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56 minutes ago, bigbird said:

I don't pretend to understand the SEC or NCAA rules.  It's a convoluted mess full of traps and snares

I was thinking the other day it may be a good thing if the school that a kid is transferring TO (or the player themself) ,  has to pay a % back of the Original school's  (transferring from) NIL investment.  Esp.  at the level of the SEC.  May be the SEC can work something  similar out.

This will  slow down a lot of transfers.

It is not right for a school to invest large amounts of money, time, and training in a kid only to have them transfer to a rival, pretrained, for a little more $.  It is a lost investment and there should be some protection. 

The way it is now,  it is just a mater of time before medium "sized" schools tell players to go to Auburn (example) for a very low NIL.  Use AU's training facilities and nutrition program,  and next year when you are a little more mature and ready to hit the field,  we give you a huge NIL to transfer to here (La. Mo.). 

^^^ no more redshirting players for smaller schools.   Just send them to the school with the BEST training the player can get into at low NIL....  with a large NIL carrot in a year for transferring. 

On 3/5/2024 at 6:20 PM, tinman1 said:

  When athletics do good (mainly football) the school does good.  Donations increase.  Overall student enrollment, particularly out of state, grows by a large margin. 

 

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   Schools that do not do this will eventually become football factories with outdated educational equipment and low quality teachers.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. 

1 hour ago, AUght2win said:

No. That’s SO stupid. It’s written literally everywhere.

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.   

5 hours ago, AuburnNTexas said:

Assuming they sign that is 3 O-linr in this class so far.

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.

8 minutes ago, NCAubs said:

I think you underestimate modern medicine.  
 

He has a shot to play overseas.   Specifically, he wants to play in Isreal.  

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.  

1 hour ago, GwillMac6 said:

 

"... 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. 

5 hours ago, TeamZero77 said:

Go back and read this thread on December 22nd when Coleman flipped from Bama to Auburn. Everybody loved it then and was saying Merry Flipmas. Nobody was saying they hate the current state of college football in this thread that day. Now he flips BACK to Alabama and people hate the current state of college football because of NIL, the portal and saying that there's no loyalty. 

It is what it is and like several college coaches have recently said, college sports are never going to return to what they were just a few years ago. Gotta roll with the changes if we want to stay relevant. We all love it when Freeze flips recruits to Auburn (and he has flipped quiet a bit since he's been here) but we're also going to have recruits flip from us to other schools as well. It's just the nature of the business now. 

I also agree that Ryan Williams signing with Bama has hurt us with some recruits but I truly think Coleman going back to Bama is mainly due to Coach Garrett leaving for the Jaguars and our new DL coach not having as much experience as an on-field coach. Coleman even said he flipped back to Bama because he feels like they can develop him better there than what we can. That tells me that Coach Garrett leaving was huge in Coleman's decision to flip back to Bama. 

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.    

38 minutes ago, autigeremt said:

It’s a new day. In some ways it might kick some of these athletes in the teeth. I believe Auburn will take care of its new employees but I could see college football shrinking because of it. Smaller schools are in trouble.  

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.

51 minutes ago, BizEagle said:

I have to admit that I was bummed after the first half.  What amazed me is that CBM took over the locker room, so the coaches could not communicate plan changes during the 1/2 time break.  In spite of that, the team came out and rolled into the 2nd half.  Maybe the team was so focused on a conservative plan in the 1st half (playing tight) that they were not executing?

Also, Ole Miss looked fatigued or playing tight in the 2nd half, they just weren't moving the same.  Chris Beard must have been frustrated to the max.  He was sweating, red faced.  Wes Flan looked grim too.  That was a sad looking group by the end of that game, totally deflated.

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. 

1 hour ago, woodford said:

Bud Elliott from 247 is one I trust a lot when it comes to this stuff. Just ask yourself, why would Alabama have such a massive NIL operation? They don't have to pay a premium. I'd be willing to bet that most recruits would take a pay cut to go to Alabama. 

It's not always the cash that drives these decisions. The elite who are lucky enough to not be surrounded by idiots know that playing for Saban or Kirby is better than making a few hundred thousand more and going to somewhere like Florida for the time being.

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.

BB Trivia buffs,  I need a hand.   Has the ever  been an NCAA basketball game that had NO fouls?  Even if only one side had no fouls?

On 2/12/2022 at 6:54 PM, Grumps said:

So how was it???????????

It came out too dry,  Slightly bitter.  I'd give it a 6 out of 10.

1 hour ago, Sizzle said:

Auburn fans always think coaches have secret plans like they’re 2 steps ahead or something when that’s not really the case. Freeze admitted himself he was struggling in the portal. He said out loud what we already knew but it’s good to see we got a potential contributor now.

Hopefully he becomes a really good player for us because I liked this guys tape coming out of HS

I suspect Freeze is not a good fast talking salesman.  He is a relationship guy.    

He has never met  lot of these top portal guys.   I think that top players Hugh has already (recently) recruited but choose another school will look at AU much more seriously when entering the portal  than top players CHF has never met that are in the portal.

If so, we may start seeing familiar names in the portal choosing AU in the next year or 2. 

I think this team is A LOT of fun to watch.   

It doesn't hurt that we have been successful so far. 

On 1/14/2024 at 9:29 AM, aubiefifty said:

everyone says he left to be with his girl and that is the whole gist of the thing.

That is not all the Insiders were saying here.    I have no information other than what has been posted,  but, it was said there is a minor issue.   "  "  It is "adjacent"  to caddy's issue.   

Brennan Carroll (OC:  U AZ) may be available.   Washington  just hired AZ  HC Jedd Fisch .

I didn't see many of their games,  but what I saw I really liked.  Not sure if the style would mesh with Hugh's,  but is not that different. 

2 minutes ago, aubiefifty said:

everyone says he left to be with his girl and that is the whole gist of the thing.

I really hope it is just about a girl.  Makes some sense.  

I have no idea what transpired.  Like you,  I am just opining.     Some of the insiders in the know, mentioned on this board that Zac was " " adjacent to the issue with caddy.

I took that as he was involved in a some very minor part of the same issue.  OR,  he saw what was done but did not report it (or denied it?) .   Or, he decided to leave because Caddy was no longer going to be there.   OOOORRRR  something similar

9 minutes ago, aubiefifty said:

this is my opinion alone but i have seen this stated a couple of different places. let us not drag zac through the mud.folks are saying zac did nothing he just wanted out and not to confuse him of some kind of scandalous behavior. this is the opinion i will believe until i know for fact on here.  if is just not fair to zac who is called a great auburn guy. if this blows up in face i am ok with it. what about YOU mr mims?

IF he did something wrong,  I would expect it to be minor.   Like he saw something but did not report it. 

6 minutes ago, HAPvsOA said:

Man, this sucks! I was never a Freeze guy when we were looking, but have been super impressed with his recruiting and was hoping that I was wrong. Not sure what's going on behind the scenes, but losing Cadillac and Etheridge is a huge buzz kill. 

At least there is AU basketball.  

Don't give up.  It has nothing to do with Freeze.