a massive difference in thinking someone is not fit for this level of football and disliking them as a person. If you can't understand that difference, I think you're the one that's a "SJM Mizzou ****."

In fact, your own comment suggests most posters DO care about JJ as a person. If he was not on the football team, AU could cut his scholarship. Anyone wanting him to just stay on the sidelines and signal plays or use a headset is okay with him taking up one of AU's 85 scholarships just so that he can get an education for free due to how good at football he was in high school. Piss off.

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I never brought up what i thought about JJ quitting the team, but if your asking me what i think....I'm freaking excited he is gone. Not because he is a terrible QB, but because it limits the number of Qbs Gus can swap in and out and frick our offense with.

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This is why I am happy as well!!! As I said in the thread on tRant...This is all truly Gus's fault. And again i am sure Au will do the right thing since he is a senior and let him finish his degree for free on scholly.