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re: Portal Extravaganza - heading out of Towns edition
Posted on 12/18/25 at 11:53 am to The_SwAUggford
Posted on 12/18/25 at 11:53 am to The_SwAUggford
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Cherry pick more bro. DJ has been an asset everywhere he's been for a decade now.
No he hasnt. You're outright lying.
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Are you aware of just how many snaps we played with first year guys at safety? First and second year guys in the secondary? First and second year guys across the entire 11?
Dont care. The defense wasnt elite. It was average in the SEC.
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You think you're coming across as the smartest guy in the room but you're really coming across ignorant, clueless, and like you have an axe with djs name on it to grind.
You're the one to talk, buddy. I dont have a problem with Durkin but he is not above reproach and being worried about losing Crawford and Blocton is a card fully in my wheelhouse.
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Posted on 12/18/25 at 11:56 am to The_SwAUggford
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And it's even more wild bc it actually hasn't been bad news. Best linebacker in the conference and a young freak edge chomping at the bit to be THE GUY AT AUBURN just let us know they were staying yesterday.
Okay that is two players that got paid. We need a defense of a starting 11 and a DL where we can rotate 10 deep. You are hurling insults the most and it's only your takes that reek of sunshine desperation.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 11:56 am to The_SwAUggford
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This supposed to make me cry or some shite? Grow up dude
You started out with the insults and name calling, retard. Don’t start shite and then cry about it.
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I don't really have anything else to say to you. I'll entertain jang a lil more tho bc at least he actually has some shite to say unlike you.
That’s cool. I don’t even know who you are.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 11:57 am to jvilletiger25
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You started out with the insults and name calling, retard. Don’t start shite and then cry about it.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 12:10 pm to jangalang
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Okay that is two players that got paid
And it's two starters that are in the portal. So we can whine about the l's but not celebrate the dubs? This is what im getting at. Y'all just wanna bitch and push yalls agendas like the parallel universe Mike G.
My takes lean more optimistic sure but you cant point at one thats not rooted and explained with logic.
Tell me where DJ wasnt an asset as a DC. If you try to get me on that technicality dont even bother bro.
And if you expect top 10 with as many young guys as we play you will never be satisfied. Point blank period.
This post was edited on 12/18/25 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 12/18/25 at 12:14 pm to AUIH1
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Only Blocton deserves to be in bold now. As someone else posted; it is only going to be bad news until Jan. 2. We have a very vocal, emotionally weak, minority on here
Some of us thought we were close enough to start winning more than 8 games, much less 5. We just wanted to run it back with a new coach and certain new players. The overhaul part is concerning. We havent had a decent season since 2019 and the clock doesn't stop for sunshine.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 12:18 pm to The_SwAUggford
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And it's two starters that are in the portal. So we can whine about the l's but not celebrate the dubs?
False I was right here yesterday for the Atkins and Amarris news. If you dont build depth around them even those two will slide next year. Who was the linebacker that regressed after Derrick Brown left? shite happens regularly.
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Y'all just wanna bitch and push yalls agendas
The only agenda being pushed is anybody worried about losing players is "weak"
Buddy we know what wins championships and its not just DCs. It's money. It's Jimmys and Joes.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 12:24 pm to jangalang
I really don't understand how, since we have sucked for at least 6 years, anyone can believe we had a roster that would give us 8+ wins. That roster sucks in terms of knowing how to win games. On both sides of the ball. Hell, I am not even a big Durkin fan, as I think we were average on D and will continue to be as long as Durkin is DC. I expect Durkin to be gone after this season. It can only help to get an infusion of guys from elsewhere and for that to happen, we need players to get the heck out. I think Golesh was an outstanding hire and I was a Sumrall guy initially. Let Golesh coach a little and see what actually happens when we Tee It Up in the fall before we look dumb screaming about falling skies.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 12:25 pm to jangalang
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Some of us thought we were close enough to start winning more than 8 games, much less 5. We just wanted to run it back with a new coach and certain new players. The overhaul part is concerning. We havent had a decent season since 2019 and the clock doesn't stop for sunshine.
I think the disconnect is it’s weird to make the comment about Durkin when we kept him as DC and not HC.
If we hired him as HC, I think most people would be making the same comment after we lose a player. But I think most people were happy that we kept him as DC even if he didn’t retain everybody.
I didn’t really see anybody advocating for a different DC that we should’ve gone after.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 12:29 pm to jangalang
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Who was the linebacker that regressed after Derrick Brown left?
Holy shite bro. You really are Ebenezer Scrooge. Already prepping for Atkins to take a step back? Get real.
quote:not JUST DCs absolutely. It takes money too absolutelyyyy. But thats another thing, we aint even had the chance to flex the war chest yet.
Buddy we know what wins championships and its not just DCs
Posted on 12/18/25 at 12:37 pm to jangalang
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Some of us thought we were close enough to start winning more than 8 games, much less 5. We just wanted to run it back with a new coach and certain new players. The overhaul part is concerning. We havent had a decent season since 2019 and the clock doesn't stop for sunshine.
But "running it back" how you imagined it is an impossibility.
Look around dude, there are winning big-name programs with money to spend who are having key players enter the portal. USC had one of their "star defensive linemen" enter just a day ago.
The new system incentivizes players to enter the Portal. Players have agents who are literally instructing them to enter. Don't forget that most agents are getting cuts out of whatever deals their clients sign. The agents themselves benefit from deal-shopping.
