re: Quintin Riggins

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Lane

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He is WAYYYY over rated as a HEAD coach

He is WAYYYY UNDER rated as an offensive coach.

The old school Dye crowd roaming Auburn KNOWS what wins championships.

It was not a disaster. He was barely losing big games with talent that was atrocious.

Try recruiting top level talent to Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas etc.

There are a lot of head coaches with good staffs that can win big at AU. Are we gonna win the SEC and NC every year? Nope.

It’s a whole new world and we are just entering our first NIL cycle. Whiteside said if we sign 40-45 players this cycle through high school, Juco, and transfer he expect it to cost NIL $7-8 million. He also said that number from aTm for last years class for the year was probably between 5-6 million. The 31 million number could be from loaded backend on the contracts. Like he brought up the rumored $8m dollar signee not at aTm said it’s probably equal that if he competes for 4 years and probably backloaded

It's so funny how quickly the narrative has turned on Ole Miss for this 2022 season.

For those that need a reminder: this was SUPPOSED to be a rebuilding year for them. All the offseason predictions had them at ~8 wins or less and mid-pack in the SEC West.

They lost their QB and others off their 10-win team from 2021. They lost their OC (Lebby to Oklahoma), DC (Durkin to A&M), and S&C coach (Wilson Love to Oregon). That's a SIGNIFICANT amount of turnover.

Despite that, they're on track to win ~10 games again...but the narrative has somehow shifted to Kiffin needing to beat Bama to prove that he's actually a good coach? We're nitpicking their schedule and who they've beaten lol?

This was never expected to be a season wherein they steamroll through the SEC. So whether or not Bama beats them this weekend means very little. In fact, it actually helps us if he loses to them this weekend as it would kickstart start negotiations immediately.

Well it's my opinion that serious consideration should be given to Coach Dave Aranda, presently the head coach at Baylor. He has proven SEC experience with LSU and is the 2021 Big 12 Coach Of The Year. Also Baylor just beat OU in Norman which very rarely happens. This would be a low risk and high reward choice as AU's coach.

I love Dave Aranda. Seems like a great coach and I had him number 1 on my first list I posted a month or so ago. However I don’t think he is the guy for AU currently. Just a gut feeling. I love defensive head coaches but Auburn needs some excitement. We are not flipping this around in 1-2 years. Year 3 yes but we have to keep fans engaged even on our down years at this time. You do that by putting up points.

That’s another Harsin failure his offense was so damn boring.

Good to read.

This is a down bama team. If OM doesn’t do well (not necessarily win) it will certainly sour my taste for Coach Kiphen

Any relation to John Riggins?

We need to pump the brakes on Lanning. He got seal clubbed by UGA, after being IN their building for a while, with an entire offseason to prep, and an alleged Heisman caliber QB. 9 or 10 games in the PAC 12 isn't a large sample size.

We had a "closer" game with fricktard Harsin as coach and a far less talented roster. Lanning also knows every player on the UGA roster, knows all the coaches tendancies and couldn't even keep it close. Does that not concern anyone?