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Auburn fans, what happened to the Gus Bus? [not a troll]
Posted on 11/16/15 at 7:44 am
Posted on 11/16/15 at 7:44 am
He was a great OC obviously and took you guys to a NC a couple years back. I know there can be drop offs but it seems like there was a huge drop off last year and it has gotten even worse this year. Is it a talent thing, or injuries, or is it actually coaching?
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Posted on 11/16/15 at 7:45 am to alabamabuckeye
Deal with the devil expired
Posted on 11/16/15 at 7:45 am to alabamabuckeye
No Cam no famb.
Posted on 11/16/15 at 7:45 am to alabamabuckeye
It was a low key day. Alabama was supposed to dismantle Auburn. Their Heisman candidate had a national stage to take center spotlight. But something unexpected happened.
Our tailgate was a fun morning. We hosted many Bama friends who came by. The food was fabulour, the music was toe tapping, and the weather was perfect. We went to our traditional “Tiger Walk” and cheered the team and coaches into the stadium – like gladiators inot their arena knowing a hungry, undefeated opponent was on the other side pacing and suiting up for a David and Goliath moment. But something unexpected happened.
The sea of orange filled the sun-kissed stadium. Every seat was filled. Our Eagle, Tiger, flew around the tops of our heads and landed midfield. The teams entered to thunderous applause, fanfare and frenzied fans. Bama fans wore stickers that said “Fear the shutout.” But something unexpected happened.
Auburn, fueled by the fans and faith of spirit with hard work, threw everything they had at Alabama. And for 56 minutes Auburn prevailed. The score, the stats, the noise, the pride; for 56 minutes we owned it. But something unexpected happened.
Alabama put together a successful last minute drive and scored the go ahead points. The TV announcers loved the battle for ratings. No one in the stadium moved. But something unexpected happened.
The Alabama fans stayed and “sabaned” their victory. Their band played. Their victory ended a perfect scheduled season. But something unexpected happened.
What possibly could be wrong? The Bama fans had suffered, sweated, cursed, paced and prayed for 56 torturous minutes and their team finally pulled it out and won. But what they saw next was not suppose to happen … either.
The Auburn Family stayed. They were supposed to flee in defeat but alas the opposite happened. We stayed in our seats and waited for our team to walk off the field. 80,000 family members escorted them off with thunderous applause and chants of “It’s great to be an Auburn Tiger!” The recruits stayed and watched this family of ours lift up our team who served up a whole humble pie to #2 Bama.
It reminded me of the scene in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” when the Who’s in Whoville gathered after their presents and decorations were missing but lifted their voices loudly anyway to lift up their gratitude and celebrations. For us it was about thankfulness, honor and family. For 56 minute we were fans, but as our team walked off the field for a few minutes we were all one family. It was a great feeling and we had not even won the game … on the scoreboard.
We walked out of the stadium chanting AU cheers down the ramps. Alabama fans quiet and shocked. Their Heisman candidate was disposed of. Their defense was embarrassed. Their haughtiness was silent.
I have not mentioned the crudeness and ugliness that I witnessed or was a part of from Alabama fans prior and during the game. Their reputation for being rude fans lived on – not pulling for their team and being good fans but being jerks to others – even to children. However, after the game they were silent. Eerily quiet. One would have thought they lost the game. The lack of cries of “Roll Tide” was noticeably absent.
But something happened. Auburn continued to make us proud, played their hearts out, made idiots of the sports announcers who proclaimed earlier this was a waste to play, and silenced the visiting fans.
Yes, something happened. Auburn won everything but the scoreboard. This was not supposed to happen! Alabama was not supposed to allow this!! It was just Auburn for goodness sakes, right? Wrong.
Not a perfect day but an AUsome day.
Our tailgate was a fun morning. We hosted many Bama friends who came by. The food was fabulour, the music was toe tapping, and the weather was perfect. We went to our traditional “Tiger Walk” and cheered the team and coaches into the stadium – like gladiators inot their arena knowing a hungry, undefeated opponent was on the other side pacing and suiting up for a David and Goliath moment. But something unexpected happened.
The sea of orange filled the sun-kissed stadium. Every seat was filled. Our Eagle, Tiger, flew around the tops of our heads and landed midfield. The teams entered to thunderous applause, fanfare and frenzied fans. Bama fans wore stickers that said “Fear the shutout.” But something unexpected happened.
Auburn, fueled by the fans and faith of spirit with hard work, threw everything they had at Alabama. And for 56 minutes Auburn prevailed. The score, the stats, the noise, the pride; for 56 minutes we owned it. But something unexpected happened.
