Ausburn2

18 minutes ago, augolf1716 said:

Yes a very long time ago 

He played with Old Tom Morris and could whittle a mean hickory shaft. They where a couple of sap suckers who tapped Sapodilla trees to make there own gutta percha balls. Memories fade with time.....

5 hours ago, NCAubs said:

I also messaged you and never got a response. 

3 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

ok i got all the messages in email and not on the board. i guess i was doing something wrong. i believe or tried to reply yo everyone that i got a message from. i admit to hitting the gummies pretty hard.

I didn't message you and got the same response as well.

3 hours ago, AuCivilEng1 said:

Meddling donors. Both schools have mega donors who insist  on having it their way and hiring culture guys who fit into the Auburn culture so much, they get comfortable and complacent, and just slide right into the good ole boy network. 

 Harsin hiring doesn't fit your narrative.

14 hours ago, cbo said:

Honest question for the "patience" crowd. Which certainly has some validity and I'm not trying to dismiss that. 

What do you need to see from Freeze, as far as record, in seasons 2 and seasons 3? 

Continued improve play. Win an underdog game/upset. Those are the signs of improvement and competitiveness.  Win close games. The record will follow.

50/50 and let's just watch the game and see.

We just won back to back road neutral games.

21 minutes ago, Dual-Threat Rigby said:

Right - I'm someone that rather see an easy peasy matchup and get a tournament ring, rather than have a long Big Dance run (if I gotta have one or the other). But matchups like Miss St and Florida are markers if your team actually improved. We played Miss St's game and we won. Florida has a roster that is a mismatch for ours; they have multiple guards great at driving so we can't really hide Aden and Tre. They got unlimited bigs for Broome, so he's gonna have to play out his mind to be great. But this matchup tells you if your boys can be who they need to be and if your coaches can help them achieve those goals.

 

Like I said in the earlier post, I do completely believe they have a roster that we don't matcup well with, but in a neutral game, I just don't think it's so large that we have no chance at all. Maybe I'd give Florida something like a 60% chance to win? That feels like a fair number

28 minutes ago, e808 said:

Exactly. I still stand on them beating Auburn as a situational lose and Auburn hasn’t played well on the road

49 minutes ago, aubiefifty said:

you guys honor me.you are the folks i post articles for. you have lifted my spirits in a tough time for me and i do not know you but i love you for it!

Some may not say it, but it is nice to check in and see the news for the AU day in one spot. In a generational way it is like going into a barber shop and there is a copy of a GRIT newspaper left for you to read while you wait for your haircut.

13 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

i have not heard a word folks. i might have overstepped my bounds. i thought it was a great idea and terry is a huge part of the auburn family. the silence tells me to get back in my own lane.

 

My suggestion is that we could have a daily news thread titled AUBIEFIFTY/FIFTY NEWS UPDATES 

4 minutes ago, Dual-Threat Rigby said:

Morgan Freeman lives in Gulf Shores??? 

His hometown was Clarksdale Mississippi. NW of Oxford.

4 hours ago, aubiefifty said:

say something nice to those of us that try and fail.................

1 hour ago, Elephant Tipper said:

You type well

Or you don't sweat much for a fat guy.

2 minutes ago, bigbird said:

As my Dad would say...

 

That was deep. 

1 minute ago, augolf1716 said:

Very very very deep 

You must be kin to the Longfellows

2 minutes ago, augolf1716 said:

Remember what I said……..

"Well, well, well"

22 minutes ago, aubiefifty said:

show off........................grins

Years of stuck factoids that sometimes seem appropriate!

30 minutes ago, augolf1716 said:

Why is the sky red?

Because sigma squared is proportional to 1 over lambda, where lambda equals wavelength.

22 hours ago, OfficiatingExpert said:

They’re getting killed. Allen and the boys are better than this. I’m really impressed with Auburn on this performance 

Hotty Totty, Gosh a mighty 

2 hours ago, milehighfan said:

I noticed that too. I don't know the reason why I just hope he keeps it up 

Remember hearing Coach Pearl say in a radio post game that some of the coaches had worked with him with his free throws. They had him flatten his arc out and it made a big improvement. Notice next time at the line.

On 12/28/2023 at 6:27 PM, Ausburn2 said:

47 minutes ago, passthebiscuits said:

Booom! Let’s go. It’s making sense now. 

That's the PTB I know.

1 hour ago, AUwent said:

Not if they get Lanning. Or Kirby and then Georgia hires Lanning. 

