re: What I believe and what I know

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There is nothing they can set you back 5-6 if the powers that be and the $$$ folks get behind the program. Auburn could be back playing for championships within a year or so.

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Agree .... there is selective base talent to build around in the offseason. Our D has been good enough the last 5 years that we would be a much better program with average offensive production ..... maybe 4-5 games better

When I think about all of the opportunities our O wasted by going 3-and-out so frequently, I wonder how our D was able to stand it .... never being rested .... never being able to catch up. Brutal.

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That doesn’t add up. If AU was paying Redmond to compile the info then it belongs to AU.

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That's not how it works.

By that logic........every coach, a school employs, has to leave their playbook when they are fired.

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That's not how it works.

By that logic........every coach, a school employs, has to leave their playbook when they are fired.

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How is that comparable? Redmond was a football operations staff member and part of his job would have been compiling this data on behalf of the Auburn AD. The one thing to point out here is that he wasn't doing this by himself, so its not like this is proprietary data. He would have had subordinates under him assisting in evaluations, on top of actual members of the coaching staff who would have had to have been involved as well (otherwise how does Redmond know that the players that are on his board actually fit the team schematically?). For this reason, I can't see any scenario where the data is deemed to be owned by him alone.

Pretend that Freeze's staff was never fired and they just chose to fire Redmond and replace him with someone else: does he now take all of the data with him, even though everyone who worked with him to compile said data is still employed by Auburn? That doesn't make any sense to me.

This guy isn't a research scientist or inventor. His list of transfer portal targets can't be argued as intellectual property that belongs to him.

As a counter example: when a coaching staff is fired, the school retains ALL of the practice recordings from the prior staff. This practice-tape obviously contains play-designs, game-scripts, etc. that would have been tied to the previous staff's playbook and game-plans, but it is still deemed to be the university's property. I don't see how this would be any different.

There’s no doubt he took the knowledge gained with him and maybe even a copy of the database but there’s zero chance he didn’t leave the data at Auburn.

By the way, here is what AI says:

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Yes, the school legally and operationally retains all recruiting boards, evaluation databases, and compiled transfer portal data because these digital assets belong to the university, not the individual coaches.

Ownership of Data
• Institutional Property: Databases, CRM software (like Recruiting-Edge or HUDL/Accelerant), and evaluation notes are paid for and owned by the university's athletic department.

• Contractual Terms: Standard coaching contracts stipulate that all work product, records, and recruit evaluations compiled during employment remain university property upon termination.

• Server Access: Fired coaches and staff lose network access immediately, but data stored on cloud platforms or shared institutional drives stays behind for the administration and incoming staff.

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IF he compiled HIS data on the University network.

He was the GM. No GM worth his salt is saving HIS work with any University or NFL franchise on THEIR computers. That is what personal laptops are for. That is how they get their next job without having to start over from scratch. That is THEIR value in that profession.

You can't be this dense.

ETA IE: He took HIS evaluations of recruits.

We just found out some kid got busted trying to give away our names to other SEC teams. There are all kinds of underlings that know these lists.

Redmond wasnt protecting his list in a vault

All I am saying is I doubt losing access to those evaluations shocked our system.

We brought in like 60 new players. We needed so many so we paid bottom dollar to field a team. If it did jolt us that bad we need to pay that guy double what we paid last time

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This next class will tell a lot more. We may have bought another lemon. We may have bought a guy that was dealt a bad hand in year one. Time will tell.

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Interesting thing is our staff filled out our recruiting class very nicely very early which is very new to us.

Gus might have had 14 commits right now. Golesh has had 25 for a couple months. That leads me to think they have a plan and know what they want. They are ahead of schedule.

We dont have the same quality of recruit that Gus had by a long shot but if Golesh likes his guys then he has no excuse but to use them well.

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Brad Pitt would be better than Cohen.

At least he could pretend to know what to do.

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Oh, the Cohens are really good at pretending. Check out the wife's social media... John plays along too. They even asked all of us to play pretend as well.