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On 5/7/2024 at 1:52 PM, cbo said:

I wouldn't touch any of these without seeing how Thorne and the DL play this season. I like the Missouri line the best. 

The truth is Vegas is very good at setting lines. Never bet on your favorite team! It's hard to fight your inherent bias. 

 

Absolutely spot on. I would never bet on Auburn. Actually, I don’t bet at all. So there’s that. Lol

I cannot distinguish my heart from my mind when it comes to Auburn!!  So I just buckle up for the emotional roller coaster of Auburn football games. 

@Rednilla  @gr82be  Great perspectives on this thread. A lot of truths in y’all’s comments. The individual improvements on this team this year is really impressive. Everyone of the guys have shown so much improvement as far a playing a team game from a year ago. 

Heck, KD Johnson in what his 3rd year with us, 4th in college. Has even bought in and is playing team ball first. That’s just an example. Everybody has bought in to this philosophy. It is fun to watch!!  If anything sometimes I think we give up great looks making extra passes.   Just let that sink in for a moment…something we have never had to worry about under CBP. 

25 minutes ago, passthebiscuits said:

Well this frees up quite a bit. Hold on to your hats! 

Wow!!! That didn’t take long.   

In our game against NMSU. On the Play in first quarter where we jumped offsides, then they threw an int…so  two penalties. 5 for them (in play) and then 15 for us (dead ball penalty)…I understand all that. I am just curious why they reset the chains to make it 1 and 10 again? IIRC, it was 1 and 10 when the original play happened?!?!  
 

****NVM-  I went back and saw it was not 1st and 10. It was 2nd and 2.  I get it now. I Must have missed the first down play on first watch!!!  Excuse my ignorance!!

10 hours ago, LPTiger said:

Can someone post a young Greg Carr pic, maybe in a sweaty t-shirt after practice, so that 3rdgen, AEgirl and TigerTennis don't feel left out? 

Oh my Grandma (god rest her soul) loved Greg Carr!!

3 minutes ago, NWALA Tiger said:

Because of guard play or lack their of

Would love to see what the difference was between when Tre was in vs. Wendell. Looked like 2 different teams to me. 

On 2/6/2023 at 12:25 PM, JerryAU said:

This is a prime time opportunity to put a stamp on this season and get things ready for a run in March.  All eyes will be on Bruce & the Boys!  WDE

I like your thinking!!  I thought last night aTm’s game would be the turning point. I think I may like your plan better!!

12 minutes ago, bigbird said:

It was unbelievable how many fouls were never replayed.  It really became laughable.

TV didn’t replay them either, but a couple new batteries and my remote will be back to working condition!!  
 

I keep telling myself I have got to quit hitting the rewind button. It is not good for my health!! Smh

13 hours ago, GwillMac6 said:

Yes actually. We made 7 more shots than tamu. Had more assists and 3 pointers than them. Had less turnovers than them. They had 4 more rebounds than us. It’s almost like the 39 to 14 disparity  in free throw attempts was the difference….

It was bad!!! I kept justifying the calls by telling myself well we got some bad calls too. Which I recall Wendell benefitting from some….But WOW 39-14 paints a different picture!!  Of course, missing front ends of 1&1s 🤬 plays a part in that number. But still. That is absurd!!

12 hours ago, GwillMac6 said:

We lost our last 3 road games by a combined 11 points. All to teams who will be in the ncaa tournament. It’s hard as hell to win on the road vs quality competition with our more talented teams. Let alone this team that is clearly lacking in talent. Our coaches are coaching their asses off to put us in position to win but we don’t have the horses to get over the hump on the road yet Vs the better teams in our schedule. This is Bruce and staff best coaching job to me because of the obvious deficiencies. 

Since the west coast trip the change has been obvious to me. Now who changed, I have no idea?
 

Either the coaches have been doing more or better. 
 

Or the players finally realized they needed to buy into what the coaches have been preaching all along.  
 

