WarEagle1982

This was truly a dominant ground game. Mason was unbelievable as to how many yards he gained after contact. He always fell forward for an extra yard or two. If they would have handed it to him 5-10 more times in Pasadena I think the result would have been different. Prosch was a huge key to the success (look at the difference in 2014 after he graduated). In the Iron Bowl in 13 he absolutely beat up C.J. Moseley (an All-American and successful NFL linebacker).

I absolutely loved these two guys. This was the first Auburn team I ever saw in person at the age of 8. They were good enough to win it all. Stacy Danley was one of the toughest players Auburn ever had. Two different times he got knocked out cold(88 Iron Bowl and 90 Hall of Fame Bowl) only to return to the game to play an important part in victory. He also was a Bama killer. From 87-89 he gained close to 400 yards on the Tide in those 3 games combined.

Food for thought. Imagine the 1979 team being coached by someone like, I don’t know, Pat Dye instead of Barfield. The team had 5 All-Sec First Team players on it. They weren’t just talented on offense either. The defense had some studs on it as well. Freddy Smith’s name comes to mind. Too much talent on that team to lose to a mediocre Tennessee team as well as Wake Forest.

Sounds about right

Yes. I read an article about that. I read some others where Bowden was interviewed and basically, because he wasn’t interested in being a cog in the power structure there, he lost favor with the PTB. Most of those he mentioned are still involved now.

Sounds eerily similar, doesn’t it?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t there a rumor of an affair that popped up during the Bowden fiasco back in 98?

I told a friend, when I found out who the new president would be, that I felt like it would eventually lead to Greene being shown the door and the Good Ole Boys being back in control.

Starting to sound like a witch hunt to me and I smell Great Southern Wood burning for the fire.

Love Newbern’s! I went to high school with the owners’ sons and they all still work there. It’s certainly a family business. The catfish is to die for!

Ah, Dale’s. Took my Senior Prom Date there the first time I ever ate there.

No doubt! Best defense in AU history

Does anyone remember when he got bit by that German Shepard during the 2007 Iron Bowl?

And just happened again

It just happened again on the 1st Down play on Bama’s current drive

I haven’t seen or heard this talked about enough, but I have noticed, on about 3 occasions, in this SEC Championship Game where Alabama receivers have gone out of bounds but, because their forward progress was stopped while inbounds, the clock continued to run. What’s the difference?

I’m all for not calling holding if it doesn’t affect the outcome of the play, but the one on Moultry definitely did just that.

He’s definitely a snake. That’s well-known in HS coaching circles. I mean you tell me how Thompson goes from total garbage before he got there to juggernaut all of a sudden? Also, word on the street is that he is about to retire from public schools and take the St. Paul’s job. That would probably pay him upwards of 200k in addition to retirement benefits.

If you watch it in real time the RB was also holding on that play

This is exactly what I said. I did not like their chances of going back and forth with Bama on the alternating 2 point conversions. It proved true the 2nd time around.

I said the same thing. The throwback to the TE would have been perfect there

Are they going to review it??

It’s actually a rule in high school too

They are begging Bobo to call a slant to the middle of the field on 3rd down and he will not do it. Everything is down the field

Finley was late on the throw