Getting Our Bearings
I am hopeful that Brian Woodham, who recently left a part-time gig with ITAT to take a full-time job as a copy editor at the Advertiser, will be given an opportunity to take my old job. Brian would be a great addition. I'll let you know if I hear anything about that.
As I explained on Facebook, we will have a board at AuburnSports.com with a stricter standard when it comes to cussing and any off-putting shenanigans. Personally, I'm good with the Bunker and have read it for a long time. They get a little upset when things don't go well, which is understandable, but I feel like that board's reputation for savage commentary far exceeds reality.
With that said, we will have a HABOTN-esque board over there for people whose tolerance for cussing is at zero. Just want to make that clear.
I'll be starting at AuburnSports.com on Monday.
Take care, errybody. Thanks as always for your support!
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sadly, new generally does not equal better. Otherwise, the new would have been the old.
even sadder? this thread has an odd-numbered post count
Don't give up on even numbered post counts, THT! Never give up!
I for one think Kodi Burns is just the spark this offense needs.
I'm particularly excited to see Demontray Carter have a breakout game.
Is it August yet?
Trent Dilfer says the SEC championship is in the bag, so I ain't worried.
You know things are bad when THT just goes around leaving the post count as an odd number.
Should've come by the campfire last night, THT. Everyone was there. JGT, Monica, FSJ, Kristinuh, all kinds of people. We were all like "Where is THT!?!?!" A good time was had by all, but now all we have are ambers.
I've been at every campfire this season. Y'all should get there sooner.
How hospitable for us to allow MSU to get by using only 5% of their playbook.
The game tonight was a modern art piece by Gus titled "How Close Can I Get to the Goal Line Without Scoring?"
Find e-bro
Ben Grubbs's name mentioned far too many times tonight
Hey THT, all the trail maps on the mountains around Huntsville stink. They don't take into account landslides in recent years and such. you like maps. Why don't you come fix them?
Oh, and I'll also accept an answer from Tar Heel Tiger if THT isn't around.
I can run a theodolite and chain.
^ there's your solution
I've always heard that there's no trail obstruction that can't be cleared with a theodolite and chain.
I've also heard that even post count is more tolerable than odd post count.
you heard wrong!
This is cool. Great illustration of how big or small various countries are in relation to other countries on a Mercator projection map.
All the wood was so wet last night, the campfire just fizzled out before it ever got to blazin'
A WIN IS A WIN! AM I RIGHT, THT!?!?!?!
Yep, and we've got one more heading our way before this sorry season ends.
Heck, with the benefits that have been realized from the work-study program on your Idaho goat farm, I'm not even sure we'll be able to beat the Vandals.
What about some Visigoths? You think we could beat them?
I'll have to answer that since Tar Heel Tiger doesn't know what a Visigoth is. They pushed the Vandals across the Strait of Gibraltar. They'd probably push AU across the Chattahoochee.
Still plan on going to the KY game, THT you got any food recommendations?
You simply must try the Philly Cheesesteak here:
108 Marketplace Dr, Lexington, KY 40503
(just in case you missed my recommendation in that other place)
Really Michael?!?!
it's so good, it's trademarked and patented.
Kathy, wherever you eat, make it a light meal. It'll probably come back up at the game.
That fool last night who thought the Huskies were going to let USCw escape got laughed right out of the campfire. But in fairness, how would he have known USCw would try to pass the ball when all they had to do was run, run, run.
Chili's invented the Philly Cheesesteak, Kathy. Just ask THT!
They invented the Chilly Pheesesteak.
Only Pat knows how to make a cheesesteak!
Auburn football is a dumpster fire, the Penguins are winless, the Braves were awful.
Thank goodness the Packers are playing well. I haven't watched pro football in a zillion years, but I don't have any other options at the moment (I've watched every Laramie episode and I can't find any curling matches on TV). I sure hope there isn't some awful calamity lurking around the corner for the Packers.
ok, it's a new day
unfortunately, it may be the same ol' teams.
