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re: Jorts and Natty Light vs Cold Beer, Hot Rock, No Mercy UF vs AU Game Thread
Posted by metafour on 9/20/26 at 3:05 pm to jvilletiger25
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That’s a lot of typing. Kiffin wasn’t coaching old piss in 2015.
Oh, so its a retrospective argument that Auburn should have hired him back when his career was in the dumpster, or coming off his rehab OC stint at Bama?
Why stop there, then? They should have hired Curt Cignetti, lol.
Given what we know now, they should have fired Malzahn earlier and taken Kiffin from Bama. You can play that game indefinitely. At the end of the day the most realistic time to pursue Kiffin came in 2023, and like I explained: it made no sense for him to move laterally from Ole Miss at that point.
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re: Jorts and Natty Light vs Cold Beer, Hot Rock, No Mercy UF vs AU Game Thread
Posted by metafour on 9/20/26 at 2:46 pm to Fear The Thumb
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Mario Critstobol
Lane Kiffin
These are both delulu.
Kiffin had Ole Miss playing above Auburn in the SEC West. There was zero reason for him to make that move when he could have stayed where he was at and waited for the NFL, LSU, Bama, etc. to come calling. Which is exactly what happened. Auburn was not a big enough potential upside at that point over what he already had at Ole Miss.
Cristobal had a cake-walk scenario at Oregon (tons of money and resources, playing in the PAC10 with USC down) and literally only left for his alma mater, which itself was only desirable because they got a huge influx of NIL funds. Cristobal had ~10 wins/season on lockdown at Oregon. Why leave that for a down Auburn program in the SEC West where a 10 win season is actually a huge accomplishment at this point? The idea of Cristobal leaving Nike money at Oregon for Yellawood and Auburn is a pipedream.
re: Jorts and Natty Light vs Cold Beer, Hot Rock, No Mercy UF vs AU Game Thread
Posted by metafour on 9/19/26 at 8:55 pm to wartiger2004
Guys, it was imperative that we force DJ Durkin down any prospective HC's throat so that he could keep all of his sick elite players on the roster :lol:
re: Jorts and Natty Light vs Cold Beer, Hot Rock, No Mercy UF vs AU Game Thread
Posted by metafour on 9/19/26 at 8:14 pm to makersmark1
Who remembers Mike G. spending months trying to goad the fanbase into pressuring the admin to hand Durkin the HC job, and then goading them into believing that Durkin HAD to be retained as the DC no matter who the HC was?
That dude knows nothing about football. Literally zero.
That dude knows nothing about football. Literally zero.
re: Auburn vs Southern Miss Predictions
Posted by metafour on 9/7/26 at 3:01 pm to Fear The Thumb
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24-10 Auburn, O line troubles and bad QB play continues to haunt us.
The same players were dropping 40+ points per game on teams like USM routinely just a season ago at USF, so why would they all of a sudden struggle to this degree against a G5 opponent? Byrum Brown will play badly vs. USM?
If they can't score more than 24 on USM then there are serious problems. I'm with smuphy: I think they drop 50+ points on them.
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He transferred to play for a better offensive coach
Did he? Sarkisian's offense has regressed in each of the past 2 seasons despite fielding elite talent. In fact, he is starting to develop Freeze-itis: he refuses to give up play-calling, even though the novelty of his offense has clearly started to fade.
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we need hood black kids.
What the frick are hood black kids going to do lmao? Soccer is a skill based sport, it's not a brute athleticism contest. Furthermore, you need to be tactically smart and disciplined to actually win anything. Hence why the African teams keep shitting the bed.
I can't believe we're in 2026 and Americans still think that they suck at soccer because some black kid from the hood is playing RB in football instead of kicking a soccer ball. The two sports have literally zero carryover.
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Bruce didn’t hire Steven. Cohen could have hired Ira Bowman as head coach.
Please don't blaspheme. The Auburn job was promised to Steven Pearl 3,000 years ago.
re: Why does Auburn owe Bruce Pearl's son anything?
Posted by metafour on 2/19/26 at 9:30 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
Oy vey!
re: Did Duece Knight screw his self?
Posted by metafour on 2/13/26 at 7:51 am to Johnnycrane
Offered him $2M according to whom? To sit the bench?
Some of you need to think a little more critically.
Some of you need to think a little more critically.
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He recruited the best classes in UCF history and put players in the NFL. He was not a failure and he didn't run them into the dirt.
