AUBigCat

Early enrollees can't play in the bowl game correct?

Dee Ford was 190lbs as a high school senior. Reports have Waller about 240. Either way, I hope he's as relentless as Dee Ford was at rushing the QB.

Do these unofficial visits have to come out of the recruits own pocket or is it just that the university can't pay for it? Could a booster or NIL sponsor these trips now? 🤔 

9 hours ago, dabrasco said:

Likely knew they didn't have a snowballs chance in Hell of winning that battle

Likely knew they didn't have a snowballs chance in Hell of being employed by Auburn by the time Perry graduated.

I think we're giving TJ to much flack for his limited time last season and ZC to much credit based on the bama win. TJ was 54.7% behind our OL and ZC was 56.1% behind a TAMU OL. Unless both of these young men make major strides this off season, it won't matter who starts. I think ZC not being available hurts TJ. I'm not sure he's really been challenged this off season. Here's hoping a true star emerges by Fall.

9 hours ago, stealthyfan said:

Only at Auburn do you self inflict a SMU and hammer a strong program into the ground.
Then you (think about) hiring a guy you fired before and hope it’ll be better this time. That seems to be a new tradition. Too funny.

3 minutes ago, WarDamnEagleWDE said:

If he is going to go down, it will be with his people. 

I thought it was reported that Kiesau turned the offer down before Austin took it,  saying he didn't think he was ready. 

15 hours ago, TigerHorn said:

What you and every other person who liked your post don't understand is that elite graduate students DO bring in millions in research dollars, and sometimes much, much more in money for technologies developed. Look at university research $ vs TV contracts. US universities brought in $83.7B in research funding in 2019, which is about 30x TOTAL athletic department revenues for universities. Add up all the TV contracts, NCAA revenue, etc, and you get a total figure of around $2-$3B. Go ahead. Add them up. 

I was personally responsible for a few million $ of contract wins when I was a grad student circa 1991, working 100 hour weeks between studies and managing research programs. So all of you who want to put athletes up on a pedestal "because they bring in $" and "work soooooo hard" need a reality check. Major college sports will get one soon enough. Cash will flow fast and deep until the new wears off. Then it won't any more outside of around 10 or so very wealthy programs. AU won't be one of them. 

You must have Master's degree in building straw man arguments because last time I checked the overwhelming majority of college athletes are undergrad students. And no undergrads bring in more money than football players at places like Auburn. 

And the billions of research funding universities get is mostly due to a professor's research and grant writing. So unless you as a grad student wrote a grant proposal that was accepted and funded,  I highly doubt that you were "personally responsible" for bringing in a few million dollars. You were just the hired help to carry out the project like most grad students. I'm a dissertation away from my PhD at Auburn and was part of the planning committee that just helped the university secure a $10M National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in August. So yea I know a little bit about "elite grad students" and that grant had very little to do with them personally. 

3 hours ago, Zeek said:

@bigbirdcould you move this to the Rivals section? Auburn has moved on from his recruitment. We simply like other prospects better.

I was lied to all these years!! I guess beggars CAN be choosers!😆 

21 hours ago, jluvah said:

All you guys who were so happy these kids were finally “ getting paid”. How do you like what bird said? NIL just makes the bamas of the world harder to compete against. We are gonna pine for the days when a free education( it’s called “college football” for a reason) was what a talented kid could expect from a university to have the privilege of showing his talents to the NFL. Then, if good enough, he could get paid( it’s called professional football for a reason)

If chemistry students were annually bringing in millions of dollars to a school, you best believe they would have figured out how to get their share while in college.  Capitalism is the American way after all. So yea I won't be pining for those days as long as schools are paying coaches $7M+ per year to coach (or not coach) based off of potential talent. Auburn will figure it out or we'll become a gymnastics/equestrian/soccer school.

16 hours ago, Mikey said:

If he can get rides to Clemson and other distant places, it looks like he could get a ride to AU if he was the least bit interested.

I guess you've never had to depend on rides from other people. If the people (I'm assuming other recruits/teammates) aren't going to Auburn, then you aren't going to Auburn. It's not Uber. You don't really get to pick the destination. 

5 hours ago, W.E.D said:

It's been pretty disappointing that he's skipped our two big home games for other schools.  He bailed on UGA and now he's bailing this weekend to go to Clemson.

Maybe he's saving it for the Iron Bowl or he's been here enough and is just trying to go to other schools

Word is he doesn't have great transportation and has to depend on others for rides. 

I've seen the list on another site and it's bananas! Some are saying this is the may be the best selection of recruits on campus ever! Even better than the Chizik/Luper/Trooper years!

  Yes!!  Now if we could get a program from 2-4 in the Montgomery/

Auburn-Opelika area i could completely delete any need for infidel radio!