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    What will Aden Do?

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    Just now, aubiefifty said:

    What is Aden Holloway going to do now?

    Mark Sears has announced he's returning to Gump Land for his senior season. Unless Sears gets hurt, I wouldn't think Holloway will get a whole lot of playing time at PG. And he certainly isn't a Shooting Guard.

    Will he go back into the portal looking for a new home?

     

    i am sure they will figure it out but it is something to talk about.

    by the way i copied this from reddit. i left the dudes name out forhis privacy and since i took it without asking. do NOT turn me in boys.

    What will Aden Do?

    in Rivals Basketball

    Posted

    What is Aden Holloway going to do now?

    Mark Sears has announced he's returning to Gump Land for his senior season. Unless Sears gets hurt, I wouldn't think Holloway will get a whole lot of playing time at PG. And he certainly isn't a Shooting Guard.

    Will he go back into the portal looking for a new home?

     

    i am sure they will figure it out but it is something to talk about.

    He is Guilty on ALL charges.........

    in Political Smack Talk

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Cardin Drake said:

    Stalin would be proud of this show trial.  The prosecutors didn't have to tell Trump's team before the trial what the predicate crime was that magically turned a misdemeanor into a felony, and the jury didn't have to name it either in their verdict.  The facts of the case don't matter. All that matters is who's on the jury. Congratulations. I hope you all like the new rules.

    so the dems aregoing to start murdering people? what you smoking?

    Start Times/Networks for First 3 Games released

    in AU Football Forum

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    Kickoff times, TV info for SEC's 1st 3 weeks announced

    Updated: May. 30, 2024, 2:51 p.m.|Published: May. 30, 2024, 1:55 p.m.
    ~4 minutes

    ESPN on Thursday announced kickoff times and television information for several 2024 SEC football games, including the complete schedules for the first three weeks of the season.

    Also announced was kickoff time for the SEC championship game, which takes place at 3 p.m. on Dec. 7 in Atlanta, with TV coverage on ABC. Information about several other games — including Texas-Oklahoma, Georgia-Georgia Tech and Mississippi State-Ole Miss — trickled out earlier in the day Thursday.

    Fans can watch all of the announced games live by using DirecTV Stream or Fubo TV.

    Kickoff times and television information for other games will be announced on June 11. Below are the known SEC kickoff times and television information for 2024, as of noon Thursday (all times Central):

    Thursday, Aug. 29

    Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Arkansas (Little Rock), 6:30 p.m., ESPNU

