re: Where does Auburn have an advantage over Bama this year in football?

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He hasn't faced any "pretty good defenses" remotely healthy.

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Yea, that's what I said in the next sentence. It isn't that he's proven to be ineffective against good defenses, he just hasn't had that chance yet.

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Would be difficult for them to get meaningful playing time. Hell, our second string defensive unit would start for 93.789% of the other SEC teams.

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AU was 18th in Total Def last year, 5th in the SEC.

7th in Scoring Def, but 4th in the SEC.

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But we have already seen it from Harris.

Everything about Stidham is just assumed.

At least Harris has already proven it on the field.

Advantage Bama at QB IMO.

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Who is Harris?

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Media Pre-Season All-SEC

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Media Pre-Season

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We were nationally ranked 9th in adjusted S&P+ Defense, 14th in FEI

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Yea, 4th in the SEC in both. About right.

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Agree, same with Auburn for me. I just don't think about it all week. Basically only on Saturday when I am watching them play.

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This. If your trailer park section of the fanbase weren't so damn annoying, I would be mostly indifferent to how Bama does.

That and I recognize that Bama's run is affecting Auburn's ability to recruit, in a state we already were second fiddle to begin with

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Yea, 4th in the SEC in both. About right.

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LSU/FL both lost 5 starters on defense compared to just 3 from AU

LSU probably keeps an edge on AU. Florida though is now losing all the Muschamp D players/recruits. They've already showed signs of cracking, their D is set up for #tDecline

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If it makes you feel better, I probably hate those people more than you do.

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That fandom is starting to bleed into your future alumni base.

These stupid out of state freshmen seem to model their behavior after your trashier fanbase. Had a "stalker" following me in the Dallas airport trying to antagonize me + wife. I just ignored him until I politely informed a police officer "a young man was seemingly stalking my wife antagonizing her"

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If your trailer park section of the fanbase weren't so damn annoying, I would be mostly indifferent to how Bama does.

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The Birmingham News
Sunday, August 1, 1999

Many AU students sold on mobile-home life
by Brett J. Blackledge, News staff writer


AUBURN-Garbage bags piled on the front porch are the first giveaway that college students live here. Inside are clothes crumpled on the couch, stacks of dirty dishes in the kitchen, an empty pizza box on the floor.

Bobby Cornelius is living like most college freshmen. What’s different is where he lives. Cornelius and two roommates share a mobile home in a trailer park a few miles west of Shug Jordan Parkway on the outskirts of Auburn University.

No other college in the country has taken to trailers the way Auburn has, said Jim Grimm, the University of Florida’s housing director and past president of the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International. (Really now?)

For years, thousands of Auburn’s 21,500 students have snubbed dorms for their own mobile homes off campus. “There are so many trailer parks around here,” said Amy Schreiner, a 21-year-old psychology major from Trussville who bought a mobile home last year with her sister. “And the majority of people who live in them are college students.”

If college campuses are a gauge of popular culture, then Auburn students are the best example of mobile homes’ wide appeal in Alabama.

“There’s kind of a stereotype that mobile home people are poor and rednecky,” Cornelius said. “That’s not generally what people here think about it.”

More than a half-dozen mobile-home parks line Wire Road just past the veterinary school. The parks look like any other, with only a few hints that under-graduates live here -- student parking decals dangling from rear-views, a few Auburn bumper stickers and license plates on cars, several porches sporting AU flags.

The students keep to themselves. And that’s the real attraction to living off-campus in a mobile home -- the privacy. There are no neighbors to worry about on the other side of the wall.

Amy Sibley bought her mobile home two years ago because she didn’t like the idea of signing an apartment lease. “You can get your money back when you sell it and you don’t have to pay rent,” said the
21-year-old senior from Russellville.

Her two older brothers lived in mobile homes while at Auburn years ago. And most of her friends are envious. She had some girlfriends over recently for a wedding
shower. “They said, ‘I wish I lived in a trailer. You can decorate it any way you want.’ “

There are occasional cracks from friends when they find out you’re living in a trailer park, friends who learned everything they know about mobile homes from Jeff Foxworthy jokes.

Even Mike Gerry, a freshman from Huntsville, was floored when he heard that his brother was moving to one. “I thought, ‘Great. My brother’s a redneck.’ “

But Gerry admits he was surprised. “When I saw how nice it was, I said, ‘Now I want to live here.’ “ Next year he hopes to move in to his brother’s mobile home.