Mike marshall insinuating somethings afoot?

This guy's readership is 99% people who think his blog posts are Phillip Marshall. Has happened every year and I'm guessing he's not upset about it.

He doesn't appear to have any significant insight.

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If Auburn had an equivalent to “The Machine” that is in place at other schools, it appears to be at work at the moment.

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What the hell is this even supposed to mean?

He’s just making stuff up. He was one of the ones all over Stoops talk last year

There are posters here that offer more valuable takes and news. I rank this guy at the bottom of Auburn related media types. Right above that loser WarBlogle...

There are no Auburn insiders. This is well known.

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The Machine is probably more like an underground, student related organization influencing SGA elections and what not. Not really sure as nobody knows the extent of power, or the make up of the group

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You are mistaken, they used to run state politics (Democratic party) for a long long time. LINK
the Machine — a secret society at the University of Alabama — has been suspected in cross burnings, election interference, and physical assaults on students....
The 100-year-old organization has been the subject of many profiles and exposés, including a now-notorious 1992 Esquire cover story. A
At UA, the fraternity became known as "The Machine" Its influence quickly expanded, and for a while was the primary vehicle for success in Alabama politics.....
The Machine has garnered a reputation as an exclusively white advocacy group on a campus that has a troubled racial history.... we've researched the secret organization that may or may not be responsible for maintaining the school's racial divide.
1976 — Students Burn Crosses After A Black Candidate Wins SGA President

Cleo Thomas was the first black candidate to win the SGA presidency, ….beat the 1976 Machine candidate.
After Thomas was elected, the Crimson White reported "As many as 15 men cloaked in white sheets burned crosses, threw bottles and chanted various revolutionary tunes Thursday night in what some say was reaction to the election of the university's first black SGA president, Cleo Thomas." An eight-foot-tall cross was burned in front of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house.
1983 — The FBI Investigate An Independent Candidate's Home Phone Being Tapped
The FBI was called to Alabama in 1983 after newly-elected SGA President John Bolus — an independent — discovered that his home phone was tapped…
Two students confessed to the FBI and the UA administration.

1986 — The Machine Breaks Into An Independent SGA Candidate's Office
Three years after Bolus' phone was tapped, independent candidate John Merrill had his office broken into, allegedly by two members of a Machine fraternity. Both of the students Merrill discovered in his office were allegedly associated with the campaign of the Machine candidate for SGA president.

1989 — Greeks Force A Local Pizza Chain To Close

Popular Tuscaloosa eatery Bama-Bino Pizza was forced to close after the owner's son — an independant — ran for SGA president in 1989, causing Greeks to boycott the restaurant. Joey Viselli almost beat the Machine-backed candidate in what is considered a notoriously corrupt election year.

Viselli also faced threats of violence during the campaign, he told the Crimson White. "A couple of people jumped one of my campaign workers at his apartment. My mother was threatened in an extreme amount. We had bomb threats," he said.

"His daddy must have been dumb not to realize, 'Hey son, don't be stirring the waters up,'" one fraternity member later told Esquire.

1993 — Candidate Running Against The Machine Attacked With A Knife

In 1993, Minda Riley — a Greek candidate for SGA president not endorsed by the Machine — was assaulted in her home by knife-wielding man with panty hose stretched over his head to hide his face. The attack left her with "a golf-ball-size bruise on her cheek, a busted lip, and a knife wound on the side of her face," the Crimson White reported.

This was hardly the first time the candidate had been threatened. According to a profile of Riley in People magazine, "Over Thanksgiving a cross had been burned into her front lawn, accompanied by two notes left in her mailbox. 'Tonight crossbones burn, the next time your skeleton head will burn,' the identical notes read on one side. 'Machine rules, bitch,' they said on the other."

Following the attacks on Riley, the University of Alabama administration suspended the SGA until 1996.

1999 — Machine Suspected In Racial Threats Against Black SGA Candidate

Three years after the SGA returned to campus, Fabien Zinga-Kanza, a black student who ran for president as an independent, was the target of racial threats, which he blamed on the Machine. Racial graffiti appeared on Zinga's campaign posters, and the candidate himself recieved late night phone calls from an anonymous male using racial slurs, according to CNN.

"What I vividly remember is when he says 'We are going to hang you from the tree,'" Zinga told CNN.

According to the Crimson White, these racist actions were "taken by many as proof that Zinga-Kanza posed a real threat to taking the coveted SGA presidential throne."

2001 — Machine Supposedly Keeps A Black Student From Joining A White Sorority Two Years In A Row

In 2o0o and 2001, UA student Melody Twilley attempted to become the first black student knowingly admitted by a white sorority. Her uniform rejections both years from the white sororities were supposedly orchestrated by the Machine.

"'The Machine' is the linear successor to [former Alabama governor George Wallace], who proclaimed during his 1963 inaugural address: 'Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,'"
Twilley's situation was high-profile enough to attract the attention of the United States government, although no action was taken against the alleged discrimination. The then-chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights told USA Today, "I'm sympathetic, but with everything else that is going on, it's not really a major priority given what else we have on our plate concerning discrimination in our society."

2003 — Machine Offers Membership To A Less-Prominent Sorority If They Accept A Black Student
The admission of a black female student into an all-white sorority in 2003 was a cause for celebration for many, as it was seen as the beginning of the end to a segregated system. However, Carla Ferguson's bid to Gamma Phi Beta was tainted by allegations that the Machine coerced the sorority into accepting her in order to dispel racist associations with the group, according to the Crimson White.
According to one comment on a Greek message board, "The Machine is getting sick of everyone telling them how racist they are, so they decided to de-segregate the sorority system this year. However, none of the 'top' chapters wanted to risk their reputations by bidding an African-American, so they wanted one of the not so prestigious sororities to do instead. They promised Gamma Phi entrance into the Machine as a bribe, which would theoretically raise their social standing on campus."
2004 — Machine Sorority Member Is Allegedly Threatened When She Runs For SGA Without The Group's Permission
In 2004, freshman Emeline Aviki — a member of a Machine-associated sorority — decided to run for an SGA position without the secret organization's backing. Aviki told the Crimson White she recieved multiple threats after she decided to run, including being told, "'You f*cked up the day you started thinking against us.'"

She said that at one point her house's Machine representative told the other sorority members that Aviki's life was in danger. Aviki eventually transferred to Duke University after her freshman year, citing "emotional and psychological toll" from the campaign.

Mike Marshall knows less about what is going on at Auburn than everyone on this board. His bitch arse is probably running to Twitter now to say Auburn message board posters don't know what they're talking about.

Add Josh Moon to the list of shitheads who use the end of the year for attention:

“Auburn would owe Gus Malzahn around $27 million if it fired him.

Gus Malzahn would owe Auburn just about $7 million if he quits for another job.

These numbers will likely be important soon. And also, everyone remember to thank Jay Jacobs for this POS contract.”