Sounds like you need to get the facts right. He inherited a winning program with an explosive offense, and by his 3rd and 4th season they were a losing team and getting worse. 50% of his seasons at UCF were losing seasons. That is by definition a failure, considering that he didn't inherit a losing program. It means the program declined under him, which is absolutely what happened.
Its also hilarious how his 3rd/4th seasons looked almost identical to the tail end of his Auburn tenure: UCF was a defense-driven team with an ugly offense that could only try to play the ball possession game. The games they did win were all generally slop-fests. He inherited a team that was humming to the tune of 40+ PPG scored.
And he was going to retire because he was failing, and UCF fans hated his product. He wasn't thinking of retiring because things were going too well at UCF.
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Thats not true. lets look at the last 2 NC outside Indiana. Mich was a senior laden team built from HS, OSU was not filled with transfers but built through top 3 HS recruting classes.
OSU won with a Senior transfer QB from Kansas State. They weren't filled with transfers, but the most important player on the field was a transfer.
And as mentioned above, you are referencing to teams that won during the 'transitionary' period before the Portal blew up.
Take a look at Ohio State's number of Portal additions per year:
2022: 2
2023: 9
2024: 8
2025: 10
2026: 16
So even schools like OSU (one of your examples) have been forced to gradually increase their usage of the Portal year over year. And you are seeing young 4 and 5-star HS signees from their roster leaving after 1-2 years (like the WR that visited us and ended up transferring to Notre Dame). Even OSU can't just keep everyone on their roster happy 24/7 under the current climate. They had 32 players transfer OUT in this current 2026 class.
The teams that are strong/competitive year over year will likely normalize into that 15-20 transfers-in per year range. Building through HS will still be important, but what Indiana has shown is that you need to go Portal heavy early in your tenure to establish the program, and then you can start shifting towards leaning on developing HS players once you have established a winning culture that will enticed those players to stay on instead of leaving. What Hugh Freeze tried to do was retarded: nobody has time to wait 3-4 years for a team full of HS players to mature. and those HS players aren't going to sit around for 3-4 years of losing football either.
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I still think HS recruiting needs to make up 80% of your program. Cig got lucky with Mendoza. But so did Chizik and O. I would rather have sustained success like Kirby.
He made the CFP last season as well with some no-name QB from Miami (of Ohio).
He didn't get lucky with anything. Their player development/evaluation is through the fricking roof. They have talent all over the field. The whole claim that they have no talent because someone didn't give them a 5-star rating is moronic. Their talent is elite, as proven by the dominance on the field.
On3 just launched their "Impact Rankings" (basically ranking the actual current players across the country as if they were recruits) and Indiana had something like 8 or 9 players on the Top 100 players nationally. One of them was the QB Josh Hoover who just transferred from TCU so you can exclude him, but the remainder were basically all under-recruited players that they have developed into monsters.
And its not all 24 year old Super-Seniors. They have players like this Charlie Becker kid who was the #80 WR (247 ranking) from Tennessee that came out of the same HS class as Cam Coleman and Perry Thompson. This kid was sitting in SEC country and Indiana snatched him up and he now ranks among the 100 best players in the country according to On3:
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Another example is LB Rolijah Hardy. This kid was a 0-star from Florida from that same 2024 HS class, and he is now ranked as one of the best LB's in the entire country. It is simply absurd scouting and development:
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It looks like Ole Miss is going to land Miami OT Tommy Kinsler:
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Ole Miss and Pete Golding are trending to land another transfer portal commitment, On3 has learned. Miami offensive lineman Tommy Kinsler has made visits to Auburn and Ole Miss, but sources tell On3 that the Rebels hold the momentum.
I’ve logged a prediction in favor of Ole Miss to land Kinsler, who can play guard or tackle. The 6-foot-6, 340-pound offensive lineman backed up offensive tackle Francis Mauigoa on this year’s Miami team, which played for the national championship on Monday night. Kinsler has two years of eligibility remaining.
The Ocala (Fla.) Trinity Catholic product was part of the 2023 high school class and is a former four-star recruit. The Rebels have lost five offensive linemen to the portal and have already brought in three. Kinsler would mark the fourth addition.
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Was a starter for the school he played for before transferring in.
You mean mighty Arkansas State? :lol:
Keyron Crawford would not have been a starter at LSU or Ole Miss either. You understand this, right?