AU @ KY will be on one TV.
To double my misery...
Ottaway @ Pittsburgh on the other TV.
Should make for a great campfire tonight! I'll see y'all* there.
*i.e. me
great campfiyah!
I'll be out of town during next H's campfire, but I'll try to keep my perfect attendance streak intact.
Hey, what's up you buncha idiots?
I find it hard to motivate myself to visit Hv1.0 when we suck so badly in football. Thankfully, I was in meetings all day on Saturday and didn't have to witness the inevitable.
You would have definitely been in danger of a heart attack Saturday. It was fun until the end.
I hope as hard as I can possibly hope that things quickly turn for the better. However, I am a patient soul. I can wait for things to turn for the better on the morning of November 28.
Penguins & Panthers are both on TV tonight. GO PITT x 2!!!
Unfortunately, I won't be watching either. The 24 hr BuyMore Fall Savings Spectacular is underway. I'll be stocking shelves.
It's still a great night for a campfire, though. Y'all go ahead and enjoy. I left a big stash of dry wood near the big sourwood tree.
Michael, you didn't hang around the campfire long enough for my latest brainstorm sensation.
My wife came in and yelled at me so I had to bail.
we know who herds the goats in Michael's family.
and I know which team in JHS is very poorly coached.
Well at this moment there are no teams in JHS, so none of them are poorly coached!
I was talking about the team of gravediggers who just can't seem to dig in the correct endzone corner.
seriously good coaching in College Station tonight. Superb special teams kick coverage.
turns out, the A&M game was a fluke :(
What a revoltin' development.
Hate
Always, AVD. Always.
My hate does not abate, diminish, slacken, decrease, wind down, shrink, minimize, erode, ease up, dilute, attenuate, de-escalate, decline, contract, weaken, die down, or lessen.
My level of hate is infinity times stronger than infinity to the infinity power, cubed, and then raised to the infinity power of the sum of all electrons, neutrons, and protons in the entire universe (exclusive of the hate-degrading atomic particles inherent to bammers), 24 hours a day, 365.25 days/year.
oh, and I almost forgot...
ua-t SUCKS!
Answer: 1949
Question: When was the last time a crappy AU team beat a good ua-t team?
Not great, but good (ua-t finished in the middle of the SEC that year with 6-3-1 record)
ua-t SUCKS!
but apparently, we stink :(
4200+BEASLEY!!!
It won't be officially announced for another week, but my reliable inside sources have told me that AU will accept an invitation to the Participation Bowl.
Hopefully they win and receive the coveted Participation Trophy!!!
The Participation Bowl loser's trophy is identical, other than the coveted part.
well, rats. Speaking of coveted trophies, the MAC Championship Trophy presentation won't follow the game on ESPN2. It will be on ESPN3. I'll be honest, I'm not going to the basement TV just so I can see it. Their ratings will just have to take a hit.
What's all this I hear about sax and violins on tv?
must be a bunch of people who like rough music
Ga Southern coach making a lateral move. Statesboro may be in the middle of nowhere, but at least it's outside of Louisiana.
Florida State: Per source, defensive coordinator Charles Kelly will not leave Florida State for a dumpster fire.
apparently, no one is interested in taking a job in a dumpster fire :(
Hey THT... asking for a friend... do you know anything about defensive coordinating??
THT, I wrote that question 6 hours ago and you still haven't responded. What the heck?
I was going to read a book about defensive coordinating so that I could answer with a resounding YES.
Your impatience has convinced me it wouldn't be worthwhile, so I'll just say NO
However, based on several past hires, my lack of knowledge shouldn't eliminate me from the pool of candidates for AU DC.
But THT... even if you don't know a single thing about defensive coordinating, you still have to say YES to get the job. You think Loeffler admitted he didn't know anything about offensive coordinating in his interview? No, he said he knew Tom Brady and a lot about coordinating. That's how he got the job!
