Pat Dye 60 minutes

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and so did Hugh

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I admit, I laughed out loud on this one.

This is our first true road game and it will get loud. Tennessee has a pretty average O-Line when I've watched them. Faizon Brandon has to scramble alot because of their O-Line issues but he scares me when he does. I think we keep it close but I don't see Tennessee losing b2b home games.

Tennessee - 24
Auburn - 21

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They were 6-2 and 10-3 last year

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That was nearly all Diego Pavia last year though. He finished 2nd in the Heisman voting for a reason. This year's Vanderbilt team is way worse than last years.

As far as us playing Florida closer than Ole Miss did, that don't mean much because we got Florida in Jordan Hare and Ole Miss went to The Swamp. Ole Miss also didn't have their star RB, Kewan Lacy for the Florida game. So since Florida only beat us by 5 and they beat Ole Miss by 24, who would you pick to win between us and Ole Miss? I would bet money we lose by 10+ easily when we go to Oxford. Chambliss will eat our secondary up all game.

We call those type "mud sharks."

During the Vandy game it said we are 5-16 in SEC games at Jordan Hare Stadium since start of 2021. Now 6-16 with win over Vandy.

Auburn isn't physical and Golesh told us that we would be the most physical and most violent team in the country.

Sumrall has Florida beating the #4 team in the country 31-21 right now, btw.

Where is BigAlGolesh at? During fall camp, some of us on here said we were worried about the O-Line this year and he talked shite to us because of it. He hasn't been around much since the season started.

If we lose for the 3rd straight year to Vandy (as a 9.5 point favorite) and Florida and Sumrall beat #4 Ole Miss, the door has to be opening to kick John Cohen the frick out of Auburn, right?

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Auburn absolutely missed out on Jon Sumrall

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A Florida message board was talking about Sumrall and the Auburn job and they said Sumrall mentioned a "scenario" that went down but never mentioned Auburn. They said he talked about it months ago in the offseason. I'm paraphrasing but they said Sumrall asked the interviewer "How would you feel if you were a coach who played defense at this level and have always coached defense but at the very end you're told that you have to keep a defensive coach and that coach will make the defensive decisions and call all the defensive plays? Wouldn't that be a slap in the face to you? Here at Florida, that would be like them telling Steve Spurrier that he has to keep an OC and that guy will call all the plays and will coach the QB's. Do you think Coach Spurrier is going for that? Hell no. He won a Heisman when he was a QB. That's a slap in the face."

Btw, I watched Marty and McGee interview all 16 SEC coaches at SEC Media Days. The SEC Network replayed them over and over. Sumrall also tells another issue he had but didn't name Auburn by name but it's very familiar to what we have heard before when we fired Chizik and then Kirby Smart told us he wanted this job but also wanted to coach the SEC Title Game and if they made the NCG, he wanted to coach in it as well. We told Kirby he couldn't and we needed him at Auburn to recruit and he ended up staying at Bama and we got Gus. Bama won the Natty over Notre Dame that year and Kirby has said that was his favorite moment at Bama, winning the Natty and dominating Notre Dame. Btw, Saban let Kirby take the UGA job at the end of 2015 but also let him get ready for the playoffs, etc at Bama. Saban said Kirby did just fine and Bama beat Clemson for the Natty AND Kirby took Glenn Schuman and other defensive coaches from Bama with him and Saban still let him do both jobs. Not Auburn though.

Anyway, Marty & McGee asked Sumrall about why he chose Florida and he said the biggest reason was because they allowed him to finish his time at Tulane. He said "You may think I'm bs'ing but I'm not. I get coaching offers every year and turn them down. This year I was serious about taking a big job and I told teams that if my team gets to the AAC title game, I am coaching them. If my team happens to get to the playoffs, I am coaching them. If you can't allow me to do that, I'm NOT coming to your program. That's why we coach is to win titles and coach in the playoffs. FLORIDA was the only school that allowed me to do that."

So if you can read between the lines, from Sumrall's own mouth, we may have been stupid in 2 different ways: forcing DJ Durkin on him AND telling him he needs to come to Auburn immediately instead of coaching Tulane after the regular season. I will say, Golesh himself has said he did his interview with Auburn after the Iron Bowl that night (his game at USF also was a night game that night) and it was by facetime. He said he accepted the job at 1:30 a.m. the night of the Iron Bowl and had never met the Auburn administration until he flew to Auburn. That lines up with the rumors of Cohen giving Durkin more money without telling Sumrall. Then Sumrall finds out around Thanksgiving and tells his agent, Clint Dowdle, to tell Auburn I'm out. Then Auburn was stuck with Durkin to be HC but in the 1st half of the Iron Bowl, Auburn was getting blown out and our boosters and Cohen were freaking out that "we are gonna get blown out AND have to present our fans with their new HC tomorrow, the same coach who got blown out last night by Bama."

And luckily Sumrall's agent Clint Dowdle called Cohen during the Iron Bowl and said "I have another client who I think would make a good coach for you, Alex Golesh." Yes, Sumrall and Golesh have the same agent and Golesh literally dropped into Cohen's lap. Auburn thought Golesh accepted the Arkansas job but he almost did. That is how fricked up Auburn was in all this. We hired Golesh only a few hours after knowing he was available and our boosters and AD never met him in person but still hired him.

LSU begging the SEC to not kick them out and then the SEC agreeing to keep LSU, that has been the highlight for them so far.