DunderMifflin

Auburn will hold a bowl practice open to fans Christmas Eve at Hoover High School’s Buccaneer Stadium. Starts at 2 p.m. CT.

It is a vicious cycle, IMO.

Auburn fans have little to no trust in al.com so they don’t follow, click and interact with it much.  So what gets clicks on al.com if your job is to cover AU and generate activity and interest? Auburn related articles that attract bama or other fans enough so they will click.  Stuff like the AU coach approach to vaccine or whatever.  Anything bad, controversial, eye-catching.

I almost think a bit of a reset is what is needed to build the trust back so AU people will click/interact with AU content on the site so AU beat writers don’t have to feel like they must cater to bama fans or others to drive interaction.

If you have any thoughts for the new guy I would encourage you to reach out and give him your perspective.  I plan to do that this weekend.  I think it would be good for AU if we could somehow break the vicious cycle described above.  He posted this at the end of the article I saw:

“My email is nwilborn@Al.Com, and my Twitter is @nwilborn19. Feel free to reach out if there’s a story you feel should be told. Reach out if I get something wrong. Reach out if you have a restaurant recommendation.“

Said to be down to three teams:  Auburn, UCLA, Oklahoma State.

Last time I looked OSU had most of the predictions but that was before AU made a push and got him on campus.

Stat, what do you make of the downward trend on defense?  Late season injuries?

with chubb, michele, harris and scarbrough coming in over the next three weeks we have to at least be solid with our run fits and keep the passing game in front of us.

I heard he can hit the NARROW side of a barn - from 60 yards away.