AuburnNTexas

2 hours ago, SCTiger2011 said:

Geeze, I did not suffer through the pain of the Slater/Pawlowski/Golloway years for some bandwagon fans who watched two innings of the 2019 CWS to spew this nonsense lolll.  

Yes, please get rid of the man who owns 3 Regional Championships and 2 CWS appearances in the last 6 years and hire a TRUE WINNER who can return Auburn baseball back to the glory days of...of...?

Fire the pitching coach.  Keep recruiting at a high level.  Enjoy the new facilities that the administration drug their feet around approving for a decade.  

The sky is not falling.  This year sucked.  They went 1-8 in conference games decided by 1 run with the 4th toughest schedule in the nation.  You don't burn down the house because your wife spilled red wine on the carpet.  

What about if it is a white carpet?

Just kidding I couldn't agree with you more.

While it is true, that with NIL more players switch after committing but the great majority don't switch. So I am still going to get excited by a commit but will temper my excitement a little bit.

Even the ones who switch at the end, help with momentum that could help with another player who won't  switch.

5 hours ago, AUSCalum87 said:

Yes, I agree that Mitchell is a great defender and unbelievable athleticism. However, it’s his offensive game that concerns me. Literally no offense outside of layups and dunks for 99% of his scoring. Feel like we need more of a threat to be formidable on offense.

Of course everybody wants the perfect guy who can replace a great player. Jaylin was our second best scorer and I doubt that Chaney or Mitchell could match his scoring but between them they might. They would both be stronger on the boards which was not Jaylins  strength and both play tough defense.  I would love to pick him up.

53 minutes ago, AUSCalum87 said:

It sucks for Achor Achor because he wants to come to Auburn and now I think he can’t get into any major program. However, I understand your sentiment completely. It seems like in the past few years we have had quality guys coming to the program but then aren’t academically eligible. And then things are compounded when you see your rivals, specifically UAT, have no issues recruiting anyone they basically want. Like I said, it’s the frustrating part of being a basketball fan for Auburn. So many quality players year in and year out and we constantly have to go find diamonds in the rough while our rivals just pick and choose the best players.

From what I understand. The issue is we don't have the major that the players were working on at different schools. If it is the same 

Major have we lookwd into adding that major?

4 hours ago, HAPvsOA said:

I am surprised that we haven't heard Wesley Yates name since he's in the portal? We were so high on him as a HS recruit last year. I know that he got hurt and didn't play much for UW, but perhaps he could be a combo guard that could play the 1 or 2 or just a knock down shooter to play with Pettiford. 

It wouldn't hurt to have him visit and go through an  workout to be sure he is healthy. Then decide if we should push for him.

1 hour ago, Mikey said:

Nobody in the general public knows the effort, the amount of NIL money given to any specific player or how much NIL is available for the various sports. All we have is wild speculation and it gets wilder by the day.

So many theories on what the issues is. Sadly none based on any real knowledge.

From what I understand he is visiting tomorrow unless something has changed. We are supposedly his last stop.  I am hoping for good news on this front. Hopefully we know by this weekend on both him and Achor.

I am going for some improvement 8-4.

No lottery money for scholarships, not enough NIL,This is what you will get with any Auburn baseball coach.

I watched a few of our games we are just one really strong starter and a couple of bounces to being a solid middle of the pack SEC team. The old Gonzo would have made a huge difference.

We don't have enough depth because of what I mentioned above. One thing is even in the games we lost the effort was there.

What top coach would want to come to Auburn knowing his hands are tied when recruiting.

I found it. It has Auburn at 22nd.

On 5/4/2024 at 5:23 PM, ertrader said:

Assistant coach of the year. Gotta be a pretty young guy if he just graduated in 2015. I would guess a sport like tennis recruiting is 90% of the job

I would think a young guy should relate well and recruit well but sadly NIL probably comes into play here also.

He will be a fan favorite. With his length and athleticism he has potential to be an elite defender as he develops the rest of his offense. With him CBM and Moore we are set at SF.

Love this kids game. He could get minutes at both PG and SG. He has complete offensive package. He goes to rack and scores, hits the three. And has a nice pull up jumper on a drive.

Adding him to our backcourt along with Pegeus and Pettiford and PG goes from a weakness to a strength and SG gets better also.

Please find a way to get him.

17 minutes ago, arktiger1975 said:

The loss to Yale was certainly disappointing. But we finished a game out of 1st place in the SEC this year, won the SEC tournament, and are projected in the top 10 in the early polls for next season. So I would say Bruce is doing just fine.

I agree Pearl is doing fine but more NIL would help basketball and baseball.

