Trooper Taylor

[auburn4ever 1,266]

I've been very disapointed with our WR's the last 2 years. Looks to me like Trooper has lost his touch in coaching them up.

[vatz22au 134]

You can't be serious...

[Nashville War Eagle 0]

You can't be serious...

I believe he probably is. And I'm not sure how you can argue it? I think Trooper is the best sunshine pumping rah rah rah guy around, but our WR core is not that good for the most part and NONE of our highly touted WRs coming in have developed whatsoever.

Deangelo Benton - No development

Trovon Reed - I had HUGE hopes for this kid and now I don't even look for him to be in the game.

On and on. Its not just Trooper. Our ENTIRE coaching staff save for a couple is pretty darn terrible. But I agree with the OP. Trooper can't coach them up anymore.

[BaldDisciple 0]

I like Troop and all, but Erik Campbell has always been my first choice for WR Coach. Plus he has experience with CSL so that might help.

[cole256 16,306]

Nobody thinks the suspect qb play the last two years would translate to the wr stats? And who are all of our highly recruited wr's? Benton has been a bust. Reed didn't play wr in high school. Quan the same as reed. Who else? The other guys were message boards superstars and all of them were gems supposedly but they weren't ranked high. Trooper has been successful every single place he's been. Coached guys who are pros in the NFL. Coached in different leagues. But all of a sudden he can't coach anymore? And it just so happens to be when the qb and o line coaching is horrible but Trooper can't coach?

Why is it there aren't threads talking about Grimes can't coach? Who has he coached up? If you want to see highly ranked players look at the o line group. The guy Flowers for Arky killed our highly ranked o line and he didn't even have major offers in high school. Every time they ran a blitz they got through. And that was against a d line that hasn't play well the entire season.

[vatz22au 134]

You can't be serious...

I believe he probably is. And I'm not sure how you can argue it? I think Trooper is the best sunshine pumping rah rah rah guy around, but our WR core is not that good for the most part and NONE of our highly touted WRs coming in have developed whatsoever.

Deangelo Benton - No development

Trovon Reed - I had HUGE hopes for this kid and now I don't even look for him to be in the game.

On and on. Its not just Trooper. Our ENTIRE coaching staff save for a couple is pretty darn terrible. But I agree with the OP. Trooper can't coach them up anymore.

D. Benton spent his time smoking "spice" and whatever have you according to some testimony he gave in the off season. I'm sure you've heard about it. That ain't on Trooper.. You either work at it or you don't.

Quan Bray took and stole Reed's place in the depth chart. Why? Because he has more talent. That was TROOPER'S call on the depth chart and it obviously shows. Why isn't anyone talking about that position movement on the depth chart?

Oh sorry, it can't be the severe lack of execution on the QB's part.

Let's blame Trooper.

[Tigerbelle 5,299]

I'm very grateful that internet posters have no say in the hiring/firing decisions at Auburn.

[gbau1985 0]

I've been very disapointed with our WR's the last 2 years. Looks to me like Trooper has lost his touch in coaching them up.

Now you think Coach Trooper is the problem?? I disagree and wouldn't trade him for anybody else. There is a reason he was named Asst. Head Coach.

[gbau1985 0]

I'm very grateful that internet posters have no say in the hiring/firing decisions at Auburn.

Amen.

[auburn4ever 1,266]

I agree about Jeff Grimes. He's done an awful job this year.

[maxwere 82]

(WRs) They weren't too bad yesterday. Honestly don't think that's whats broke.

Grimes really hasn't had much success with the HS guys. That's quite puzzling.

[Hopsing 499]

I cannot figure out why we continue to not have another productive receiver on the field besides Blake? Really, can none of them block, catch, or run proper routes? Some of them (Stallworth, Reed, Benton) have been here more than 1 year.

Benton - OFF field issues. If these are so bad then why does he still have a jersey?

Reed - Not sure, but I read multiple requests for screens. He should be involved in some of those.

Stallworth - When given opportunity does look good. So why few opportunities.

This is just at receiver. We continue to hear about youth, and inexperience. After losing to Arkans-ass everyone should play, and few jobs should not be up for grabs.