Regardless, I think you are spot on with your assessment of the coaching job!!  Especially, since we went out west. To be more specific, our second game out west is when the change began!!  It has progressed ever since!!

On 12/30/2022 at 2:28 PM, bigbird said:

Santa brought my son and I tickets for this game. 

Would anyone be interested in trying to meet up before or after?

I was holding out hope I would be able to make it. Not gonna happen. Weather last week has me playing catch up now!!

Hope y’all are still going and representing??  Tell your son we need him on his game tonight. This game is no where near as drastic as ending the streak in Baton Rouge. It has the potential to be the tipping point to this season. Heck, Bruce needs one against Buzz. He has had our number!!

9 hours ago, bigbird said:

Sure was.  They split the previous 1A and bumped everyone up a level.  I always thought they messed the realignment up, especially at the 3A - 5A sizes 

Used to always be Highland Parks enrollment plus 1. Was the cut off from 4A to 5A.

On 2/1/2023 at 10:15 AM, ellitor said:

or NLD. National Leftovers Day.

Man, this ^^^ guy. I’m telling you. He is absolutely Killing it!!  I LOVE IT!!  Kudos, brother.
 

I just get this vibe that everything is going well in your world, @ellitor??  And if it’s not, and you don’t need prayers or anything else. Just let me keep that vibe going. Lol. Regardless, I’ve enjoyed  seeing you around here lately!! 

On 2/4/2023 at 12:00 PM, bigbird said:

https://www.schoepfsbbq.com/ 

And

https://millerssmokehouse.com/

 

In the 90's-00's Converse Judson took their ~3-4000 and split them into a fr/so campus and a Jr/sr campus. It allowed the to keep the same size pool of athletes.

Yes,  they had some good teams!!  The Rockets I believe.  In the metroplex Plano did the same thing. Man we hated them!!  I grew up in Irving with 3 5A (biggest division then) high schools. We swear we would have some state titles if Irving would have done that.
 

Most recently Allen High School had and maybe still has some ridiculous numbers!!  Their individual grade levels were bigger than their DISTRICT opponents whole schools.

I can’t remember exactly when they added the 6A division, but now I’m curious if it wasn’t in an effort to curb some of that stuff?  🤷‍♂️

You were coaching when they added it, correct?

1 hour ago, Mikey said:

Burning a redshirt only matters if the player is going to be at AU for his fifth college season. Does anybody think Westry will play at AU through five years? I don't. It's more easy to buy Pearl's statement that Westry simply isn't ready to compete in the SEC.

I’m confused  So are we to believe that he is not ready for SEC play, and cannot benefit from and extra year of eligibility??  Those two statements don’t add up. If he is not ready for SEC play. He would need the extra year.   🤷‍♂️ 

My point was Pearl stating that he was gonna shut him down the whole time he is praising him didn’t add up to me.  I was glad to hear that Pearl is gonna try and red shirt him. That would make sense as a reason to shut him down.  Matter of fact, that is the only reason you would shut a player’s season short.  Period!!  We could be winning or losing by fifty in a game.  There would be absolutely no reason to not play a kid in that situation  Unless you didn’t want to burn a red shirt!!  

 

Edit:  after rereading your statement. I agree he won’t be at AU for a 5th year, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be still playing college ball. Look at Flan as an example. 3 yrs ago who would’ve thought he would still be at AU? Flan is actually the reason we have the luxury of Red shirting Chance. 

7 minutes ago, bigbird said:

When I was at Temple, there was just Belton HS.  Belton needed a 2nd HS, but should've split it like Converse Judson.

Also, Belton has two of the best BBQ places in Texas. Sooooo good.

Yes, it was the first time I ever heard of the school. Midlothian just went thru the same thing by having to add another high school. Everyone as so adamant against it becuase of the sports. Which in his sight didn’t make sense. Nobody wanted 2 schools becuase how would we compete in football. We went from one school playing in same district as D’ville, DeSoto, and Cedar Hill. Now 2 smaller high school.
 