I don't want to be coordinator. I want to be HC so I can get fired and paid millions to sit on my butt.
Which NHL team can match AU's offensive ineptness? The Pittsburgh Penguins, of course. They should just forfeit the rest of their season to avoid unnecessary injuries.
FIRE THE PENGUINS!!!!!
Can't believe you didn't go to the Campfiyah last night, THT.
I can't believe that you had a Campfiyah last night
I'm strictly a regular season campfirererer. Post-season campfires are too sooty.
Yes, you may indeed count me amongst those impressed with Dell McGee.
Our AD pumping sunshine, as always. How many "right man/woman at the right time" has he hired?
Perhaps he should try hiring the right man at the wrong time, or the wrong man at the right time. I don't see much downside from our current state.
Well what about the wrong man at the wrong time? Those kind of cancel each other out, making it the right hire, right???
My momma taught me that two wrongs don't make a right.
Our AD today: “Absolutely, I’m going to be back at Auburn.”
Well, duh. That's where he lives.
I watched the pilot for "Superstore" I was thinking of you THT. It is gong to be good, premiers on NBC January 4
Hi Jimmy. At least the Kings are doing ok now. The Penguins are just awful.
From what I'm seeing today from the Ham, I think our defensive staff is doing a fine job. Who needs a DC anyways? What we really need is an offensive coordinator (HC?) whose play calls aren't so offensive.
And at least one quarterback.
#28 costing us a lot of field position with his ill-advised decisions
That game was in the bag the whole time. Bravo to you, THT, for never doubting even for a second!
@BMattAU
Gus Malzahn just named Kevin Steele Auburn’s new defensive coordinator at Birmingham Bowl postgame press conference
Well how do you like that? A d coordinator.
Without a DC, we played our best defense in years. I think DCs are overrated... and overpaid.
And Clemson basketball is now 0-58 in Chapel Hill.
I should be suspended from Blogger for the supreme failure of my 12:26 PM post.
Why? It wasn't a missed Beasley. That's about the only defense worthy of suspension.
You know, Steele might not have the resume of a Will Muschamp, Ellis Johnson, Ted Roof, or Brian Vangorder, but we stole him from LSU, so that makes it a good hire in my book. Just remember how fun it was to steal him when we are all mad at him in the near future and he gets fired.
This is apparently the anniversary of some guy named Cam Newton committing to Auburn.
Some strolls down memory lane:
http://jaygtate.blogspot.com/2009/12/newton-delays-his-decision.html
http://jaygtate.blogspot.com/2009/12/cameron-newton-commits.html
For the record, API thought signing Newton was a bad idea. wtc was bothered by the dad's involving himself so much in the recruitment. SFC was OK signing him because Chizik was so good at discipline. SFC also unironically said a point was "mute."
Bammer mark said Newton was a gamechanger.mjt predicted a national championship if Newton signed. Nova was levelheaded, saying he looked Tebowesque but warned us not to go overboard with predictions. Kathy was excited about how big Newton was. SFC said the commitment was incredible (even moreso that Trovon Reed!). ebro was worried by JUCO QBs. Seemed to like guys who had been in the system awhile.
THT said he would soil himself if we got Lemonier. That must have been an interesting signing day for him. CHB praised Michael Dyer's leadership abilities.
I think you missed my comment on your summary
4312 = 88x49. If Omnica was here, she'd banhammer me.
Yes, I threw that pair of underwear away.
On this day 45 years ago, The Original THT took me to the theater in Jacksonville to see a recently released John Wayne movie - Rio Lobo. Just like this year, NYD fell on Friday and the Gator Bowl was on Saturday, Jan. 2. Jack Elam was absolutely Oscar-worthy in Rio Lobo. So what did I do this morning. I watched Rio Lobo and reminisced on all the wonderful experiences I had with The Original THT.
Nice THT!
Malkin is have a good year, a faster goal scoring pace than last year?
