re: Let's get behind Harsin

I agree with this. Harsin fancies himself a talent evaluator. After we win the natty this year with our six year OL we'll see.

You seem butthurt, micropenis. Historically Utah isn't that good in football, which is why we celebrate. We won the PAC12 conference championship last year. We celebrate it. Utah was a commuter school in the 60's, and now is a R-1 research university.

Historically we're good at basketball. We suck at it right now, but are now good at football. We're arse at baseball. I might could play second base for Utah and I'm approaching 50. Auburn is going to maul people next year.

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He can coach the frick out of football.

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I don't know where this keeps coming from. Maybe his salad days out in a smaller conference out west. I just did not see it at all last year. Gus coached better in his worst seasons than Harsin did last year.

I think he thinks he can coach the crap out of football. I love his mentality of we are going to outwork everyone else. That is great for the players to hear, but I hope he doesn't really think he is going to get 3 stars and some 4 stars and is just going to outwork everyone else. I'm sorry, you are not going to outwork Bama, Uga, LSU, etc. You're not. We have to get players and we have to have top notch coaching and we have to get our players to believe they can outwork everyone else.

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it doesnt make any sense

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Don’t forget TJ Finley was the QB. How can you not see this is all Mason’s fault.

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Facing a 4th-and-1 on its own 35 in the second quarter, Auburn chose a deep pass that fell incomplete instead of a run. South Carolina tied the game at 14 with the short field on the next drive.

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he had been at Auburn for eight months when last season started. Did you expect him to overhaul the roster in that timeframe. Again, that is as unreasonable expectations as it gets.

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If the OL talent was as bad as you claim it was, I would have expected him to bring in at least ONE transfer portal guy and at least more than TWO highschool signees. I don't know what it confusing about this. Would you like me to give you a timeline of events?

Harsin was hired on December 22nd, 2020. He watched the Bowl Game against Northwestern and apparently came away appalled. One of the first expectations was that he was going to bring in some sort of reinforcement on the OL, given how bad it had been. Eku Leota committed as a transfer portal target on January 30th, 2021 - so Harsin was already "active" in the transfer portal soon after his arrival.

Zero OL transfers were brought in during this first cycle, which surprised a lot of people. After we didn't bring in any OL transfers, the narrative started shifting to "the plan is to bring in a big OL class of HS signees in the 2022 class".

The 2022 class concluded with just ONE HS OL being signed (Eston Harris). Again, this was a huge shock and a big head scratcher. After we landed just one HS OL, the narrative started shifting to "oh, the staff is planning on hitting the post-season transfer portal window really hard."

To their credit, they actually DID offer and pursue at least 5+ transfer portal OL during this window. There was a very obvious and clear plan to bring in ~2 high-profile transfer OL. The issue was: their recruiting of transfer portal players during this period went completely nowhere, especially these OL targets. This was well before any "coup attempt", by the way - so save me that nonsense.

After yet another transfer window passed with zero OL added, you saw Troxell and Brahms formally announce their return for one last season. These two had no intention of returning, and it is clear as day that they were approached and given that opportunity after the staff missed on portal targets. Anyone who after the fact tries to tell you something like "of course we didn't land any OL, we had no playing time to sell" is lying through their teeth. Bro Hamm announced that he wasn't coming back in mid December, Tashawn Manning transferred to Kentucky in mid December, and Troxell and Brahms didn't announce their returns until after multiple transfer OL came in for visits, and left without committing (ie: the staff knew they weren't getting the transfers, and went back to the contingency plan).

After the winter-portal failure, the narrative magically changed to "just wait until the post-spring transfer window, lots of players will become available then". Of course, that window also came and left with zero OL additions. Of course, at this point Brahms and Troxell were already back, so there was the built in excuse that our OL was already set.

All of that activity since Harsin's arrival in December 2020 has led to us rolling into the 2022 season with essentially the exact same "under talented" OL that Gus left. And here's the kicker: Harsin has done as bad a job of signing HS OL as Gus did, so we're actually in a situation where virtually every player on the OL is gone after this season. We are completely screwed after this season. And even with almost zero long-term options on the roster, they have already struck out or will strike out with essentially all of their top HS targets in the 2023 class. The narrative has already started shifting to "after we win a lot of games this season we'll clean out the transfer portal" as if some people haven't figured out by now that the goal-posts just keep getting shifted after every failure. If they fail to sign enough HS OL in 2023, it'll be because they're targeting the winter transfer portal. And if they fail to sign any OL then, it'll be because they're waiting for the post-spring transfer window. Have you caught on yet?

