Mims44

On 4/30/2024 at 7:52 PM, aubaseball said:

Sorry man, but age has nothing to do with it.   Putting any of those names before Dye is completely misguided.   

Have your first season as an AU fan going to and reading/talking about the games, .....and Auburn winning every dang one.

But also on a TV ban and ineligible for SEC championship.

You might change your mind.  

10 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

I swiped this since it is slow.

Pat Dye 4 SEC titles.
Tuberville was good.
Chizik only coach ever to win a national title and not have a winning record.

Can't be Shug Jordan he won 1 SEC title in 25 years as head coach. When he did win it in 57 Auburn was on probation and did not even play in a bowl game.

Personally I think it is Coach Dye. what about you folks?

Gus

Tubs

Chiz

Cadillac

Dye

FS boy

Potato boy

In that order.

I'm not as old as a lot of you. Only remember Dye as that guy who got a crazy talented Auburn team ineligible by cheating. 🤷‍♂️

Still better than those other two though  

11 minutes ago, TexasTiger said:

Dunno. But this guy was a Heisman finalist, an eyelash from being our 2nd leading all-time passer in just 3 years and a first round draft pick, so it’s kinda insane to complain that we treat him differently than Joey Gatewood. Perhaps the stupidest comparison I’ve ever seen.

Just to play devils advocate here;

He's also a guy that was a legacy 3 year starter, job in 0 jeopardy, had NIL deals and 4th year starter locked up. Then saw things being kinda sucky with the new HC hire and just said "F Auburn, I'm out"

Don't get me wrong, I understand why he did it, I can appreciate why he did it. His college path to the NFL got much easier after leaving, and Auburn undoubtedly fielded a crappier offense without him.

But as a fan, the proven starters that said screw this I'm gone; hurts.

2 hours ago, cole256 said:

Yes. He wasn't going to come back and do anything greater statistically that he already put up. The thing holding him back as far as draft is his size. He's not going to get bigger without losing his quickness.

At least now he can pick the team he wants to go for. I think he should go to a team that runs a 3-4 and see what he can do as a d end. I think he can be a major steal if that plays out. 

That's what I figure, measurables in combine were decently similar to D Brown, but Brown did it carrying an extra like 40-50lbs.

I don't see him adding that kinda weight without slowing himself down a good bit.

16 minutes ago, TexasTiger said:

He’s treated like every other first round QB that’s played at Auburn.

I see what you did there  

Does make me wonder though, how many 1st round draft picks, of any position have transferred out of Auburn?

3 hours ago, AUY2K said:

So does Auburn add him to the video board when they are showing the players in the NFL?

Show all his Oregon highlights but CGI an Auburn jersey on him and only him  

49 minutes ago, cole256 said:

Right. So so hated. It's so ironic he will be with stidham.... Even stid couldn't get thru here unscathed..... Any other guy or coach leaves here they are scum. 

Other QB leave the official site celebrated the kid having a bad game as if he ever did anything other than give his best at Auburn. Bo leaves it's all poor him and he had to play for Harsin.... Congrats as if he still played at Auburn. When have you ever seen that for another player that transferred? This thread wouldn't even be allowed on this board it would be on the rivals section if it was anybody else. If I didn't know better I would say he was a Manning, that's about the only guy I've seen be more privileged in the game of football.

Entire career it has always been somebody else fault for anything bad and all the praise and glory for anything good.

We will all get to see now though, no more excuses right. Good coach, every opportunity in the world, offensive minded coach. The coach even throws a bunch of wr screens and passes to the HB.....I mean it's perfect. 

 

lmao, bro I was gonna post that. But knew I'd be beating a dead horse.

Thread gets made for D. Brown getting drafted and one of the first replies is; "Drafted huh, so not an Auburn Tiger anymore. Move this thread."

But if an Oregon QB gets drafted it's ok,  

And for the record, I'm not against this thread being in the AU forum, I like it. I think during off season/NFL draft time we should let these threads go for ALL Auburn players.... and not just the fan favorites/transfers.

29 minutes ago, cbo said:

This is exactly right. The fact is he didn't play very well at Auburn and if you pointed that out there was a large group that just couldn't take it. 

