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Sigh, scrimmages wear me out. They always leaves a question that can't be answered "Is our defense really good, or does the offense suck?" Glad to hear DD is looking good. The pressure on Bo has to be brutal. He is the incumbent, but there is no room for mistakes right now for him.

I think you all are reading a lot into a small amount of video. Sometimes QB's don't put a lot of velocity on a short pass intentionally. High school receivers in particular tend to drop bullet screen passes. My personal bias is always toward the one who can also pull it in and run, but I'm just happy we have 3 guys who look very capable. I like Bo, but If Bo misses the passes he did last year, I have no doubt somebody else will get a chance.

Bad list. 1-10 should all be Bama.

Leota's bio makes me believe he will be a star for us for the next two years. The kid is impressive. And you gotta love a guy named Eku...

It's easiest to sell top recruits on recent success, and the family atmosphere helped out Gus a lot. But we are looking at a new world here. Both of those things are great, but today if you want a recruit, you better figure out how to show him the money.

Yeah, I can't hold that answer against Big Kat. It seemed to be a bit tongue in cheek.

Bah, humbug. Hard to get through our schedule without a stumble, but we ain't losing all those games.

The big question is "Has Texas finally found a home in a conference they can't destroy?" 😁

I'm not sure what happened to recruiting in Gus's last year, but it was a disaster. Perhaps word of the change was leaking out; perhaps the staff was mailing it in. The thing I liked about Gus is that he was a terrific recruiter, and really, that's about 90% of a head coach's job. I think Harsin did a good job after he came in of getting transfers to fill out the class, and we wound up with a decent group, especially so from where we started. I think a lot of people thought that Gus's recruiting was a floor that the new coach could easily match. The truth is that his recruiting has been the ceiling for us for the last 50 years or more. Coming in and matching it and/or exceeding it is a real challenge. We need a good season desperately to build recruiting momentum this year. If we have a bad year on the field, we will likely have a weak class and a situation that is almost unrecoverable. This is the life of a football coach though. Here's hoping we rock the football world in the fall.

Absolutely I would commit to Auburn right now. But then again, I'm way past my prime, and I'm not picking up a lot of other offers...

This was inevitable. The system has gotten really crazy with assistant coaches making millions, and players being penalized because somebody bought them a meal. But I'm not sure I'm going to like the brave new world. Schools can get creative with educational expenses. (How decked out will the players laptops be?), but the real game changer is still players being able to profit on their own likeness. How many $100 autographs can a school commit to for a top recruit? I'm starting to think we should just all go Ivy league on sports. Rooting for my semi-pro college team just has limited appeal to me. We'll see.

With our schedule, making the top 4 requires running the George, LSU, Bama, Georgia again gamut. Not going to happen very often. Expansion is the best thing that can happen to Auburn football. 12 teams would be great.

It's hard to get through a game with just one of them. They get tired.

A lot of people on the defensive side of Northwestern are leaving with the retirement of their defensive coordinator. This is from the public portion of a Northwestern rivals board on the 8 players entering the portal. If you are wondering if we just got a marginal player, the answer is no. Leota's a stud. Eku Leota's announcement, which came on Monday, was the stunner of the group. Leota, a redshirt sophomore, figured to be a huge part of Northwestern's defense for the next couple of years. The defensive end led the Wildcats with four sacks this season, and also added 13 tackles for loss and a forced fumble, against Purdue. A fast end with a quick get-off, Leota was the most consistent force in Northwestern's pass rush. Even though Northwestern's defensive end position is a deep one, Leota's loss will be significan for a defense that will likely have to replace a lot of talent next season. Eight players on the starting defense in Saturday's game against the Buckeyes were seniors, and it is unknown at this time how many will come back next season. This one is hard to explain. Leota was an all-Big Ten player and figured to be a guy Northwestern leaned on heavily next year to transition from Hankwitz to a new defensive coordinator.

I was just going to post that those are the two recruits that we just had to keep. I count today as a huge success that they and so many others signed. I am very, very excited about Davis. He is going to be great here. And Hunter is an awesome DT at a huge position of need. Brown's absence on the line this year is a sharp reminder of how much of a difference great tackle play makes to the defense. He was sorely missed.

It's nice that "offensive breakdown" doesn't mean "a list of what went wrong and who forgot to block who" for a change.

I'm not so sure. That game against Kentucky was closer than the score indicated. We were almost in trouble at the end of the first half. I didn't feel at all that we had the luxury of holding back. The defense stepped up in the 2nd half, and the offense did what it need to. We'll see. I don't understand the lack of passes to the tight ends and running backs, but I'm not convinced it will change. New Orleans completed 13 passes to Alvin Kamara at RB last night. I'd love to see Shivers getting the ball in space 5 yards down the field 13 times.

Good guys...

This could be viewed an athlete displaying an incredible amount of maturity and focus. Some might not view it that way. I doubt if anybody on the board knows Lee Hunter well enough to really comment intelligently on his situation. (I realize intelligent comment is not a staple of bulletin boards). I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. I was very happy when Derrick Brown came back for his senior year, but I couldn't have faulted him at all had he entered the draft. I was ecstatic for him when his decision paid off for him with top of the 1st round NFL money. Lee may be a similar talent, and only he and his family can really judge what's best for him. I hope his path also leads to a big NFL payday.

D"onta Foreman, Jamaal Charles. Texas's roster not that deep right at RB right now, so that helps.

Depends on what the meaning of is is. But it is a pet peeve; when people do that I always wonder where they were educated at.

Gus has always liked having a wildcat QB. We have other candidates, but I would expect Caylin to get a shot at that. If he does well at it, who knows? It would be nice to have a wildcat QB where throwing was a real option.

Mack Brown is still trying to live down offering Robert Griffin III and Johnny Manzeil as defensive backs. I don't think Gus is planning on joining that infamous club.

I doubt Nick Marshall would have done "well" at Elite 11 competition. QB's that are elite runners win championships. That's not measured at these competitions. They have to be able to throw well too, but they can be a shade behind in pocket passing skills, especially if they can make throws on the run. I'm very excited about Davis. He's going to do great things in our offense.

Great pickup, great kid. War Eagle!