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What a weird tweet.

Regarding the press box, it was a huge mistake to move the radio press boxes. Moving the print/internet media to the corner to make room for more premium donor space is fine. At the very least, they should have left the Auburn Network's box. But I think the right move would have been for both home and visitor radio press boxes to remain.

Regarding "Punt Bama Punt". My maternal step-uncle (mom's stepbrother), Wes Bizilia, was an assistant basketball coach at Auburn back then. His son (my step-cousin) was a 14 year old, rabid Auburn fan back then. This game lived in our family because of our connection to Auburn. Despite the fact my Dad was a Bama graduate, and my Mom attended Bama, Punt Bama Punt was a fixture in my life growing up.

There was 1989. First Time Ever.

I like this staff.

I bet Schmedding was not a Harsin loyalist, and may have supported the February investigation, or been candid with McGlynn as the process played out this fall.

Fan Controlled Football: https://www.fcf.io/

I doubt Caddy fired these people. My guess is Rich did. This is highly unusual, but it is possible Rich pressed Harsin to can Kiesau earlier in the season and Harsin refused. but the off the field positions are odd. What difference does another month make? That tells me there may be more going on here. Perhaps insubordination on these assistants and staffers part, or something worse.

Johnson redshirted during the 2021 season. He came after the 2020 bonus COVID year. How does he get to preserve his three years of eligibility remaining given he has already redshirted?

This is going to be an ugly week.

We should have kept Greene at AD and made him fire Harsin.

Are you saying will Harsin be carried away from Oxford in a pine box?

Roc Bellantoni has the experience to be an interim. He has been an interim HC before, albeit at the FCS level. He has over 20 years of college coaching and staff experience. He has been a DC before as well.

This is every bit as bad as the 2020 performance. The 3-technique defender shaded on the RG’s right shoulder has his hand down, and the Edge outside of the RT in a 7-Tech is clearly indicating pass rush. The NT is shaded so far to the left of the center he is basically in a 2-Tech position, but facing the center. And our RG turns left to help the center, or to protect against an LB or safety blitz? It makes zero sense. As the former NFL QB said in his video on AU’s OL’s 2020 performance against UGA, you have to account for every defender who has his hand on the ground or is otherwise strongly indicating Rush. Edit: I just realized the NT was actually a linebacker and dropped into coverage. That left the LG, the C, and the RG blocking air.

Gave up 585 yards to Texas. we could have had him. If we had anyone at AU in an official capacity with balls right now.

Leota, if he had a flaw, was over-pursuit. He got burned a few times, but he also made some incredible plays. He got injured because he was trying to make something happen that was not going to happen based on where he was.

Eku Leota at Northwestern (aka, "Bruce Banner Leota"): Eku Leota at Auburn (aka, "Incredible Hulk Leota"): Guy is a beast. My favorite defensive player this year. Loved the "Eku with yellow tiger eyes" in the hype video. I hope it gets well, and gets an invite to the Senior Bowl and the NFL Combine.

Usually you want your top recruiter to have a lighter coaching load. Dell as an OC would be a move up, but he would have less time to recruit. Think of when Dameyune Craig was at FSU the first time. He was their “Quarterbacks Coach.” Except everyone knew, Fisher, like Spurrier, was the real QB coach. Craig’s full time job was recruiting.

Two hands on the ball until you are ready to throw. Not hard.

After the first drive, JABA set in.

Why couldn’t a new AU HC pursue Garrett Riley as for our OC position? Riley has ties to Dyke, but has also coached elsewhere.

Counter-counter point: Brett Venables is the head coach at Oklahoma, and Roof worked for Venables as an analyst last year. Venables is clearly modeling his career on Gene Chizik.

His team gave up 668 yards to TCU today.

"Multiple years" = Two years. 2021 cycle and 2022 cycle. "Since he got there" = Two years. 2021 cycle and 2022 cycle. Yes, his recruiting is unheard of in an FCS school. I will not deny that. He signed and enrolled eight rated players, five 4-stars (one of which was one of his sons), and three 3-stars in the 2021 cycle. He had the #1 overall recruit in the 2022 cycle, along with a 4-star and 3-star prospect who signed and enrolled. And Sanders has done extremely well in the portal. That said, Sanders has had a fair number of signees who did not ultimately end up at JSU, comparing 247's list to JSU's 2022 roster. Sanders has also leveraged NIL. Sanders was well ahead of other coaches and schools on NIL. It makes sense, because Sanders played professional (minor league) baseball while he also played collegiate football at Florida State. At that time FSU was independent, and had no rules against being a professional in one sport while maintaining amateur status in another. Sanders knows what it is like to make money while being a collegiate athlete. NIL is how Sanders landed the #1 recruit in the country, Travis Hunter. But look at the NIL deals Hunter has gotten. It is very tied to the HBCUs. One big NIL deal is with Greenwood, an online financial services company founded by two Howard grads, businessman Ryan Glover and Ambassador Andrew Young, and one former Morehouse student, rapper Killer Mike. Another is with Michael Strahan, Good Morning America's cohost, former NFL star, and former HBCU football star. Strahan has his own clothing line. These NIL deals are extremely impressive. This is not manufactured collective stuff, these are real product endorsements. I expect these very unique, HBCU centric and Black owned business centric NIL deals will expand to other HBCUs. But, these very unique, HBCU centric and Black owned business centric NIL deals will not translate well outside of the HBCU space. Sanders is operating in a very unique niche, one that was (pardon the pun), prime for disruption. HBCUs athletic departments have been neglected for years. It is why the SWAC and the MEAC champions play in the Celebration Bowl instead of possibly participating in the FCS playoffs. Sanders and others are trying to elevate HBCU athletics. They want to once again become a destination for top prospects the way Grambling was in the 1960s. And many successful HBCU graduates would like the same. Sanders has a vision at JSU, and the larger HBCU community, and is executing on it. This vision didn't exist prior to Sanders. What would Sanders vision be for a Power 5 program? Or does a Power 5 coach simply have to execute the existing vision of wealthy alumni? And this is why I see significant risk for Sanders in the Power 5. He can build a staff. He can inspire players. He can gameday coach. Can he develop talent? Can his ability to attract a handful of 4-star players and one 5-star to an HBCU translate to the ability attract two or three 5-stars and as many as 20 4-stars a year every year to a Power 5 school? Because that is what a top-5 recruiting class looks like now.

Watching the USCe -SC State game. SC State just ran a shotgun veer play. Two RBs in the backfield. Inside zone read to one RB. The play would have had the other ARB trail the QB on the QB keep as a pitch option. The first read caused the QB to hand the ball off to RB1, but it clearly was a veer option. Put Robby, Tank, and Hunter in the backfield and run this: