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The barn hired DJ Durkin
Posted on 1/30/24 at 9:31 am
Posted on 1/30/24 at 9:31 am
as their new defensive coordinator. Should be interesting and a good recruiting tool for DeBoer to use against them.
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Posted on 1/30/24 at 9:42 am to bamatide07
What’s not to love about college football?
A school that trumpets it’s moral superiority has a sex trafficker and a guy who contributed to someone’s death making millions as their coach.
A school that trumpets it’s moral superiority has a sex trafficker and a guy who contributed to someone’s death making millions as their coach.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 10:06 am to tide06
I'd almost respect them if they'd just lean into it and own it like Johnson/Erickson era Miami. I mean I'd definitely still hate them, but it would be a genuine hatred, not a hatred born of revulsion like it has been for my entire life. Instead they're content to be an athletics themed megachurch.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 10:19 am to Robot Santa
Right. The morally superior program hires proven sleaze like Pearl, Freeze and Durkin to lead their major athletic programs.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 10:21 am to bamatide07
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Right. The morally superior program hires proven sleaze like Pearl, Freeze and Durkin to lead their major athletic programs.
They've also had scandals in the softball and now tennis program. Lets not forget that they almost lost their accreditation as a school.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 10:26 am to cdur86
Yep. The sociology department scandal.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 10:29 am to bamatide07
Nick Marshall is still writing his name in Crayon.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 10:42 am to UASports23
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Nick Marshall is still writing his name in Crayon.
Junior Rosegreen failed that class.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 10:46 am to Evolved Simian
Can't write your name in Crayon if you eat the whole box before the test.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 11:18 am to Robot Santa
Cadillac Williams can’t even write his own name. The Auburn boosters bought his family a home when he signed with them in high school.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 11:24 am to tide06
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a guy who contributed to someone’s death
There's no doubt that Auburn will hire anyone and do anything to try to win and more specifically to try to beat Alabama. But if you actually look at the details of the Jordan McNair situation, Durkin was exonerated from wrongdoing. He wasn't even present at the conditioning session where McNair died of heat stroke.
It was alleged by journalists that Durkin might have had some responsibility for a toxic culture, but multiple investigations into the Maryland program found that there was no toxic culture. Anyone who played football at even the serious high school level can tell you that people collapsing during summer workouts is a common occurrence and everyone is told to toughen up if you complain about the heat. If you want to say that's a toxic culture, it's a problem with the sport itself, not one coaching staff.
The investigations exonerated Durkin to such an extent that Maryland felt comfortable reinstating him. It was a Twitter mob that caused him to be fired, and they were acting about as reasonably as in any other case of cancelling. This is not really a defense of the hire, especially not right after hiring another scandalized coach, but people do need to actually read into the Durkin situation. This was one of those things where the media screamed the headline and whispered the details.
On a different note, I expect Auburn to eventually hire Kendal Briles. He's actually named in court documents related to the Baylor case as one of the chief promoters of their institutionalized practice of selling coerced sex with female students as a recruiting pitch. That would be a natural fit for them. I also hope they get him because his offenses suck.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 11:53 am to bamatide07
quote:I read a post on BOL that said DeBoer show Ryan Williams clips of Peyton Thorne throwing passes. Is this true?
hould be interesting and a good recruiting tool for DeBoer to use against them.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 12:48 pm to CrimsonCrusade
Thanks for posting that and absolutely right. Saban was more than likely going to hire Durkin as an analyst. Dan Wolken caught wind of it and wrote a scathing article about Durkin and got the woke sissy’s panties in a wad.
I wonder how these sissy’s would have acted back during the junction boys days. Hell, even Bryant at Bama was known to have some grueling practices and conditioning.
I wonder how these sissy’s would have acted back during the junction boys days. Hell, even Bryant at Bama was known to have some grueling practices and conditioning.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 3:22 pm to Sebastian
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I read a post on BOL that said DeBoer show Ryan Williams clips of Peyton Thorne throwing passes. Is this true?
I don't know, but I hope he did. Thorne's passing was an insult to the game.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 3:25 pm to Evolved Simian
Thorne has miraculously regressed every year he has been a starter.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 4:24 pm to Sebastian
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I read a post on BOL that said DeBoer show Ryan Williams clips of Peyton Thorne throwing passes. Is this true?
Oh shite I hope so. That's cut-throat recruiting.
Posted on 1/30/24 at 4:41 pm to Remiden
Yet somehow Freeze was able to sign Cam Coleman and Perry Thompson. Wonder how long before they enter the portal ? Those guys would be getting serious playing time in Ryan Grubb’s offense.
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