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Pat Dye Field => War Damn Eagle => Topic started by: wesfau2 on April 19, 2013, 01:22:36 PM
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What is it they say about the condition that leads otherwise sane and rational adults to put on tinfoil hats and scan the skies for black helicopters?
Oh, yeah. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.
That’s the feeling among some Auburn fans as they prepare to head back to campus in what may be the largest numbers in school history for a spring game.
The final roll call at Toomer’s Corner after the game is an emotional attraction to be sure, but the gut-level pull of this weekend goes deeper.
Call it A-Day 2013: Auburn against the world.
It may be "A New Day" for the program, as the new billboards featuring new head coach Gus Malzahn proclaim, but one thing hasn’t changed.
It doesn’t matter that, after last season’s 3-9 debacle, the Tigers won’t be circled on the schedule of many opponents next season. The people who care about the program have been circling the wagons just the same.
The emails, texts and tweets from the orange-and-blue crowd continue to arrive centered on a fundamental question that has nothing to do with who’s going to play quarterback.
It’s this: Why do people who seem interested in issues that touch college football from coast to coast continue to beat a path to Auburn’s door?
Have Auburn football players smoked synthetic marijuana? Yes, and several of them have admitted it under oath, but none of them is as well-known nationally as former LSU star Tyrann Mathieu.
Mathieu and two teammates were suspended for one game in 2011 - the Auburn game - because they reportedly failed a drug test for synthetic marijuana.
Who reported that? ESPN.com.
Yet when ESPN decided recently to spend six months investigating the use of the relatively new substance in college football and the response to it, it examined the subject at one major college football program.
It wasn’t LSU. It was Auburn.
Meanwhile, USA Today reported last week that when one NFL team asked him how many drug tests he’d failed at LSU, Mathieu said, “I stopped counting at 10.â€
LSU coach Les Miles was asked Thursday on NFL AM on the NFL Network if that number was correct.
“I don’t really have the numbers there,†Miles said. “I would be remiss to comment on number.
“I can tell you this: We have tested, re-tested, completely tested and tested twice in weeks at times. So just because there’s a number reported, I don’t know if that would be low or high, to be honest with you, and I can only tell you that it was based on our ability to treat and help.
“I don’t really know exactly what Ty’s specifics were, but I stand by our policy, and it really did help, in some way, identify a problem.â€
Imagine the reaction had Gene Chizik said those exact same words about Mike Dyer.
Is Auburn the only program accused in media reports of breaking NCAA rules on recruiting and extra benefits?
Of course not, and it’s never good to be included in that kind of headline, but when a new website founded by an Auburn grad looked into that issue recently, it looked into one program: Auburn.
It’ll be up to the NCAA to separate fact from fiction there, if it so chooses after striking out the last time it looked under every rock thrown at the Tigers, but of the two programs that played in the BCS National Championship Game to close the 2010 season, only one has admitted to committing a major NCAA infraction.
It wasn’t Auburn. It was Oregon.
On Monday, Oregon released 515 pages of documents related to the ongoing NCAA investigation of its football program, which is headed toward a hearing before the Infractions Committee, according to Oregonlive.com. The probe centers on the relationship between the program and recruiting analyst or street agent (take your pick) Will Lyles.
One of those documents contains the following admission:
“The enforcement staff, institution and involved individuals agree that the findings constitute a major infractions case," according to a summary disposition overview dated Oct. 30, 2012. "Football staff members were not aware that the manner in which they were using scouting/recruiting services was impermissible. Nonetheless, the recruiting advantage that was gained via the oral reports from scouting services personnel was more than the minimal."
Imagine the fallout if Auburn released that kind of statement, should it actually receive a Notice of Allegations.
One thing that’s not in dispute: A-Day 2013 has a lot going for it. It’s a beginning for Malzahn as the boss and the ending of the Toomer’s Corner trees as the center of so many celebrations. It also just happens to fall right in the middle of a lot of wagons circled around the program.
So don’t be surprised Saturday if the Tigers set a new school record for A-Day attendance, and cut them some slack if you spot a few tinfoil hats. Their paranoia isn’t totally unfounded.
Harvey Updyke, for one, was out to get them.
http://www.al.com/auburnfootball/index.ssf/2013/04/get_ready_for_a-day_2013_also.html
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#winning :vn: :kimclap: :woodcock: :cool:
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He is best professional journalist in the state of Alabama. That is why Alabama fans hate him.
