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re: Spring Football Practice

Posted by AUgryphon on 4/13/25 at 8:01 am
All the "our freshman qb looks great in spring practice" narratives mean nothing to me. Positive Spring narratives almost never materialize in the Fall. We even over hype Cam Coleman, who has yet to deliver against a talented opponent (maybe im forgetting a meaningful catch he had). Malcolm Simmons is even less worthy of hype.

re: Tangled is a great movie

Posted by AUgryphon on 4/7/25 at 11:13 am
I have come to appreciate "I have a Dream" and "Mother Knows Best" more and more with time. Also, Zachary Levi's performance as Flynn was perfect.

re: House of David

Posted by AUgryphon on 4/4/25 at 10:24 am
Glad to hear it should continue. Makes me wonder how they will plan the seasons out. I suspect the next season will just cover his rise in Saul's service and end with him running off to the wilderness fearing for his life. I wonder if they will eventually change actors for David to make him less boyish.


re: House of David

Posted by AUgryphon on 4/3/25 at 5:26 pm
The final episode dropped today, and it's one of my favorite hours of television in a long time. Even though you know what's coming they do a good job of building up to it.

Thoughts on the series:

- The portrayal of Saul is fantastic and makes all his bipolar behavior in the Bible make sense. The role is wonderfully acted.

- The extra narrative the show writers have injected mostly works and fleshes out the motivations of characters like Johnathan, Saul, Samuel and even Goliath in a helpful way.

- David is a background character for most of this season but he emerges nicely in the final episode. The moment where he explains his confidence in facing Goliath to Johnathan is a very strong scene. That scene really brings to life how Johnathan could understand that David was going to replace his family on the throne and still admire him.

- I wish the Philistines had been portrayed as more "alien". They seem like Hebrews with pointy caps.


Good series and I was very disappointed when I reached the end of this season. I hope they get the green light to continue it.

re: Women's BB

Posted by AUgryphon on 3/6/25 at 8:46 am
Prior to Trump getting elected and the cultural tides shifting, I wanted Auburn to recruit a team full of transgender athletes for the women's team. Crush everyone on the way to a national championship, and then force the NCAA to make a ruling on men in women's sports so that no one could do what we just did again.

Otherwise my opinion is: don't waste money on women's basketball, because I really don't care if we are good or not.
The one downside to being this good is that it's championship or bust. Anything less will feel like a first round exit.

re: Football Recruiting

Posted by AUgryphon on 1/13/25 at 11:16 pm
Supposedly talking to Michigan. I'm sure there are other schools in play. I doubt we are one of them.
The Bashir brothers would be quite the scoring duo. I'm more curious what we are going to do at the 5. Bruce seemed friendly with the Georgia State 7 footer who was good offensively but didn't seem very engaged defensively.

re: Football Recruiting

Posted by AUgryphon on 1/7/25 at 8:04 am
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Cederian Morgan…rumors are he is transferring to Auburn High for his senior year


This is starting to be Bama-under-Saban level recruiting gamesmanship.
Surprised it took Reed this long to transfer.
I'm probably saying what others have already said in this thread and elsewhere, but this should be a rebuilding year based on our QB and Line situations. Unfortunately Hugh has painted himself into a corner and can't afford a mid record next year... so the portal additions need to be big time at several positions. Ace QB, KLS replacement, top half of SEC OT, maybe 2 disruptive interior DL and high caliber Mike LB. And those are just the impact pickups. Need some depth pickups as well.

Our portal game has been very mid so far. Our only real hope for next year is that Redmond significantly raises the quality of portal additions.

re: Football Recruiting

Posted by AUgryphon on 12/6/24 at 11:54 am
Corch, I will hail back to prime Saban recruiting years. Take every new player you can every year and process the rest. It was always a numbers game and Saban understood that. Never waste a scholarship opportunity.

re: 2025 Football Recruiting

Posted by AUgryphon on 12/6/24 at 7:16 am
I choose to believe that Auburn is in the middle of all 4 and 5 star signing delays.

re: 4th in Coaches Poll

Posted by AUgryphon on 11/12/24 at 9:53 am
“I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me”

- Auburn Tigers Basketball Team

re: Hundreds of Beavers

Posted by AUgryphon on 11/3/24 at 3:31 pm
Just saw this on Prime, and it might be the greatest movie of this century.

re: 2025 Football Recruiting

Posted by AUgryphon on 10/21/24 at 3:58 pm
This year sucks if you had any hope that Freeze was the guy. I did, and there's no way to spin it other than mismanagement. But 1) i don't trust anybody at Auburn to replace Freeze with someone better, 2) we have to give any coach we hire time to right the ship and that probably means promising 4 years at least, 3) we are within Freeze's 4 year window and he is definitely improving the talent so no reason to blow his rebuild project up and start a new 4-5 year project.

The really bad news is that next year's team will be young, if talented. Freeze is going to have to work magic on the LOS through the portal and find maybe 2 impact wide receivers. And of course a QB. He hasn't done great with the portal so far.
I'm convinced the refs are instructed (or bribed) to give significant help to the home team in SEC play. It does make the game almost unwatchable, but it seems to be an understood arrangement among SEC coaches.

re: Feeling better this morning

Posted by AUgryphon on 9/16/24 at 11:55 am
Here's how I know Hank is a good QB... He is making Camden Brown relevant. No other QB has been able to do that even against the weakest competition.

re: 2025 Football Recruiting

Posted by AUgryphon on 9/6/24 at 9:26 am
JLee is farming tension for the flip. They waited so long that we are all taking it for granted, and now they have to generate some drama.

re: 2025 Football Recruiting

Posted by AUgryphon on 9/5/24 at 9:32 pm
Why did Mitchell go to Juco?