Will you even recognize the team next year?

[Townhallsavoy]

Gone:

Offense:
Fannin
Newton
Ziemba
Pugh
TZach
Kodi
Berry
Isom

Defense:
Carter
Fairley
Clayton
Stevens
Bynes
Washington
Etheridge

Special Teams:
Byrum
Shoemaker

[djsimp]

The team will def look a lot different. There will have to be a large group of young'ns have to step up for sure. It looks as if Trotter will probably be the starting QB. I am actually expecting the D to be pretty good. We'll have a young LB corp and an experienced defensive backfield. I'm not overly concerned about the DL either. Most of those guys have plenty of playing time. Its the offense I have some concern. The OL loses lots of experience. I do think the guys can step up but man I really hope we keep Grimes. On the other hand, we still have play makers on offense and plenty of it that is young and yet to be utilized. Oh yeah, and we still have Malzahn.

[Buzz Killington]

I've never heard of half of these guys and the ones I do know are way past their prime.

[JR4AU]

I've never heard of half of these guys and the ones I do know are way past their prime.

Wow, kidding I hope?

[Snaggletiger]

Wow, kidding I hope?

Buzz is almost always never serious about what he's kidding about.

I had some back and forth with the woopiggers last night about the prospects for AU in 2011.  Of course, Auburn is a 1 man...2 man at best team and will be lucky to get to 5 wins next season...and of course, with Arky winning it all.

People need to realize this team played a ton of guys this year and are far more talented than given credit for.  I'll go out on a limb and say no, we won't for favored to win the west and more than likely won't.  But you can't argue that Gus is a jeenyus and see what he did with ReTodd on the one hand....and say 5 wins at most on the other.  Put together a decent line and get a QB to work his system and you have another dangerous team.

[JR4AU]

Buzz is almost always never serious about what he's kidding about.

I had some back and forth with the woopiggers last night about the prospects for AU in 2011.  Of course, Auburn is a 1 man...2 man at best team and will be lucky to get to 5 wins next season...and of course, with Arky winning it all.

People need to realize this team played a ton of guys this year and are far more talented than given credit for.  I'll go out on a limb and say no, we won't for favored to win the west and more than likely won't.  But you can't argue that Gus is a jeenyus and see what he did with ReTodd on the one hand....and say 5 wins at most on the other.  Put together a decent line and get a QB to work his system and you have another dangerous team.

I expect Auburn will have some drop off. Talent is one thing, experience is another, and you can't replace that.   Maybe it's just me, but some folks talk about Auburn dropping off a bit is unusual in college football, and the fucking piggie fans should know a thing or two about not winning them all ever, or winning them all every year.  But then they been studying the bammer babble for dummies book, and will try and convince you that they got someone better than Mallet riding the pine ready to come in and light the scoreboard up.  I hate to break the news to them, but they hit their top end this year with a BCS Bowl, and they couldn't even seal the deal there.

[Buzz Killington]

Wow, kidding I hope?

You need to watch more movies, my friend.

[djsimp]

I had some back and forth with the woopiggers last night about the prospects for AU in 2011.

Oh, I'm sure that went well.

[AU_Tiger_2000]

I've never heard of half of these guys and the ones I do know are way past their prime.

Most of these guys never had a prime.

[JR4AU]

You need to watch more movies, my friend.

I watch plenty of movies.  Gladiator movies.

[chinook]

Oh, I'm sure that went well.

he pwned them. 

[AUChizad]

Buzz is almost always never serious about what he's kidding about.

I had some back and forth with the woopiggers last night about the prospects for AU in 2011.  Of course, Auburn is a 1 man...2 man at best team and will be lucky to get to 5 wins next season...and of course, with Arky winning it all.

People need to realize this team played a ton of guys this year and are far more talented than given credit for.  I'll go out on a limb and say no, we won't for favored to win the west and more than likely won't.  But you can't argue that Gus is a jeenyus and see what he did with ReTodd on the one hand....and say 5 wins at most on the other.  Put together a decent line and get a QB to work his system and you have another dangerous team.

You forget to mention Dyer & OMac returning. With possibly Calloway getting some snaps as well.

I see 2011 being a lot like 2010 South Carolina. We're gonna depend a lot on our young running back (Dyer). Trotter's style, and talent from how I gauge it, is pretty similar to that of Garcia. That team had 4-5 losses. They won their division, but that's a much taller order in the West, and I don't see us doing it next year. I'm convinced that will be LSU next year.

[War Eagle!!!]

I don't really give a fuck about next year right now...

[chinook]

I don't really give a fuck about next year right now...

why hate 2012?  armageddon?

[Snaggletiger]

he pwned them.

You don't pwn anyone there.  They have their take and there's zero reasoning with them.  Don't really try.  But, it's one hell of an entertaining board if you can look past the AU vitriol and absolute obsession with Houston Nuttz.

[RWS]

You forget to mention Dyer & OMac returning. With possibly Calloway getting some snaps as well.

Calloway will end up at LB at AU.

[War Eagle!!!]

Calloway will end up at LB at AU.

Especially when we sign Crowell...

[JR4AU]

I don't really give a fuck about next year right now...

 

[jmar]

Wow, kidding I hope?

That was beautiful Buzz.

This is when the staff proves itself, when it's backs are against the wall. I said well into the season that I thought Chizik might really put an exclamation point on Jacob's choice by somehow squeezing out eight wins looking ahead. But just glancing at the list above has me wondering if it's possible to take a shot to the head without even realizing it.

Then again,  engineers at Auburn might have developed a chip to artificially raise our expectations superceeding all of the sister phuking that Bamers engaged in over many generations to come to a similar annual conclusion at the open of each season, like a "Groundhog Day" syndrome of sorts.

I know the list above doesn't look too sporting on paper but I've been hearing dixieland bands and craving beignets every morning like clockwork ever since our team spotted the bastards 24 points and  imploded the hopes and dreams of mulletts and she-mulletts throughout Tuscaloosa and  beyond.

Still, I have no yearning as yet to build shrines or erect statues so it might just be a passing thing.

[Buzz Killington]

Most of these guys never had a prime.

This one here's dead.