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Did we have a running play get positive yards?

1 hour ago, AUGoo said:

It's going to be impressive to watch the staffs in the AD's explode with people to recruit all three areas of interest.  How one coach is gonna have the time and ability to recruit HS, portal, and his own team, in addition to actually coaching, will be a super human feat.

It's much less a game now of the head coach building personal relationships and more of ensuring the HC has a full staff with people on the hook for managing each of those elements.  It's much more of a General Manager or CEO type roll now.    

On 4/2/2024 at 5:16 PM, Old fan 47 said:

Have to agree with you. JH is proven, but as good as Alston and Cobb have looked in limited time, I’m far from convinced either are built for more than 10-12 carries a game in this league. To me,  just as last year, I am already hearing HF being negative about PT. He brought him to AU, didn’t  go after another, even partially proven QB in the portal, but still, unless it’s all smoke and mirrors, continues to be using and treating PT as more of an excuse for failure, instead of building him up any. I mean damn, the kid played QB in the second best conference in the land and put up decent numbers. My point is, I want HF to put up or shut his damn mouth, because he’s proven nothing in the SEC. 

Agree with everything you say about PT and HF.  I don't understand how he's managing the QB room.

As for JH...will he show up ready to play this year? His off-season last year was a disaster and his performance was nothing special.  Big disappointment.

This has been fun to follow.  Here's my 2 cents:

Relationship building matters less than it did 5 years ago; or even 3 years ago.  If you weren't talking to stud HS players when they were in either the 9th or 10th grade, you were left behind as a coaching staff.   Long term relationship was 80-90% of what drove recruit choice

Relationship still matters; but now it's below 50%.  Relationship gets you to your senior year and drives the recruit top 3 or 5 schools...after that, it's an NIL bidding game now

For current rostered players; relationship is less than 20%...1) am I getting playing time 2) will I get playing time 3) NIL $$ amounts vs my other options drive decisions now ... 

2023 NCAA rosters were 21% transfer players; that number was 6% in 2019; half of D1 teams played a transfer QB (57%)

The last data point I had before the playoffs were over had the average number of transfers per team in the SEC and Big10 over 20 (I think it was 22; but + or - two).  Any staff will have to be able to replace minimally 1/4 of their program via transfers going forward + sign a new recruiting class.  So basically, you have to be able to replace over 1/2 your roster every year thru a combo of recruiting and transfers.  The number of transfer players will increase as we go forward; not decline (in spite of the risk of not landing on a roster being quite high now)

So, given this environment, what matters is being able to both recruit effectively and replenish the obvious transfers that are going to happen.  I don't think relationship has much to do with any of this any longer.  The "rules" or lack of rules, makes this highly transactional now.  The only school I see bucking this trend at present is UGA (I think they had less than 8 transfers).

Talent management success will be determined by how effective the organization built can manage these dynamics.  And, you have to be able to coach the actual games, while doing all of the above.

The verdict is still out on CHF.  He needs to deliver an actual winning season before declaring him "better" than others at this new world.  

This was 1984 losing in the 1st round to the Richmond Spiders bad.

This is a coaching loss.  Too much pissing and moaning about location, etc., and not enough "Yale is the best Ivy League team we will ever play, smart, disciplined , good shooters; we better be ready talk"....it looked like they'd never watched their film.  

On 2/25/2024 at 4:17 PM, aubiefifty said:

A golf por's wife was on and i forget her name. they were chatting and something came up about what she did to bring him luck. she said she kissed his balls for good luck and johnny said i bet that makes his putter stand up or something close to that. i searched and could find nothing. but it is a true story................

I think she said she "cleaned his balls and kissed his putter"

On 2/9/2024 at 7:52 AM, I_M4_AU said:

 

 

I would pay to do this

10 hours ago, augolf1716 said:

The Auburn freshman team in 1968 fell behind Bama 27-0, but fought back to win, 36-27.

I listened to that game on the radio like I did all the Freshman games of that era.  When that game was over, you knew the next few years were going to be decidedly Auburn's.

This is particularly painful.  My older brother and I played Sullivan and Beasley endlessly in the yard.  He was older and was going to be a QB.  That left me running routes....and learning how to do the patented over-the-shoulder catch that Beasley made famous.  I don't know how many thousands of passes Sullivan (my brother) threw me during those years; the final pass of each back yard session was a throw and catch for a 4th quarter TD to seal the win over Alabama...and of course we'd ad-lib Gary Sanders announcing it on the radio. 