Seth Williams bailed out Bo over and over again and was treated much worse by this forum.

Depending on the year he was average to above average... when he was hyped by so many to be Cam level of superstar. That's not his fault, but it is reality.

To be fair, I don't remember a lot of Seth hate either, he was our best WR for awhile for sure.

41 minutes ago, cole256 said:

Man it's all about perspectives huh? I'm not going to rain on the parade. I wish all players received this type of grace though.... Some players are more privileged than others

That's all I will say

It's weird, right?

Every time Nix comes up there are a ton of "everybody hated this guy, but look at this!" type comments.

But going back to a lot of those threads, there wasn't a lot of hate. Unless you count comments like;

"He throws off his back foot a bit too much" or

""Sometimes I think he's too quick to run out of the pocket" or

"I wish he was more accurate on some of the passes over the middle"

It's weird to see things like that spun as 'constant hatred' 🤷‍♂️

12 minutes ago, NoALtiger said:

I’d trust the opinion of professionals whose livelihood is dependent on being experts in this particular field over fan site message boards but that’s just me. 

I think they are going off of stats, his ORE vs UGA game was.... not stellar  

But, no ones was that year.

Heres an extra tidbit too that I found odd.

Caleb Williams Heisman year where he easily won:

Bo Nix stats the very next year.. good for 3rd place in Heisman race:

I didn't catch any combine this year, but have to imagine Bo did awesome, cause people were not giving him the respect for his on field product that the numbers suggest they should have.

21 hours ago, Leftfield said:

Can't speak for Democrats. As for me, I'm not opposed to it, I'm just not convinced we don't have it already. Voter fraud is exceedingly rare, and it's done about the same amount on both sides.

The Heritage Foundation, hardly a liberal organization, keeps track of voter fraud. Check out their site: https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/#choose-a-state. Even in swing states, the number of cases of voter fraud during the 2020 election can usually be counted on one hand.

 

Gotta remember it's extremely hard to prove. Especially when forms of identification aren't required it is near impossible. Local elections have had this issue pop up more than national ones, where a "missing" ballot box pops up in a tightly contested race, but that one box is filled with 100% votes for one candidate... In an area where a few hundred votes can make the swing. 

Guy named Rodriguez (sp?) ran for a caucus in TX when I was in the army (which you have to hear about cause Army=Tons of Texans), lost due to some very shady ballots at the end all stuffed with his opponents name. He charged voter fraud but lost since it could not be definitively proven it was fraud. 

You would think Tammany Hall would be all the history we needed as a country to want to insure legitimacy of every vote.

10 hours ago, Mikey said:

I said I got the information from watching Fox News and remarks of people in Alabama. Those are legitimate sources, you need nothing further for the purpose of this discussion. The last time one of you sufferers of TDD got me to chase around the internet finding old quotes was, indeed the last time.

Also I have a question: Why are Democrats so violently opposed to a system that would require verified voters?

I think you know, studies show those type of people, given the chance to vote... do so for a democrat.

But lets not act like it's a moral victory for republicans, if a study came out that showed they were more likely to vote republican the blues and reds would simply switch their current stances.

And that's backed by Fox news, ...and a couple dudes I talked to outside Mobile.

23 hours ago, Mims44 said:

I can explain it in an image...

 

 

 

@homersapien

You got 300 years on this Earth Homie, you gotta learn to laugh  

2 hours ago, Leftfield said:

If you're going to show your ass, well, be prepared for it to be beat in a circle.

My god man.... 

That is hilarious  

9 hours ago, TexasTiger said:

So the longer the beating the better? Got it. Taking notes. Does it have to be a full circle in one direction, or can you rotate hands and have 2 semicircles?
 

BTW, IF punishment was warranted for a 6 year old making an erroneous assumption and finding a way to church on this day, a restriction can last even longer. Restrictions stuck with me more than whoopings.

In my experience, except for the cases where it was actual abuse... the parents are more traumatized in the long run than the kid. I'll hear parents give every detail of a whooping they gave their kid, then ask the now adult child about it and they either don't remember it at all or they tell it through the lense of their father/mother.

Someone previously mentioned the "This hurts me more than it hurts you" line... and in the long run, for good parents at least. That is true.