You will NEVER be the "highest bidder" for every player on your roster, which is the only way to actually "run it back" how you seem to have imagined it. There are going to be players on your roster that other schools will value more than you yourself will, whether right or wrong. This is why I deliberately asked a day or two ago where do you actually draw the line? At which player? Because you can't just outbid every other program in the country for every player on your roster. That is effectively arguing that you should pay market premium for every roster player. This is not how ANY Pro team operates in ANY Pro league. All of the best teams maximize the value of finding the best young talents, and they try to win while they are cheap (ie: on rookie contracts) because this offers the most cap flexibility. Sure, you will bite the bullet and "overpay" to keep your star players once they are about to enter free agency, but you can't do that with your whole roster. Eventually even the Buffalo Bills are going to have to let someone go when they can't afford to pay them the amount that some other team is willing to.
Furthermore, your entire premise is beyond silly ("we wanted a new coach with the same players"). Just because you and Hugh Freeze are certain that these players are all great players, why should any new coaching staff agree with that assessment? Some players on the roster are simply going to be valued less by the new staff than they were by the old staff. Its not like every coach in the country is in agreement on every player on every college football roster LOL.
This post was edited on 12/18/25 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 12/18/25 at 12:45 pm to metafour
They certainly didn't ask my opinion but you draw the line where I said which recruits hurt.
I obviously know we aren't going to secure everyone since I was right here saying hiring Durkin to retain the roster was a bad idea.
We had a top 15 roster though FINALLY.
Yeah I want to keep the talent.
I obviously know we aren't going to secure everyone since I was right here saying hiring Durkin to retain the roster was a bad idea.
We had a top 15 roster though FINALLY.
Yeah I want to keep the talent.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 12:57 pm to AUIH1
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I really don't understand how, since we have sucked for at least 6 years, anyone can believe we had a roster that would give us 8+ wins.
I dont understand how I watched Auburn score 3 points at home against Kentucky just to watch us put 38 points on Vandy the next week when the only thing that changed was HC.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 1:13 pm to jangalang
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We had a top 15 roster though FINALLY.
Yeah I want to keep the talent.
Ok, so answer the question. Who is the "TALENT"? You seem to have gotten hurt over freaking DeAndre Carter, so you seem to be insinuating that ~75% of the roster is "talent" that we can't lose?
Nobody can answer the simple question. Based off of what is being said, some of you seem to be of the opinion that our roster is money, save for Jackson Arnold and Preston Howard. You have WR's and OL that barely or never played in your grouping of players that apparently we should have prioritized. If that is the case, then it would seem that every actual starter is a can't-lose player?
You can't seriously sit there and tell me that your idea of a feasible transition is to switch out ~10-20 players from the backend of the roster and keep everyone else. This literally never happens. It doesn't even happen when you keep your staff in tact.
And I repeat: "we wanted a new coach, but we wanted that new coach to agree in lock-step with the old coach on player evaluation" is such a hilariously absurd proposition. C'mon man, you're obviously smarter than that.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 1:20 pm to jangalang
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I dont understand how I watched Auburn score 3 points at home against Kentucky just to watch us put 38 points on Vandy the next week when the only thing that changed was HC.
You would think that this is the easiest cause and effect scenario to understand. I don't understand why some people have so much more vitriol for the players than the coaching leadership and scheme.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 1:21 pm to jvilletiger25
Yeah don’t really care about the childish arguing but let’s not start calling others retard. I teach special ed. That is the most damaging word I have delt with in my 5 years teaching special education. The categorization of Mental retardation was changed to Intellectual Disability in 2010; Rosa’s Law.
Not a cool degrading word to insult others - use idiot or something else.
Not a cool degrading word to insult others - use idiot or something else.
This post was edited on 12/18/25 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 12/18/25 at 1:25 pm to metafour
Either way, even though you can reasonably say the world doesn't spin like that anymore, that doesn't make anything any easier for Auburn. Maybe I bought into the AD's comment that our roster is loaded for the next guy too much. I thought we would be paying a loser's tax. I do not want to be getting replacements from USF caliber teams just because they are cheaper and we are their next steppingstone.
My only agenda is it's time to start winning. I thought the AD, the fans, everyone was lock step on that.
My only agenda is it's time to start winning. I thought the AD, the fans, everyone was lock step on that.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 1:39 pm to jangalang
Add Towns to the list of outgoing. Was really hoping the hometown kid would find success, but his kicking at AU was atrocious.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 1:44 pm to Weagle25
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But I think most people were happy that we kept him as DC even if he didn’t retain everybody.
I didn’t really see anybody advocating for a different DC that we should’ve gone after.
Yeah, I think most of us were fine with retaining Durkin. He's not all world or anything, but he's a very good DC and a solid recruiter. The only guys I can think of right off hand I'd want over him for sure would be Baker at LSU, Patricia at OSU and Wood at Texas Tech
We were 28th last year and then 32nd in scoring defense this year with him, which wins game with a solid offense. I think most of us were expecting to retain most of the defensive starters however, not being able to do that would definitely change most people's opinion a little bit I think. No reason to go full on Jang yet, but it's a little concerning.
Still, it means nothing till the portal is over and we see who we pick up and keep.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 1:50 pm to auyushu
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No reason to go full on Jang yet,
Obviously this is a compliment
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