So I fail to see what you have as a legitimate excuse here. Bryan Harsin is responsible for the mess that he is in. Again, he either thinks that the OL that Malzahn left him is good, or he failed to do anything to upgrade the situation despite multiple opportunities to do so. THere is literally no excuse. And like I said, the recruiting at this position was already failing massively long before the "coup attempt", so that excuse doesn't fly either. Those events are making 2023 recruiting harder for him, but he screwed the pooch all by himself during all of 2022.

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If the OL talent was as bad as you claim it was, I would have expected him to bring in at least ONE transfer portal guy and at least more than TWO highschool signees. I don't know what it confusing about this. Would you like me to give you a timeline of events?

Harsin was hired on December 22nd, 2020. He watched the Bowl Game against Northwestern and apparently came away appalled. One of the first expectations was that he was going to bring in some sort of reinforcement on the OL, given how bad it had been. Eku Leota committed as a transfer portal target on January 30th, 2021 - so Harsin was already "active" in the transfer portal soon after his arrival.

Zero OL transfers were brought in during this first cycle, which surprised a lot of people. After we didn't bring in any OL transfers, the narrative started shifting to "the plan is to bring in a big OL class of HS signees in the 2022 class".

The 2022 class concluded with just ONE HS OL being signed (Eston Harris). Again, this was a huge shock and a big head scratcher. After we landed just one HS OL, the narrative started shifting to "oh, the staff is planning on hitting the post-season transfer portal window really hard."

To their credit, they actually DID offer and pursue at least 5+ transfer portal OL during this window. There was a very obvious and clear plan to bring in ~2 high-profile transfer OL. The issue was: their recruiting of transfer portal players during this period went completely nowhere, especially these OL targets. This was well before any "coup attempt", by the way - so save me that nonsense.

After yet another transfer window passed with zero OL added, you saw Troxell and Brahms formally announce their return for one last season. These two had no intention of returning, and it is clear as day that they were approached and given that opportunity after the staff missed on portal targets. Anyone who after the fact tries to tell you something like "of course we didn't land any OL, we had no playing time to sell" is lying through their teeth. Bro Hamm announced that he wasn't coming back in mid December, Tashawn Manning transferred to Kentucky in mid December, and Troxell and Brahms didn't announce their returns until after multiple transfer OL came in for visits, and left without committing (ie: the staff knew they weren't getting the transfers, and went back to the contingency plan).

After the winter-portal failure, the narrative magically changed to "just wait until the post-spring transfer window, lots of players will become available then". Of course, that window also came and left with zero OL additions. Of course, at this point Brahms and Troxell were already back, so there was the built in excuse that our OL was already set.

All of that activity since Harsin's arrival in December 2020 has led to us rolling into the 2022 season with essentially the exact same "under talented" OL that Gus left. And here's the kicker: Harsin has done as bad a job of signing HS OL as Gus did, so we're actually in a situation where virtually every player on the OL is gone after this season. We are completely screwed after this season. And even with almost zero long-term options on the roster, they have already struck out or will strike out with essentially all of their top HS targets in the 2023 class. The narrative has already started shifting to "after we win a lot of games this season we'll clean out the transfer portal" as if some people haven't figured out by now that the goal-posts just keep getting shifted after every failure. If they fail to sign enough HS OL in 2023, it'll be because they're targeting the winter transfer portal. And if they fail to sign any OL then, it'll be because they're waiting for the post-spring transfer window. Have you caught on yet?

So I fail to see what you have as a legitimate excuse here. Bryan Harsin is responsible for the mess that he is in. Again, he either thinks that the OL that Malzahn left him is good, or he failed to do anything to upgrade the situation despite multiple opportunities to do so. THere is literally no excuse. And like I said, the recruiting at this position was already failing massively long before the "coup attempt", so that excuse doesn't fly either. Those events are making 2023 recruiting harder for him, but he screwed the pooch all by himself during all of 2022.

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Words. You typed a lot of them. It's impressive. I envy you.

The AU OL is going to be AU's best position group next year, along with the TE's. If Tank would learn how to zone cut instead of Dancing with The Stars we would have won three more games last year, excluding Alabama. You should consider film study along with your journo impressions.

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If Tank would learn how to zone cut instead of Dancing with The Stars we would have won three more games last year,

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If we didn’t have Tank, we wouldn’t have any offensive production the last couple years. He’s the best athlete on the field other than Pappoe. Your takes in this thread have been bad.

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were offering like $50-60k and the ots were asking and getting more like $250-500.

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Good. They don’t deserve that shite. frick their fantasy self worth.

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The AU OL is going to be AU's best position group next year, along with the TE's. If Tank would learn how to zone cut instead of Dancing with The Stars we would have won three more games last year, excluding Alabama. You should consider film study along with your journo impressions.

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You really are a fricking idiot.