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    2024 Transfer Portal Thread (Merged Zeek's New Thread)

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    Posted · Edited by maryland tiger

    On 4/19/2024 at 5:59 PM, Zeek said:

     Early signs of White aren’t impressive to me. 

    Are you serious??? Dude's head is spinning so how could you expect anything from him now? Arch Manning tore it up today! Do you know why? Because he had to have time to learn the system and that took a year. It takes time but you are already calling Walker a bust. 

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    Auburn Mediocrity

    in AU Football Forum

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    12 hours ago, AURex said:

    Mods, you can move this if you want.

    Personally, I'm just tired of Auburn mediocrity. There is millions of dollars flooding into university Athletics. Auburn is in the top 10 of revenue producing schools. And yet --

    Auburn swimming and diving (a program that was once a national powerhouse) - nuthin

    Auburn track & field -- nuthin

    Auburn soccer -- nuthin

    Auburn softball -- nuthin

    Auburn baseball -- nuthin

    Auburn women's basketball -- nuthin

    Auburn volleyball - nuthin

    The only sports in which Auburn has actually showed a pulse is Men's Basketball and Equestrian (which is NOT an NCAA sport).

    If I'm an Auburn Athletics donator, what am I getting for my dollars. If I'm an Auburn NIL contributor, where does my dollar go?

    I'm not a negga nellie, I'm an Auburn supporter and I contribute to Auburn every year. And I love my Auburn athletes in every sport! I'm just not seeing where Auburn athletics millions are going.

    Surely not to swimming and diving (my sport) or track & field, not to women's sports.

    I'm sorry, IMO, the idea of a gazillion dollars flowing into the university from NCAA and NIL SHOULD be to fund all sports make ALL sports competitive. Instead. we've got buckets of money going to CHF and cups of money going to CBF, ans teaspoons of money going to a;; other sports.

    Sorry, but IMO ....... FU. This is not what I contribute my money to the Athletic Dept for. NO MORE!

     

    This post, Nuthin! 

    Deon Sanders talks Bo Jackson

    in AU Football Forum

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    15 minutes ago, DAG said:

    Deion doesn’t owe anyone but himself. Yall always trying to pit great athletes against each other. They both speak highly of each other. Get the malice out of your heart once in a while and enjoy some great commentary and insight. 

    100%

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    Coach Caddy Resigns

    in AU Football Forum

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    9 hours ago, Zamps1976 said:

    Love caddy but honestly not the best coach . Running back room has under performed during his time .

    Dude, you are smoking crack! Who held the team together when Harsin left? Did you see how the entire Auburn family came together behind Caddy and looked like a better coached team? Somethings should be thought but never spoken.

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    12.10.23 Football Articles

    in AU Football Forum

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    1 hour ago, aubiefifty said:
     
    al.com
     

    Josh Bynes thanks Auburn, Ozzie Newsome upon retirement

    Updated: Dec. 10, 2023, 8:11 a.m.|Published: Dec. 10, 2023, 8:00 a.m.
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    The Baltimore Ravens will honor Josh Bynes as their Legend of the Game when they play the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.

    Bynes announced his retirement from the NFL on Friday. Among those receiving thanks during the linebacker’s farewell press conference were Auburn University and former Alabama All-American Ozzie Newsome, who served as the Ravens’ general manager for most of Bynes’ time in Baltimore.

    Auburn, Newsome and Bynes’ retirement intersected on Friday, Ravens coach John Harbaugh said.

    “Josh Bynes is announcing his retirement as a Raven today,” Harbaugh said. “His whole family’s here. His beautiful family’s here with his amazing wife and kids. I know they’re walking around here right now. He has a couple of sons that will probably be looking at Michigan here in a couple of years. Ozzie was trying to recruit them for Alabama already. Josh said, ‘Absolutely not,’ because where did Josh go to school? Auburn. War Eagle.”

    Bynes was the leading tackler for the Auburn team that posted an undefeated record and won the BCS national championship for the 2010 season.

    “I’d just like to thank Auburn University first – War Eagle,” Bynes said during his retirement remarks. “… Just for giving me an opportunity -- a kid out of Fort Lauderdale just trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life then. And to take an opportunity to give me an opportunity to meet my wife, who also went to Auburn as well, so that’s been a huge thing. I appreciate Auburn for that.”

    Bynes entered the NFL as undrafted rookie in 2011. He didn’t survive the roster cut between the preseason and the regular season, but that wasn’t the end of the relationship for Bynes and Baltimore.

    “This is crazy,” Bynes said. “I don’t think I’ve told anybody this story. I had just interviewed for a job down in Fort Lauderdale as an academic advisor, and I still had on my suit and everything. Ozzie called me literally just as I walked in the door. Called me, I was like, ‘Hello?’ He was like, ‘It’s Ozzie, with the Ravens.’ I was like, ‘Oh, OK.’ He was like, ‘Do you want to come back to be with the Ravens?’ I was like -- I think I said, ‘You sure? I think I said that first.’ He was like, ‘Yes.’ I was like, ‘Uh, I just got done with a job interview.’ He was like, ‘You don’t have to do the workout or anything. Just come on. We’re on going to bring you back.’

    “And I kid you not, I started crying, because -- at the time, I was just 20, whatever it was, 21, 22, at the time, trying to figure out, ‘OK, what’s my next phase?’ Football is over at the time. And to go from that to, obviously, playing 12 years is insane. And I’ve got to give a thank you to Ozzie for that phone call. I appreciate you.”

    Bynes played one game for the Ravens in 2011, the first of 138 regular-season and seven playoff games in his NFL career, even though he was released seven times. Bynes played 59 regular-season and five playoff games with Baltimore.

    “To me, Josh is a person, player, man who epitomizes the opportunity that football represents – the true meritocracy we like to talk about in football,” Harbaugh said. “That no matter where you come from, no matter where you’ve been, your background, whatever it is, how heralded you are or you are not, how much you’re talked about, whatever it might be, the content of your character, your talent, your work ethic, your ability just to find a way to get the job done and produce in whatever the job may be, to me, that’s what Josh Bynes represents. An undrafted free agent -- people probably weren’t betting on him to make the team even way back then. …

    “Past the football stuff, which you have to do. You have to produce. But the locker room, the mentorship, the example that he sets for the guys by the type of a family man he is and the father and husband that he is. I think guys look at that, and it makes a difference. I know he’s been there for guys just to talk to them and make a difference in their lives. That’s what a Hall of Famer is to me. He’s that kind of a player that deserves that kind of recognition in terms of being -- all the accolades that he’s accomplished as a football player -- but a Hall of Famer in life and relationships. That’s the beauty of football to me is someone like that.”

    FOR MORE OF AL.COM’S COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE OF THE NFL, GO TO OUR NFL PAGE

    Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.

    Really proud of Josh and the career he carved out for himself. Dude is a True Auburn Man and it has been a pleasure watching him play at Auburn and in the NFL. Wish him nothing but the best! Yes, we want his sons at Auburn!!!! 

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