[cole256 16,306]

(WRs) They weren't too bad yesterday. Honestly don't think that's whats broke.

Grimes really hasn't had much success with the HS guys. That's quite puzzling.

I agree about the wr. Yesterday the wr group is the only group that looked decent.

[AUbritt 606]

auburn4ever still has a couple more coaches to start threads about ...

[auburn4ever 1,266]

I'm making a list and checking it twice.

[Velvet Beavis 15]

I've been very disapointed with our WR's the last 2 years. Looks to me like Trooper has lost his touch in coaching them up.

Now you think Coach Trooper is the problem?? I disagree and wouldn't trade him for anybody else. There is a reason he was named Asst. Head Coach.

Trooper is not THE problem, but I think he is PART of the problem. We have recruited great talent across the board and it is not being developed across the board. Trooper has been here 4 years and we have only 1 reliable receiver. You gotta ask yourself - why is that? Regardless of who the OC is, or who the QB is, by now we should have veteran receivers who can run routes, catch the ball, and block downfield. I'm not seeing that happen.

[WarTiger 3,711]

I'm very grateful that internet posters have no say in the hiring/firing decisions at Auburn.

You and me both. Some seriously uninformed people here.

I've been very disapointed with our WR's the last 2 years. Looks to me like Trooper has lost his touch in coaching them up.

Now you think Coach Trooper is the problem?? I disagree and wouldn't trade him for anybody else. There is a reason he was named Asst. Head Coach.

Go back and look at the source. That's all you need to do to understand this. Same song, next verse.

[cole256 16,306]

Oh that's what's happening wr's not getting open.....I mean really. Just all of a sudden out of the blue Trooper just forgot how to coach....Tulsa, Okl st, UT and us when he first got here just were flukes. Now he can't coach

[alexava 6,946]

how the hell do you blame trooper or the receivers when we dont have a qb.

[cole256 16,306]

Exactly. Only our fan base would say I guy can't coach when he showed he could coaching for us.....When he got here people didn't even know who Adams was, T zach was considered a bust and Kodi was a qb.

[NCTiger 0]

Guys, we are all pissed and there is PLENTY of blame to go around. I don't think we have a coach on this staff that we don't like. All are good men, good family men and have worked hard for Auburn. However, the OP asked a valid question. Most of them have had solid to great success at other SEC programs so why NOT Auburn ?

War Eagle !

[meh130 962]

Trooper Taylor was hired primarily because of his recruiting skills. He has received kudos for coaching his WRs to block downfield well. I have not heard anything positive regarding his ability to develop WR talent. Our great WRs in the Trooper era have been great individual talents (Zachery, Adams, and Blake).

Likewise Jeff Grimes clearly is a strong recruiter, but not necessarily a great developer of talent.

By the same token, Gus Malzahn was not perfect. He was an offensive genious, but not a quarterback coach. The key to Gus' success was to recruit players into his system. Obviously, Kyle Fraizer was recruited by CGM to run a CGM offense.

I think the biggest disapointment this year for me has been the fact CSL has not be the developer of quarterbacks I was expecting. I was expecting a Pat Sullivan or Al Borges type of quarterback coach. CSL has not been able to develop Fraizer. Would a health Clint Moseley have made a difference? If Barrett Trotter had stayed would he have done better? O don't kkno.

I think had we stayed with CGM or a CGM disciple, our offense might be better ... however, some of the problems in CSL's offense are the line and the WRs.

On the defensive side, I think we have the right assitant coaches. I think changes on offense will be needed. I don't know how losing Taylor and Grimes would affect our recruiting abilty. But it might be best to ease them out.

[AUlaxkid5 0]

Even though it seems that we cannot coach up players with our great recruiting, losing Trooper means we would lose our best recruiter.

[aubrandon 5]

I do think our receivers are somewhat under developed. It would certainly help to have a qb to throw them the dang ball. Trooper is not the problem. Fraizer looks for Blake then a check down to Lutz. He never looks for the other receivers, It was nice to see Reed make a couple of catches and Stallworth made a heck of a catch.

[ellitor 31,727]

Troop is not the problem.