    Murray State at Missouri, 7 p.m., SEC Network

    Friday, Aug. 30

    Temple at Oklahoma, 6 p.m., ESPN

    Saturday, Aug. 31

    Clemson vs. Georgia (Atlanta), 11 a.m., ABC

    Virginia Tech at Vanderbilt, 11 a.m., ESPN

    Chattanooga at Tennessee, 11:45 a.m., SEC Network

    Miami at Florida, 2:30 p.m., ABC

    Colorado State at Texas, 2:30 p.m., ESPN

    Old Dominion at South Carolina, 3:15 p.m., SEC Network

    Eastern Kentucky at Mississippi State, 5 p.m., ESPN+/SECN+

    Western Kentucky at Alabama, 6 p.m., ESPN

    Furman at Ole Miss, 6 p.m., ESPN+/SECN+

    Notre Dame at Texas A&M, 6:30 p.m., ABC

    Alabama A&M at Auburn, 6:30 p.m., ESPN+/SECN+

    Southern Miss at Kentucky, 6:45 p.m., SEC Network

    Sunday, Sept. 1

    USC vs. LSU (Las Vegas), 6:30 p.m., ABC

    Saturday, Sept. 7

    Arkansas at Oklahoma State, 11 a.m., ABC

    Texas at Michigan, 11 a.m., Fox

    McNeese at Texas A&M, 11:45 a.m., SEC Network

    Tennessee Tech at Georgia, 1 p.m., ESPN+/SECN+

    South Carolina at Kentucky, 2:30 p.m., ABC

    California at Auburn, 2:30 p.m., ESPN2

    Middle Tennessee at Ole Miss, 3:15 p.m., SEC Network

    South Florida at Alabama, 6 p.m., ESPN

    Samford at Florida, 6 p.m., ESPN+/SECN+

    Buffalo at Missouri, 6 p.m., ESPN+/SECN+

    Tennessee vs. North Carolina State (Charlotte), 6:30 p.m., ABC

    Alcorn State at Vanderbilt, 6:30 p.m., ESPNU

    Nicholls at LSU, 6:30 p.m., ESPN+/SECN+

    Houston at Oklahoma, 6:45 p.m., SEC Network

    Mississippi State at Arizona State, 9:30 p.m., ESPN

    Saturday, Sept. 14

    LSU at South Carolina, 11 a.m., ABC

    Alabama at Wisconsin, 11 a.m., Fox

    Boston College at Missouri, 11:45 a.m., SEC Network

    Texas A&M at Florida, 2:30 p.m., ABC

    Tulane at Oklahoma, 2:30 p.m., ESPN or ESPN2

    UAB at Arkansas, 3:15 p.m., SEC Network

    Ole Miss at Wake Forest, 5:30 p.m., The CW

    Texas-San Antonio at Texas, 6 p.m., ESPN

    Vanderbilt at Georgia State, 6 p.m., ESPN+

    Georgia at Kentucky, 6:30 p.m., ABC

    New Mexico at Auburn, 6:30 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU

    Toledo at Mississippi State, 6:30 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU

    Kent State at Tennessee, 6:45 p.m., SEC Network

    Saturday, Sept. 28

    Georgia at Alabama, 6:30 p.m., ABC

    Saturday, Oct. 12

    Oklahoma vs. Texas (Dallas), 2:30 p.m., ABC/ESPN

    Saturday, Nov. 2

    Florida vs. Georgia (Jacksonville), 2:30 p.m., ABC

    Friday, Nov. 29

    Ole Miss at Mississippi State, 2:30 p.m., ABC

    Georgia Tech at Georgia, 6:30 p.m., ABC

    Saturday, Dec. 7

    SEC Championship game (Atlanta), 3 p.m., ABC

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    Kessler’s second NBA season: ‘Close to being overheated’

    in AU Basketball Forum

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    Walker Kessler’s second NBA season: ‘Close to being overheated’

    Updated: May. 30, 2024, 8:10 a.m.|Published: May. 30, 2024, 8:00 a.m.
    4–5 minutes

    During the 2023-24 NBA season, Utah won fewer games than it did the previous season for the third year in a row, and Jazz center Walker Kessler did not build on his promising rookie campaign.

    But while it was a season that Kessler said had the elements to make him “fall off the deep end and be crazy and maybe have like a patch of hair missing or something,” the former Auburn standout said he was not discouraged.

    “Definitely was an interesting year,” Kessler said. “I think personally definitely saw the hills and valleys, a lot of ups and downs. But I learned a lot this year. I learned a lot about myself, about the team, and just trying to go into the offseason taking what I can from this season and trying to improve. …

    “I learned that I need to give myself a lot of grace -- and I did a lot better at that towards the end of the year -- and understanding that the path I want to get to – the best possible player I can be – is not going to be just a straight going up. And understanding that, not to be discouraged by difficult times or times where I don’t see where I’m supposed to get what I’m supposed to get.”

    Kessler said he learned those things “by going through it,” particularly Utah’s 13-game losing streak. The Jazz beat the Atlanta Hawks 124-122 on March 15 and didn’t win again until downing the Houston Rockets 124-121 on April 11.

    “You can either crash and burn,” Kessler said, “or look for a good out of it and try to learn from it and try to apply it and understanding that it’s not going to be, like I said, a steady incline. Kind of trial by fire, if you will. …

    “I won’t say I’ve been close to crashing and burning, but I’ve been close to being overheated and a little turbulence. Everyone’s gone through difficult times this year and so just trying not to let that control you too much. But, obviously, you’re going to react in some way because we all are human.”

