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re: Frick it!! I’ll say it

Posted on 10/20/24 at 11:24 am to
Posted by OlGrandad
Member since Oct 2009
4426 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 11:24 am to
CorchJay hit the nail on the head. All season I have felt playing touch football in practice results in coach comments about how good practice was and how good this one or that one looked.

Come game time it is a different story, no stroll in the park waiting for a receiver to come open .

14 point lead
Posted by AuburnTigers
9x National Champion
Member since Aug 2013
17432 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 11:32 am to
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This soft arse culture has to change and change immediately.



Posted by AuburnTigers
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Posted on 10/20/24 at 11:36 am to
Posted by cadillacattack
the ATL
Member since May 2020
10076 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:02 pm to

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And yet Georgia is winning, Texas is winning, Oregon is winning, Ohio St is winning, LSU is winning,


You raise a fair point, but those teams have enough depth that they can afford to practice full contact every week, all week. If a player gets dinged in practice, there’s not much fall off to bring another 4-star off the bench while the starter heals.

I seriously questAuburn’s current ability to replicate that practice. Prolly another year or two away … just my dos centavos
Posted by Luke
1113 Chartres Street, NOLA
Member since Nov 2004
14175 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:06 pm to
We can’t… our talent is few and far between with 75%of the roster at sunbelt conference level. We can’t hit in practice because we don’t have depth. Every g as me minus one this season was lost in the 4th qt despite our sh$try qb play
Posted by BrounHaller
Mtn Brook
Member since Aug 2023
1842 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:15 pm to
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The only thing 77 is good for is picking up his teammate after said teammate gets trucked by the block 77 missed.
Thank you for the laughs on a glorious Sunday morning.

Posted by tiggerfan02 2021
HSV
Member since Jan 2021
4032 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:16 pm to
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At 2-5, how do you get from “oh no, we’re going to lose again!” To “we can win this game.”

We’ve lost most of the games in the fourth quarter. How do we finish?



It isn't happening this year. Maybe next year when a bunch of these young guys have a season under their belt and are ready to step up and be leaders.

We have NO leadership on this team. The handful of upperclassmen we have who play look like they are just going through the motions and honestly, they probably have PTSD from the last 3-4 years, or they have just transferred in and haven't spent any time around the team to earn leadership respect. The young guys are still trying to figure out their places and haven't been here long enough to feel comfortable getting in somebody's face.

Without a couple of guys on both sides of the ball who will grab somebody by the facemask and tell them to saddle up and ride with me, the whole team is just looking around waiting for someone else to make a play.

That's the difference in teams who find ways to win vs. those who find ways to lose IMHO.
Posted by AuburnTigers
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Member since Aug 2013
17432 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:28 pm to
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I seriously questAuburn’s current ability to replicate that practice. Prolly another year or two away … just my dos centavos
Depth is a huge concern for this program. People just dont really grasp how much Harsin fricked our roster. 2 years of bad recruiting is a death penalty in this league
Posted by metafour
Member since Feb 2007
4593 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:28 pm to
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We can’t… our talent is few and far between with 75%of the roster at sunbelt conference level. We can’t hit in practice because we don’t have depth. Every g as me minus one this season was lost in the 4th qt despite our sh$try qb play



Complete bullshite and you know it. 75% of our roster is Sun Belt talent? Explain the analysis that went into this figure that you pulled out of your arse.

Apart from Robert Lewis and Keyron Crawford (who barely plays), every transfer that Hugh Freeze brought in last season was from a P5 team. Next you're going to state that these guys are all just really bad P5 players, right? Percy Lewis started in the SEC last season and was a prized JUCO recruit. He has regressed badly at Auburn. Dorian Mausi was a starting LB at Duke under Elko while they were making noise and winning games (hence why Elko is now at A&M).

This team is blowing games because we are poorly coached and poorly prepared. Our coaches make questionable if not idiotic play-calls on both offense and defense in pivotal situations. Do you want me to believe that the defense had no problem stopping Missouri drive after drive, but then magically on the last drive of the game they got too tired to stop a 95-yard drive? Someone else pointed it out in another thread: it was 3rd and 10 on MIzzou's ~30 yard line, and we line up our DB with a 7-yard cushion on Luther Burden. Just idiotic. Brady Cook ran for a 1st down because a defender completely left containment to try to sack him - again, this is poor coaching.

What do you want me to believe? That Vanderbilt has talent and depth? What, with their lights out recruiting they are 4-deep and can hit in practice LOL? They are just littered with SEC players at every position? GTFO.
Posted by The_SwAUggford
Member since Jan 2013
4116 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:49 pm to
Everybody keeps wanting to make up there own complicated reasons why we're losing the game and it's pretty simple. We have Noone that can run the offense. Hugh doesn't have a plan B. It's rpo or die. It'd be cool and he'd be a better coach of he had a deeper bag but he doesn't.

Doesn't mean he can't be successful going forward with a qb that can run his O.

Sickness of losing is a real thing and it's definitely affecting this team but that is in no way a death penalty for the program.

I wish he could rally the guys just like yall do. He'd be a better coach if he did. But idk what they're supposed to rally around. Bc the new strat on offense is worse than the old one.

Doesn't mean we can't be successful with a good qb and some coaching on the o-line next year.
Posted by Blueline379
Birmingham
Member since Nov 2016
1283 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 12:56 pm to
The excuse "our roster was depleted with ex coaches not recruiting is getting old". The roster is still full of better athletes than a lot of other teams in the country who are doing far more with less talent. I suppose those other schools just have what half the auburn fans are bitching about....BETTER COACHES!. I've said this forever. Why can other schools loaded with 2-3 star talent look like they have a game plan and can execute but auburn can't? Maybe we are cursed. Maybe coaches know they can come here and half arse do their jobs and still make millions.
Posted by Cocotheape
Member since Aug 2015
4242 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 1:03 pm to
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The NCAA yielded to the profiteering of the big corporations


Didn’t happen at all. The NCAA justifiably lost in court over and over again, all the while never making any plans for a legally workable system.
Posted by Hussss
Helena, AL
Member since Oct 2016
7791 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 1:07 pm to
Auburn leadership is the main issue and then it’s CHF next

Jay Jacobs wasn’t the problem that many thought he was

We now have a baseball guy that graduated from Miss St leading our athletic department and even our baseball program has taken a hit

Butch Thompson is a hell of a baseball coach

And we KNOW how great Bruce Pearl is but even the basketball program has slipped in recent years

This is the big picture

This post was edited on 10/20/24 at 1:10 pm
Posted by goatsammich
North Alabama
Member since Jun 2023
184 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 1:27 pm to
How has the basketball program slipped?

2017–18 Auburn 26–8 13–5 T–1st NCAA Division I Round of 32
2018–19 Auburn 30–10 11–7 T–4th NCAA Division I Final Four
2019–20 Auburn 25–6 12–6 T–2nd NCAA Division I Canceled*
2020–21 Auburn 13–14 7–11 T–10th Ineligible**
2021–22 Auburn 26–6 15–3 1st NCAA Division I Round of 32
2022–23 Auburn 21–13 10–8 7th NCAA Division I Round of 32
2023–24 Auburn 27–8 13–5 T–2nd NCAA Division I Round of 64
Posted by Hussss
Helena, AL
Member since Oct 2016
7791 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 1:32 pm to
We have been passed by Bama in no time flat

Nate Oats will win a Natty there and soon

And I am no fan of his

Just keeping it real
Posted by goatsammich
North Alabama
Member since Jun 2023
184 posts
Posted on 10/20/24 at 1:37 pm to
Alabama may win the national title, but Auburn is going to be really good this year.
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