Both schools lost in the regionals this year. So I guess these kids are making the adults look like idiots. Lol. Now if we can just figure out how to get past Aledo. Lol

Good to hear about the bbq in Belton!!  I’ll have to take my dad to check them out. I spent a week working in Lockhart, TX recently. Which its claim is the “bbq capitol of Texas.” I was not impressed. Could be my expectations were too high because of the city’s claim, but regardless it left a lot to be desired!!

9 hours ago, Rednilla said:

That's what I had been led to believe, and I was hoping/expecting him to be the X-factor for us this season. Oh well.

As was stated, and your assumption is spot on. Pearl basically said exactly what you assumed. The way Pearl described it was a mutual agreement. At the time he didn’t mention anything about the red shirt, but was decisive that he was basically shutting him down for the season. The injury is fine, but did set him back as far as preparation at the most critical time for it. 
 

Now it makes total sense with the red shirt being in play!!  Reading the original article and how decisive Pearl was. It just didn’t make sense. I was like what if we are up by 20. Well we’ll make that 30 lol. He could get some pt then. But not worth burning a red shirt!!

56 minutes ago, bigbird said:

If he needs a ride...

Speaking of, we’ll sort of. Lol. Have you seen that WR from Lake Belton??  If you haven’t, do yourself a favor. 
 

I went to catch a local high school game this year. Midlothian (shout out to them, lol) was playing Lake Belton. Knew nothing about them our said receiver, but it took all of one play. Just one of those kids you watch every play. He was on a different level, and Midlothian has a WR that is tops in his class. But that kid was just different. Smooth and effortless!!

On 2/1/2023 at 4:52 PM, SouthGATiger said:

Understand your point but if the in-state talent is that good, AU needs to kill it to make a statement.  That AU is going after the top recruits relentlessly and is not conceding anyone to Bama. To me, take control of the state.

IIRC, Chiz and staff made that priority #1.  Seemed to work well!!

6 minutes ago, HAPvsOA said:

what's the nest? 

Where the cool kids hangout!!  I kid, but I will let @RunInRedFill you in. 

If possible, I would strongly advise joining!!

18 hours ago, Tiger Time Burrito said:

Did Auburn get 'big boyed' by Ole Miss?   Regardless of how things turned out.  I think it is fair to ask this question.  Did we want Lane? Was he coming to Auburn until Ole Miss outspent us?

Idk, but in hindsight. The Sokolove tweet has peaked my interest lately. With him supposedly being Cohen’s man. I think for sure we knew Kiffin was not our guy by the time it was sent. Now was he ever?? 🤷‍♂️ 

 After watching Freeze from close range these past 2 months. I can’t help but think. If we interviewed him, or definitely if we interviewed both of them. There is no question probably in anybody’s mind  who should get the keys to the castle.

Freeze does have the negative history that is/was a cause for concern, but heck. If Kiffin was our coach. I would have that stomach in a knot feeling every time he hit send on a tweet!!

5 hours ago, AUnCullman said:

We will have to battle Gus for this one unfortunately...    lol

That is one position Gus can recruit. 

20 hours ago, 1auburn1 said:

That's still in play in the NIL era.    Family gets moved and jobs for everyone who wants one.

That has always been in play for that school. Matter of fact, that was their standard!!  

Wait, so high school kids can get NIL in Alabama??  Humm, if so!?!?!  Maybe we have someone on our side that is running a successful business that can beat them to the punch. Which may be what you're saying?  

Early relationships!!!!  Love it. 

1 minute ago, AEAugirl said:

He fired Bobo which left an opening so he let Trovon go out on the road if I recall

Sounds correct. Knew he was filling in for some empty spot. Wait,  did he ever end up filling that spot??  NVM,  my brain hurts. I spent the last two months deleting that whole era from my mind. Not worth revisiting!!