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Spot on.
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He is best professional journalist in the state of Alabama. That is why Alabama fans hate him.
To bad it won't go any further than inside the state.
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He is best professional journalist in the state of Alabama. That is why Alabama fans hate him.
He is certainly the most unbiased. He will get after AU when it is warranted, and I respect him for that. Unlike the members of the Turd Reich, I think that pointing out any truths about our program, pleasant or not, should be his job.
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Turd Reich
Dats a dam goodun there Wench, classic shit
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Dats a dam goodun there Wench, classic shit
Nothing but the truth, bro.
The Turd Battle cry to their midget god is "Seig heil!". I'm just stating reality.
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I hope BSPN never steps foot back on AU's campus again.
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I hope BSPN never steps foot back on AU's campus again.
IMO, ESPN was good for Auburn in 2010 even with the negativity. Early on in that season the talk was about Malzahn and the HUNH but gradually switched to the drama over Cam choosing Auburn over MSU and Daddy Newton's involvement. We became the black hats and I loved it. We were cleared but now that Emmert's group is exposed as being so terribly dysfunctional, ESPN and its agents are acting as unofficial whistle blowers with no authority except for its control over public opinion and the mindless masses that believe the garbage they are fed.
All I want for us is a quick turnaround on the field so we can stop being everybody's perp that gets dragged in for questioning because we happen to be in the fucking neighborhood where the kingpin of football malfeasance operates at a higher level than the college game has ever known. We just need to play like Auburn. We have to take the bastards down again. That's is all.
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IMO, ESPN was good for Auburn in 2010 even with the negativity. Early on in that season the talk was about Malzahn and the HUNH but gradually switched to the drama over Cam choosing Auburn over MSU and Daddy Newton's involvement. We became the black hats and I loved it. We were cleared but now that Emmert's group is exposed as being so terribly dysfunctional, ESPN and its agents are acting as unofficial whistle blowers with no authority except for its control over public opinion and the mindless masses that believe the garbage they are fed.
All I want for us is a quick turnaround on the field so we can stop being everybody's perp that gets dragged in for questioning because we happen to be in the fucking neighborhood where the kingpin of football malfeasance operates at a higher level than the college game has ever known. We just need to play like Auburn. We have to take the bastards down again. That's is all.
I'd love to see us out score them like 75-35 in the iron Bowl this year and wipe out any chance of them seeing a three peat.
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I'd love to see us out score them like 75-35 in the iron Bowl this year and wipe out any chance of them seeing a three peat.
Bama will beat us by at least 40 points.
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Bama will beat us by at least 40 points.
We suck that bad huh Jumbo?
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We suck that bad huh Jumbo?
Yes, it's going to be a very ugly 2013 football season.
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Oh, and this just in...Scarbo gets it.
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Bama will beat us by at least 40 points.
Are you kidding? With Frazier Wallace Marshall at QB, we should be unstoppable!
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Are you kidding? With Frazier Wallace Marshall at QB, we should be unstoppable!
(http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p400/franzsmith_01/Claudia_Schiffer.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/franzsmith_01/media/Claudia_Schiffer.jpg.html)
If Copperfield can land this babe I think Malzahn can (at the very least) make us respectable with the use of smoke and mirrors, minus the hokie leering of course.
We have "the pledge" of 2010 when he shows us the object.
We have "the turn" or the preview of early 2013...we want to be fooled.
And then we get "the prestige" coming this fall -HE BRINGS IT BACK!
:facepalm: ...I got nutin'.
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Scarbinsky is an infected mommy part. He is every bit as bad as finebaum. And just like finebaum, he will throw out the occasional feel good story so he can claim to be unbiased. If you can't see that, you aren't paying attention. Or worse.
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Scarbinsky is an infected mommy part. He is every bit as bad as finebaum. And just like finebaum, he will throw out the occasional feel good story so he can claim to be unbiased. If you can't see that, you aren't paying attention. Or worse.
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
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Scarbinsky is an infected mommy part. He is every bit as bad as finebaum. And just like finebaum, he will throw out the occasional feel good story so he can claim to be unbiased. If you can't see that, you aren't paying attention. Or worse.
He has thrown out a lot more than an occassional feel good story toward AU recently. He's had several that actually were the voice of reason and defended AU.