Alabama put together a successful last minute drive and scored the go ahead points. The TV announcers loved the battle for ratings. No one in the stadium moved. But something unexpected happened.
The Alabama fans stayed and “sabaned” their victory. Their band played. Their victory ended a perfect scheduled season. But something unexpected happened.
What possibly could be wrong? The Bama fans had suffered, sweated, cursed, paced and prayed for 56 torturous minutes and their team finally pulled it out and won. But what they saw next was not suppose to happen … either.
The Auburn Family stayed. They were supposed to flee in defeat but alas the opposite happened. We stayed in our seats and waited for our team to walk off the field. 80,000 family members escorted them off with thunderous applause and chants of “It’s great to be an Auburn Tiger!” The recruits stayed and watched this family of ours lift up our team who served up a whole humble pie to #2 Bama.
It reminded me of the scene in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” when the Who’s in Whoville gathered after their presents and decorations were missing but lifted their voices loudly anyway to lift up their gratitude and celebrations. For us it was about thankfulness, honor and family. For 56 minute we were fans, but as our team walked off the field for a few minutes we were all one family. It was a great feeling and we had not even won the game … on the scoreboard.
We walked out of the stadium chanting AU cheers down the ramps. Alabama fans quiet and shocked. Their Heisman candidate was disposed of. Their defense was embarrassed. Their haughtiness was silent.
I have not mentioned the crudeness and ugliness that I witnessed or was a part of from Alabama fans prior and during the game. Their reputation for being rude fans lived on – not pulling for their team and being good fans but being jerks to others – even to children. However, after the game they were silent. Eerily quiet. One would have thought they lost the game. The lack of cries of “Roll Tide” was noticeably absent.
But something happened. Auburn continued to make us proud, played their hearts out, made idiots of the sports announcers who proclaimed earlier this was a waste to play, and silenced the visiting fans.
Yes, something happened. Auburn won everything but the scoreboard. This was not supposed to happen! Alabama was not supposed to allow this!! It was just Auburn for goodness sakes, right? Wrong.
Not a perfect day but an AUsome day.
Posted on 11/16/15 at 7:50 am to SummerOfGeorge
What in the living frick???
Posted on 11/16/15 at 7:51 am to alabamabuckeye
Defense was the issue last year with some problems scoring points in the redzone. He doesn't have a healthy QB to run his offense now and has some really questionable playcalling. I think the talent is there, but is not being utilized well on offense. Defense is getting better. Having Lawson back has made a huge difference.
Just my $.02.
And this too
Just my $.02.
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Deal with the devil expired
And this too
This post was edited on 11/16/15 at 7:53 am
Posted on 11/16/15 at 7:52 am to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 11/16/15 at 7:56 am to alabamabuckeye
They aren't getting explosive plays on offense. Largely due to the qb. This is the third year of the offense and DCs have keyed in on the vulnerable spots. The trick alignments and illusions aren't working because everyone knows how the tricks work.
Posted on 11/16/15 at 7:57 am to MontyFranklyn
He doesn't have an athletic freak at QB and has no deep passing game.
Posted on 11/16/15 at 7:58 am to alabamabuckeye
NYCAuburn was posting and ran off the road.
Posted on 11/16/15 at 7:59 am to alabamabuckeye
Not enough swag.
Posted on 11/16/15 at 8:01 am to alabamabuckeye
No offense in the SEC is going to put up gawdy numbers every year especially if there are kinks. The big kink is at quarterback. Jeremy Johnson failed to go from high-potential backup to starting quarterback.
So whenever an SEC team loses on offense, it should have a strong defense for support.
Auburn's defense has been absolute shite for the past seven seasons, and it's come to bite us in the arse.
You're seeing a much more competitive Auburn team the past few weeks thanks to good work from Muschamp. Some posters here can laugh off Muschamp, but the defense has improved week by week, and Auburn has now given up only two touchdowns in the past two games.
Too little, too late. The defense while improving won't improve enough to upset the #2 team in the country and the offense will need to be fixed in the offseason.
So whenever an SEC team loses on offense, it should have a strong defense for support.
Auburn's defense has been absolute shite for the past seven seasons, and it's come to bite us in the arse.
You're seeing a much more competitive Auburn team the past few weeks thanks to good work from Muschamp. Some posters here can laugh off Muschamp, but the defense has improved week by week, and Auburn has now given up only two touchdowns in the past two games.
Too little, too late. The defense while improving won't improve enough to upset the #2 team in the country and the offense will need to be fixed in the offseason.
Posted on 11/16/15 at 8:04 am to alabamabuckeye
Muschamp is doing his job, fixing the mess he inherited. Key injuries hurt the defense pretty bad at game one.
