Rednilla

It should be duly noted that, aside from those two games in 08 and 12 when the head coach was in his final year at Auburn, the last time we lost to Vandy was in 1955. We're 6-2 in Nashville since then. There's a reason I brought up the 93 team: that was the first year of Bowden's tenure, too. Things might be tougher today than we want them to be, but I have a good feeling about us pulling it out. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic (as I am prone to be when it comes to Auburn), but as much as this won't be a gimme, we should definitely win comfortably.

I just want to see a comfortable victory. It'd be nice to see the passing game continue to thrive as it did in the first half last week, but that's more for recruiting purposes.

That would be dangerous for me. Not that I have a problem setting a limit, but if I hit a groove at the poker table, I wouldn't want to get up from it. I've only played at a real casino twice, both times in Vegas, and one of those two nights I turned $500 into just under 5 grand over the course of an 8-hour binge (that started at 8 PM). I don't remember my friend taking me away from the table to go back to our room, but I woke up around 3 PM the next day hung over as hell. So yeah, sounds like fun.

Well, my older brother went to graduate school there, and the one night I spent with him in Nashville (we were going to see the Steelers vs. the Oilers--yes, they were the Tennessee Oilers for two seasons, remember--the next day), I got to be the darling of a few extremely attractive coeds who were enamored with Cornbread's little bro. My brother was nicknamed Cornbread because his friends, who were all from up north, brought their version of cornbread to a party and were all like Hey this is your kind of food! He described it as basically a corn muffin. So he called Mom and figured out how to make her cornbread, and wowed all his Yankee friends with how good real cornbread is, thus earning the nickname. So yeah, suffice to say my memories of Nashville are happy ones. I choose to summon those spirits to bolster our team today, rather than putting the bad juju of last-year-coaching-jobs-gone-south on this game.

Didn't we play in Nashville in 93, when the defense stepped up and stopped the Commodores 3 times from inside the 5 yard line in the waning moments to hold on? It was a miserable day on offense... we might have won that game 7-3. I know we were up by 4. I watched the AttitUde tape enough times that I oughta remember...

I didn't watch Apollo 13 for the first time until a couple of years ago, but good grief was that a good movie! RIP Ken. You are a true American hero!

OK Boomer.

@Auctoritas You've got mail.

He did, but I was asking if there were any big recruiting battles between Auburn and Georgia that Dye won before the 82 season when he showed signs of life in the program... I'm sure he won plenty of battles being a Georgia boy himself, but... ah, forget it, I've gotta go pick up my daughter.

Well, it didn't have to be 81, it could have been the 82 class, too, because Dye didn't set the world on fire with his first season.

Yeah, but those weren't on the heels of UGA winning a national title, which is where I was going with that.

I think that might well be a factor. And, quite frankly, if Bolden does pick Auburn, we aren't back, because we ain't never been there before. At least not as far as I know... did Dye pull a kid out of Georgia that Georgia really wanted and could compare to Bolden back before the 83 shoulda-been NC? Because that's the only time that Georgia was anything like where they are now and it might have happened. @augolf1716 can you think of anyone?

That is very true, but it's going to be difficult for anyone to take over for Bruce because there's only one Bruce. Even if Steven were to leave for HC experience elsewhere, I'm not sure he'd be able to take over immediately following his dad and expect not to see a dip of some sort. I guess maybe the best thing for Steven's chances of being the head coach here would be to get HC experience elsewhere, let someone else be hired when Bruce retires, and then if/when that coach doesn't work out then we evaluate Steven and see if he'd be a good fit at that juncture. But that's getting way ahead of ourselves. I'm hoping Bruce is in his position for another decade.

You know, I don't know anything about how much of the coaching/recruiting/etc. is Steven being a chip off the old block vs. getting the opportunity just because his dad is the head coach (and looking good only because his dad is so good at what he does), but I'd sure like to believe it's the first one. If it is the first one, then I don't know whether remaining under/eventually taking over for his dad would prepare him better for being a head coach, or if he'd be better served going to a smaller program and working his way up the coaching ranks himself. But how nice would it be for Bruce to win at least one NC, and then in 5-10 years retire, leaving the team to Steven, who continues the successful program his father built for another 15-20 years?

Football season can't get here soon enough...

And yet by disparaging our lack thereof, you call his recruiting abilities into question.

Well, except for the whole pointing out the lack of O-line recruits, yeah. Not saying you're wrong, just saying that you aren't 100% positive.

Except he didn't flip twice, did he? He just flipped in an epically messed up way...

Just reading the tea leaves, it seems like this one is going to fall to the good guys.

Or both.

Never tried that one, but as I love the other two you listed, I might have to try it.

Honey Nut Cheerios CTC Raisin Bran Lucky Charms Frosted Mini-Wheats

Hearsay?