I suggest bookmarking this thread

Yeah their fans are pretty arrogant these days. It's next to impossible to have an actual football discussion with some of them.

Lowspark is a very solid poster. I like talking with him when it comes to discussing the game and he gives a very good analysis in that thread as usual.

People really need to be careful about these season openers. In one of the great moments in Razorback football history I was at WMS in 1974 for the season opener against top ten Southern Cal. My recollection (I was a teenager then) is we weren't given much of a chance but ended up winning the game 22-7. We went on to have a mediocre year while Southern Cal (with Anthony Davis) never lost another game all season while beating Notre Dame in the classic comeback game, beating Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, and finishing first in the Coaches Poll.

I was at the Auburn game last year and you sensed with the opening drive it was going to be a ball game. A score on the opening drive for us and a break here and there and the complexion of the game could have been very different. Certainly Auburn being the solid favorite in the first game is no surprise as they should be but brimming overconfidence in a season opener against a conference foe is just plain dumb.

For all the Auburn lurkers....

I don't hold any sort of grudge against Auburn or Gus. Frankly, I would have preferred Gus over BB. Doesn't matter now; I support the coach we have and our team.

BUT, I think we have the horses to stick with them and make this a ball-game. My gut tells me that we will keep it close for 3 quarters but get finished off in the fourth ; losing by 14 or so.

Hope I'm wrong.

This game reminds me a lot of 2006.

Stacked backfield, mediocre QB, mediocre defense with one elite pass rusher. High ranked Auburn team.

Aubbies aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. They've been conditioned to spew the defensive Aubie little brother bullshite for decades very few of them have the ability to critically think and objectively analyse anything and especially if it involves their own teams.

When everyone buys into the lie and in to overt cheating you have to say the same things or people start questioning.

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Frankly, I would have preferred Gus over BB.

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I'm going to preface this by that I think this upcoming year will be more indicative of how good a coach Gus actually is. I know this could end up as a slippery slope, but Auburn should have have been 9-3 and gone to the Outback/Capital-One bowl last year. That Georgia game was a straight up fluke, and Saban, in my opinion, did a really poor job managing the last bit of their game. I didn't think they'd be in the BCSNC game, but I was aware that they could be good. Jim Harris wrote an article in a preseason booklet that mentioned "some people in Alabama think Auburn will be better than expected"; it made sense if you thought who their coach was and the kind of players and scheme they'd run.

Anyway, they're obviously loaded pretty much everywhere, and if they destroy everybody, then I might think what could have been. . .although, no matter how good Gus may be, he'd probably always be able to recruit better at Auburn based solely on their location.

Our starters should be able to hang with theirs, but they are much deeper probably everywhere. Should something happen to 1(and at the absolute most 2) of our LB's, CB's, or safeties, I think we'd be in trouble. If we lose by 17 or more, I'll be disappointed. I'll be surprised if we win, but if we lose by 7 or so, I think we'll finish a lot better than what most folks are predicting.

Yeah, I don't know what the problem is with the C. You'd think we could just plug in Charpentier or Smothers. I know we have one of the best coaching them, so that at least is semi-comforting.

As for Auburn, I think Marshall will be improved as a passer, and he has some weapons at WR, too. Their O-line may have the best C in football, and they return 3 other starters. They have a 5-star RB signee, and some other veterans to boot.

I really believe that our defense is going to wow a lot of skeptics this upcoming season. A pretty strong line will be constantly bull rushing, and the 1st team linebackers already look more aggressive and seem to be tackling better in he spring game. I know I sound like a broken record, but(as long as no nepotism or what have you is going on) you don't stay on a defensive guru's staff for 6 years if you can't coach the secondary; Clay Jennings did just that.I think we'll see Mitchell and Hines ball hawking, taking better angles, and making hard, sound tackles as the year progresses.

I like how we're both discussing each other's threads on each of our boards lol

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I guess losing one OT = some OL to them. Must be that Arkansas math at work.

Also love how they automatically assume that Tre was our only running back worth a damn

I'm of the opinion that Marshall will wow some people this year with his throwing as well as his running. Not saying he'll be Peyton Manning or anything, but I'm confident he'll be much improved.

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