Sorry guys, just being cautious.

That's not like you

Wrong timing

2 minutes ago, bigbird said:

Unless he finds a better position for his career and chooses to take it.  It would be tough PR no matter though. 

Some can remember Pat Sullivan and his coaching career as an example.

SEC
A bright spot for Auburn football in the Music City Bowl? How about Hank Brown
Mike Organ
Nashville Tennessean

NASHVILLE — Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze said Saturday during his TransPerfect Music City Bowl postgame press conference that relying on so many young, inexperienced players played a role in the Tigers' 31-13 loss to Maryland.

One young player Freeze didn't have to make excuses for was former Lipscomb Academy quarterback Hank Brown.

Brown, who hails from Nashville, provided one of the few bright spots for Auburn (6-7) when he entered the game late and engineered two long drives against Maryland (8-5). His first, which included a 53-yard pass to Caleb Burton III, covered 66 yards on three plays and resulted in Auburn's second touchdown midway through the fourth quarter.

Brown's next covered 70 yards on nine plays before stalling deep in Maryland territory.

"Hank has increible poise; I see it everyday when he's running the scout team and he has very little protection and he stands in there and makes throw after throw after throw," Freeze said. "He has great humility. Wants to be taught, wants to learn. Has a good IQ for the game. Understands timing."

In a limited sampling, Brown outperformed Auburn starting quarterback Payton Thorne. Brown completed 7 of 9 passes for 132 yards and Thorne, a junior, was 13 of 27 for 84 yards with an interception.

Brown also had more passing yards than either of Maryland's quarterbacks − Billy Edwards Jr. (126) and Cameron Edge (82).

Brown's numbers could have even been better. Freeze blamed one of his two incompletions on Auburn's receivers on the final drive.

"The receivers should have kept coming and that's kind of what Hank anticipated," Freeze said. "He anticipates throws really well. That's where you see his IQ."

Brown committed to Liberty in the summer of 2022 when Freeze was the coach. Before Brown signed with Liberty, Freeze got the Auburn job and Brown followed him.

Brown was a three-star prospect and the No. 31 player in Tennessee in the 2023 class, according to 247Sports. He was the No. 52 quarterback in the country. 

Brown led Lipscomb Academy to the DII-AA state championship and a 13-0 record in 2022 by throwing for 3,264 yards, 47 touchdowns and only three interceptions as a senior.

"I'll be honest, I was not shocked by how well Hank played when he came into the game," said new Lipscomb Academy coach Jamie Graham, the Mustangs' pass-game coordinator when Brown was on campus. "He came into town about two weeks ago and came to see me. I asked him what's the biggest difference at Auburn and he said, 'It's just the checks.' He said he couldn't control the protection and the line of scrimmage but everything else he said he was prepared for."

Maryland crushes Auburn:Maryland football coasts to Music City Bowl victory over Auburn

Ironically, Graham played in the Music City Bowl when he was at Vanderbilt in 2008.

Graham said Brown showed signs of greatness even before he became a starter at Lipscomb.

"When he was a junior, Hank was the junior varsity quarterback and Hank never let them lose," Graham said. "He would not let them lose a game. He studied just as much as (Lipscomb Academy starter Luther Richardson) did, he prepared just as much as Luther Richardson did."

Freeze said Brown will have the opportunity in the spring to earn more playing time and compete with Thorne to become Auburn's starter.

"It's wide open," Freeze said. "I think Hank has something to him for sure. A guy that had 47 touchdowns and three picks his senior year in high school; there's something to that. The quarterback position will be an interesting one certainly in spring practice."

Reach Mike Organ at 615-259-8021 or on X @MikeOrganWriter.

“Coach Freeze said, ‘We’re going to set a standard here’ and it’s a lot of loose leashes around here on this team that we need to get rid of and just find a group of people that’s going to really come together as a team and lock in and put their life on the line to win a game here,” said Fairweather.

However, as important as it is for Auburn’s players to recognize the disconnect and map out plans to resolve it, in the grand scheme of things, the fix starts with Freeze.

The good news is he knows that.

“I don’t need anyone to tell me when we don’t measure up. That starts with me.” Freeze said to open his press conference Saturday night. “To not perform any better in games this year like this, I promise you that — I don’t need someone to tell me I didn’t get it done.”

Source al.com

44 minutes ago, KansasTiger said:

Glad we passed on some proven SEC WR's to get this guy. Portal strategy is lit this year!