As long as Alabama does not allow lottery money for scholarships it will be hard for any coach to get the talent to win consistently at Auburn. That plus NIL all going to football. Look what has happened to Pearl because of lack of NIL.

Everybody who write's stories were out drinking Margaritas and Cervezas 

CINCO DE MAYO.

If she had any thoughts of being VP she probably shot any chance by shooting her dog and bragging about it. 

Nobody on either side of the aisle agrees with what she did.

17 minutes ago, Shoney'sPonyBoy said:

Arabs ARE "Palestinians."  Or rather, there is no such things as "Palestinians."

Don't believe me, believe this guy, who slipped up and said the quiet part out loud to a Dutch journalist back in 1977 (emphasis mine):  "The Palestinian people do not exist. There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are part of one people, the Arab nation. Lo and behold, I have relatives with Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian and Syrian citizenship. We are one people. It is only for political reasons that we carefully endorse our Palestinian identity. Indeed, it is of national interest for the Arabs to encourage the existence of the Palestinians in the face of Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity is only for tactical reasons." —Zuheir Mohsen, PLO leader from 1971-1979.

You are correct.  Despite this fact that they are all Arabs, The Arabs who were from the area that is referred to as Palestine after multiple wars many left the area and went to places like Syria, Jordon, etc and most were put into camps.  Many have lived in these camps for many years and multiple generations and yet are not allowed to become citizens of those countries even if second and third generation living in those countries. Basically their own people treat them as badly as the Israelis.  That is one of the reasons I said it is a very complicated situation.   

Everybody is trying to simplify a very comlicated narrative. Many people forget the Jews and Palistinians have lived there for thousands of years.  The Palestinians and Arabs both sided with Nazis in trying to eliminate the Jews.  https://jcpa.org/investigating-role-palestinians-arabs-holocaust/ .

This is the background of the multiple wars the Jews in Israel have fought.  Now the Jews in Israel are not without blame, they have taken land and water rights from Arabs in Israel who were not part of Hamas, prior to the Hamas attack that was against women and children not Military infrastructure they have isolated Gaza and made it difficult for the people to live there. Partly because Gaza has been ruled by Hamas who have stated that they want to wipe Israel off the map. 

Yes the IDF have bombed hospitals and killed innocent people.  The Israelis have also shown that Hamas has embeded soldiers in hospitals, schools and other public areas where they have also stored arms, missles and at times fired those missles from these public areas. 

If the Israelis were really trying to wipe the Palistinians out, why would they announce in advance where they were going to be bombing. If they had not done that there would have been a lot more that 35,000 dead people per Hamases count as they supply the numbers of killed.  

I do blame the Israelis for being much to slow in allowing aid like food, water, medicine, etc into Gaza especially the North where they decimated it early on. Sadly there are no winners just losers.  The Israelis state can't afford to lose because if they do they will be wiped out and after the holocoust the Jews don't believe anybody would come to their aid.  The Palestinians in Gaza and to an extent in the West Bank have sided with Hamas and or the PLO. Both Hamas and the PLO have taken in billions of dollars from the UN that was suppossed to improve conditions in Gaza and the West Bank but especially in Gaza and have used the money and resources to creat an extensive tunnel network, created, bought or were given weapons and missles instead of using the money to help their own people.

I also won't deny that there have been times in Gaza where some IDF units have gone to far either by mistake or sadly a few times on purpose. Sadly that happens in every war. Jewish settlers have done attrocious things in some Arab towns and the Israeli government has not protected those towns or prosecuted the offending settlers.

There are Jews in Israel who openly and publically condemn their Government over the attrocities and nothing happens to them  In Gaza if you speak out against Hamas you dissapear. The Palestinians in Gaza are oppressed by Israelis and by their own leaders.  Any poll taken in Gaza has to be taken with a grain of salt if you think anybody would openly say anything against Hamas. 

Have not heard anything on him in a long time. Has this ship sailed?

Did he arrive today? If so how did visit go?

What day is he supposed to visit.

1 hour ago, gravejd said:

I think he'll back up CBM and Howard will compete with Chaney for minutes at the 4. People can of course slide around as needed as the season goes but i think the expected depth chart is this:

PG: Pegues and TBD
SG: Denver Jones and Pettiford 
SF: CBM and CM
PF: Chaney and Jahki
Center: Broome and Cardwell

I think Jahki will be SF with CBM and Moore will be both SF and PF backup. Hopefully we get the Highpoint guard. If we have two more schollies the 

I would like another PF.

3 hours ago, Dual-Threat Rigby said:

Not to be snarky but the date in the OP does say the visit is taking place on the 30th (this post is being made on the 29th) 

Sorry I didn't  notice the date.

I thought this was about Highpoint guard visiting. Did he visit and how did it go?