AUIH1

2 minutes ago, AidiAU said:

I think WDE said we weren't offering? Maybe I'm making things up...

Thanks

1 minute ago, TitanTiger said:

He was a fallback. 

Thanks

Just now, BJCrawford said:

Any other team beaten Bama twice in the last five years? (Not a snarky question....a real question)

Not sure, but one thing I give Gustav credit for is how hard we play spuat under his watch.

wde

1 minute ago, auburnphan said:

Cam Taylor to Nebraska

How badly did we want him?

wde

Just now, corchjay said:

What does a game in December have to do with NSD.  Take it to PMs.  Some are trying to keep up with recruiting and work at the same time

So am I.  I can multi-task.

wde

Just now, gr82b4au said:

If we didn't win the first game we would not have even been in the championship game. I think the first one mattered. 

You are right. We had to win game 1 and it was wonderful.  But 7-28 sucked ass and to get boat raced like that after game 1 was totally on coaching.

wde

3 minutes ago, corchjay said:

You’re right our coaches suck.  Back to recruiting 

Who said they suck?  Please post where I said that.

wde

Just now, TitanTiger said:

Agreed.  But I find it hard to fault him that much when you take 2 of 3  convincingly from the two teams that play to OT for the natty and play one of the other four CFB participants to an 8-pt loss on the road. 

We just have to agree to disagree.  The SECCG, the Peach Bowl, the LSU game 2017, Clemson 2017, Clemson 2016, UGA regular season 2014, 2015, 2016 have soured me on Gus totally.

wde

3 minutes ago, gr82b4au said:

We beat them by 3 tds the first time... Yes I know we lost to them later and that sucks but we can't forget that we demolished them earlier. 

... now back to recruiting. 

We lost when it really mattered...A championship.  Had we won the SECCG we would have been in the CFP.

wde

1 minute ago, TitanTiger said:

We blasted them the first game, and limped into the second minus the engine that had propelled our offense in KJ, after playing two of the best teams in the country in the preceeding three weeks. 

Yeah, we limped into the SECCG  but Gustav screwed the pooch.  KJ was clearly injured and everyone knew it.  There were little to no adjustments made on either side of the ball in the SECCG versus our game in JHS.

wde

Just now, TitanTiger said:

I know.  But he said:  If it all depends on coaching between AU & uat, we're dead.

Well, we lined up and flat beat UAT convincingly.  No miracle plays.  No five turnover catastrophes by them.  And did it with less talent.  So this is evidently not the case.

I understand and appreciate that we kicked their ass when we played them.  As much crap as I give Gus, I give him credit for getting our guys to play up for spuat.  uga on the other hand.....

wde

4 minutes ago, TitanTiger said:

...which is why we lined up against a team who has had the #1 recruiting class for multiple years running and beat them by 2 TDs this year. 

I know you are just replying to a certain poster who may deserve it, but we beat spuat for the 1st time since 2013 (after a totally improbable ending).  Also, they just won another NC after winning or playing for it for multiple years give or take one. 

wde

We will sign enough talent in this class other than OL to win championships.  It all comes down to coaching.

wde

5 minutes ago, bigbird said:

Seven 5* recruits just signed with us!

When did we hire a new coach named Kirby?

wde

If we were to sign Ross that would be a totally wonderful surprise and a deserves a WDE, but we really need beef on the OL.

wde

1 minute ago, CleCoTiger said:

You might try adding some more fiber to your diet.  

My diet has had more fiber due to cancer treatment.  Any more advice?

wde

7 hours ago, Mikey said:

I get that you are a member of a (fortunately) very small group of about three posters that only show up here when they think there will be something to gripe about and are nowhere to be found when things are going good.

You may not believe it but I truly enjoy your posts and arguing with you.  

wde

7 hours ago, ellitor said:

No because I don't pay attention to Bama recruiting enough to know names but I know he's not the first sought after Bama recruit to do it for them.

Regardless you & @AUIH1 drop it or take your mess to PMs. I'm tired of reading y'alls childish crap. Y'all have made a mess of the yearly class thread which I have tried very hard to keep clean, especially this past month.