    As a rookie, Kessler averaged 9.2 points, 8.4 rebounds and 2.3 blocks while playing in 74 games, with 40 starts. Kessler started the final 34 games that he played and averaged 11.9 points, 10.5 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 2.9 blocks in that span.

    Kessler was a member of the NBA All-Rookie team and finished third in the voting for the KIA NBA Rookie of the Year Award for the 2022-23 season.

    Utah had a 37-45 record in Kessler’s rookie season. This season, the Jazz finished at 31-51.

    In 2023-24, Kessler averaged 8.1 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.4 blocks while playing in 64 games with 22 starts. He finished second in the NBA in blocked shots per game.

    Kessler started the first eight games of the season before missing the next seven with an elbow-ligament sprain. He missed the final six games of the season because of a broken nose. Between the injuries, Kessler’s longest stretch of starts lasted four games.

    “Obviously, nobody likes inconsistency,” Kessler said, “and so trying to learn how to go through with that and learn that you can only control what you can control on any given night. And for me, that was a big learning curve because I had never been used to that. And so, like I said before, it’s the same thing: You can either react one way – crash and burn -- or try to figure it out. And so I took the latter approach.”

    Between his NBA seasons, Kessler played for the United States team in the FIBA World Cup. He said he’s looking forward to an open offseason.

    “It’s not even about the relaxing part more so as being in my own base camp between here and Atlanta and just working,” Kessler said. “Not having to worry about FIBA or anything right now. I’m very, very looking forward to it.”

    Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.

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    5.30.24 Football Articles

    in AU Football Forum

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    What are Hugh Freeze’s immediate concerns as college football faces a ‘paradigm shift’?

    Updated: May. 30, 2024, 9:12 a.m.|Published: May. 30, 2024, 8:43 a.m.

    4–5 minutes

    Auburn's Hugh Freeze speaks to reporters at SEC Spring Meetings 2024

    Auburn head football coach Hugh Freeze admits he hasn’t been coaching as long as some of those who joined him at he SEC’s spring meetings in Destin, Florida this week. But in his experience, no trip to the spring meetings has been quite like this.

    “With these meetings, there’s a lot more questions that we have than normal,” Freeze told reporters Tuesday.

    This year’s spring meetings came less than a week after the NCAA and its five biggest conferences agreed to pay just south of $2.8 billion to settle a handful of antitrust claims that were facing college sports. The decision was a monumental one — one that sets the table for a revenue-sharing model that could start funneling money directly into the pockets of student-athletes.

    While the settlement still has a way to go and still needs the nod of approval from a federal judge, student-athletes could begin seeing payments as early as the fall semester in 2025.

    “It’s a total change. It’s a paradigm shift,” Freeze said, adding that he currently has “no clue” what to tell current recruits who are beginning to ask questions about the new model.

    Again, it’s hard to answer other people’s questions as head coaches who still have so many unanswered questions of their own.

    “The toughest thing right now is we struggle to even know what questions to ask because we just don’t know everything yet,” Freeze said.

    However, after part of a proposed athlete-compensation model featured the idea of a roster cap, which would force programs to significantly cut back on football rosters, Freeze knew that was one question he and other coaches wanted to bring to the table.

    While most major college football programs have long operated with roster sizes of 115-plus players, power conference leaders are considering trimming that number and allowing a team to field as few as 85 to 95 players.

    And while having a team of 85 players currently aligns with the NCAA’s maximum number permitted scholarships, the concept would likely mean the end for walk-on football players.

    “It’s something that’s really concerning to us,” Freeze said of the issue. “We’re only used to practicing a certain way, we’re not the NFL, we’re a physical practice and trying to understand what that looks like uniformly across the nation and how it affects other sports with whatever comes from this settlement, that’s probably up there.”

    Freeze was far from alone in his concerns as a majority of the other coaches around the league voiced similar opinions on the issue.

    SEC commissioner Greg Sankey says he’s told coaches to “slow down” when they bring up the topic.

    “I know other conferences have discussed it, coaches have then texted our coaches, they get fired up and we said just wait. We’re gonna have a conversation, that’s where it is, that’s a concept,” Sankey added.

    The other issue weighing heavy on Freeze’s mind isn’t a new one for him.