Nothing like playing ball with your brother in the back yard.  I miss him.   

My God what a childhood I had.  

God bless Terry Beasley and his family. 

Coleman and Thompson both have the body/tools to be successful (I would not want to be a 5'10 CB trying to go up with either of them).  From looking at their film, both can catch, run and go up and get the ball.  Hard to tell just how strong they are; freshman wideouts tend to have trouble getting off the LOS against SEC competition; so that will have a lot to do with their playing time; well, that and blocking ability and how well they learn the offense. 

Our biggest challenge/concern at WR is a QB.  Without above avg QB play, these guys will be one and done.

7 hours ago, ScotsAU said:

Science has pretty much confirmed the entitled kids thing to be a complete myth. Every “generation” says it about younger ones. In fact, I have close colleagues that have done generations research. Generations in general have no predictive power behind studying population growth and decline. People are generally the same as they’ve been for a very long time. As such, the whole “they’re just a bunch of entitled kids” argument doesn’t really hold up. Would be happy to provide peer reviewed citations if necessary because I’m very familiar with this research. 
 

But let’s consider that argument as valid for a second.  Let’s assume kids are just entitled now. Wouldn’t that matter in establishing a culture? If the premise that they’re entitled brats is true, that means coaches have to account for that when building a program’s culture or risk losing the team.
 

Also, for a final point, look at other programs. Are mass numbers of players at other schools walking out of team meetings on the regular? Obviously something that was said in that meeting at a minimum rubbed his team the wrong way. Is it a sign of a cultural problem? Not necessarily. It could have been one thing he said wrong in that meeting. But it is still suspicious. 

Given the declines in children raised in two parent homes over the last 40 years (from over 2/3 down to less than 1/3 in the black community), I find it hard to believe that there is not a demonstrable difference in the maturity, preparedness, intelligence and ability of today's 18 - 22 year olds relative to past generations.   

Durkin, solid coordinator.  Attacking style defense.  Defense was not why A&M didn't win 10 or 11 games this year.  He had one bad game and fixed that (after Miami).    He's active on the sidelines.

I don't know enough about Nix to personally know if it is a good hire or not for OC.  He seems a good judge of talent based on looking at the Ole Miss WR room.  They were also well coached and executed well. There seems to be a lot of support for him from this board, for OC role, so I'll go with that.  Shame they didn't do it last year if it was really on the table.  

4 minutes ago, gctiger said:

I've got to wonder to what extent, if any, the "Play Caller" clause can be enforced.  I would think that a new OC with play calling duties wouldn't just be turned loose to dial up all the plays from day 1.  I would think there may be a mentorship involved to bring Nix up to speed on HF's system, and the head coach always reserves the right to make the final call on any play.  Also, I don't see how anyone could possibly know, or prove to what extent Nix would be calling the plays.  Do they expect to walk into the stadium/press box on game days and closely monitor what Nix says and does?  Even if the clause is enforceable, it's only forceable to the extent that Ole Miss is willing to ante up the money to pursue legal action to collect the $650k buyout.  The whole thing sounds kind of ridiculous to me!

 

You can't compel someone's future employer to do something via a non-compete.  About all you can do is protect a legitimate business interest, such as a trade secret or customer relationship.  All this is just Lane being Lane. He's found a sore so he's picking at it in the media.  

21 minutes ago, aubiefifty said:

i have mixed felling about him. but i was told by bama fans supposedly in the know he was banging coeds and got run off. maybe he has straightened up but to me that is far worse than folks want to get on freeze for.

 

Hhhmm, well Fifty, banging Coeds vs hiring hookers; that's like trying to separate fly s*** from pepper.

Compliments, then trolling, then compliments again. Interesting approach. 

Nice job trying to stir the pot and force everyone to answer the question during every interview instead of talking real football, recruiting, etc.

20 hours ago, AUwent said:

I thought it was a given that KA would become QB coach?

AUWent...you should start a thread with the below and see what the rest of the Family thinks

My five year goals for Freeze:

Year #1: Bowl game berth (the traditional way) (PASSED); consensus--both 247 and On3--top 15 recruiting class (ALMOST CERTAINLY GOING TO PASS).

Year #2: Seven regular season wins; cons. top 10 class

Year #3: Eight regular season wins; cons. top 10 class

Years #4-5 (assuming the SEC starts playing nine games by this point): At least nine regular season wins both seasons and one quarterfinal berth between the two; average of cons. top 10 classes