re: 2025 Football Recruiting

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YARDS 2,307
TD 24
INT 7
QBR 71.4

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Would you take this:

Yards 1900+
TD 11
INT 1
QBR 82.4









those numbers belong to Haynes King

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If we’ve got an OL that can open holes

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This is all that matters. The portal draft better be all O-Line and a QB.

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Okay let’s not pretend “Manning” is just another backup QB. Archie, Peyton, Eli… legends of the football game at every level they played, and Super Bowl/MVP winners. And not to mention the commercialization of them.

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So then you believe that Sarkisian is an idiot who would risk winning (and therefore his own job) in order to placate fans/the media by allowing nepotism (this is what you are describing) to place a significantly less experienced QB into his starting lineup?

Again, the "scenario" here is that Ewers is apparently this amazing Senior QB who is such a difference maker that it is totally worthwhile for Freeze to sit on his hands for weeks in the hopes that he actually enters the Portal and chooses us (even though again: if he is that good, he will have much better options than a 5-win Auburn team). But if this is true and Ewers is this amazing Senior QB, why would it make any sense for Sarkisian to let him leave? Texas is in position to compete for the national championship .

Guys we could have Jesus Christ himself at QB and he would look pedestrian behind our OL. And he even walked on water.

We need to have the QB first in order to sell the OL, and anyone else, on playing with him. Not the other way around. Waiting on Ewers to be available is a risk, one that historically blow up in Auburn's face

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Do you think Ewers is better than Thorne? I think that's what we're going with. A logical upgrade which involves more than stats. Paytons "stats" say he was a pretty good QB, but how many people on this board truly would take him over Ewers? What do your eyes tell you when watching both guys?

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Of course I think that Ewers is better than Thorne. That isn't the point here.

The point is that none of this makes any sense from any angle. It doesn't make sense from Ewers' angle, and it doesn't make sense from our angle.

You understand that Texas is in the Playoffs, right? So you are proposing that Freeze is to sit on his hands and patiently wait and hope that Ewers actually decides to enter the Portal weeks from now? Other QB's who have similar or better stats than him will enter and commit to other schools in the meantime. Then, you are hoping that Ewers (this amazing difference maker QB) is going to sign with 5-win Auburn to play out his final season? If he has hopes of the NFL, why wouldn't he pick a team that is actually already proven to be good to play out his final season?

The risk here is hilariously idiotic for both Auburn AND Ewers. What happens if he has a good playoff game and just says frick it and goes to the NFL anyway? In the chance that he does stay and transfers: what happens if he uses his brain and picks a team with a more secure football team than ours is right now?

And repeating again: this entire theory all relies on this conundrum where he is both an amazing Senior QB who is a true difference maker for Auburn, but apparently Sarkisian would rather tell him to eff off so that they can crown a QB with less than 100 career pass attempts in the midst of a window where the expectation is that Texas is expected to compete for a national championship.

Makes sense! No holes anywhere in this story!

This is like the rumors of Jeff Fisher or Bob Stoops becoming the Auburn HC .

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Jeff Fisher or Bob Stoops

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That was always fun to listen to

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So then you believe that Sarkisian is an idiot who would risk winning (and therefore his own job) in order to placate fans/the media by allowing nepotism (this is what you are describing) to place a significantly less experienced QB into his starting lineup?

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No. He’s very smart actually in going about the one-time Manning thing in a walk around fashion.

The naked eye test says Ewers would be able to make all the throws Thorne missed. And our young receivers gained a year of experience.

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Sark is letting him leave because Arch Manning "could be a top 5 pick. Ewers according to most is a 2-3rd round talent

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Thats a hell of a risk to take

We're discussing hypotheticals. That's what a (discussion) board is all about. How can you say it makes no sense when money talks? Kromah just picked a 2 win FSU team over us and (GEORGIA). Today we are a 5 win team but Tomorrow with the addition of him and others (O-line) we'll be a completely different team. It's also about need. Go over the rest of the SEC and he doesn't have as many options as you believe. I have no reason to believe this (rumor) is true, but Auburn will do everything in its power to change this negative narrative and it's not an impossible outcome.