He might be a mad scientist. He can build a power running juggernaut or just be completely mad. JJ was a bust. That's his fault. SW had a chance but seemed to be held back or setup to fail. Then he got injured.
Go with mad scientist who just blew up his lab.
Georgia was bad this weekend, auburn was worse even though georgia was trying to give it away, which really just means A&M must be really bad.
He might be a mad scientist. He can build a power running juggernaut or just be completely mad. JJ was a bust. That's his fault. SW had a chance but seemed to be held back or setup to fail. Then he got injured.
Go with mad scientist who just blew up his lab.
Georgia was bad this weekend, auburn was worse even though georgia was trying to give it away, which really just means A&M must be really bad.
This post was edited on 11/16/15 at 8:07 am
Posted on 11/16/15 at 8:04 am to JCinBAMA
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NYCAuburn was posting and ran off the road.
a bunch of other Auburn clowns must have been in there, too. Notice how they just melt away when the arse whipping start getting regular? 
Posted on 11/16/15 at 8:15 am to alabamabuckeye
He lost his play call mojo
Posted on 11/16/15 at 8:16 am to alabamabuckeye
Terrible at QB. Johnson can't throw it downfield. It started to get better offensively with White, except for the redzone problems, then he got hurt. Johnson is just that bad.
Posted on 11/16/15 at 8:18 am to alabamabuckeye
Gus needs to bring Trooper back to wave that towel. That will get them going.
Posted on 11/16/15 at 8:19 am to alabamabuckeye
I think the reality for Auburn is that they had a big mess on defense, and would need the offense to carry them for at least one more year. Unfortunately, they ended up not having a viable QB for their offense. If you don't have a QB, and you don't have a defense, that usually spells trouble. It's actually amazing that they are 5-5, considering that they have problems on defense AND at QB. What should worry people more, is that even with all of their problems, they have been in a ton of close games, and lost 4 games by one possession. Without a QB. Without a defense, in the toughest division in the country.
Muschamp is improving the defense, slowly, and if the offense can recruit a QB, I think they'll be fine moving forward.
Muschamp is improving the defense, slowly, and if the offense can recruit a QB, I think they'll be fine moving forward.
Posted on 11/16/15 at 8:24 am to alabamabuckeye
No quarterback worth a shite. Defense has slowly improved.
Posted on 11/16/15 at 8:29 am to alabamabuckeye
The biggest hype man for JJ before the season was Gus. He honestly thought he had an NFL calibre QB that would allow him to throw the ball around like he did in his Tulsa days. JJ makes a mistake & then falls apart mentally. After the LSU beatdown Gus realized he had to revamp the offense & change complete directions with Sean White at QB. Just when White is starting to find a rhythm he goes down with knee injury. Now you return to JJ who you have no confidence in & has no confidence in himself. He held it together against A&M mostly because their run D is shite & Jovon went beast on them. Against UGA we tried the same thing but Pruitt adjusted well & so we went to White who is like 70%.
Basically the focal point of the AU offense was supposed to be JJ but he busted hard, since then we have been scrambling & just when we think we found our solution he gets hurt. Add in the fact our #1 WR is the complete opposite of clutch and you get the shitfest that is the 2015 Auburn football team. Just one of those years where instead of everything coming together it collapses. The crazy thing is despite all that we have lost 4 of our games by only 1 TD. A lot of that is because of the D improving especially getting Lawson back. I don't think we are as far off the tracks as some would think but it's definitely been a clusterfrick of a season.
Next season is it for Gus. I think if he keeps Muschamp on staff & refocuses offense on running ball with Jovon & Barber we will be fine. Also I am starting to think John Franklin is going to be the QB & we return to the 2013 gameplan of run 80% of the time & then take the occasional deep shots. 2016 Auburn will be an interesting team but he has a lot of trust he has to earn back after collapsing this season
Basically the focal point of the AU offense was supposed to be JJ but he busted hard, since then we have been scrambling & just when we think we found our solution he gets hurt. Add in the fact our #1 WR is the complete opposite of clutch and you get the shitfest that is the 2015 Auburn football team. Just one of those years where instead of everything coming together it collapses. The crazy thing is despite all that we have lost 4 of our games by only 1 TD. A lot of that is because of the D improving especially getting Lawson back. I don't think we are as far off the tracks as some would think but it's definitely been a clusterfrick of a season.
Next season is it for Gus. I think if he keeps Muschamp on staff & refocuses offense on running ball with Jovon & Barber we will be fine. Also I am starting to think John Franklin is going to be the QB & we return to the 2013 gameplan of run 80% of the time & then take the occasional deep shots. 2016 Auburn will be an interesting team but he has a lot of trust he has to earn back after collapsing this season
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