re: Bo Nix on future at Auburn: 'I’m not sure'

I hope he stays. He made huge strides this year. IF he decides to leave, best of luck to him. Auburn has been around long before him and will be long after he is gone.

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It’s baffling and embarrassing

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I’ve said this plenty lately. This is not what CFB should be about especially our own program. Blasting players, coaches, etc. as if they are just pieces we move around. Feeling entitled that we should be at the top with other top schools. Forgetting our humanity, forgetting our humility, forgetting decency.

People excuse and talk away this behavior behind the statement of “We want championships, not mediocrity” as if that excuses them to send personal messages disparaging young men who were so excited to be a part of Auburn. Put in countless hours of their lives to become better so that they can compete and hope to win. To make their parents proud and their school.

When I started going to games about 34 years ago it was disappointing to lose but we showed appreciation for our program and team. We weren’t nasty and crass in the way we talked about coaches and players. Hell yeah we wanted to win every game but it was about the camaraderie we all felt as the team came down Tiger Walk feeling a connection in some way. A chance to show them our thanks and pride for all that they do.

What has happened for our love of the Game? When did winning at all costs become the only focus that we can’t even appreciate the play of the team without critiquing, criticizing, calling for heads to roll and players to get fricked even in loss.

I am even guilty of doing this plenty, but this year has really opened my eyes of how bad it has become. We were begging for football last year and you would have thought we all could have had even a minor shift away from being hyper critical of every damn thing. But we haven’t changed.

I want to win, I want to win championships, but not at the price of all our decency. I have been pretty shitty to posters and I’m not proud of it. I’m done acting that way. We all are better than this. We can get pretty nasty on here sometimes and part of it is the anonymity of it all. I apologize for being a major arse hole. I mean Jonesy puts time and effort into the recruiting thread and even after friendly requests to keep it free from bullshite, we shite on it. There are others too.

We are better than that gents, we have to be better than that. I can promise you I wouldn’t act the way if we were all in a room together. I came here because there was some irreverence to the place. We get to jaw at our rivals, but I came here to talk Auburn sports and have some good laughs with fellow Auburn men and women. I came here to enjoy the game and express our thoughts during it, and occasional light hearted rribby.

When did we get so off kilter that it has devolved to what we have in here. Being uncivil. We all deserve better and we all need to be better. Especially me. To all of you who have kept it real and worked to keep your civility, Thank you. I’m sorry for my part in the bad that happens here.

I love to win and highly competitive. Played sports my whole life, and I get we have spent money at Auburn,, have degrees from Auburn, support Auburn through different means, but it doesn’t mean we have the right to dehumanize coaches because they get paid a lot and attack them. Gus for instance, he didn’t start each day wondering how he could screw over Auburn, find ways to lose, piss off fans. The man loved Auburn, he even donated a lot of money towards facilities. Yes, it is also a business but is there some unwritten rule we have to hate them, tear them down, wish them Ill will and misfortune. Why can’t we just say thank you for the good you did here Gus, and thank you for loving Auburn. We wish you the best of luck in your next endeavor but you’re always welcome here?

This has been a long post and I just don’t like what a lot of us have become. The change to better football experiences begin with us gentlemen, it’s how we treat each other here and in person. I wish you all the best and hope you’re not too hard on me for expressing something I have been feeling for a while but didn’t have the courage to share or admit my part in the mess. I urge you to stop focusing on winning so much that you forget who you are and forget that the people getting bashed have families and they don’t deserve the treatment we display here.

I know, many will say but it’s just a message board, but it is obvious with so much more access to directly communicate with players and coaches, the messages here are reaching there intended targets, it’s not who we should be. And if you think I’m full of shite and out of line, long winded in my post so be it. But I’m choosing to change. The desire to win championships is not going to give me the right to be rude, nasty, and talk to you and others in a way that makes it seem you are not a real person but just a figure behind a keyboard. So I’m gonna take a break for a bit. I hope you can see the intent of the message and not focus on my delivery, my grammar or spelling.

If you disagree that is fine, but I hope before you do please reflect a little and see if my words might have some valid points. Merry Christmas coming up and I wish you all a Happy New Year! War Damn Eagle and see you in a few.

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want Bo back, but I think he gone. Intuition tells me UCF, but I don't know if Gus is the best route to the NFL.

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Bo and Pat both would have battered woman syndrome if they went to UCF.

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Social media is the human killer. Not because it’s evil. Because humans are not smart enough to use it.

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Correct. There is a line between criticism and straight bashing a kid though

Some on this board directly contributed to this shite. I almost hope he transfers and you guys get Finley and a true freshman just so you can continue to wallow in your pessimistic misery.

Auburn can't have good things because of the ilk I'm referring to.

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Some on this board directly contributed to this shite. I almost hope he transfers and you guys get Finley and a true freshman just so you can continue to wallow in your pessimistic misery

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Some of y'all are too damn dramatic.

I want him to lead the team next year and break some more school records!

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He gets credit when the offense does well and gets criticism when he plays badly, which he has done on numerous occasions

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Nah. He only played badly twice. The rest of the time Auburn alums and sidewalkers chewed him over stuff not in his control.