GreenTiger

Are you actually trying to argue that Bo’s upbringing had equal opportunities for advancement and development as his peers on the field???

Coaches and the systems they create for their team matter. They matter a lot. Good for Bo! Hope he does well in a very competitive league. I hope AU admin and current staff look at this and see how they can improve and get our players in to the first round of the draft.

Folks need to be reminded of this. It’s been a lopsided business up until recently.

I have hard time believing that at this point the portal has someone more productive than Fair. Consideration with WR leaving should be given towards the lack of QB production and the promised time given to the big money TF .

Miss some Fiddy.

Seemed to perform fine as a TF and backup. He’s had 3 years in the system.

Personally would prefer to keep Cobb, Alston and Battie. JH just didn’t take the next step last year as many thought he would

Damn! Have you never made a decision that would probably give you more opportunities in life???

He said he wanted the best path toward a BCS appearance and Auburn had a heavy senior team. I didnt take it as he didn’t want to go

Should be some extra $$$ for him now

I’m not sure that is entirely true. Maybe true with PGs but Bruce has got some high quality transfers as of late

I’m encouraged by the receiving room and its improvement. Lewis could get a lot of targets given Cam will get a lot of attention from the defense

The uphill climb continues. Hopefully Cam doesn’t transfer and CHF takes a big step forward in his ability to coach

Well that was fun!

Meh.

I don’t know him and so I’m not sure why he retired. Whining or not… It did appear that he was effective at putting a solid staff together as @cbo mentions as a valuable piece to success and why I made my point attached to his statement. Thanks for the response!

Bingo! Saban was brilliant at creating the analyst rehabilitation program at UA.

Not dodging. And if you stopped repeating yourself and read my previous posts you would know that

Brian Harsin still getting paid by Auburn

I gave your post the sad emoji because it is sad to see Auburn athletics overall remain mediocre.

Well clearly you have spent a lot of time working with student athletes and fully understand their position and what they place value on.

Were you a D1 athlete? But to counter a portion of your argument… there is another prevailing attitude that somehow there were these generous “benefits” to having a athletic scholarship and while it’s easy for a bunch of boomers to believe that it doesn’t seem to resonate with those actually experiencing the “benefits”. Side note… I was a college professor/ department chair at a small university for 15 years and have worked with hundreds of student athletes.

Yes. Players benefited. No debate. But clearly the players and the courts did not see the transaction as fair. Does this have negative implications for the sport??? Of course. Did the former system have issues??? Absolutely. Were the former transactional benefits limited and lop sided???? Absolutely and it needed addressing. Are the current changes fair and have they fixed the problems??? Probably depends on who you ask

IMO I’m surprised college athletics has been so slow to adopt a more player centric transfer portal as freedom and autonomy is a core value of both education and capitalism. I’m fascinated how a person or group can hold these values ( freedom and autonomy) so tightly for themselves but get upset when other individuals or groups want the same.

Freeze himself said he isn’t good at working the transfer portal and so far he’s accurate with his own self assessment. Why would anyone think other than what he’s shown and said?