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3 minutes ago, JOSEPHIAMLEGEND75@GMAIL.CO said:
Still learning the WR position but he's a matchup nightmare. I'm sure he'll have a package or two to work with.
With how much people have talked him up, it's interesting he isn't listed as an TE or a hybrid TE/WR slot.
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If Harsin leaked it. That's a major issue.
If it was key or another coach, f that's a major issue.
If it was someone, why did they know before the QBs C) it's still a major issue.
Leaking things like this gets people fired.
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18 hours ago, abw0004 said:
This may be a naive/dumb question, but is this really a stereotype of men/women of color?
Only to a very very small number of s***ty people and a larger number of also s***ty people who try to use it to gaslight and screech about things they disagree with.
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1 hour ago, cole256 said:
No you miss the point entirely, or actually you make it but on the wrong side. Point is when he wrote stuff that most didn't like about Auburn he was a bum and a fraud. Now he writes something most want to hear and he's the glimmering light on what's actually is
I'm picking up what you're putting down.
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T.J. Finley has won Auburn's starting quarterback job, sources told ESPN.
The Tigers open the 2022 season on Saturday against Mercer. Coach Bryan Harsin is expected to officially name Finley as the starter within the next 24 hours.
The 6-foot-7, 250-pound Finley had been competing this preseason with Oregon transfer Robby Ashford and Texas A&M transfer Zach Calzada for the starting job after Bo Nix transferred to Oregon this offseason. Finley started the final three games for Auburn last season after Nix suffered a season-ending ankle injury and came off the bench in the second half in Week 4 to rally Auburn past Georgia State for a 34-24 victory
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After starting his career at LSU, Finley transferred to Auburn following the 2021 spring semester. He started in five games as a true freshman at LSU in 2020 and was 2-3 as a starter.
In 14 career games, Finley has thrown 11 touchdown passes and six interceptions to go along with two rushing touchdowns. He's the only returning quarterback from Auburn's team a year ago.
Harsin has been impressed this preseason with Finley's improved command of the offense under first-year coordinator Eric Kiesau. Finley's ability to extend plays gives him an added dimension, and he's also been more accurate as a passer.
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40 minutes ago, cole256 said:
Lol now we like scarbinsky?
Whether you like him or not is irrelevant. As long as his writings are thought out and legitimate, who he is doesn't matter.
Don't let bias of a writer, politician, coworker, etc overrule useful and quality thoughts.
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1 hour ago, oracle79 said:
Since Tiger on Wheels aka @Auburnforever(i think), you have claimed the top spot for the dumbest poster on this forum. I congratulate you as that is a hard title to attain.
Point out 1 thing I said that's factually incorrect. But ultimately you can gtfo with your ad hominem weak-minded bull****.
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1 hour ago, BizTiger said:
The guy still had to maintain his own program. Look how Florida fell off after Meyer left...
Respectfully, that dog simply does not hunt.
The program at Boise is decisively worse after him that it was during the previous 2 HCs.
Now at Auburn, Harsin failed miserable in damn near every possible aspect of his job. Even before the crap earlier this year, he was failing.
Harsin's failures have not been entirely his own, but he is still responsible for most.
Adding a turn of phrase won't let your s*** take off the hook. It takes a special individual to look at the facts surrounding their careers and equate them.
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15 minutes ago, BizTiger said:
He had a nearly identical record Urban Meyer had at Utah before going to Florida.
Coaches don't forget how to win...
The situation at Utah and Boise were worlds apart. Boise was already built as a super power I'm the Mt west. They had the recruiting, the national exposure, etc. Even with the deck heavily stacked in his favor, he only had 1 season with 0 conferences losses, would yearly lose games he should win. Harsin was just ok. He didn't dominate like he should have.
Utah by contrast was a decent but nothing special program in the mtwest. Urban took them to greatness. He took a losing record team to 10-2 in year 1 and then in year 2 smoked major P5 competition to a perfect season ranked 4th.
Harsin had 1 season as big time football at UTA then bolted for a downgraded job. Harsin was at Boise for 6 years. Urban 2 at Utah. They literally couldn't have the same record.
