Quietmaninthecorner

Then again look at the 95% of school's who's athletics programs run deeply in the red. We are one of he few NCAA schools that has a football team that actually MAKES money. Donations to a school should go to mostly to academics (80% to 20%, or more). Schools that do not do this will eventually become football factories with outdated educational equipment and low quality teachers. Quality of education will fall. Lower income from alum, and future AU billionaires will be fewer. there goes donations. The only people that will search out Auburn will be football players and football fans. Not top students. YEAH, there will be some players/fans that are also top students, but most of those that are very about their education will look elsewhere. I want it all! Top 10 in every sport and in every major in academics. I want the best engineers (and all majors) in the world fighting each other to get an education at Auburn. I want the best athletes in the world fighting each other to play at Auburn. . I want the best facilities and equipment for athletes and students. Better housing for all. Has anyone seen how run down some of our dorms are? How outdated some of our educational equipment is? Yep. somewhat unrealistic to have it all. But we can get close, and that should be our goal. Give everybody a little light under the sun.

have you not heard some of our coaches/ players / fans pronounce the word Auburn as "AuRburn". 1/3 of them don't even pronounce it correctly.

Tai would be a 4 star, but 17 lbs. of his 260 lbs. listed weight is just his hair.

I felt like getting a little philosophical so bear with me. It is next to impossible to use past team performance to predict future team performance. Here is why.... A team can be broken down into 2 basic areas for prediction. Quantitative numbers and incorporeal factors. The FIRST consists of he numbers and stats. It is a decent starting point for future results. Including W-L record, returning players, total years playing together, new player experience, size, speed, power, etc. The SECOND, intangibles, make the quantitative predictions less accurate and have almost as much effect. Things like, how motivated the team and each specific player is or still is. Team chemistry changes, coaching dynamics, changes in confidence, game planning changes, fan support, game day focus, understanding of the playbook, whatever it is that people call luck, etc. These can change for good or bad and happen to every team . We have no realistic way to track these. MONKEY WRENCH! Now, with the NIL and the transfer portal, almost every team's roster changes year to year way more than before NIL and TP. So we don't even know how similar other teams will be to what they were the year before let alone our own. A.I. would have a hard time accurately prediction a future outcome even if it had every stat possible. There are just to many variables that are not quantitative or even logical at times. I am a firm believer that any team can beat any team on any given Saturday. It is rare a major underdog pulls it off, but it happens. Can you predict a single game outcome? Most of the time...IF the stats are skewed toward one team. Trying to predict a future season record is a random guess at best. W's and L's come and go. ALL I ever ask of our team is to fight. Have good work ethic, be prepared and look organized. I can take a loss as long as we look competitive and competent. I get more irritated by barely winning a game we look totally incompetent during. I do not want to go back to the Chinese-fire-drill of the Gus days. There is no shame in losing to a better team. The shame is in lack of preparation... Win or loss.

I guess. The injury does not make it any easier. Then again, when was the last time you watched Israel play? JMO... I see him as a very good player, but, he is not a superstar, and now has an injury. (with no games set in the future for him to prove he is @ 100%.) CAN he recover 100%? heck YES! WILL he recover 100%? remains to be seen. I don't see him gaining attention at 95% recovered or less. There are too many 100% healthy guys out there that can also play.

"... They did last year." I say, So what? Berman should do the senior stuff. 'Cause: ending his career on an injury. (likely his last real game ever.) Jaylin should do the stuff. 'Cause: winningest player in AU history.

I can't imagine people rejoicing when something good happens to them and being negative when something bad happens to them. /s

I dig this. I wonder what pose Aubie will be in. He has some classics.

Smaller school's football programs are in trouble. Likely Basketball and maybe baseball. I am thinking there will come a day when the "smaller school's" shut down their football program completely and put 100% of NIL into other less followed sports. Like: Wrestling, Rugby, equestrian etc. Can you imagine if you took your "small" football NIL and put it all into swim team recruits? I see a future where a lot of "smaller" schools becoming very competitive in the one or two "smaller" sports by dropping football altogether.

According to one report, Pearl and coaches went over the 2nd half plan after the player meeting.

A taste of Honey. TRADITIONAL mead fermenting. Nothing but honey water and yeast.

I tried to make my yeast very happy so they would ferment quickly on this one. They got a little too happy. Looks like my yeast are having the time of their short lives. There are thousands of generations of yeast born and dying in this vid.

Sweet-n-Tart Cherry Xanadu mead in the fermenter.

IT's a double edge sword. You go to bama for a year, and suddenly you are worth more in the portal than bama is willing to pay. Teams desperate for a LB will be willing to up the anti and pay more than bama pays each of their many LBs. bama will soon be used for the name and to get more NIL from other schools with less talent across the team willing to pay more for a single player or two.