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They changed this rule for college basketball in 2018. Players have until the Monday after the draft to declare their intention to return to school if they don't get drafted. In basketball there is little risk. You can go through the whole process and if not drafted, just go back to school. Football is different. A player can declare for the draft once without damaging their eligibility, but have to change their mind within 72 hours of the draft declaration date of January 15. This means they can't participate in any of the draft process. If they get that far, it is already too late.

Not too bad for me. I didn't trust them to get past the sweet 16 and no other loss so far had I picked to make it past the round of 32.

Well, he apologized to his family specifically because he did offend them by shamelessly ripping off a JFK commercial.

No, but there was an RFK Jr for President commercial that made me question if I was having an acid trip.

When these guys fall behind they panic and just start chucking ill advised threes, which makes it worse. Broome is almost unstoppable. Just feed him the ball inside instead of lobbing unneeded desperation threes.

Maybe a QB petitioning for a 6th year?

How about they start with catching the ones that hit them in the hands. We had a game earlier this season where PT had 9 incompletions. 6 of them hit the WRs squarely in the hands. As in, there is zero reason at all they shouldn't have been caught. At that point PTs completion percentage and yards would have looked a lot better. PT has his issues, but I still feel like more of the problem is the OL and incompetent WRs than the QB. PT should be serviceable if the WRs could make even basic catches. I'm not sure why in the one series with Brown they caught everything within 5 yards of them and in the series with PT and Geriner they couldn't catch stuff that hit them in the hands and RBs were dropping easy screen passes. Even PT's late interception was taken out of the receiver's hands as he went to the ground. He had that ball and it was straight up ripped away. That is the WR's fault, not the QB's.

Apparently Taulia Tagavailoa has asked for a 6th year and entered the portal.

We had more DBs on the field than they had receivers, by a lot. The fact that we had enough to double cover almost everyone and no one was covering anyone is exactly the problem. On 4th and goal from the 31 it shouldn't matter how much time he has to throw. That play should fail 99% of the time because he has to throw into traffic. There was no traffic. Receivers were not blanketed. They were running free untouched. We had 2 linemen and essentially 9 DBs on the field. The fact that he had anyone open at all, much less multiple people is far more of an issue than the fact that he was given time to throw. In that situation I expected everyone to drop deep and make him put it into the end zone, where it should fail every time regardless of how much time he had to throw it.

Auburn had little success getting to him all game. He escaped everything. I have no problem with not rushing anyone. Every guy that misses him is someone not in position to prevent the reception when he inevitably passes after they fail to sack him. The tradeoff is that you put everyone in the end zone. It is touchdown or game over. Nothing else would have worked. No way he scrambles for 34 yards and the touchdown. Nothing underneath would work. It should have been impossible for any receiver to be in single coverage in the end zone. That is the part that baffles me. Every Alabama player should have had multiple AU guys on them. A fade should have been impossible. Even with the push off, there should have been at least one other dude there to stop it.

For real. Oregon might be the second best team in the country. They lost twice, both times in really close games to Washington, who is in the National Championship game.

Not sure he had more time. He just seemed to make quicker decisions and get rid of the ball. Our receivers can't catch anything contested and everything PT throws is contested. That doesn't excuse receivers dropping balls that hit them in the hands. However, Brown was making quick decisions and zipping the ball in. Receivers had a much cleaner look. Hell, even the bad passes were caught. The RB had to reach back and snag a ball thrown behind him with one hand, but he also knew that he didn't have a guy ready to light him up.

That play just reinforced what I've been seeing all season. Most of the problem is s***ty receivers. The Auburn receiver caught that ball, then had it taken away from him. That isn't the first time it's happened this year. This group cannot catch anything that is even remotely contested. They drop it, have it punched away, or flat out stolen. I don't blame Thorne for that one. What else do you want him to do? He screws up, sure, but when he hits his receivers they can't make even the most basic of catches.

I felt the same way when UGA started to win. I would rather just Bama continue winning than have UGA also start winning. It makes it so much harder for Auburn when both are good. I'm used to Bama winning. I used to take great pleasure in watching UGA choke.

DJ Uiagalelei just entered the portal and people are mentioning Auburn as a fit. Only has 1 year, so that would send a clear signal that we would be moving on from Thorne. We may very well be considering moving on. The report on Cameron Ward is that he already has ten $1mil+ NIL offers and Auburn is one of them.

6 of Payton's 9 incompletions hit the receivers in the hands. He wasn't the problem. He made some beautiful throws.

The QB play wasn't as bad as some are claiming. WRs didn't help. Payton threw at least 5 balls on the money that were flat out dropped. They would have resulted in huge plays. The last drive was a great example. He made all the right decisions, made good throws, and WRs just dropped everything. Hunter might still be running if he had caught that pass. He was running full speed and had space.

Bo Nix was a magician. I have mad respect for how he made something out of nothing so many times. The offense was basically Bo runs around and either makes something happen or not.

This is bull****. Have you heard him speak at all since getting to CO? He lays it all on the line for his guys. He has swagger and comes off as arrogant to some, but that is all part of the schtick that is creating the hype machine and pumping recruiting. He is a player first coach in everything he does and his guys will die for him. Freeze will never be that guy.

It was and we will never be a good program as long as a specific few people with money (we know who they are) continue to demand that we we give a crap about their football opinion. I sincerely believe these "fellas" don't care if the whole place burns as long as they get to be the king of the ashes.

Pretty much. Nobody who didn't want him could give me a reason that wasn't a thinly veiled dog whistle.

I thought we were getting Hugh Freeze the play caller. He's done it everywhere else. He gets here and turns over play calling immediately. Feels like false advertising. We hired Freeze because of his offensive mind and he instantly punted.

Yep. Just as I said. The worst thing Auburn can do in any game is knock the QB out because it's almost a guarantee that the backup will come in looking like the next Peyton Manning. Every. Damn. Time.

Is now when we start the age old Auburn tradition of making the backup look like a Heisman contender?

Berkely is well known for being one of the most liberal universities in the country, dating back to the counterculture and anti War movements during the Vietnam era. Just as the OP complained about stereotyping of southerners, there is also a lot of stereotyping from southerners regarding the California liberal tree hugger. Auburn fans tend to be more conservative politically and quite a few went out there looking to prove that California, Berkely in particular, is a leftist wasteland. With that frame of mind they saw exactly what they wanted to see to prove themselves right, whether it was true or not. I suspect quite a few of the over the top complaints were from those types, who never entered into the experience with an open mind.