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re: Auburn fans, how concerned are you guys going forward?

Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:29 pm to
Posted by wartiger2004
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:29 pm to
This and all this. I’ll give the guy a pass on the first class after being on the job less than a month and a half.
Posted by texag7
College Station
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:31 pm to
Gonna be a rough fall for goats in Lee County Alabama
Posted by Leto II
Arrakis
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:31 pm to
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Gonna be a rough fall for goats in Lee County Alabama

Why, you coming to try and frick them again? Give them one of your patented Figureli jagged-tooth blowjobs?
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 1:39 pm
Posted by GusAU
Member since Mar 2014
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:34 pm to
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My concern

Good to know you’re concerned....
Posted by Poker Dough
Atlanta
Member since Jan 2018
8590 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:38 pm to
Why are you clubbing them at the top of stairs then watching them fall down them before you sodomize them Daniel?
Posted by RandySavage
Member since May 2012
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:38 pm to
Anybody being honest with themselves should be very concerned.

2022 looks bleak as well and with COVID plus the early signing period even if we have a decent showing this fall we are likely going to be so far behind it won't make much difference by that point anyway.

The only hope is that maybe the increased ability to bring in transfers can help plug some holes but things definitely look bleak right now.
Posted by alpinetiger
Salt Lake City
Member since Apr 2017
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:42 pm to
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Gonna be a rough fall for goats in Lee County Alabama


Be careful with your 50K. A correction is coming.
Posted by BamaGradinTn
Murfreesboro
Member since Dec 2008
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:42 pm to
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Alabama didn't pay buyouts to the coaches they fired before Saban?


Coaches??? Plural??? And you're asking if the other guy is "aware"? How many coaches do you think we fired before Saban???



Shula's buyout was $4m...which was offset by his NFL salary. We paid him about a half million a year for maybe 4 years.

Mike Price was fired for cause and received nothing.

Dennis Franchione resigned to go to Texas A&M.

Mike Dubose "resigned" and was only making about $231,000 annually at the end. They did pay to settle the sexual harassment lawsuit, but I'm not aware of any buyout they paid Dubose.

Gene Stallings retired.

Bill Curry resigned to go to Kentucky.

Ray Perkins resigned to go to Tampa Bay.

Where are all these coaches we fired??

edit: that's all you've got...a drive-by downvote?
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 1:46 pm
Posted by Leto II
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:45 pm to
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Shula's buyout was $4m...which was offset by his NFL salary. We paid him about a half million a year for maybe 4 years. Mike Price was fired for cause and received nothing. Dennis Franchione resigned to go to Texas A&M. Mike Dubose "resigned" and was only making about $231,000 at the end.


Those were the four I meant.

How about the 2nd part of my question. Which other SEC coaches have ridden gracefully off into the sunset, being owed nothing?

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edit: that's all you've got...a drive-by downvote?

I didn't downvote you and you didn't wait for my reply, Mr. Sensitive.

I hate that Chizik and Gus were both given asinine contracts, but firing them an paying the buyout was the right thing to do.
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 1:47 pm
Posted by NorthGwinnettTiger
Member since Jun 2006
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:46 pm to
Petrified....
Posted by RandySavage
Member since May 2012
30825 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:46 pm to
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Recruiting has picked up nicely in 2022 already.


What makes you say this? We have 3 commitments with an average ranking of like 86. The 5* QB we thought we might get to jump start the class just committed to our second biggest rival and the 5* RB we were supposedly the favorite for is now going to our biggest rival.

We currently have 1 CB for a player in the top 250 who is #174.
Posted by BamaGradinTn
Murfreesboro
Member since Dec 2008
26956 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:47 pm to
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Those were the four I meant.



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Dennis Franchione


You thought we fired Franchione???

Were you even old enough to be following college football at the time?
Posted by Leto II
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:48 pm to
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Were you even old enough to be following college football at the time?


I didn't mean him specifically. In fact I had forgotten about him.

Ok, so Alabama only had the Shula buyout. You got me there Mr. Smartypants. How about the rest of the SEC?
Posted by BamaGradinTn
Murfreesboro
Member since Dec 2008
26956 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:50 pm to
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I didn't downvote you and you didn't wait for my reply, Mr. Sensitive.



Yeah, I did. You asked specifically about Alabama, and that's what I replied to. Relative to what Auburn has paid its last two coaches, Alabama has basically paid nothing in buyouts to coaches in, well, forever, except for the pittance that Shula got.
Posted by Irons Puppet
Birmingham
Member since Jun 2009
25901 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:51 pm to
Not at all. This class finished better than I thought it would after Harsin cleaned house from the previous staff. Just the price you have to pay when you get rid of a coach late in the recruiting process. Throw in Covid restrictions and I do not think anyone has an issue.
Posted by Leto II
Arrakis
Member since Dec 2018
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:52 pm to
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Yeah, I did.

No, I didn't go look at that cute little upvote you have now.
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You asked specifically about Alabama, and that's what I replied to.

Maybe your caretaker should read the rest to you.


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Alabama didn't pay buyouts to the coaches they fired before Saban? Actually, which former SEC coaches weren't paid buyouts?


Take an adderall so you can get through the next sentence. You got so worked up over my first question that you had to run over, hit the reply button to show me. And you were right and I was wrong.
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 1:55 pm
Posted by BamaGradinTn
Murfreesboro
Member since Dec 2008
26956 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:55 pm to
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You got me there Mr. Smartypants. How about the rest of the SEC?


Oh, that's easy. Let me put it this way...since Saban came to Tuscaloosa, the rest of the SEC has paid about $175,000,000 in buyouts to coaches. Gus, Chizik, Fulmer, Dooley, Butch, Sumlin, Boom (twice), Joker, Croom, Lester, Bielema, Nutt, Richt, McElwain, and the various assistants.

Does it make you feel better that Auburn leads the way in a large group that has made bad decisions?

Imagine if Auburn could use that $27M toward facility improvements.

Imagine that Alabama...when they do have to replace Saban...won't have to pay him a penny and would have $27M to pile on top of whatever pile of money they were already going to offer his replacement and assistants.
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 1:58 pm
Posted by Leto II
Arrakis
Member since Dec 2018
21238 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:57 pm to
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Does it make you feel better that Auburn leads the way in a large group that has made bad decisions?

The only bad decisions in our moves were the extensions they got. I do feel better that we didn't keep those guys around any longer than we did.

Back to my point, MOST coaches are either fired or they move up to another job. Very few have happy endings these days (except for maybe Mike Price or Hugh Freeze).
This post was edited on 2/3/21 at 1:58 pm
Posted by BamaGradinTn
Murfreesboro
Member since Dec 2008
26956 posts
Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:57 pm to
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Back to my point, MOST coaches are either fired or they move up to another job. Very few have happy endings these days.



I would agree with that.
Posted by Leto II
Arrakis
Member since Dec 2018
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Posted on 2/3/21 at 1:59 pm to
Thank you.

If nothing else, Harsin isn't represented by Jimmy Sexton, so good or bad, he won't likely get the kind of money to leave as our last two.
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