But maybe you meant to include bowling green in your urban discussion where he took a winless bowling green coached by good ol Leoffler to an 8-3 team the next year.
Let's not pretend in any world that Hardin and urban belong in the same conversation on ability and results.
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1 hour ago, Gowebb11 said:
Completely agree. Greene and CBH both came here with very accomplished resumes. They were successful pre AU and will be successful post AU. Their resumes had no record of not showing up at work or not being able to get along with people. Suddenly at Auburn they’re Forest Gump level. That has been the paradigm at Auburn for way too long. Our leaders and BOT need to take a long look in the mirror.
Harsin was far from "very accomplished" .
Not to saw he was bad or a failure, but he has never really done anything impressive.
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8 hours ago, cbo said:
Gonna go with Hank on this one. Nothing against Brahms. Seems like he's worked hard and done everything he can to recover from several injuries. Just bad luck for him. But I can't see how anyone would call him irreplaceable.
Who knows if the replacement will be better, but it is certainly possible. Way too early to call this one a minus.
No one called him irreplaceable. There are a wwhhhhooooollllleeeeee lot of centers we would trade for in a second.
However his replacement has been demonstrably worse hence why he was behind Brahms. It wouldnt be hard for a replacement to one day be better, but for now, Auburn is worse
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58 minutes ago, Hank2020 said:
Not sure if you are correct or not but a great deal of conversation on here was that Brahms was a liability as he could not get stronger due to injury, and was grading out low due to lack of power. Now his apparent loss is being heralded as a minus. No winning with some.
If there is no one of equal or better tallent to replace him, then obviously it's a -.
That's how this works.
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56 minutes ago, Randman5000 said:
Remember when people were saying why were we taking a guy from Northwestern too.
Leota produced more in 8 games durring covid year than Bragg has produced his entire career against lesser competition.
This isn't an apple to apple comparison and doesn't work as the strong argument you think it does.
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24 minutes ago, toddc said:
Don’t sleep on this kid!
Bragg 'a really smart player' for Auburn pass rush
62 minutes agoAUBURN, Alabama — Eku Leota got the first look at Auburn’s newest addition to the edge rusher room. And before he ever joined the Tigers on the field, Marcus Braggimpressed his new teammate.
Leota, one of two highly productive seniors for coach Roc Bellantoni pass-rushing unit, hosted Bragg during his visit to Auburn in mid-June. A Western Kentucky transfer, Bragg committed to the Tigers during the visit.
And less than two months later, he took the practice field, occupying an important role for what was previously a thin edge rushers room. Auburn had just three scholarship players at the position in the spring, and Bragg’s addition rounded that out to a clean two-and-two rotation — with preseason All-SEC pick Derick Hall and Leota at the top, followed by Bragg and redshirt freshman Dylan Brooks.
“He's a really smart player, works hard,” Leota said of Bragg Wednesday. “And it adds another veteran to the room. So it helps just bring that IQ up and he also leads by example, so that helps the edge room.”
A former JUCO product and the cousin of former Auburn receiver Ricardo Louis, Bragg played the past three seasons at WKU, recording 4.5 tackles for loss and four sacks.
He made his presence felt rather quickly in Auburn’s preseason camp, snatching a scoop-and-score while receiving some first-team work during the first week of practices.
Clocking in at 6-foot-5 and 262 pounds, Bragg has also seen time in practice working with Jimmy Brumbaugh’s defensive line unit, at least during individual drills. Perhaps that’s what defensive coordinator Jeff Schmedding meant when he referred Bragg as being a contributor on the “full front.”
"Marcus Bragg — when you talk about the full front, he's done a nice job, as well,” Schmedding said last week.
Bellantoni got even more depth this preseason, too, when former JUCO standout Joko Willis was shifted over from the linebacking corps to his room. After making some big hits on kick returns last year, Willis’ athleticism is being tested in blitz packages as almost a floating outside linebacker — at least over the past week-plus of practice.
“Joko’s doing really well,” Leota said. “He's in the meeting rooms, always asking questions. He's been moved around a little bit, so he's, this is his first year in the edge room, and I think he's starting to click with them, as well. But he plays hard, plays with a lot of effort.”
