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On 5/8/2024 at 10:26 AM, Mikey said:

I'll be disappointed with less than 8-4. Last year's team would have been 7-5 without the inexplicable loss to New Mexico State. I think to show any improvement the 2024 team will have to be a minimum of 8-4.

No that NMSU loss was a straight ass whooping, the 7th win should’ve been against Bama

But tbh I think Auburn goes about 7-5 too. Thorne just isn’t a good QB even with better weapons I just don’t see it. He struggled in 6 straight games to throw for a measly 100 yards 

19 hours ago, cbo said:

 

The truth is Vegas is very good at setting lines. Never bet on your favorite team! It's hard to fight your inherent bias. 

 

This is the main thing right here. OP is just too bias just like any fan would be in the offseason. Everybody thinks they’re going to be better than they actually will be in the offseason, then the regular season starts and a lot of fans get their wake-up call.

Freeze is only in his 2nd season but he hasn’t really done anything on the field that should give us full confidence yet

On 5/1/2024 at 1:20 PM, ellitor said:

JC overhyped it. It wasn't really good. It wasn't bad either though. Basically he is OVing USC, AU, & Colo the 1st 3 weekends in June in that order and will have a final decision before his SR year starts.

I never feel good about going against USC when it comes to a QB. Lincoln Riley gets who he wants when it Comes to QB’s and you can’t blame them if they pick him because look at Riley’s track record 

20 hours ago, AUght2win said:

I don’t think this is ENTIRELY true. You have a point that we do have a lot of talent that isn’t SEC caliber. More than we should. But honestly, if you look at any SEC program, most of their transfers are downgrading too. That’s just the portal era.

Everyone wants to be a starter. I get it. Very few are satisfied with being role players. But I’d say the talent level of the average SEC rotational player is that of a lower P5/good G5 team. That’s why these guys are going where they’re going. 

Even when we rebuild the roster, we’ll still have plenty of guys that are at this talent level. And we’ll need them to contribute. Very few teams have a roster full of guys who could start absolutely anywhere.

The days of the Bama’s and UGA’s having 5 star backups are pretty much done. There’s no patience anymore, if guys aren’t playing they’re leaving 

Harris was never gone get drafted too high, he’s an undersized interior DL. Best of luck to him I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually made a team

19 hours ago, aujohnson said:

Definitely a reasonable angle. The optimistic side though would be that both sides of the ball are under new management. 
We apparently had the talent to hang with bama and uga so even a small upgrade in talent and an upgrade in coaching could make a huge difference. 
Big emphasis on the could and the upgrade description is still waiting to be proven

All in all it’s hard to hate someone for being either optimistic or pessimistic. 
 

It’s going to be an interesting ride! 

The iron bowl is usually always a strange game, talent gets thrown out the window for that game. Auburn treats that game like a Super Bowl. The next game after the iron bowl with a break they came out and played arguably their worst game of the year.

Freeze is a good salesman but as coaching is concerned im more on the pessimistic side right now

2 hours ago, Chaotic_zx said:

With Jerry Kill and and NM Sate QB at Vandy, I'm not taking Vandy for granted as some are.

After that embarrassing loss to NMSU and Maryland in the bowl game I’m not taking any game for granted 

13 hours ago, aujohnson said:

So what are we missing now to be a contender? 
We seem to have addressed our weaknesses and were competitive with the best we played last year. 
We assume the offensive system and play calling will be better. 
At which positions do we need to get better to get over the hump?

A better QB

On 4/21/2024 at 5:06 PM, AUght2win said:

White is the prospect I’m most excited about. More than Coleman. Just appears to be totally bought in and know his role as a potential face of the program. Physically I’m so impressed with his build. Reminds me of Andrew Luck - sturdy, muscular, ahead of schedule for a freshman for sure. I don’t know why you’d already be down on him. 

He just said in his post why he’s down on him. He said he doesn’t like his accuracy and could be a problem for him, that’s a fair criticism. But he’s only a freshman and has plenty of time to improve 

Doubt anything happens since we have enough bodies but I remember Caddy was after this guy pretty hard back in the day iirc

1 hour ago, AuCivilEng1 said:

He’s definitely allowed to tell his story. But I don’t understand the value in telling the world, you didn’t even want to go to Auburn. Seems like the kind of thing that could be omitted in the story. 

He never said he didn’t want to go to Auburn, he just asked for his fathers opinion and his dad wrote down on a piece of paper that said “Auburn” and Cam went with that decision 

Damn we should be thankful for Cam’s dad. Cam said he didn’t even pick Auburn, his dad did and Cam just went with his decision. Also us having 22 upcoming seniors was a big decision for him picking Auburn 

3 hours ago, e808 said:

I think Caddy not being there had to play into it as we saw what occurred when the dline coach moved on

Yeah this is the biggest thing. When Caddy left that pretty much guaranteed we weren’t getting his commitment. AU should still talk to him, I feel like this isn’t over yet

21 minutes ago, Swamp Eagle said:

It was pretty accurate last spring..😂

It’s been pretty accurate most springs tbh. I knew somebody was gone bring up the Cam year but that year was an anomaly. Spring ball ain’t that serious but usually you can kinda tell how you’re going to look during the season 

The biggest is going to be the DL, there’s talent but there’s no depth and it’s a lot of young guys. This is going to be another rough season, Freeze should probably just play a lot of the young guys this year and just throw them in the deep end and see which ones swim 

Also I hope HB really pushes for that QB1 spot, make that QB room as competitive as possible 

13 hours ago, AURex said:

How long has it been since we have pretty much zero info from scrimmages and practices. Yes, I know our insiders are doing the best to keep us informed. But fact is, I feel like I have never had LESS info regarding Spring Practice for years. Am I missing something?

 

I was thinking the same thing. I’ve never seen it this quiet during spring practices 

11 hours ago, bigbird said:

100% 

But I don't see him ever leaving.

I hope not, I hope he stays 3 years and breaks every receiving record Auburn ever had but Auburn wasn’t his first choice and we got lucky Jimbo got fired 

13 hours ago, bigbird said:

I believe Cam leaves as our greatest statistical WR. 

He could but he has to be healthy and he has to actually stay at Auburn. With the way college sports is now nobody stays around anymore 

8 hours ago, DAG said:

PAC 12 had some quality teams and serious QB play. What Deboer did at Washington was amazing. Always been a fan of his. Not sure he will win as much as Saban (that may not happen for a long time), but he will certainly be successful at Bama. The SEC was not as elite as most years last year IMO. 

The SEC wasn’t elite at all last year, mediocre QB play all around the league. The Pac 12 was playing the best football last year

In the right context that list is pretty fair. The SEC is tough but it’s not like the Pac 12 and big 12 were playing complete nobodies. I’d probably flip Drinkwitz and Heupel personally 

1 hour ago, ArgoEagle said:

Yeah. I like to see players commit; don't get me wrong.  But the ones who commit before they are seniors don't get me excited like they used to before NIL.

At this point I don’t get excited about recruits until they sign their NLI. And it looks like a lot of people share that same opinion before NIL took over a 4 star OT commit thread would be filled with posts. Dice’s commit thread barely has any posts in it at all smh

On 3/12/2024 at 10:13 AM, peashooter said:

What's the deal with the spring game not being televised? Is there anywhere to watch it other than being there?