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We're taking buses home from games...were in big trouble
Posted on 10/20/20 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 10/20/20 at 4:22 pm
If you havent read Phillip Marshall's latest article, you should read it. (I'm not going to post it here because I dont know protocol on posting competing site content).
We're taking 6-hour bus rides home after playing games?? Are you shitting me? That is fricking embarrassing. Our administration is tripping over dollars to pick up pennies. The rival coaches will have a field day with this. With this kind of austerity plan, there's no way we're firing Gus and paying his buyout. No wonder our recruiting is going down the shitter! We are in for a not-so-slow decline to the bottom of the SEC. Maybe were banking on being a basketball school. frick me.
We're taking 6-hour bus rides home after playing games?? Are you shitting me? That is fricking embarrassing. Our administration is tripping over dollars to pick up pennies. The rival coaches will have a field day with this. With this kind of austerity plan, there's no way we're firing Gus and paying his buyout. No wonder our recruiting is going down the shitter! We are in for a not-so-slow decline to the bottom of the SEC. Maybe were banking on being a basketball school. frick me.
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Posted on 10/20/20 at 4:31 pm to TailbackU
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there's no way we're firing Gus and paying his buyout.
I’ve been saying this since the Georgia game. Baseball players were in the postseason traveling by bus to NC before the pandemic. 10% across the board for all sports budget cuts. And Greene gives no fricks about the slushee machines. No way in hell we are firing Gus now unless Tim Cook handles it himself.
Btw, bus rides don’t mean shite during a pandemic. It just means we have to budget a little harder than normal which is to be expected.
This post was edited on 10/20/20 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 10/20/20 at 4:34 pm to jangalang
BTW:
UPDATE: Auburn has changed plans and will fly both ways for Saturday's game at Ole Miss.
UPDATE: Auburn has changed plans and will fly both ways for Saturday's game at Ole Miss.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 4:37 pm to jangalang
Airplanes are for winners.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 4:38 pm to BuckFama334
So is ice cream.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 4:44 pm to TailbackU
I thought this was to better sanitize things for travel and to control the spread of COVID?
Posted on 10/20/20 at 4:49 pm to wartiger2004
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I thought this was to better sanitize things for travel and to control the spread of COVID?
This was talked about way back before Covid where the budget we was being cut and Football would be traveling via bus when possible.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 5:06 pm to Tigerpro2a
TailbackU must have CLOUT!!!!1
It is obvious Greene reads this board. Hats off to TailbackU.
It is obvious Greene reads this board. Hats off to TailbackU.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 5:36 pm to OlGrandad
Maybe saving up that 30-40 million it will cost to dump Gus and hire someone else. Had to be said.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 5:38 pm to OlGrandad
PM is really sounding the alarms with that article and readers are acting like we will get negatively recruited for riding the bus every once in a while as if everything is back to honky dory. I am not getting it.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 5:53 pm to jangalang
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UPDATE: Auburn has changed plans and will fly both ways for Saturday's game at Ole Miss.
Wonder somebody got to Greene and said "Are you fricken kidding me?? I thought that was for volleyball and soccer teams, not football!?!"
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readers are acting like we will get negatively recruited for riding the bus every once in a while
That's because we will. Can you imagine Pruitt or O or Kirby must be thinking? "Like taking candy from a baby" on any stud recruits that are leaning to us. (if there are any left, that is)
This post was edited on 10/20/20 at 5:56 pm
Posted on 10/20/20 at 6:25 pm to TailbackU
In the COVID world, I can see how using buses would lessen exposure risk.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 6:33 pm to TailbackU
There is no shame in being frugal since we have already lost millions in revenue this year. We have plenty of negative recruitment fodder out there before opponents have to resort to that weak stuff.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 7:02 pm to TailbackU
That's dumb.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 7:44 pm to TailbackU
Well, seems to me that the money is in good hands then. This obviously means the AD is practicing good stewardship of the money and saving in every way possible to get our bubble gum chewing, no QB developing coach out. Right...right?
$20MM+ ain't cheap, so I applaud the move saving money wherever possible.
/Sarcasm
$20MM+ ain't cheap, so I applaud the move saving money wherever possible.
/Sarcasm
This post was edited on 10/20/20 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 10/20/20 at 7:46 pm to HailToTheChiz
It could be a bigger picture thing. I believe due to Title IX that if the football teams goes to Ole Miss on a plane so does everyone else. Can someone with better knowledge confirm or dispel that?
This post was edited on 10/20/20 at 7:47 pm
Posted on 10/21/20 at 8:44 am to Tigerman97
I can picture Kirby and Nick showing this to recruits:
(I have been on a chicken bus)
(I have been on a chicken bus)
Posted on 10/21/20 at 9:27 am to jangalang
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there's no way we're firing Gus and paying his buyout.
I’ve been saying this since the Georgia game. Baseball players were in the postseason traveling by bus to NC before the pandemic. 10% across the board for all sports budget cuts. And Greene gives no fricks about the slushee machines. No way in hell we are firing Gus now unless Tim Cook handles it himself.
Btw, bus rides don’t mean shite during a pandemic. It just means we have to budget a little harder than normal which is to be expected.
Like most screen-jockey AU alums here, you sure are great at spending other people's money.
Posted on 10/21/20 at 9:55 am to jangalang
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PM is really sounding the alarms with that article and readers are acting like we will get negatively recruited for riding the bus every once in a while as if everything is back to honky dory. I am not getting it.
The fact is we will. Telling recruits that your school has no problem paying a HC 7 mil a year, but for the players we must bus back 6 hours from a major college football game?
The visual negative recruiting will be felt, just like anything we do different than the Alabama's, GAs, LSUs will definitely cause a major recruit to pause.
Did I miss read your point?
Posted on 10/21/20 at 10:25 am to AuSteeler
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your school has no problem paying a HC 7 mil a year, but for the players we must bus back 6 hours from a major college football game?
exactly
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