Did LSU get an upgrade at DC?
Things I'll schedule for 8:30pm the 2nd Monday of this month:
Trim toenails
Wash car
Get root canal
What are y'all planning?
Hey THT, did you see that John Wayne movie where he confronted the evil bad guys who were poisoning the milk supply with listeria? That was a dang good movie.
In related news, looks like Blue Bell may be getting into more trouble.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/01/health/blue-bell-listeria-criminal-investigation/index.html
only 243 days til kickoff
plenty of time to watch Rio Lobo some more. Sadly, it will be without Blue Bell ice cream.
Penguins showing life? Five goals in each of the past two games. An aberration or have they finally turned the corner?
They've finally turned the aberration.
By the way, this changes everything:
http://www.al.com/auburnfootball/index.ssf/2016/01/weve_apparently_been_mispronouncing_gus_malzahn.html
you mean it's not Gus Mowwlllzahhhn? I'll take it more seriously when he's notched his 176th win at AU.
I only got 5 out of 11 on this:
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2016/1/4/10711306/quiz-can-you-pick-the-real-bowl-sponsors-from-the-fake-ones#sbnation-real-or-fake-bowl-sponsor__graphic
Hey HABOTN Queen, guess what?
I'M KING OF BOWL SPONSORSHIP GUESSING GAME
I got 6 out of 11.
Well I guess that means we're both royalty. And you know what? The people around here really should treat us better than they do, considering we are royalty and all.
Hey Jimmy or Norm or Art or THT or whoever: go fetch me and Tar Heel Tiger some bottled water, bluebell ice cream, chocolate syrup, and listeria antidote. And make it snappy, chop chop!
I figured with a new year we would be getting close to a new page. What gives?
I guess this means you are really bad at figuring.
No, it just means you're real bad at paging. And you can forget that bottled water, goat face!
but you are still bringing the ice cream, syrup, and antidote, right???
Two outta three ain't bad . . .
yum, yum, yum!!! I want some Blue Bell!!! I'll take it with or without Listeria; just don't forget the chocolate syrup :-D
242 days til kickoff!
3,829 days til page flip!
...and I'm not picky like Michael. Antidote not required.
Well, this is awkward. All I had for you guys was the antidote and syrup.
Well that show that you aren't a true king after all. True kings are picky.
So why don't you be a good sport and give your crown and title of "King of Bowl Sponsorship Guessing Game" to me?
I'm King for life! I guessed right 3 times! Fake kings are picky. True kings, like moi, are selective!
Guess what? It's still 242 days til kickoff!
Gues what else?
Cam Newton to...
LUTZLUTZ!!!!!
Hey THT, does this make you hopeful?
http://www.auburntigers.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/010516aac.html
"And to Malzahn's calling him the right guy, Steele said, "sometimes you just hit the right place with the right guy and it's the right place with the right people and it works, and we're going to make it work.""
So. Did we "just hit" the "right people," or did we not? And they're "going to make it work" anyway.
Apparently, Carl Injury Lawson is going to stick around for another season. How about that?
Not surprised at all about CL. He needs to show he can make it through a season.
Coachspeak sounds great, but it doesn't mean a lot.
That's how I feel about MJT and his Kingspeak. It's like listening to puppets.
I learn more by listening to his goats.
Now look here. I'm the Queen of HABOTN, King of Eurasia, Master of Thighs, Volcano Guy, Captain Boxhead, Flipping King, and potentially King of Bowl Sponsorship Guessing Game if THT would stop being so selfish. So I don't care how yall think my Kingspeak comes across. I'm a special snowflake, and nothing you can say can get me down.
And you're welcome for convincing Carl Lawson to come back. In my Kingspeak, I told him he better come back or else feel the wrath of Eurasia. He's a smart guy, so he knew how to respond. Plus, I had the Bagman there playing Good Cop, so I'm sure that helped too.
Did I ever tell y'all about the time I outlawed tacos in Eurasia?
