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UK isn’t trading one 65 yr old coach for another 65 yr old coach, especially after neither one has been able to advance out of the 1st weekend of the tourney in the last 5 yrs. UK wanted Cal canned for doing no better than he has in postseason games.

It wasn’t manageable for Hugh last season, he admitted on a few occasions. He said the portal windows need to change immediately. How is a HC supposed to finish the regular season vs their main rival, wrap up high school recruiting for the early signing day in December, evaluate and recruit the portal and prep for a bowl game? It’s a dizzying process.

I’m just saying give CSP an interview as a possible candidate and weigh the pros and cons from there. I believe he has earned an interview based on the job he has done for the program.

Different people believe differently. But it takes time to build relationships and players these days are impatient, they want instant gratification, they call the shots or they bolt. It’s become a difficult balancing act for any coach to actually build something, implement his system and pray the players stay long enough to get the desired results on the field.

Its long overdue. It doesn’t matter so much to me that it’ll be better, Neville has served Auburn well and continues to do so. Neville stands toe to toe with any arena in energy, electric atmosphere and intimidation factor.

He deserves consideration and an interview, nothing more. Bruce has earned his place and his salary level, he has not earned the right to name his successor.

That kid took the led role tonight and put the team on his back. His coaches were smart and had him with a good matchup man and he produced. I hate to say it but Bama found some grit and some defense these last two games.

Nate Oats is a straight up jackass, he’s also a pretty dang good coach. Same can be said for the leprechaun that just retired over there.

Whittling down the very large set of excuses is a little hard. Some programs are winners and others make excuses. Often times, programs just are what they are and fans have to accept them for what they are and quit making comparisons to other programs. Grab the few successes when they come our way try to find satisfaction where we can.

It was a negative distraction for the staff and fellow players during a sudden death game that was selfish on his part. But like someone already mentioned, it appeared our guys just didn’t want it enough, almost like they won a relatively meaningless conference championship and turned out the lights on the rest of the season. Just a shame all the way around.

Sounds like thats a culture mentality when an individual is the instigator. Its a distraction for the team and the staff and hurts the mission of the team.

Does anyone else find it odd that there’s been no statement made by an Auburn representative?

Seems like some of that showboating could be nipped in the bud by a coach in someone’s ear. But I’m sure with NIL and the portal kids have to be handled with a marshmallow gun relative to any kind of discipline.

Great to hear.

Some guys can’t leave the drama behind. Jeez

Apparently a couple of discipline issues forced lineup changes. Violation of team rules never come at a good time in the active season.

Shhhhh…… Don’t bring the freezer burn.

Yeh, I’m not sure why Freeze is seemingly in a holding pattern relative to Kiffin? But I’m sure CHF has a great plan for the future.

It doesn’t look like Kiffin wants to get into the rat race of college coaching and prefers the NFL no matter what. I mean he can stay where he’s at if he’s satisfied there.

The AU PR Department are working hard folks.

Brian Kelly ain’t too shabby. Now will the swamp people at LSU live with his career average W/L record for much longer? Hell NO! LSU had 3 consecutive HC’s win NC’s, they will expect Kelly to bring a NC trophy to the Bayou or he’ll be fired. LSU expects to compete for championships and 10 win seasons won’t be tolerated much longer.

I understand your point and I still think this current AU product is phenomenally better than anything prior to Pearl. He built this thing, he brings the hype and he is by far the best ambassador for AU sports, over any other AU coach we’ve had in a very long time. Bruce single handily brought fan attention, passion and dedication to basketball. He’s got plenty of years left in the tank and with unlimited & unrestricted NIL/portal, and the $$ he makes for the Auburn brand, he is the best fans can hope for. JMHO.

I imagine it’s rough off the court right now with a couple of players getting held out for “violation of team rules” which forced the coaches to shift the game plan and lineup. Then we saw with our own eyes the loafing, lazy and poor effort on the court vs msu. Then we hear the after-game locker room language ummm colorful. Bruce is again faced with managing attitudes and reigning in his players to get them focused and heading in the same direction. Ego’s and attitudes have no place on this team, and it’s sad but a coach has to walk on egg shells with players these days due to the portal/NIL environment. I don’t envy these +$5MM/yr coaches and the road blocks placed on them relative to fan expectations. Its a tough job.

I’m not sure I’d want to be anywhere near the court during practices this week. The visible lack of effort and urgency yesterday would make a personality like BP explode. I firmly believe he will get the attention to detail and focus corrected in short order.