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Auburn’s problem is that they are a very poorly coached team overall and especially, offensively - this excludes the defense. Freeze could not identify, develop and/or attract even a decent QB. Then they had the stupid play-calling structure.

I’m guessing that despite protests to the contrary, it was hard for a meaningful segment of the players to truly respect Freeze. The players don’t have to like you, in fact, even if they do like you, they must respect you in order to put forth the effort to succeed at this level.

Santonio Holmes played at Ohio State only and thus, was drafted out of there.

Well there’s not much comparison because OSU plays in the weak BIG10. Your top is good, benefitted by being able to coast through most of the reg season, while in the SEC you have 6-8 death struggles no matter how good you are. That’s a lot of physical, emotional and mental wear and tear. (Sankey was a moron to yield to the pressure of a 9 game conference schedule.)

You have produced some good WRs though. But college stats aren’t the measure anyway.

The Smith (Heisman winner eventually), Waddle, Ruggs, and Jeudy quartet wasn’t bad either. Probably the best quartet ever. You saw Smith first hand.

It wasn’t because it was LSU, it was because it was college ball, which he preferred. He loves it at Alabama, always has, especially because the program and community cares about football as much as he does.

Btw, he won NCs at twice the rate at Alabama as he did at LSU. Why wouldn’t he love it?

It also shows that Klatt has bad judgment because Texas, though in many respects a good job, is hardly the best HC job in the country. They have great recruiting grounds, good history and a lot of money, but much of that is offset by significant and arrogant booster interference. It was a primary reason Saban turned them down twice.

AU is a good job but it does have some obstacles, one of which they could remedy immediately - it’s that as a program they are obsessed with Alabama. Not just fans and boosters but the administration. Even in the educational sphere. They should forget Alabama and simply focus their efforts on getting better.

Former AD David Housel, who was one of the worst, realized it later in his career and encouraged the AU faithful, in one of his “talks”, to give up their focus on Alabama. Yet many of them still try to deny it.

I was a big fan of Haynes as a Fr and thought he would be a star and that his running style and quickness would be a perfect fit for DeBoer’s style of offense. But he was mediocre at best last year and a great disappointment on some key plays. In SEC games he ran the ball 54 times for 246 yards and if you take away his two longest runs of 35 and 23 yards his ypc was 3.6. This is not what Alabama needs. Plus he could get swallowed up in pass pro. Finally his play was uninspired to be kind.

#2 has been serious but injured. No need to denigrate the players who, as far as we know and according to the coaches, are serious and working very hard.

Please guys - he has passed according to the universal protocol established by the NCAA. This means that he is fine and able to fully participate.

The football staff is not remotely involved in the decision. The medical staff responsible would be both wicked (to the player) and fools (regarding their reputation, career and conscience) to come close to violating the protocol. If Miller has passed the protocol, as reported, then he is fine.

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…after playing the easiest SEC schedule in history

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Texas played 7 teams from the bottom 8 in the conference last season. The only team in the upper half, UGA, beat them by double digits at Texas. Then smacked them again with their backup QB again. It was embarrassing. But they “won the conference on paper” ? Snicker.

You won 3 national titles in 8 years,60 years ago, then one more 20 years ago. But nothing else in your 130 years. Yet you strut around here like a peacock in front of programs that have won multiple titles since your last one: UF, LSU, UGA & Alabama, and Auburn who has also won one since you.

And no, we don’t care about your parcheesi, scrabble or women’s volleyball titles. Just football - well we do care about a little about men’s basketball too, in season. We talk about football year ‘round. No apologies.

But it’s not just us Deep South Neanderthal Though they pretend otherwise, the rest of the country doesn’t really care about the other stuff either - just check attendance figures. So yeah, we’re macho.

If you knew how foolish you sound and how you are really perceived you would be more quiet. Your buddies from OU have almost double the football titles you do, second most in the conference, and they don’t strut about like banty roosters. You should take lessons from your Sooner superiors. Even your A&M brothers, who won a national championship in football long before you, conduct themselves with far more intelligence and decorum.

Again, we just don’t care about your parcheesi titles or your money - just football and a little men’s basketball. And what you do, not what you’re gonna do. You’ve done a little eons ago, congrat, but nothing in your brief time here and your track record is not good. I don’t know of anyone who’s wasted more talent and resources over the decades than you.

Not prior to the playoff selections.