More coaches!
I'm cautiously pessimistic about next year, so these D coaching hires don't do much for me. Gus needs to figure out why the bus keeps stalling.
Why would anyone ever outlaw tacos?
Well I could tell you. But I'd have to type it all.
Michael, I can wait.
I like the promotion of Travis Williams.
What I don't like is y'all constantly sticking me with odd-numbered posts.
Woot! I got an even numbered post!
I have it on good authority that TWill likes tacos.
Hey Doc, your favorite poster quit the AUFC. Why don't all you losers pop in over there sometime? And another thing, when did MJT get his "volcano" title?
I seized the title after some people were talking about the Volcano Girl they saw at some Vegas thing or something ruther before the 2010 natty.
Surprised Norm didn't remember that. Does he not pay attention to what goes on around HABOTN/2.0/AUFC?
Hey, MJT. Did you know that Norm has banned his wife's spaghetti? I don't understand what you guys have against international cuisine.
Well, I have to assume Norm's wife was using the mother in law's recipe, which explains Norm's hatred of the dish.
I have nothing against international cuisine. I love spaghetti and tacos and burgers and hot dogs and anything else exotic, really.
bubbs jr. is meat eater. He's a fan of any animal you'll put on his plate. Which kinda stinks for him because we're pretty low on the meat consumption end of the spectrum as a household. But I digress.
The other night, at dinner, we were asking him if he liked to eat various types of animals. Some he's had (cow, pig, deer etc), and some he has not (snake, horse etc). When I asked him if he'd eat dog, his response was classic. "Yeah, I eat dog meat. I like hot dogs." All these years, he thought he was eating Fido, and no regrets.
as long as there are cows and chickens and fish and pigs, I won't have a desire or need to eat other meats. I could eat MrsTHT's curry chicken on rice every day. Not getting a rice cooker 30 years ago is one of our biggest mistakes. We didn't learn that until 2.0 brought one home a few years ago.
when I was in the Air Force we had a 2 day "survival" course. Some adventuresome types caught and cooked an armadillo and a snake. I nibbled on the denser-than-osmium cereal and chocolate bars we were given. When we got back to base, I showere...twice... and then drove very fast to this place. That was the first time I ever ate the skin of a baked potato.
and Bubbs, don't be such a wimp (12:46pm). I'm never cautious when it comes to pessimism!
GMB cooked spaghetti again last night, she went back to her tried and true after the upheaval from her prior experimentation.
Fun fact: In certain regions armadillos used to be referred to as "Hoover Hogs," because they were commonly eaten during the depression (which the whole depression being pinned on Hoover is a discussion in and of itself - but whatever). That said, they're one of the few animals I might shy away from. If not cooked well enough they can carry/give you leprosy. True story.
THT, I'm not at all confident your pessimism will be sufficient for next season.
Norm, you're making MJT's theory about the MIL's recipe sound plausible.
I suggest you cook some armadillo especially for you MIL at the next pool party.
I'd eat a dog or a cat as long as they eat good. I ain't picky.
it's getting so busy here, I may have to flee to Hv3.0 for some solitude
I don't have any inherent aversions to eatin' dogs and cats. It's interesting. I read "Guns, Germs, and Steel" earlier this year (a good read but not a "light read"). He went through why we ended up domesticating certain animals for food but not others.
Spoiler Alert!!!!
It has nothing to do with how they taste.
THT, it's either hang around here or stack more boxes at the Buymore. Is this place really that bad?
Via time travel, I've been here since day 1. I'll probably die here.
Cleanup on aisle 88! Bring HazMat suits!
map dealers are weird. They sometimes ask me for help researching Georgia or NC maps (or the mapmakers). When I state that I wish I could do map research every day, they invariably reply that they'd like a week or two where they didn't have to look at maps. Is that not the most absurd thing you've ever heard!
rats... we have an odd-number of posts all because of my poor grammar.