You are now arguing that a player's specific circumstances are irrelevant. Which is idiotic. Being the backup to Jeremiah Smith at OSU is obviously not the same as being the backup to whoever was the #1 WR at Kentucky last season. They are completely different circumstances, even though both players are "backups".
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That player that was Ahead of Wommack left right? So why didn't they try to keep him.
Who says that they didn't try? His HS position coach (Wayne Dorsey) is on staff at Auburn and played a huge role in getting him here. He didn't even take any other visits, which means we clearly worked hard to push him straight to Auburn from Ole Miss.
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The light very rarely comes on in someones senior year.
He was in the regular playing rotation on one of of the best teams in the entire country. He even played in the CFP. You keep speaking as if he wasn't even able to get on the field. Again, he was considerably more productive at Ole Miss as a JR than Keyron Crawford was at Auburn in 2024 as a JR. Do you think its an impossibility for a contributor on an elite team to become a viable starter on another team?
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Faulk and Phillips we're buried on the depth chart and haven't done anything on the field and a week ago not a soul here would have cared if they transferred, but now they are ready to jump from not contributing to starter.
I have no idea what to make of Phillips, but Faulk was a true freshman last season. So whether or not he was a buried on the depth chart is irrelevant. They clearly prioritized keeping both him and Phillips on the roster, which is telling. Its not like Faulk wouldn't have been coveted if he had entered the Portal.
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How do we actually know Golesh is happy with that spot? For all we know he's as worried as I am.That's just a guess.
Because that spot has had minimal roster turnover. They have lost Crawford to graduation, and Amaris Williams to the Portal...and hat is basically it (counting Keldric Faulk as more of a DL). Caleb Wheatland also left, but that guy barely even saw the field. They have otherwise CHOSEN to retain basically all of the young & highly recruited talent that they had on the roster. This is telling because if you look elsewhere on the roster, there have been position groups where they have basically flipped the entire room over. And that includes young talent as well (eg: Donovan Starr at CB, who was in the same HS class as JJ Faulk). If they thought that they had nothing at Edge/DE, then you would have seen more aggressive cleansing of the roster. And this is supported by what they have done at positions like TE, WR, OL, etc. by comparison.
So like I said before: the staff is either higher on Womack/Nate Johnson than you are, or they are higher on the young players on the roster who they chose to prioritize for retention than you are...or both.
You can also look at their recruitment (or lack thereof) of Edge players in the Portal as proof. Who else other than Womack and Johnson were even brought in on visits? You would be able to tell that Golesh was "worried" if we had brought in a bunch more players for visits at that position and ultimately missed on them, but that isn't what happened at all. They basically prioritized two guys and landed both of them. There has been no scrambling to try to find more bodies, which is what you would expect to see if there was worry about the position.
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Back up, back up, back up.
You understand that players can progress from back up, to starter, correct? In fact, this is the normal progression for 95%+ of players on the field.
Keyron Crawford was a BACKUP in 2024 as a Junior. And he was a STARTER in 2025 as a Senior. Keyron Crawford did not start in front of Jalen McCleod. Why?
Like what are we even talking about here? Wommack is forever a "backup" because that's the role he had at Ole Miss...where he was playing behind one of the best Edge defenders in the conference? There is no fathomable scenario where he himself is projected to be a starter? Elite recruit Jared Smith can't be a "starter"? Why? Would you not expect a player of this caliber to progress into a starting role in year 2, and then go to the NFL in year 3? Like Keldric Faulk? Keldric Faulk didn't walk into Auburn as a "starter" LOL.
Like I said - the staff has clearly decided that they are happy with the players they have at that position. Which means that they believe they have a viable "STARTER". You are free to disagree, but your argument to date seems to be hilariously silly.
They clearly have starters in mind, regardless of whether or not anyone here agrees with them. They didn't "forget" to look at the depth chart and haven't noticed that they "don't have a starting DE".
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Haven't heard anything about that player linking us to him.
He is in Auburn today on a visit.
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I doubt this was a great business decision unless we encouraged him to move on.
I mean he would have been riding the bench here again next season. He's not starting over Ramil or Simmons. A guy like this needs to go and start playing somewhere if he actually has desire to see the field, and that means dropping down to a smaller program. He's been here for what? 3 seasons now?
Kansas State is a good outcome if he can actually win a starting role there. Its obvious that it was unlikely to ever happen here.
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