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re: BP is my favorite coach ever at AU regardless of sport
Posted on 1/7/25 at 3:38 pm to TailbackU
Posted on 1/7/25 at 3:38 pm to TailbackU
GOAT Auburn coaches based on significance / performance on a 100 point scale (limited to football, basketball, baseball)
96 Pat Dye - great performance (really won a national title in 1983), immeasurable contributions / leadership off the field
93 Bruce Pearl - Final Four and transformed the program, a national title or another Final Four would put him on a level with Dye, or if the tourney performance would have been more consistent
90 - Sonny Smith - I'm giving him a "A." Did very, very well in the shadows of football. Even compared to Pearl, Clutch - made the tourney - made the tourney 5 straight times - very close to the final four Rd of 64,16,8,32,64 - lost to eventual NC twice.
89 - Malzahn / Newton / Marshall - Sometimes elite and kept Auburn from some dark days
87 -- Wayne Hall and Pat Sullivan - immeasurable brains on the field , esured Dye took the right fork in the road
Non Big 3
100 - Marsh
95 - Ciampi
96 Pat Dye - great performance (really won a national title in 1983), immeasurable contributions / leadership off the field
93 Bruce Pearl - Final Four and transformed the program, a national title or another Final Four would put him on a level with Dye, or if the tourney performance would have been more consistent
90 - Sonny Smith - I'm giving him a "A." Did very, very well in the shadows of football. Even compared to Pearl, Clutch - made the tourney - made the tourney 5 straight times - very close to the final four Rd of 64,16,8,32,64 - lost to eventual NC twice.
89 - Malzahn / Newton / Marshall - Sometimes elite and kept Auburn from some dark days
87 -- Wayne Hall and Pat Sullivan - immeasurable brains on the field , esured Dye took the right fork in the road
Non Big 3
100 - Marsh
95 - Ciampi
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Posted on 1/7/25 at 3:48 pm to CorchJay
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I wish I was old enough to remember the 80s. It must’ve been an awesome time to be an Auburn fan.
How our students and fans have a love affair with the basketball team now. It was similar in football. Just instead of 10k fans it was 100k going crazy the entire game. Plus by year 3 of the Dye era when Auburn walked on the field there was no doubt who was the biggest and baddest on the field. If Dye would have settled on an OC there is no telling how many national championships he would have won. I say at least 3. It was a complete cluster frick in tight games late in games. Sullivan, Crowe, Dye all making decisions at the same time. Oh well still the greatest decade of football in my lifetime.
Yeah at any point in the 80s your were likely to some combination of:
Football SEC championship
Great basketball runs in the NCAAs
Bo Jackson playing football
Charles Barkley playing basketball
Frank Thomas playing baseball
Bo Jackson playing baseball
paper orange and blue shakers
80s can't be over rated.
Posted on 1/7/25 at 4:04 pm to pdfield34
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Great basketball runs in the NCAAs
Both Men's and Women's some great times...
Posted on 1/7/25 at 4:07 pm to pdfield34
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Yeah at any point in the 80s your were likely to some combination of:
Football SEC championship
Great basketball runs in the NCAAs
Bo Jackson playing football
Charles Barkley playing basketball
Frank Thomas playing baseball
Bo Jackson playing baseball
paper orange and blue shakers
80s can't be over rated.
We played Tennessee every year and then there was Amen Corner.
Closing the season out with Florida, Georgia, and Alabama.
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