    Earlier this month, Freeze told reporters that he was in the boat of wanting players to sign a contract — just like coaches do.

    “I’ve said publicly: You need to bring it to campus, and sign them to a contract just like I sign a contract,” Freeze told local reporters at the Regions Tradition Pro-Am in Birmingham on May 8. “If they want a one-year contract, great. If they want a two-year contract, great. But once you sign it, just like if I leave Auburn, somebody’s got to pay Auburn money. And it should be the same way in my opinion. I think that would bring a lot more sanity to it.”

    And Freeze doubled down on that Tuesday in Destin.

    “And then obviously the structure that gives us some lock-in to a roster for a period of time and we know this is our roster for this period of time,” Freeze said, continuing his response to a question about what issues are at the forefront of his mind. “Those are the two things, probably, that are on the forefront of my mind and I think most of our coaches.”

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    Auburn budgets $25.7 million for new videoboard

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    Auburn budgets $25.7 million for new Jordan-Hare Stadium videoboard

    Updated: May. 30, 2024, 8:39 a.m.|Published: May. 30, 2024, 8:32 a.m.
    3–4 minutes
    Jordan-Hare Stadium

    Renderings for Auburn's proposed Jordan-Hare Stadium north endzone viedoboard project, as shown in meeting material documents a Board of Trustees session scheduled for June 7.Auburn Board of Trustees

    Auburn’s anticipated videoboard upgrade to the north endzone at Jordan-Hare Stadium will cost about $25.7 million, according to material documents posted online for Auburn’s June 7 Board of Trustees meeting.

    Documents state the funding will come from gifts to the athletic department, but do not provide further information on the donors.

    In the upcoming BOT session, board members will vote on a final approval for the project which was initiated in a Feb. 2, 2024 BOT meeting. The initial approval was unanimous.

    Construction can not begin on the videoboard until trustees grant this final approval.

    The vote, which is expected to pass, would be the biggest breakthrough in Auburn’s long-standing quest to upgrade the antiquated scoreboard currently in the north endzone. The BOT made a similar initial approval in 2017 for a new videoboard, but the project never came to fruition.

    The meeting materials provided new renderings for the anticipated project, in addition to Auburn’s previous renderings from February.

    Jordan-Hare Stadium

    Renderings for Auburn's proposed Jordan-Hare Stadium north endzone viedoboard project, as shown in meeting material documents a Board of Trustees session scheduled for June 7.Auburn Board of Trustees

    At the Feb. 2 BOT meeting, Dan King, vice president of Auburn’s Property and Facilities Committee, said the current scoreboard installed in 1987 is “truly problematic.” Athletic Director John Cohen stressed the need to modernize the north endzone since the beginning of his Auburn tenure in late 2022.

    The new videoboard, should it be approved, will be 47 feet high by 154 feet wide. That is roughly two-thirds the size of the current south endzone videoboard, according to BOT documents.

    Since the initial approval in February, Auburn has worked with LYBD Engineers of Birmingham — a previously approved contractor — to finish the design for the videoboard.

    Documents for the June 7 meeting explicitly mention improving the gameday experience for Auburn students. Auburn’s student section is in the south endzone meaning Auburn’s only current videoboard is behind the students. The new project would give them a videoboard to look at without turning around.

    Cohen has said the videoboard is only the beginning of a longer, more significant renovation process in the Jordan-Hare Stadium north endzone. The larger project, Cohen states, is still in the “dream phase.”

    The new videoboard, if approved, will begin construction and Auburn previously stated it anticipates having the board by the 2025 football season.

    Matt Cohen covers Auburn sports for AL.com. You can follow him on X at @Matt_Cohen_ or email him at mcohen@al.com

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    He is Guilty on ALL charges.........

    in Political Smack Talk

    Posted

    Just now, autigeremt said:

    It will be interesting to see who votes for the convicted felon versus the should be felon. 
     

    America. 🇺🇸 

    yep i knew it. cry if it makes you feel better. sell you trump clown shoes on ebay. you might get some money back. i will give you this...........you are full of it but at least you are not scared.

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