News of the day, 2/26

Hey everyone. Just got back from Auburn's second football practice of the spring. Heavy rains and generally inhospitable weather forced the team to its indoor field. The problem there is that half of that building currently houses the locker room and training rooms.

A renovation project is underway in the Athletic Complex, which forced a temporary relocation.

The offense worked out from 7-8 a.m. The defense followed up with an hour of its own.

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Graduate assistant Travaris Robinson, the former safety, has accepted a full-time job as secondary coach at Western Kentucky. T-Rob is a HABOTN fave and we're glad to see him moving up. He leaves tonight.

The nasty weather didn't deter coach Tommy Tuberville from holding practice on Tuesday. I was surprised. He explained that the NCAA limits the number of spring practices to 15 (that's widely known) AND limits the "practice window" to a month. So those 15 practices can't be too spread out. There is emphasis on keeping things going. See what I'm saying? Since the Tigers were without pads today, practice commenced as scheduled. Had this been a full-pads day, Tuberville would have considered his options more carefully.

Defensive coordinator Paul Rhoads continued his loud ways. He's more involved with practice administration than his predecessor. He'll get in there and move the cones himself. Student assistants typically handle mundane tasks like that.

Speaking of Rhoads, he doesn't need a whistle. He creates a sound much louder by blowing air between his thumb and index finger. It's pretty amazing. I asked LB Craig Stevens about it. He thought it was a whistle ... like the plastic apparatus. No sir.

The shout-down of the day came from assistant coach Terry Price, who gave redshirt freshman A.J. Greene the business. Tackle Sen'Derrick Marks, asked if he has to hold in laughter during those tirades, said: "I just laugh. I'll get in trouble anyway — I might as well laugh."

In a matter-of-fact chat with linebacker Chris Evans after practice, he revealed that he has tendons from a cadaver in his left wrist. He had surgery last summer to help correct a lingering injury. That's not really newsworthy; it's just interesting.

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Photo credit: Todd Van Emst/Auburn University