re: Who was the best Auburn football coach of the last 30 years?

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the 2010 team was a joke outside of Cam and Nick Fairley

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People always say this, but they had Michael Dyer, who was an NFL talent but made too many poor decisions, a solid WR core (Adams, Zachary, and Blake were all good college WRs), a good offensive line (Ziemba and Pugh stand out in my mind), Lutzenkirchen (RIP), Lemonier, Bynes, Neiko Thorpe. Onterio McCallebb was an explosive change of pace back and returner. Demond Washington was an explosive returner and decent cornerback.

You’re right that many of those guys weren’t NFL talents. Many of them had some kind of physical limitation that kept them out of the NFL, but people talk about that team like it was a 6-6 team without Cam Newton. In reality, it was probably a 8-4/9-3 Citrus Bowl team without Cam.