List the Positives

Bo Nix was not the reason Auburn lost 6 games. He improved and only had 3 INTs on the year.

Harsin was willing to pull Bo and it paid off in a couple of ways.

Harsin made a change at WR coach and it probably helped (although the hire falls on him)

I think on offense we've been a bit less predictable, although the end of the year saw plenty of futile play calls and some completely ridiculous ones too

I don't put a ton into the Alabama performance, but it's probably a good sign that we pulled out of a collapse to show a lot of fight despite key injuries

Bo was up and down, but he showed more bright spots this year than last season and was trending upward overall

Wooden

Moultry

King

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It's basketball season.
We have Bruce Pearl.

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I'm proud of the fight Auburn showed against Bama. I hate both the coordinators and I'm not sold on Harsin either.

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King

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Kid is gonna be special

I agree with this. Except a couple things. He was willing to pull Bo once then that willingness didn't continue for other games, and other QBs. I feel like Harsin is playing the long game with the players on the bench that should've been in though....that's one of my only feasible reasons those players weren't in the rotation more. The only other reason would be him handing that power more to his OCs and the OCs not doing that part of their job well. That seems like it would be more difficult to do stuck in a press box. Harsin should have more of his system implemented next year if not all of it which should make it work better. Hard to say if his system will continue to use Bobo though.

I feel like Canion, Capers, to name a few should have been in rotation way more than they were. Those guys excelled at A day, but then hardly saw play time during the season.

I believe the only reason he went with Cornelius as the WR coach was that he was someone local that seemed to have a connection to the area, he was very young in the coaching spectrum which didn't make sense for him to be a big time school's assistant yet. Also Troy coaches don't seem to do very well at Auburn...Franklin days.

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Just have to figure out how to maintain for 60 min.

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Recruit Depth.

Unlike previous seasons, I felt like this team competed in every single game.

The biggest positive is there is now a transfer portal that may negate a Miss Stateish recruiting performance

He is learning that you have to (in his words), recruit, recruit, recruit. He saw players better than he had ever seen and did not understand the type players Bama, LSU, TAMU, UGA had. Also that you have to have depth and then more depth because the SEC is brutal.

Another positive is that if we don't go brain dead, we win MSU, USCe and Bama.