5 hours ago, I_M4_AU said:

Only you could come up with that assumption.

 

This indicates you know nothing about it.  The direction is dictated by the child trying to get away from the *beating*.

If you haven’t been whooped to the point it didn’t stick with you, it wasn’t long enough or you were wearing thick jeans.

😕 

On 4/13/2024 at 12:16 PM, auburnatl1 said:

It’s easy to mock maga. I do it daily. But (per Bill Maher) what about Dems? Historically, liberalism existed to defend and elevate the less educated and  blue collar. What is today … Maga. So what is liberalism today, what is its base, and who does it serve?  If democrats profess to help “the little guy” and the little guy now hates you, … ummm.  Or does it now only serve racial and gender minorities and the college educated who obsess about them?

Imo neither party  today have much to say about corporations, taxes, the budget, education, economic classes, ect. I guess the financial stuff is now too complicated.  Just immigration, race,  and transgender. And neither have a coherent position on foreign policy ,other than magas seems to be to unconditionally defend the holy land, screw anyone  else. 

Yep, so there’s  maga - generally less  educated white folks who don’t want things to change. Got it. But is it any harder to figures out Dems? They’re simply everybody else.

 What happened to liberalism?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/do-the-woke-betray-the-lefts-true-principles.html

 

I can explain it in an image...

2 hours ago, Son of A Tiger said:

2 hours ago, AUDub said:

Lord another low effort shitpost with content flea’d from Facebook. 

Quiet Dub, we all know Biden spoke the words "Let my people.... experience crazy inflation!"

And the economy god made it so.

1 minute ago, Leftfield said:

Agreed. I didn't spank much, but when I did it was usually a firm swat, and when they were 2-4 years old. You can't reason with them at that age. They just don't have the capacity to understand or communicate. I'm generalizing, of course, and maybe there are circumstances with his son that I don't know, but by 6-7 the spankings were pretty much done. Kids still mess up but at least you can explain how they messed up. Just seeing the anger is usually enough for them by that point.

I'd have been more ticked at the neighbor. Talk about someone who needed punishment.

That is a good point.

@DKW 86 Did you circle beat that neighbor of yours?  

15 minutes ago, DKW 86 said:

IDK, I am famous in my family for giving my son 4 good whacks at church one day. 

I went into the backyard to work on the pool. My wife was keeping the staff kids for an early morning staff meeting so she went on in early. My 6-7-year-old son watched me change into my suit as I went to work on the pool. He was on the couch. He must have been about half asleep. He kind of came to himself and even though the pool door was still open he decided his mom and I had left him at the house and went on to church. He got himself dressed, got his bible, and got the hungover as hell neighbor from across the street to take him to church. His wife was out of town and he thru the wildest party we have seen here in the neighborhood in 30 years or more. They left my backdoor open, the garage door up, and my truck in the driveway. How both of them didn't notice my truck IDK. I came into the house, could not find my son, found the backdoor open, and garage door open, and guessed he had been kidnapped or had walked out of the house. I tore up and down every street in the neighborhood doing 90+ looking for him. I called my wife and daughter innumerable times and neither one would answer the phone. Two women with phones permanently glued in their hands. You never see one without a phone in their hands, EVER. At this point, I HAD TOTALLY FREAKED. TTTOOOTTTAAALLLLLLYYYY FREAKED. I was likely seriously close to a heart attack.  I was dialing the Decatur Police Dept when a strange number dialed my phone. I answered truly expecting it to be a kidnapper who was likely sexually abusing my son. Instead, it was a lady from the church calling me to tell me that Ethan had arrived with a strange man driving him up to the church. I figured out what had happened at that point.

I went to the church, after having THE WORST ******* DAY OF MY LIFE, I didn't calm down till late in the afternoon. I found my son and discussed it with him and took him into the bathroom and circle-beat him with four sound whacks across his ass. My son has been in trouble only one other day in his life. Finished school with a 4.16 and ranked 11th in his class. He went to JSU and will graduate in 3 weeks or so with 3.96? GPA and on the President's List. 

So, circle beating is sometimes warranted and can be very successful in correcting behavior. 

