pdfield34
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re: Convince me Auburn will win the national championship
Posted by pdfield34 on 3/14/25 at 8:27 pm
Champions of the best conference, playing in the best environment.
How sweet it is!
How sweet it is!
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re: BP is my favorite coach ever at AU regardless of sport
Posted by pdfield34 on 1/7/25 at 3:48 pm
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I wish I was old enough to remember the 80s. It must’ve been an awesome time to be an Auburn fan.
How our students and fans have a love affair with the basketball team now. It was similar in football. Just instead of 10k fans it was 100k going crazy the entire game. Plus by year 3 of the Dye era when Auburn walked on the field there was no doubt who was the biggest and baddest on the field. If Dye would have settled on an OC there is no telling how many national championships he would have won. I say at least 3. It was a complete cluster frick in tight games late in games. Sullivan, Crowe, Dye all making decisions at the same time. Oh well still the greatest decade of football in my lifetime.
Yeah at any point in the 80s your were likely to some combination of:
Football SEC championship
Great basketball runs in the NCAAs
Bo Jackson playing football
Charles Barkley playing basketball
Frank Thomas playing baseball
Bo Jackson playing baseball
paper orange and blue shakers
80s can't be over rated.
re: BP is my favorite coach ever at AU regardless of sport
Posted by pdfield34 on 1/7/25 at 3:38 pm
GOAT Auburn coaches based on significance / performance on a 100 point scale (limited to football, basketball, baseball)
96 Pat Dye - great performance (really won a national title in 1983), immeasurable contributions / leadership off the field
93 Bruce Pearl - Final Four and transformed the program, a national title or another Final Four would put him on a level with Dye, or if the tourney performance would have been more consistent
90 - Sonny Smith - I'm giving him a "A." Did very, very well in the shadows of football. Even compared to Pearl, Clutch - made the tourney - made the tourney 5 straight times - very close to the final four Rd of 64,16,8,32,64 - lost to eventual NC twice.
89 - Malzahn / Newton / Marshall - Sometimes elite and kept Auburn from some dark days
87 -- Wayne Hall and Pat Sullivan - immeasurable brains on the field , esured Dye took the right fork in the road
Non Big 3
100 - Marsh
95 - Ciampi
96 Pat Dye - great performance (really won a national title in 1983), immeasurable contributions / leadership off the field
93 Bruce Pearl - Final Four and transformed the program, a national title or another Final Four would put him on a level with Dye, or if the tourney performance would have been more consistent
90 - Sonny Smith - I'm giving him a "A." Did very, very well in the shadows of football. Even compared to Pearl, Clutch - made the tourney - made the tourney 5 straight times - very close to the final four Rd of 64,16,8,32,64 - lost to eventual NC twice.
89 - Malzahn / Newton / Marshall - Sometimes elite and kept Auburn from some dark days
87 -- Wayne Hall and Pat Sullivan - immeasurable brains on the field , esured Dye took the right fork in the road
Non Big 3
100 - Marsh
95 - Ciampi
re: Roc Bellantoni back to the plains
Posted by pdfield34 on 1/7/25 at 10:22 am
Huge for someone who seems to be one of the good guys. Mediocre situation to being connected with DJ Durkin in the SEC. Let's go.
re: Bowl Games - Do they matter
Posted by pdfield34 on 12/31/24 at 6:35 pm
No, not a bit.
Used to be a way to see your team on TV and then to see a once in a blue moon out of conference matchup.
Players could go party, get swag and padded handshakes.
Playoffs will expand and the bowls will be history.
You know they're history when the bowls get together and pay for ads telling us how great they are.
Used to be a way to see your team on TV and then to see a once in a blue moon out of conference matchup.
Players could go party, get swag and padded handshakes.
Playoffs will expand and the bowls will be history.
You know they're history when the bowls get together and pay for ads telling us how great they are.
re: Portal Extravaganza: Round 2! We have our scout team QB!
Posted by pdfield34 on 12/31/24 at 2:34 pm
Any games outside of the Citrus, Tampa, and maybe the Gator Bowl are pure garbage.
No rational person, including coaches and players want to go to these other games.
The SEC just makes you go to the other games, they have no value.
You really think players and coaches are concentrating for these other practices?
No rational person, including coaches and players want to go to these other games.
The SEC just makes you go to the other games, they have no value.
You really think players and coaches are concentrating for these other practices?
re: Portal Extravaganza: Round 2! We have our scout team QB!
Posted by pdfield34 on 12/30/24 at 3:50 pm
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If you have above average lines and "QB play" holds you back, that's really coaching 100% of the time.
2019 comes to mind but Bo was young then. That was the year to need real competition hoping to win something. Both lines were pretty decent then.
Good point. Sometimes you are just screwed if a coach decides to to with a talented true freshman.
Then again 2019 and 1990 with Stan White at 9 - 4 / 8 -4 were stellar season compared to what we've seen recently. Good gosh, We have been so sucky.
re: Portal Extravaganza: Round 2! We have our scout team QB!
Posted by pdfield34 on 12/30/24 at 2:20 pm
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It has been proven over and over that dynamic QB play can overcome talent deficits. It also has been proven that shite QB play can hold a championship caliber team back.
Cam Newton and Nick Marshall are not walking through those doors.
Nobody disputes these exceptions.