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I suppose one could assume it was more a poorly constructed statement of fact than a true question.
I bet you feel like Dora the Explorer behind that keyboard, THT.
I have lots of wonderful pre-Google memories, even pre-WebCrawler memories, but I have no recollection of how, in the pre-internet days, I found out what on earth people were talking about.
Making sure you understand why I referenced Dora: http://dora.wikia.com/wiki/Map
Anyone with kids of that age, will recognize the "map song."
Hence, you feel like Dora with your best friend the map; you two just sitting there chatting over the keyboard.
I think it's rather unfair that Google doesn't offer a "I am a robot" option for the "choose an identity" part of these comments.
I'm glad I have Amazon Prime
Vamanos!
Hey bubbs, why did we domesticate stuff then? And how can anyone really know? It's not like we have blogger comment sections from way back then where smart people talk about why stuff happens.
We domesticated stuff so my grandpuppies will snuggle up in my lap instead of gnashing through my carotid arteries. Duh!
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@MJT
There are six criteria he comes up with in the book (must meet all 6):
- Not picky/expensive eater
- Docile
- Grows quick
- Reproduce in captivity
- No strong tendency to panic (or have flocking mechanism/can herd)
- Conform to social hierarchy (recognize a human as the boss)
He does make a distinction between "tamed" and "domesticated." There are animals that can be tamed (cheetah), but for various reasons aren't domesticated (cheetah wont reproduce in captivity).
I realize that wasn't a real question by MJT, but I felt I needed to get that in blogger comment form, so stupid people like him wouldn't question facts a couple thousand years from now.
I'm gonna keep making mistakes and deleting them so we can get to a page flip sooner.
We have a much more important agenda before the page flips.
It was a real question bubbs. Seems like some pretty reasonable requirements for domestication.
You know who was never domesticated nor tamed?
43BEASLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(the LUTZENBEASLEY!)
I was going to say George "The Animal" Steele. Glad you answered first so I didn't get it wrong.
New Mexico State: hired former BC head coach Frank Spaziani as defensive coordinator. Spaz agreed to a two year deal at $150,000 per.
I'm sure there's a youtube video of him signing his contract while kegstanding from a barrel of humility.
Boston College: sources tell us BC is close to naming Scot(t) Loeffler as offensive coordinator.
yessirree, it's time to talk about the BC coaching situation.
It's a complicated situation, THT.
You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous.
I'm hoping a giant mutant antlion larva will create one of these beneath the stadium tonight. I will not be watching one second of bammer vs bammers. I'm about to vomit already.
Is it bad to wish for a lot of broken bones on both sides? Nothing life changing. We're just talking about something that would keep a lot of players from playing next season. Is that so much to ask for?
Boy, Clemson got outcoached hard.
230+ days til kickoff of what promises to be another disappointing season, despite low expectations from the media.
Tonight we have loser bracket hockey... Penguins vs Hurricanes
insanely busy work day, so I'll just go ahead and take care of this right now.
I'm in the doldrums. My teams stink. No sight of great improvement in the near future. What's the cure?
MAPS!
No, not hardly. The only thing that can cure these doldrums is...
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
BEASLEY!!!BEASLEY!!!
That was the most round Beasley yet. Completely overshadows the page turn.
A Beasley, and page turn. That's something anyway.
We need to turn the page on this chapter of college football.
It sucks pretty bad knowing that we'll start the season with a loss this year. I don't like being in someone else's bag.
Oh give me a break. We've seen this before, most recently with Ohio State this year. "They are so young, look at who's returning, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bla hasdfh asdfhi asdfgh aseghiaeghi aegihaegij "
They will have an entire offseason of being told they are the greatest, that the champeenship is theirs for the taking, and they'll sit around reading the articles about how great they are, and they'll eat hostess cupcakes and forget to pump irons, and they won't study film, and they'll get jealous of each other depending on who is getting the most preseason love, and so on.
