re: Jason Caldwell on What Happened

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The dysfunction at Auburn isn’t the “PTB”. It’s the message board fans that are so willing to believe anything in order to feel included in what’s going on behind the scenes.

This coaching hire made this abundantly clear once again. And sleuths here and in every board try to make everyone else feel naive for not believing all of the nonsense because otherwise they’d have to face the fact that they’re starved to feel apart if what’s going on in a process that will never, ever include them.

So the next time this comes around we’ll be in the same place. Unimportant and boring people propping themselves up at the cost of normalcy and accurate information

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It's definitely not like it was back in the late 90s/early 00s.

I know I keep harping Steven Godfrey's stuff, but he really does seem to be connected to the seedy underbelly of college football, and he said something on a podcast yesterday that really stuck out to me:

"If you're not thinking about the immediate future, and instead are focused on getting back to the glory days of the past, you are going to do damage to your program"

And that's what I think everyone who has been harping misinformation this go-round has been doing: trying to get Auburn back to a Pat Dye era program.