re: Is there any rational explanation for Auburn's inability to sustain success?

Their Auburn, a shite program. Who cares about them.

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It's hard to sustain when you have a large instate school that has been consistently cheating since about that same time start with Stallings. They have been on probation constantly for that entire period followed by the giant ponzi scheme that has been the Saban era. That hurts your instate talent and recruiting and your team goes up and down depending on who the other school is paying next and if you need them.

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This answer by one of auburns' best poster is why they are a 4-5 lost team most years. They are so worried about the tide instead of what can they do to improve their team that all their energy is used up.
Look at the contract GusBus(a 4 loss coach) was given. A contract with the highest buy-out in the history of NCAA football because his team beat UGA and UA and Jimmy Sexton told the AU president that his man was taking offers from U of Piggys.
Now they are stuck with an average coach for years to come and Bama is looking at two in a row NC this year.
Their hate for Bama doesn't hurt us. It only takes away from their team.

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They just aren't that kind of program. Auburn likes to fancy themselves as a blueblood. There is one blueblood football team in the SEC. They are a regional team that reminds me of florida state or Va Tech. yes, they can have success but it's never gonna be sustained. It's that old football DNA that the Bama's , Michigans, Ohio States have. 

Every time, going back as far as I remember (early 70's) Aubie would have a good season and everybody would say we are here to stay only to go 5-6 the next year.

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Youve been around since the 70s and youre comparing Auburn to FSU? You need to go back to your CFB book and look again because from the early 80s until the early 2000s their wasnt a team like FSU out there. They sustained success longer and better than any college team ive ever seen including Alabama. They always had a bump in the road somewhere that kept them from getting the hardware like Alabama but the Seminoles were the team for a very very long time

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Because our schedule is hard as frick on a yearly basis

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Totally respect AU's schedule but that doesn't explain the assured nosedives after the periodic good season. When Auburn goes low, they go LOW.

No players have pride that they play for auburn. All their players are essentially mercenaries. This is why they either challenge for a championship, or fall flat on their face.

There is no culture, no backbone to their program because it's a bunch of individuals, not a team.

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Interesting. What time span does the list cover, and how did Miami avoid making it? Could you provide a link?

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List of schools with major ncaa sanctions:
1. SMU, 10
2. Arizona State, 9
3. Oklahoma, 8
4. Wichita State, 8
5. Auburn, 7
6. Florida State, 7
7. Texas A&M, 7
8. University of California (Berkeley), 7
9. Georgia, 7
10. Memphis, 7
11. Minnesota, 7
12. Wisconsin, 7
13. West Virginia, 7
14. Baylor, 6
15. Kansas State, 6
16. Mississippi State, 6
17. UCLA, 6
18. Cincinnati, 6
19. Illinois, 6
20. Kansas, 6

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Alabama has 6 as well. In football only, both AU and Bama have the same number of major infractions cases - 5 apiece. Of course 4 of Bama's have come since AU's last one in 1993.

Funny thing - UGa, TAMU and F$U have as many major infractions as AU but I never hear any of your fanbase call them 'cheaters'. Why is that?

ETA: To address the OP, it's a combination of factors, including being 2nd fiddle in the same state as the GOAT college program (there's no point in trying to deny it now) and an extraordinarily tough schedule year in and year out (we have played, on average, 4 games every year against teams ranked in the top 15 in overall winning percentage - in some years as many as 7) - but most of all, it's because we have always had a tendency to overcompensate our HCs on the basis of one good year.

Maybe some truth there, but why three (about to be four) consecutive home losses to A&M, a school that you consistently out recruit. We comin for that booty again this year.

Man- guess "one for the thumb doesn't count"

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Funny thing - UGa, TAMU and F$U have as many major infractions as AU but I never hear any of your fanbase call them 'cheaters'. Why is that?

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TAMU's are all a result of beating texas too much. Any time a team started to beat texas too much they would get smacked... Look at what happened to SMU, OU, or more recently Baylor...