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Auburn football is 23-25 this decade

Posted on 11/26/23 at 11:58 am
Posted by DyeHardDylan
Member since Nov 2011
7745 posts
Posted on 11/26/23 at 11:58 am
That’s gotta be the worst stretch since the Barfield era. I think someone mentioned that we have lost the culture of winning over the last decade. I remember in the early 2010s we could find ways to win better than any other team. What will it take for us to stop finding ways to lose and get out of this funk?
This post was edited on 11/26/23 at 11:59 am
Posted by Warrior Court
Atlanta
Member since Apr 2022
1342 posts
Posted on 11/26/23 at 12:02 pm to
maybe the price of pressure treated pine has fallen and that fat yella dude hasn't been doing enough.

Saban will retire soon, NIL has leveled the playing field so we can compete with Kirby for recruits and we have to hope that Freeze is the right head coach with a new DC incoming.
Posted by RandySavage
Member since May 2012
30930 posts
Posted on 11/26/23 at 12:03 pm to
Somebody like Pat Dye.
Posted by AUCom96
Alabama
Member since May 2020
5101 posts
Posted on 11/26/23 at 12:03 pm to
We need to get some big money claws out of the program, but that will never happen. And we hired another Malzahn, so it’s like being in The Groundhog Day movie.
Posted by BrounHaller
Mtn Brook
Member since Aug 2023
766 posts
Posted on 11/26/23 at 12:11 pm to
This decade is still pretty young…
Posted by Fearless and True
N Carolina
Member since Aug 2022
839 posts
Posted on 11/26/23 at 12:14 pm to
We went 20-22-2 from 1975-1977. This included Shug's final season in '75.
Posted by StringedInstruments
Member since Oct 2013
18531 posts
Posted on 11/26/23 at 2:23 pm to
It’s the worst since Barfield for sure.

But what’s worse is that we’ve only had two seasons manifest as competitive from start to finish since 2007. 2007 and 2017 are the only two seasons in 17 years to start with expectations to win and end with a decent grade. Even then, those two seasons ended with multiple losses.

2010 and 2013 were both expected to be rebuilding years, but we knocked it out of the park. 2019 was also expected to be a rebuilding year but turned out decent.

2011, 2014, 2018, and 2020 were all expected to be good seasons and were massive disappointments.

2008, 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2022 were all awful.

2009, 2021, and 2023 featured first year head coaches, but only 2009 really felt like it was building momentum with our in-season performance. 2021 and 2023 had their moments, but everyone was concerned.

Point is, our experience as Auburn fans has sucked for a long, long time. Even when we’re good, it comes as a surprise and almost unbelievable. In 2013, we got boat raced by LSU early on and didn’t really see ourselves as championship level until Tennessee late in the season.

I’m 2017, we lost to Clemson and LSU. Even in that “decent” season, we watched Georgia and Alabama compete for the NC. That sucked.

In seasons we think we’ll be good, we end up sucking. 2011, 2018, and 2020 were supposed to be good seasons. We blew monkey balls.

So again, point is, in 17 years, we’ve had two seasons that met expectations for a positive experience (2007 and 2017). Everything else has been a rollercoaster with mostly broken hearts.
Posted by Rhino5
Atlanta
Member since Nov 2014
28908 posts
Posted on 11/26/23 at 2:58 pm to
To be fair we’ve had 3 coaches this decade.
Posted by N97883
New Dehli Forsyth GA
Member since Nov 2013
8063 posts
Posted on 11/26/23 at 10:39 pm to
dang we do suck now

We expect loses to bama, uga, a&m, lsu.

If you dont expect to lose then its because youre old enough to remember 2005 and before

Which in college kid speak was a long long long time ago
This post was edited on 11/26/23 at 10:40 pm
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