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Why is Auburn basketball and baseball so bad year in year out?
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:04 pm
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:04 pm
Good facilities in both sports yet basketball hasn't had a winning season since Lebo was coach. It's been even longer since the baseball team had a winning conference record. This year both sports are even managing to outdo their typical ineptness despite having good promising head coaches in both sports. Doesn't make any sense.
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Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:09 pm to Govt Tide
Why do you care about Auburn?
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:11 pm to Govt Tide
They should add jumbotrons.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:11 pm to Govt Tide
Given time,I think Pearl will do well for their basketball program.Thats a step in the right direction..baseball is just difficult in the sec....
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:11 pm to Govt Tide
who
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:16 pm to UnAnon
They don't cheat, as well as, Bama.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:19 pm to Chill98
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They don't cheat, as well as, Bama.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:21 pm to Chill98
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They don't cheat,
Lies
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:23 pm to Govt Tide
Basketball has never been a priority at AU until they built the new Arena. They use to go out and find a cheap coach that they thought was an up and comer. Things have changed with Pearl, but it will take time. Another factor with AU and Bama is the decline of HS Basketball in Alabama.
The issues with Baseball are the same as at Bama and the MS Schools. The lack of a lotto ties their hands.
The issues with Baseball are the same as at Bama and the MS Schools. The lack of a lotto ties their hands.
This post was edited on 3/8/16 at 8:25 pm
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:34 pm to Irons Puppet
Yet both MS schools have made it to Omaha in recent times. The lottery deal is an issue but not a complete deterrent. There is enough baseball talent in Birmingham and Mobile you would think to keep Bama and Auburn respectable in baseball.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:35 pm to Govt Tide
Basketball has been explained numerous times on this board. I don't follow baseball, so I have no idea.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:43 pm to Irons Puppet
Y'all definitely took care of the coaching part of basketball with the bold hiring of Pearl. The basketball team should be dramatically improved next year though and will have a very good shot of making the Big Dance. As for baseball, I realize the reasons for the struggles but I was shocked that you guys have gone so many consecutive years without a winning SEC record. Bama hasn't been much better btw but we still manage to make the NCAA tourney field just about every year.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:44 pm to HottyToddy7
Not really, if an instate talent is offered a partial scholarship at AU or UA, someone like Jax St, Troy,UAB, USA or UNA will offer more. If the lotto scholarships existed, they would go to the SEC schools. MS schools do not have the same level of instate competition for players.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:47 pm to Irons Puppet
Usm has also been to Omaha fairly recently. We aren't "buying" your excuses 
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:49 pm to Govt Tide
Call me when Barbee and Lebo prove they are good coaches. Which has been the problem since Ellis was fired. People forget he had AU as a Number 1 seed and took them to the Sweet 16 twice.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:50 pm to Govt Tide
I still think Basketball is more than a year away. Losing Canty sucks and Harris will be gone. However, we'll finally start to bring back guys that have experience playing together which is huge. Dunans, Purifoy, Brown, and Spencer give me hope for the future.
Baseball was looking stronger toward the end of last season. Our coach was a dickhead and potentially insane (if anyone watched his press conference at his lawyers office). Everyone in the league likes Thompson and I thought that was an excellent hire considering the time frame.
But we shouldn't be at constant stages of rebuilding in our athletic programs
Baseball was looking stronger toward the end of last season. Our coach was a dickhead and potentially insane (if anyone watched his press conference at his lawyers office). Everyone in the league likes Thompson and I thought that was an excellent hire considering the time frame.
But we shouldn't be at constant stages of rebuilding in our athletic programs
Posted on 3/8/16 at 8:59 pm to Govt Tide
quote:Go frick yourself
Why is Auburn basketball and baseball so bad year in year out?
Posted on 3/8/16 at 9:04 pm to TheJones
Y'all certainly have the potential based on history to be good if not great in both sports. I think it's the complete lack of consistency or seemingly any ability to maintain any level of success in either sport that I find weird. Alabama has been nothing to write home about in either sport since Wells and Gottfried left but we've at least been able to stay at or above .500 and make the postseason almost every year in both sports whereas Auburn not only struggles to reach .500 but more often than not misses out on the postseason in both sports. You guys seem to be either very good or very bad in the Big 3 sports the last 7 or 8 years. Very little in between.
Posted on 3/8/16 at 9:05 pm to RollTears
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Why do you care about Auburn?
Interesting point from a poster named
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RollTears
Posted on 3/8/16 at 9:07 pm to Govt Tide
A. we won the division in 2010 and B. because you frick your mother.
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