If you have above average lines and "QB play" holds you back, that's really coaching 100% of the time.
re: Changes need to happen
Posted by pdfield34 on 12/9/24 at 10:47 am
At this point I'd like to see Freeze make his own bed with the offense. Serious questions if he brings a needed physical running game. I'm saying I don't want him to feel forced to bring in other ideas. I don't think that will work with Freeze.
Defense - no changes. Durkin and Charles Kelley are as good as Auburn will ever get.
Special teams - No more missed regular distance field goals. These are extremely demoralizing. I'll give a pass for this year because of the injury situation. Punting obviously needs to be better. Poor place kicking and punting are program killers and therefore fileable offenses. A sign of sloppiness within the program. Coaches need to deal with this however possible - giving multiple scholarships, etc.
Defense - no changes. Durkin and Charles Kelley are as good as Auburn will ever get.
Special teams - No more missed regular distance field goals. These are extremely demoralizing. I'll give a pass for this year because of the injury situation. Punting obviously needs to be better. Poor place kicking and punting are program killers and therefore fileable offenses. A sign of sloppiness within the program. Coaches need to deal with this however possible - giving multiple scholarships, etc.
re: Portal Extravaganza: Round 2! We have our scout team QB!
Posted by pdfield34 on 12/6/24 at 3:58 pm
Yes, Auburn competes for championships with either:
Cam Newton or
no-brainer NFL linemen.
If you have to debate NFL potential, Auburn will not be consistent on offense (unless you have Cam Newton).
Cam Newton or
no-brainer NFL linemen.
If you have to debate NFL potential, Auburn will not be consistent on offense (unless you have Cam Newton).
re: Portal Extravaganza: Round 2! We have our scout team QB!
Posted by pdfield34 on 12/6/24 at 1:51 pm
Are any of the current OL projected to be in the NFL? If they are, then we can move on to QB / WR. If not, nothing else really matters on the offensive side of the ball.
re: 2024 Auburn Baseball MegaThread | Ode to the Offseason
Posted by pdfield34 on 2/18/23 at 5:59 pm
Finally, someone put 2 and 2 together and we see the best uniforms in baseball (at least college) today. Hopefully, we can include an all pinstripe look. I'll allow the all blue look, since we have the proper all white traditional look.
re: Bobo taking over as OC at thUGA
Posted by pdfield34 on 2/14/23 at 3:48 pm
I'm now predicting at least a top two finish for UGA in the conference. (my new hire coordinator narrative will then be adjusted for the order of UA UGA finish).
re: How do you feel about your team's strength & conditioning program?
Posted by pdfield34 on 2/9/23 at 3:04 pm
Not that concerned. I'm sure outliers could screw up any team, but I'm far, far, far more concerned with the acquisition of top 5 talent.
I think ALL these "functional" S&C guys get a lot wrong anyways. They are all cut from the same cloth. They are not horrible, but they are not difference makers.
I think it's cute and predictable how certain top five teams' fans become enamored with their special, wonderful S&C, and great super coaching - after 5 or six years of bringing in supreme top 5 talent every year. Hmmmm?
I think ALL these "functional" S&C guys get a lot wrong anyways. They are all cut from the same cloth. They are not horrible, but they are not difference makers.
I think it's cute and predictable how certain top five teams' fans become enamored with their special, wonderful S&C, and great super coaching - after 5 or six years of bringing in supreme top 5 talent every year. Hmmmm?
re: I think it’s the Big 4, not the Big 6.
Posted by pdfield34 on 2/4/23 at 7:55 pm
are you looking for confirmation? Go for it.
re: Is Tennessee the best sports program in the SEC right now?
Posted by pdfield34 on 2/4/23 at 7:43 pm
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was doing something similar under their old AD no one threw a fit about it.
Give me the similarities. :lol: :rotflmao:
re: Is Tennessee the best sports program in the SEC right now?
Posted by pdfield34 on 2/4/23 at 1:37 pm
You can't be the best sports program and not make any of the
CFP, Final Four, or CWS. These carry weight, being pretty good overall does not.
CFP, Final Four, or CWS. These carry weight, being pretty good overall does not.
re: Ghosting Others in Professional and Social Settings
Posted by pdfield34 on 2/3/23 at 6:57 pm
Random sales calls - come on, it's about transactional efficiency. Get a clue, two nonresponses and that should be it. It's beyond rude to keep calling.
re: Good interview at Senior Bowl with Freeze
Posted by pdfield34 on 2/2/23 at 1:50 pm
All you could want. Nice to hear him directly metion "4 stars" and "5 stars." I didn't take much from the QB mentions - I thought it was more of a deflection of the reporter's comment ("you said you were going to sign a qb" yeah thanks for that).
re: 2023 Recruiting
Posted by pdfield34 on 1/31/23 at 4:10 pm
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Dave Bartoo has basically discovered that every time that Saban/Bama hasn't won or competed for the national title, they have had a poorly graded OC, DC, or both (by Bartoo's coaching metrics).
McElwain - Won titles, other years didn't
Nussmeier - Won title, other year didn't
Kiffin - won title other year didn't
Sarkisian - Won title, other years didn't
Golding - Won title , other years didn't
The others like O'brien (who I guess got shut out) did just as well as all the "winners" in their own "down" years.
This history shows, no matter the coaches, the performance has been the same - basically a coin flip (like a two point conversion , or a knuckle ball field goal) from winning a title. Different coaches but same elite talent.
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