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Interesting that the guy in the video mentions Aden's off-the-court 'issues'... You would think that his on-court (lack of) performance coupled with off-the-court issues might make prospective landing spots leery about taking him. Wonder what kind of NIL deal he got?

That's his daughter...

His problem wasn't playing time...it was production.

Same here...

From Bama Central today (19 Apr 2024). Interesting that he went to high school with 2 Alabama signees (who I assume will soon be on campus?). Aden Holloway is a former McDonalds All-American point guard who played last season for the Auburn Tigers. Holloway was considered a 5-star player out of Prolific Prep, the same high school program that produced Alabama signees Aiden Sherrell and Derrion Reid. He averaged 7.3 points, 2.7 assists and 1.5 rebounds per game as a freshman for Bruce Pearl's team while shooting right at 30-percent from beyond the arc. Holloway is currently in the middle of a visit to Tuscaloosa as he weighs his transfer options.

Thanks for the update, aubiefifty. Sorry to hear that you have to have chemo but it's great that you can be treated close to home. And, promising that you'll receive less-toxic drugs than may have been available previously. Wishing you all the best and will keep you in my prayers!

Glad to see you back on the forum, @aubiefifty. How are you feeling? Hope your medical issues are behind you.

Apparently Aden Holloway may also end up at Michigan. Per this article, he was recruited by them out of high school and he has family ties there - his grandfather played football for Michigan and his sister Mila is an incoming basketball signee... https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/report-michigan-auburn-transfer-guard-aden-holloway-have-mutual-interest/ar-BB1llHUD

I'm sorry you are going through difficult times right now. I'll keep you, and your best friend, in my prayers. You are a fighter and a survivor - never forget that your AU family is behind you and wishes the best for you.

Guessing he didn't say where that happened? How are you doing? Praying you have healed from your surgery and don't require any followup treatments. And glad you're back on this forum!

I don't have 40 mins to listen to this...what's the story? Thanks.

The SEC tournament is ALSO a single-elimination event, just like the NCAA tournament. The same logic you're using to downplay the NCAA can be applied to the SEC. And the notion that measuring yourself against the people you've been playing all year in the SEC is a better barometer of how good you are than measuring yourself against the best of the rest of the country is just nonsensical.

CBM does this REPEATEDLY...every game recently he has cost Auburn with his punk behavior. So immature and selfish.

How the heck did Bama move UP a spot???

Wow...seems blatantly unfair unless ATM had a significantly harder out-of-conference schedule (which seems unlikely given their record).

On the tv broadcast I understood them to say that the Auburn players gathered in a circle on the court and prayed while the Florida players checked on their injured teammate.

Great to see the Maddie we know and love on the mound today! Auburn 4 - Missouri 0. Auburn had 10 hits to Missouri's 4. Lech had 2 home runs and the rest of the team had success at the plate as well. Hope they build on today's success and crush Arkansas next week. Way to go, Tigers - War Eagle!

Yes, frustrating. And Missouri is soooo much better at the plate than Auburn is. I've wondered for years why Emily Carasone - a superstar at the plate - hasn't been able to positively impact Auburn's offense.

I hope he retires. I gave him the benefit of the doubt for a long time but we can do better. Dean retiring (vs being fired) would be the best solution IMO...no drama or negativity for the program. Lenti needs to go, too. Some of us have wondered if Carasone was elevated to associate head with the intent of elevating her to head coach when Dean leaves??? Don't know what influence she or Hannah Sparks have on the team.

The players who bailed last year didn't do so well yesterday, either. Arkansas (Ellis) lost to South Alabama (!). South Carolina (Bryant) lost to Texas A&M. Clemson (Garcia) won but they played Mercer. I've watched all the games that were televised this year and I don't think Maddie is pitching as well as she did last year. Maybe it's just that there is a lot more film on her now (they did mention that). In addition, it was miserably cold yesterday...mid 40s, light rain at times, windy. It was mentioned on yesterday's broadcast that (I think I'm repeating this accurately) 7 of the 8 SEC series Auburn will play this year are against higher rated teams than Auburn. Auburn is #25, Missouri is #12. Yes, it's likely going to be a long season, possibly for a lot of SEC teams.

Great game but definitely a nail-biter the last two innings. Loved Maners getting the walk-off HR when the announcers doubted him. War Eagle!

Darn it...I guess the days of total domination are over. Wonder if it has anything to do with the coach retiring or if other schools are just getting more serious about the sport.

Yikes. He was a standout in high school as well...holds the record for most points scored by a high school basketball player in the state of Mississippi. Hard to believe he wasn't a 5-star recruit (he was a consensus 4-star). Auburn will have their hands full this afternoon - glad they're playing at home and hope they're up to the challenge.