I get your point of view for sure... but dang man, I'd have been too astounded to even punish him  

Kid is 6, realized he needed to be somewhere, saw his usual ways of getting to that place was unavailable. Still got himself 100% ready and then went out of his home to procure transportation for himself and got where he needed to be.

9 minutes ago, TexasTiger said:

Most circle beatings are expressions of anger, like this one.

I've always tried to avoid that. Not a "never spanker" but usually used as a deterrent towards danger.

Kid may not have proper respect for the cliff he's near, but if he hears he'll get a spanking if he gets close to the edge he'll not likely walk to the edge.

31 minutes ago, I_M4_AU said:

I’m not sure what was going on at the time, but it must have drawn a lot of attention.  .

I mean, I get that 100%.

But you'd think some one or some government group would be like... In case this epidemic isn't the end of the world, lets take advantage of oil prices bottoming out.

And for all I know we did, and then just used a crap ton more right after 🤷‍♂️

12 hours ago, TexasTiger said:

Trump kept saying he did. Says it now. Not true. 
 

According to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), when Trump took office in January 2017, the SPR contained 695 million barrels. When he left office four years later, the SPR contained 638 million barrels. So, the level of the SPR actually declined while President Trump was in office. You can see this clearly in the chart below:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2022/11/16/fact-checking-donald-trump-on-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve/?sh=3439c69e5c65

 

Biden has depleted them more to offset Saudi cut backs, but it’s not a US production issue.

You'd think in Feb 2020 we coulda maxxed that out easy with the insane price drop oil experienced.

22 hours ago, Son of A Tiger said:

Not a fan of the dude by any means, but some of the blame you're laying on him ain't him. Last storm we had knocked a tree down that smashed my mailbox, should I blame Joe for that too?

He's head of the executive branch, not emperor.

This is by no means a "You" thing, it's become an American theme to blame the president for anything and everything that happens during his term for awhile.... Thanks Obama!  

Also, calling the days he can't work cause the dementia hittin' too hard a "vacation" day seems disingenuous.  

22 hours ago, TitanTiger said:

 

So sad this dude died without ever finding his wifes killer.

On 4/3/2024 at 11:55 AM, homersapien said:

Nihilism may be gratifying - especially if you feel inadequate about your life's accomplishments - but it is no way to confront an existential threat to our democracy.

 

But Homie,

Is it nihilism or learned helplessness?

19 hours ago, TexasTiger said:

Roll call.

Does Putin disgust you?

Not when I do it, but other peoples do.

4 hours ago, CoffeeTiger said:

TennCare is just a standard Medicaid program that every state has. Tennessee just gave it a fancy name. 

Ironically, the Medicaid expansion being talked about here that Tennessee and many other Southern states have rejected would help those lower middle, upper low class people you're talking about needing help. 

Medicaid expansion is additional funding from the federal government to increase the eligibility roof of Medicaid benefits to help give healthcare coverage to those people who make too much money for Medicaid benefits, and low cost ACA benefits, but still don't make enough to afford decent insurance themselves.

 

 

But overall, yes, the ultimate goal would be to reform the US healthcare system so that everyone doesn't depend so heavily on insurance subsudized by their employer, and where a major medical problem can't plunge anyone into financial ruin for the rest of their lives. 

Ok, that makes a lot more sense.

I read it as TN being a state that rejected medicaid and found it confusing  

I agree there needs to either be a large grace period or just raise the whole thing. Lotta people I've known sit near the top end of it, and if they get a 2k/year raise they could move into having to pay 6k+/year in insurance. It's a rough spot to be in.

On 3/31/2024 at 10:22 AM, AU9377 said:

There is no greater biblical directive than for Christians to love their brothers and sisters and care for them.  Even so, we continue to allow politicians in the deep South to block efforts to expand coverage for those that need it most.   Instead of accepting matching Federal funds, we reject those funds for no real reason, other than stubborn politics. 

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/georgia-medicaid-expansion-bill-fails/85-18f93ea1-e878-4e62-93c9-0e3f84d4c0e2

I am a bit confused.... everyone in TN is covered by TennCare Which is medicaid....

We care for poverty stricken/unemployed people constantly. For anything and everything they have.

If anything I would say there is more need to help those that are lower middle class, as they are paying for their own insurance and usually 1 major medical issue away from financial ruin.