And Auburn will come in hungry and unintimidated. We got a bunch of 4 and 5 star athletes, a new mobile QB, and some perfectly-adequate-for-the-most-part coaching, and we ain't been on one "too early" Top 25. We gonna come out and take those crack tigers to the woodshed.
2016 Clemson = 2015 JJ ?
Nothin from nothin leaves nothin.
Maybe not that catastrophically bad bubbs... thinking more 2014 Auburn. You know, back when the defense was improving and Nick Marshall was now an elite thrower and they added Duke Williams and after all Auburn was only 13 seconds away just a few months earlier...
The only thing I don't like about your comparison is the fact that we played reasonably well at the beginning of 2014.
13 seconds. 13 years ... same thing, right?
Right, I'm not saying Clemson will be a trainwreck, just saying they will have 2 to 4 losses next year. Mark it, Dude.
My initial comparison, Ohio State, was far from a trainwreck this year, yet the narrative the entire season was, "What the heck's up with Ohio State???" due to the huge expectations. That's Clemson next year, and they are about to run into a hungry Auburn team that is going to run through college football like a hot knife through butter.
Ohio State is probably the best comparison. I could see their season going that way. The fact of the matter is, it's hard to make it all the way through a college football season without a couple losses. There's a good deal of "luck" involved in making it to/winning the championship.
I'm still holding out for a slew of injuries to both Clemson/bammer in the spring.
I like butter.
non-abbreviated Tar Heel Tiger may disagree, but I see 3-9 next year with wins against LAMO née NELA née OPJC, Vandy, and AAM.
Some of the guys in Vegas say we share the same odds as Washington State for winning the natty next year (80:1). I thought that was pretty generous of them.
So you're saying there's a chance?
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14559236/carolina-panthers-quarterback-cam-newton-unlike-qb-nfl
quote:
"The 13-month probe ended with the NCAA finding no violations, but that didn't stop NFL teams from sending private investigators to Auburn to speak to food service workers, frat boys and sorority girls. They spoke to bartenders, even though Newton has never touched alcohol. "The worst thing they found?" Whitfield says. "Sometimes he rode his scooter without a helmet." "
I think the exact quote in the NCAA report was "rode his scooter without a helmet like a god."
He also drove and parked that bleepedy-bleep scooter on the sidewalks. He's just so smug.
To be fair, I don't think he's going to make it in the NFL anyway. Up to this point, he's just been a system player that's gotten lucky with his team in the NFL.
98% of the credit definitely goes to Mike Shula.
I think we can all agree that Mike Shula is a true Auburn man.
Thankfully, I get to go see some maps tomorrow. That will help my mojo. Who knows, I may even be thinking 4-8 by tomorrow evening.
Someone decided run into my trash can last night. Busted it up, real good like. The good news is that the trash people are going to swap it out for me.
I consider this event prophetic. Wonder who our new trash can will be at the end of next season.
What does that even mean?
We'll be a dumpster fire by end of next season and hiring a new coach.
We'd be wise to go after Chip Kelly.
Haha, good one bubbs. You know he's not an Auburn Man!
Chip or Shula?
Shula did more for our program while coaching bammer than Barfield ever did while coaching AU.
No, Shula is definitely an honorary Auburn Man. I am talking about Chip, who I am willing to bet doesn't even have the Auburn Creed memorized.
On the upside, if we hired him, he could claim half a natty at AU. So there's that.
Plus, he has this whole next season to study up on the creed.
Yeah, like he'd have time to learn the creed while also learning the Alma Mater.
I know one thing for sure. If you were the AD instead of JJ, our coaches would be a lot more Auburny.
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Who decided to delete their comment. Sara? Sara, is that you?
My detective work reveals the offender was Jimmy. He probably offered me a lot of money for the movie rights to my life story, but then he was scared it would turn into a bidding war if he left his post up here on 1.0.
Classic Jimmy.
A True Auburn Man. If I was AD, I'd hire him for head coach in a heartbeat.
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