Well, looks like Cam wasn't an innocent bystander after all. IMHO, his behavior was out of line and immature (first article below). I give him credit for fessing up, taking responsibility for his actions and apologizing (second article below). Hope he learned something from it all. FIRST ARTICLE - WHAT HAPPENED https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/coaches-involved-in-cam-newton-fight-reveal-what-led-to-altercation-with-nfl-qb-typical-cam/ar-BB1iVf1c: NFL MVP quarterback Cam Newton went viral on Sunday after footage surfaced on social media of a brawl that broke out during a 7-on-7 football tournament in Atlanta. Two of the men involved in the altercation, coaches TJ and Steph Brown, say Newton's actions throughout the weekend ultimately led to the physical skirmish that started with him grabbing Steph first before TJ threw a punch. "It just should never have gotten to that," TJ told Fox News Digital on Monday. Unfortunately, the situation was one that TJ and Steph, who run TopShelf Performance's (TSP) 7-on-7 teams while providing training for wide receivers at all levels, saw festering not just this weekend, but for quite some time. They have had a relationship with Newton, the first overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft who won league MVP with the Carolina Panthers in 2015, since 2020, when Newton appointed TJ head coach of one of his "C1N" 7-on-7 teams. Steph eventually came into the fold after coaching college ball, becoming Newton's wide receivers coach and a member of his offensive support staff. Tensions rose within the organization, specifically when TJ's team was beating the team Newton coached. In 2022, TJ and Steph decided to break off from C1N and create their own 7-on-7 team, which became TSP. The inaugural "We Ball Sports" 7-on-7 tournament took place in Atlanta over the weekend, when both organizations had teams playing, and TJ felt the organizers knew exactly what they were doing when they pitted their 18U teams against each other on Saturday. "First off, on the organizer’s part, we weren’t even supposed to be playing Cam. They were on the whole other side of the bracket," TJ said. TJ and Steph recalled taunting beginning from Newton's side prior to the game even starting. It was nothing new for teams to share some barbs before going at it on the field, no matter the sport. However, they felt it was personal. "As we’re warming up, you see in most of the videos, Cam has this chant where he’s like, ‘Ayo!’ So he yells it over on his sideline, then he tells them, ‘Man, y’all go over there and do it to them too,'" TJ explained. "So all the players run up on us, and they’re like, ‘Ayo!’ Mind you, he knows a lot of our players don’t mess with his players, and some of them are cool. Obviously, as they’re running up on our players, the We Ball [Sports] folks, they’re recording it. All I said to the camera was, ‘Don’t delete the film when I beat him this time,’ because the last time I beat him – the last three times I beat them – all of a sudden there’s no film. ‘Oh, we didn’t record anything. We took pictures.’" TSP ended up beating C1N on Saturday, but Sunday is when things started to get even worse, beginning with an interaction TJ said he had with Newton in the parking lot. "Sunday comes, I’m walking through the parking lot, walking to the field," he recounted. "Cam jumps out of his car and yells, ‘Hey, all that sorry s--- ain’t gonna work today. What we betting today? What we betting?’ I’m like, ‘I ain’t betting you, bro. I already beat you three, four times. You got to beat me first.’ He like, ‘What we betting? I got plenty of money. I ain’t ever running out of money.’ That’s when I told him, ‘That’s your problem. All you care about is money. You think money is everything. You can’t buy me.’ And I walk off." Newton's team began to play in Sunday's slate of games, and TJ noted that he was taunting TSP despite not being opponents in the game. Then, when it was TSP's turn to start playing, Newton was at the top of a flight of stairs (seen in videos of the fight) hurling taunts down at the TSP coaches and players on the field. "It’s probably three minutes into the game, he’s sitting up top with all his kids around him under a tent yelling down on us," TJ said. "‘Hey, I know that play. That’s my stuff. I taught y’all everything y’all know. I’m y’all daddy. I made y’all. I’m the reason for everything y’all got going on.’ He’s just yelling all this stuff." One anonymous parent who was present for the altercation on Sunday confirmed to Fox News Digital that Newton had been taunting those on the field. Steph went to confront Newton after their game to talk about what was being said, which is when things began to escalate. TJ was just walking up the long staircase when video shows Newton grabbing Steph by his jacket after they were face-to-face trading words. TJ jumped in, throwing a punch at Newton before the latter grabbed him and the fight moved toward a fence. "If you’re walking up a flight of stairs, and you see a 6’6" guy grab your little brother trying to throw him down some stairs, you’re going to intervene," TJ said. "It doesn’t matter who you are, rather it be a punch, rather it be a push, rather it be grabbing him. You’re going to do something. So, at that point, with Cam putting his hands on another grown man, something is going to come behind that. "If you ask anybody about me, I’m not confrontational, I’m not loud, I don’t get mad at people, I don’t argue with people, I don’t fight, I don’t do none of that crazy stuff. That’s not me." Atlanta police and others got involved to de-escalate the situation. No arrests were made and no charges were pressed, though Steph, TJ and Newton were ordered to leave the grounds. The TSP coaches felt there was a lack of accountability by not only Newton, but the organizers of the event as well. While nothing has ever escalated to a fight, it has gotten close for Newton, as they mentioned him getting into it with an event photographer at a Miami 7-on-7 tournament earlier this month. "This is typical Cam Newton behavior on the 7-on-7 scene," TJ said. "But yesterday was a little worse, and you can even ask people in his organization. Cam ain’t never act like that. I’ve seen him talk crazy to parents, talk crazy to some of the kids because everybody tries to make it seem like, ‘Oh, the kids just be disrespecting Cam.’ No, Cam be disrespecting people, too. "He’s just got to understand we’re people. Nobody’s just going to let you go around disrespecting and talking crazy to them. I know how to brush it off, but not everybody’s like that." TJ and Steph both pointed out having good relationships with players and others on the C1N side, which is why they did not like their own actions during the situation. "To the C1N players, I apologize. This is your big brother telling y’all that," TJ said. "A lot of y’all know us personally. We apologize for putting y’all in that situation like that because it should never come to that. We love y’all. Some of the coaches and people that are a part of the organization, we love y’all. We still have relationships." Steph added, "I’m disappointed in myself. I let Cam trigger me to that point where I entertained what he was doing, but it was never out of ill will or to put him in harm’s way. I’m 5’9", man, but I stand on what I stand on. I say what I’m going to say no matter what. I ain’t got to be loud, this and that. But me going up there was to let him know, ‘Cam, you’re not gonna disrespect our organization, you’re not going to disrespect our kids or our parents out here. You’re bigger than that.’" While the situation appears to be a relationship that was once good and now torn to pieces, the TSP side hopes they can reconcile their differences with Newton and C1N soon. "We got to do better as men," Steph said. "We’re Black men. We got to do better. Cam, I don’t care how much money you got, this and that. But you don’t put your hands on nobody. …I look at you as a brother. You let [something] not football come in between that." "It still ain’t too late to figure this out," TJ said. "Because at the end of the day, it’s about these kids. He’s got kids on his team that I train and coach. We got kids on our team who he knows. We got kids on our team who know some of the players and play with some of the players on his team in high school. Any time it gets to that, we have to figure this out because now these kids and their relationships are involved." Newton and C1N did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the altercation when asked by Fox News Digital. SECOND ARTICLE - NEWTON APOLOGIZES https://www.si.com/nfl/panthers/news/cam-newton-addresses-the-viral-fight Last week, former Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton was involved in a fight at a 7-on-7 youth football camp in Georgia. Friday morning, Newton finally addressed the brawl and apologized to everyone involved during his show, 4th & 1, on YouTube. The backstory "They were former coaches up under my organization C1N, so we have tenure. There were a lot of clips (saying) kids were 'jumping' on Cam. These were coaches. These were grown men. And anybody that knows me, I use football as my way of giving back to the community from camps to tournaments to many other things. How they began their involvement to the program is just like anybody else, I just let them come. It's an open door policy. I will never tell you not to come. Over the years, their roles expanded because they kept showing up and they were impacting the kids, building great relationships. And how it morphed was this - When I was in the NFL, I never had time to actually show face to the kid events so I would assign that to my coaches or my staff members. This is why I say it takes a village. It's sad to say but if we're just being honest, a lot of our kids are being raised in single parent households. So our coaches serve as father figures to these kids. Our coaches serve as male positive role models for these kids. A lot of our coaches have been where these players are trying to go. So it's natural for them to build meaningful relationships with the players. So yes, they were a part of that program of C1N and that's where the familiarity came from." What happened "I think that's a part of sports. You play tennis, golf, basket weaving, cricket, you play whatever sport - obviously football is a very physical sport. Verbal communication is what people use to distract, to deter, to get in another person's head and there was a lot of talking on both sides. I don't want to point the finger and say well, this person said this or that person said that. Am I saying this is the first time it happened or last time it will happen? It's just something that... it starts with words and it should have ended with words. That's it. I'm disappointed in myself by letting it escalate to what it did and that's why I'm apologetic to it. The truth of the matter is, I should have never put myself in that position because that s*** could have got ugly. For real. It could have. This is a serious situation. I even seen a clip that said people are laughing, but they weren't laughing about Nipsey. What if serious injury would have happened on either side? Something happened to me, something happened to them... now my eight children are father-less because I'm being sued or I got something. They say don't make a rational judgement in the heat of the moment. Dare I say I'm not going to ever do it again, but I just let that situation escalate in a way it didn't need to happen." Cam's message "This is what I really want the narrative to be. To every single high school player, to every single person I've influenced, to every single athlete - use my situation as a way to understand that in one moment and in one decision, your life can change. Just like that. I let my emotions get the best of me and it should not have been called for. Simple. With that, I apologize to anybody affected - that's Steph, TJ, their organization. C1N, my organization, my players, parents, my staff members. And when you really debrief from days after, it really puts things into perspective."

Why would he leave? As noted, Bama could win its 3rd SEC title in 4 years. He just signed TWO 5-star McDonald's All Americans for next year's team and he has plenty of talent returning. I don't get the dismissive attitude about Oats/Bama...I am NOT a fan (understatement), but by any objective measure they are a talented, successful team.