Auburn figures to have one of its best pass-rushes since the 2017 season, with Hall and Leota bringing back 16 combined sacks.
It's really hard to be thankful for a guy who only recorded 4.5 sacks at WKU in 3 years...
Is there more to this that the statline doesn't account for?
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9 hours ago, Hank2020 said:
You cant call them more than recruits bc thats what they are. Even Bama recruits are only recruits. To call them more than that is only Crimson colored glasses.
You're attempt to call me a Bama fan aside, all recruits are not made equal.
But sense you wanna go this route, if possible, Hardin would trade one of our recruits for theirs in a heartbeat.
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7 minutes ago, bigbird said:
I'm not happy with the number we have, but trying to discount the ones we do doesn't make any sense. We have a really high quality group of kids committed.
I'm not discounting them. They are good. To call them more at this point is Auburn colored glasses imo.
A very small amount of above average kids isn't good.
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5 minutes ago, bigbird said:
I didn't ask about class rank...
Ok fine. 1 guy in the top 20 at his position.
Only 2 in the top 200 overall and both are past 160.
Don't get me wrong we have a few good players, but nothing amazing. Especially considering the recruiting across the rest of the league.
And only 7 commits. Only 1 OL. No LB.
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3 hours ago, bigbird said:
Have you reviewed our current recruit's rankings?
68th with only 7 commits?
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6 hours ago, AUght2win said:
This is the reason why there’s no valid solution other than an NFL-run under 20 development league. Every other pro league on earth has it. Oil and water don’t mix. There are professional athletes and student athletes. A professional student athlete will not work.
When you choose a school, you’re supposed to be making a decision on how to best equip yourself to pursue a lifelong career path. It’s incompatible with making a decision to take a short term job for money.
People can’t have their cake and eat it too, here.
There is literally no difference between a baseball kid choosing college or pro as in my solution. Both are accepted and viable. I'm a draft CFB case though, the pay would be much better. Players treated better.
Yea a short term job thats no different than a player going semi pro or farm league for the pro sports. Even with players in school many many opt out of their final years. It's already something kids do. Even giving up the remainder of their scholarship and choosing ball over a degree.
If there was a NFL development league the same would happen. Some go to college some go to the developmental league. But just like in baseball, the pro development league will pay less and be worse for the athletes than a school based paid system.
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6 hours ago, AUght2win said:
To my knowledge Camp War Eagle counselors and tour leaders don’t get paid. Recruiting hosts and hostesses don’t get paid. Lots of student jobs that benefit the university don’t get paid.
CWE and tour people aren't in the AD. The recruiting hosts and hostesses I knew were paid, but i only knew them as upperclassmen. They very well could have not been paid in the 1st year or 2 or dependant on the individual and year.
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6 hours ago, WarEagle1983 said:
They can but they've continued to be notably inconsistent. They're all inconsistent but Ashford is an X factor with his legs, therefore i do considered his ceiling to be higher. Can he get to that point is the question. I think it's clear he's going to get some chances to show it.
If Ashford is behind the others in throwing, he cannot succeed here as QB. Not in this system especially.
This isn't 2013 with a stud line and a QB that can drop bombs as a tertiary to an insane rushing attack.
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47 minutes ago, AUght2win said:
Nobody is going to make kids choose between the two. You could make that argument right now as a reason to keep college football the way it is.
Kids already make that choice in baseball getting to he drafted out of HS. And their option to go pro is absolute garbage. They get paid literally nothing, and have to take on out of season jobs to survive. A CFB draft option would pay more and provide better opportunities down the road.
There is no reason why a draft and paid option vs a recruit and school option wouldn't be viable.
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47 minutes ago, AUght2win said:
About 10 years ago. Pretty sure a lot of students do part time gigs or internships for free for the university.
The only interns I knew were short term grads. They were not paid, but usually only worked a few months before it led to a job.
Interesting though.
Finley named starting QB
in AU Football Forum
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Love this!
I just hope it's actual improvement and not just talk. We should easily get 2-3 passing TDs this week. That will go a long way in helping him in the minds of the fans.