Sorry E, but you are not a Mod so Mikey and I can fight as much as we want to until a Mod steps in unless you tattletale.

wde

1 minute ago, Gowebb11 said:

I will meet you halfway, @AUIH1 I look at it this way. There were two signing days for AU. The early one, most of us were very happy with. A lot of star power, met a lot of needs, and won some important head to head battles with Bama, UGA, Clemson, etc....Tomorrow is not shaping up to be a good day for us. We lost entirely too many head to head battles in positions of need, and the majority of these kids we had a ton of time and visits invested in. Especially disappointing is once again we failed to take advantage of momentum. Beat both National Championship participants decisively, lit it up with the passing and running game, top 10 defense, a trip to the SECG, and an extension for our HC. We should have been able to close as strong as we did on early signing day.  We failed to close aggressively, period. So I don’t believe we are doomed in recruiting. We’ve signed a ton of talent. But I agree that we are dealing with a perfect storm in a bad way: our 2 biggest rivals are Alpha and all business. We need to get off the ropes, go Roberto Duran on them and go to the middle of the ring and meet them punch for punch. If we do, we will be fine. If we don’t, we won’t. 

Gus is a beta.  That is our problem.  

wde

40 minutes ago, ellitor said:

Yes

I said thank you but it is doubtful that Mikey gets what you posted.

wde

Just now, ellitor said:

There are places to still get talent for top 10 classes. The aforementioned Georgia. Mississippi is looooooaded this cycle,  & there's an opportunity to do work in Florida with 2 unproven staffs at UF & FSU in terms of recruiting.

E, I hope you are correct.  Kirby is going to take all that he wants and will grayshirt those we want.  Saban is going to continue to be a top 3 (recruiting smartly).  We are banking on a new assistant coach to real in all of these great MS recruits.  We were also supposedly (in on)  a lot of recruits that we really needed this recruiting cycle and unless some big surprises happen tomorrow, we are going to miss out (primarily on the OL). 

wde

49 minutes ago, ellitor said:

Well it's a good thing Georgia recruiting & booming & KS can't take them all. There were 40 4*s or better in Georgia in 2018 & already 44 4*s or better in 2019. KS can only take 25 of them each year. Enough talent there to go around..

And Gus doesn't play the game the way those guys do. Just something we have to accept while he is here.

Much like Tuberville when Saban was hired.  Gus better either start playing the game much better or Gus (and ultimately the AU football program) will be looking way up at both of our rivals.  2017 regular season was an outlier. To ignore what Smart is doing at uga is the same as ignoring what Saban started at spuat when he was hired.

wde

11 minutes ago, Mikey said:

Where do you pull this silly stuff from? Oh wait, never mind,  I have a good idea. I didn't say a thing about sanctions.

No we don't have to out recruit them to beat them regularly, history proves that. Apparently Smart appears in your nightmares as some weird bogyman, appearing at your bedside with blood dripping from a sword. Relax, it's not reality, simply a bad dream. It will all be ok. Gus beat him 40-17 just a little over two months ago and he'll beat him again. Go back to sleep now, the sun will come up tomorrow and the big, bad fearsome Smart will disappear until dark time comes to your house again.

Are you seriously  this myopic where it concerns Smart and uga?

wde

17 hours ago, Mikey said:

In the 125 years that we have been playing UGA in football, I'd be surprised if we have "out recruited" them 20 times. Yet the overall record is 56- 58-8. We don't have to out recruit them, just stay close and we'll win our share.

If you don't  realize how the recruiting dynamics have changed since Smart became UGA's HC then just damn...... you need to wake up.  FWIW, the dynamics that have changed has nothing to do with anything other than Smart being a relentless recruiter who will push everything recruiting to the edge.  Gus has to match Smart in the relentless area or we (AU) are going to be left very far behind very soon.  Waiting for some phantom sanctions against UGA and spuat because they cheat and always out recruit us are just simply stupid.  AU recruits the same way Smart at uga and Saban at spuat does.   We are simply not as good at it, nor to we have the inside connections in Alabama.   That doesn't mean we aren't trying just as hard as uga and spuat.  Hell, Pat Dye modeled our program after his idol (Bear Bryant) and cheated just as hard as Bear did.  Jay Jacobs was a Dye boy (and the only reason JJ became AD), so anyone with an IQ above 10 should understand.

wde

1 hour ago, AUDevil said:

recounting a conversation with my wife...left off the quotes.  sorry, dude.

LMAO, no worries!! 

wde