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The Navy shoots for 6 months which was the standard since Vietnam. And those deployments usually involve port calls every few weeks. Since Vietnam there has never been a carrier stay out for 10 months with no port call. Even during 6 month deployments, the crew gets a port call every few weeks.

And they were conducting combat operations, not just cruising around like they would in peace time. This means people are working 18 hours days for 10 months straight with no downtime.

I am not saying this should result in suicide, but let's not pretend that it's like being on a holiday cruise ship sitting by the pool drinking margaritas.

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After watching the cut-ups on X it is abundantly clear that we don’t have P4 talent anywhere on either LOS. Our OL and DL were repeatedly abused and physically dominated. You can be “sound gap” and “technique” all you want to but this is a case of boys against men. We don’t have one starter on either side of the line of scrimmage who would start for another SEC team, save maybe Arkansas.

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This. Jared Smith might start for a few schools, but that's about it. Hell, no one on the entire defense (save Atkins and Melendez) would start for the top half of the SEC. Do you think UGA, Bama, Texas, LSU, UF would be after anyone on our defense if they were free agents? Hell no. Kirby might take a few for the scout team, but that's about it.

O-line is even worse. About 3 of them would struggle to start in the Big-12, much less the SEC. The German kid will be a solid guard one day, but all the others are just out of their league. They should have been left in the G6 where they belong.

D-lines in the SEC are composed of some dudes, many of whom will make NFL rosters. You've got to have some nasty O-lineman to put against them. You can get away with some G6'ers at the skill positions, but not in the trenches.

Pathetic how far in the gutter this program is. I watched Sumrall's presser today and he was like "We tried to beat ourselves last week and got away with it. Our margin for error is much smaller this week." (In other words, you can frick around and still beat AU easily).

Also, don't forget the handshake between Golesh and Sumrall. Sumrall said "Call me if you need any help with anything" which is basically him saying "I can teach you to coach better."

AU's personnel and coaches are the laughingstock of other coaches around the league. Ole fricking Siss - a perennial bottom feeder in the SEC West- is now considered a much tougher out than Auburn. :rotflmao:

EDIT: I was wrong about the LB who can't catch, this was a presser from one of UF's earlier games. Still my point stands.

AU isn't ever getting back on track unless they move to FCS.

I ran some numbers. I checked the records of all SEC schools starting with 2021 and ending with this week. I omitted OU and TX since they weren't in the league the whole time, so this will be a list of 14:


1) Georgia: 68-7, 37-3 (SEC) - 2 natties, 3 SEC titles, 4 playoff appearances.

2) Bama: 59-14, 34-7 (SEC) - 2 SEC titles, 3 playoff appearances, 3-4 post-season

3) Ole Miss: 55-15, 29-12 (SEC) - 1 playoff appearance, 4-3 post-season

4) Tennessee: 48-20, 24-16 (SEC) - 1 playoff, 2-3 post-season

5) LSU: 42-25, 23-18 (SEC) - 3-2 bowl record.

6) Mizzou: 44-24, 21-19 (SEC) - 2-3 bowl record

7) Texas A&M: 41-25, 22-19 (SEC) - 1 playoff appearance, 0-3 post-season

8) Carolina: 35-31, 16-25 (SEC) - 1-2 bowl record

9) Kentucky: 35-31, 15-27 (SEC) - 1-2 bowl record

10) Florida: 32-34, 15-26 (SEC) - 1-2 bowl record

11) MSU: 31-35, 11-30 (SEC) - 1-2 bowl record

12) Arkansas: 30-36, 11-30 (SEC) - 3-0 bowl record

13) Vandy: 29-36, 11-29 (SEC) - 1-1 bowl record

14) Auburn: 29-36, 11-30 (SEC) - 0-2 bowl record

Auburn is the only team not to have even one winning season. In fact, all the schools, except Florida, have had at least 2 winning seasons. Moreover, all schools (except UF and AU) have had 9 win seasons. Even lowly KY and Vandy both have had a 10 win season.

Auburn is tied with Vandy for only going to two bowls. Auburn and TAMU are the only schools not to win a bowl since 2021 (but TAMU did make it to the CFP). In fact, AU hasn't won a bowl since 2018 which is the longest winless streak in the SEC.

Conclusion:

AU has been (objectively) the worst football program in the SEC since Bryan Harsin was hired. I knew we were close to the bottom, but we're actually dead last in almost every category. This is despite AU being about 7th or so in NIL spending.

TAMU 2012 with JF. That set a new record and is the record still

Vandy, samford and Arky are the only possible wins left.

MSU will destroy us. They are good.

Ok well I think AU goes 4-8. Might beat Vandy if we're lucky

The program is approaching Arkansas bad. Just put the money in basketball

this team...,.... frick

shite. Baw ain't playin