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Auburn football is 23-25 this decade
Posted on 11/26/23 at 11:58 am
Posted on 11/26/23 at 11:58 am
That’s gotta be the worst stretch since the Barfield era. I think someone mentioned that we have lost the culture of winning over the last decade. I remember in the early 2010s we could find ways to win better than any other team. What will it take for us to stop finding ways to lose and get out of this funk?
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Posted on 11/26/23 at 12:02 pm to DyeHardDylan
maybe the price of pressure treated pine has fallen and that fat yella dude hasn't been doing enough.
Saban will retire soon, NIL has leveled the playing field so we can compete with Kirby for recruits and we have to hope that Freeze is the right head coach with a new DC incoming.
Saban will retire soon, NIL has leveled the playing field so we can compete with Kirby for recruits and we have to hope that Freeze is the right head coach with a new DC incoming.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 12:03 pm to DyeHardDylan
Somebody like Pat Dye.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 12:03 pm to DyeHardDylan
We need to get some big money claws out of the program, but that will never happen. And we hired another Malzahn, so it’s like being in The Groundhog Day movie.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 12:11 pm to DyeHardDylan
This decade is still pretty young…
Posted on 11/26/23 at 12:14 pm to DyeHardDylan
We went 20-22-2 from 1975-1977. This included Shug's final season in '75.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 2:23 pm to DyeHardDylan
It’s the worst since Barfield for sure.
But what’s worse is that we’ve only had two seasons manifest as competitive from start to finish since 2007. 2007 and 2017 are the only two seasons in 17 years to start with expectations to win and end with a decent grade. Even then, those two seasons ended with multiple losses.
2010 and 2013 were both expected to be rebuilding years, but we knocked it out of the park. 2019 was also expected to be a rebuilding year but turned out decent.
2011, 2014, 2018, and 2020 were all expected to be good seasons and were massive disappointments.
2008, 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2022 were all awful.
2009, 2021, and 2023 featured first year head coaches, but only 2009 really felt like it was building momentum with our in-season performance. 2021 and 2023 had their moments, but everyone was concerned.
Point is, our experience as Auburn fans has sucked for a long, long time. Even when we’re good, it comes as a surprise and almost unbelievable. In 2013, we got boat raced by LSU early on and didn’t really see ourselves as championship level until Tennessee late in the season.
I’m 2017, we lost to Clemson and LSU. Even in that “decent” season, we watched Georgia and Alabama compete for the NC. That sucked.
In seasons we think we’ll be good, we end up sucking. 2011, 2018, and 2020 were supposed to be good seasons. We blew monkey balls.
So again, point is, in 17 years, we’ve had two seasons that met expectations for a positive experience (2007 and 2017). Everything else has been a rollercoaster with mostly broken hearts.
But what’s worse is that we’ve only had two seasons manifest as competitive from start to finish since 2007. 2007 and 2017 are the only two seasons in 17 years to start with expectations to win and end with a decent grade. Even then, those two seasons ended with multiple losses.
2010 and 2013 were both expected to be rebuilding years, but we knocked it out of the park. 2019 was also expected to be a rebuilding year but turned out decent.
2011, 2014, 2018, and 2020 were all expected to be good seasons and were massive disappointments.
2008, 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2022 were all awful.
2009, 2021, and 2023 featured first year head coaches, but only 2009 really felt like it was building momentum with our in-season performance. 2021 and 2023 had their moments, but everyone was concerned.
Point is, our experience as Auburn fans has sucked for a long, long time. Even when we’re good, it comes as a surprise and almost unbelievable. In 2013, we got boat raced by LSU early on and didn’t really see ourselves as championship level until Tennessee late in the season.
I’m 2017, we lost to Clemson and LSU. Even in that “decent” season, we watched Georgia and Alabama compete for the NC. That sucked.
In seasons we think we’ll be good, we end up sucking. 2011, 2018, and 2020 were supposed to be good seasons. We blew monkey balls.
So again, point is, in 17 years, we’ve had two seasons that met expectations for a positive experience (2007 and 2017). Everything else has been a rollercoaster with mostly broken hearts.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 2:28 pm to StringedInstruments
0-8 vs UGA and Alabama over the past 4 years.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 2:31 pm to goatsammich
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0-8 vs UGA and Alabama over the past 4 years.
We’re 1-7 vs Georgia alone in the last 8 meetings.
3-14 vs Georgia since 2007 if connecting to my comment.
Bama just hit their first four game Iron Bowl streak since the 70s.
We suck.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 2:46 pm to StringedInstruments
They have better coaches and players.
We find ways to lose instead of ways to win.
The last 2 Iron Bowls were just a lack of will.
We find ways to lose instead of ways to win.
The last 2 Iron Bowls were just a lack of will.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 2:49 pm to StringedInstruments
We have held our own against Alabama despite their dominance under Saban and our mind boggling coaching jobs. Somehow even our worst coaches/teams find a way to hang with bama every other year or so.
Uga has absolutely owned us for the past 15 or so years.
Uga has absolutely owned us for the past 15 or so years.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 2:58 pm to DyeHardDylan
To be fair we’ve had 3 coaches this decade.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 3:08 pm to kung fu kenny
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We have held our own against Alabama despite their dominance under Saban and our mind boggling coaching jobs.
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Posted on 11/26/23 at 3:53 pm to kung fu kenny
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Posted on 11/26/23 at 4:54 pm to Rhino5
Auburn can't get out of its own way. That's the problem. They want to win like bama and Georgia and Ohio state but they don't put the resources in like they do. Think of the millions invested in mediocre coaches just over the last 8 years. They pull the trigger on emotion and end up paying gus millions to suck, harsin millions to suck etc. The only thing I think will save freeze from meeting the same fate is him hiring good coordinators and Auburn getting out of the way. Bama and Georgia have given their coaches a blank check to win games. Until Auburn responds with the same, I think we are 8-4 at best. You can tell over this season there are too many chiefs running the tribe. Can't have that much disconnect in game 12.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 5:58 pm to Blueline379
7-27 in the last 34 games against Alabama and UGA.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 7:52 pm to goatsammich
The best thing we got going is for Hugh to get us a good recruiting class. We have got to catch up to the big dogs.
Posted on 11/26/23 at 7:53 pm to Rhino5
We had the worst coach in the history of the program for 2 of the 4 years. Will take years to recover
Posted on 11/26/23 at 8:05 pm to CorchJay
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We had the worst coach in the history of the program for 2 of the 4 years. Will take years to recover
Posted on 11/26/23 at 8:21 pm to CorchJay
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We had the worst coach in the history of the program for 2 of the 4 years. Will take years to recover
I’m optimistic that won’t be the case when i think back to when Saban took over Alabama and it took him 2 years to win a natty (illegally paid players). Now it’s legal.
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