I have no idea about his motivation and don't know him personally but I don't think he's out to get us. There are a lot of UA fans that hate him. I group him in with the lot. Whatever sells papers gets printed.
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You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
Agree. I feel like the opposite is true. He speaks the truth, and occasionally will throw in some bullshit like trying to stir controversy with Gene Chizik saying "damn" in "War Damn Eagle" so that bammers don't lynch him.
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The more the masses of reporters/media publish their never-ending drivel ($1 to Kaos), the more I respect and enjoy Scarbinsky.
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Not going to sit here and tell you I read his work on a daily basis. In fact, most of what I see from him is either posted on here or referenced on radio shows by local hosts, which they do quite often. But, I think I've seen enough from him to know he doesn't choose sides. I'll bet we could research and see that on this site alone, we've posted numerous articles praising him as being spot on for ripping Bama a new one about one issue or another, while calling him a flaming Bammer when doing the same to AU.
All I want is fairness when it comes to journalists who base much of their work on opinion. Here's the issue and here's my opinion on it. Fine, I can agree or disagree. I'll respect that opinion a lot more if I know you aren't afraid to devote equal time to our rival.
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Scarbinsky is an infected mommy part. He is every bit as bad as finebaum. And just like finebaum, he will throw out the occasional feel good story so he can claim to be unbiased. If you can't see that, you aren't paying attention. Or worse.
Wow.
And totally incorrect.
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This isn't some glowing endorsement of AU or a scathing hit piece either. Just looks like troof. scarcopybinskypasta on al.kum
If you thought A-Day was interesting at Auburn, with all those fans, all those good vibrations and all that bathroom tissue, you hadn’t seen anything yet.
Saturday was Ultra, Extra and Angel Soft.
The Monday after was much weightier.
Jay Jacobs continued to try to change his image from that of the unpopular AD presiding over the worst year in Auburn history to the white knight defending the school against dubious charges. His ruthlessly documented point-by-point deconstruction of allegations on Roopstigo.com would make a defense attorney proud.
Gene Chizik broke his unemployed silence and saddled up next to his old boss to ride to the defense of the school that fired him but still pays him. He displayed more passion in sitdowns with WJOX in Birmingham and with Auburn beat writers than he had in all of his interviews as head coach combined.
And Jay Gogue? How did he contribute to all the “we’re not gonna take it; no, we ain’t gonna take it†sound and fury?
He put together a committee.
That’s so Gogue.
If he were a football coach, he’d poll the assistants on what play to call on third-and-goal.
At least the Auburn president kept his eye on the ball, even if it was from a distance.
The largest spring-game crowd in the country and in school history, the equestrian national championship, the final rolling of Toomer’s Corner and the aggressive, effective rebuttals to a website’s would-be “expose†shouldn’t obscure the overall state of the athletics department.
The football team did go 3-9 overall and 0-8 in the SEC, the school’s worst season in six decades, which led to an expensive coaching change. The basketball team did go 9-23 overall and 3-15 in the SEC, the most losses in school history. The baseball team is 24-16 overall but 6-12 in SEC play, which is last in the West and 11th overall.
The performance of the department as a whole falls at the feet of Jacobs, and the future of the AD lies in the hands of Gogue.
Some trustees wanted the president to send Jacobs packing along with Chizik after the 49-0 debacle in the Iron Bowl, but Gogue would meet them only halfway. So why ask a group of six people for a second opinion now?
Interesting that Jacobs would be the one to announce the formation of the committee Monday in his latest letter to the Auburn family. The news almost got lost, stuck in between the strong “Selena Roberts was wrong†opening statement and the feel-good “A-Day to remember†closing.
The statement says this committee has been charged with undertaking a “top-to-bottom review†of the athletics department, and one of the five areas it’s supposed to examine is “the department’s management structure, including the effectiveness of its leadership.â€
Who’s the leader of the athletics department? Jacobs. Has he been an effective leader? There are strong opinions among Auburn people on both sides of that question. He’s certainly been more assertive and aggressive of late, and that’s not by accident.
It appears Auburn has undertaken a concerted effort to change Jacobs’ image, which has taken a serious hit among the fan base as the losses in the major sports have mounted this academic year. It helps that the focus of the fans has shifted from debating internal issues to confronting external accusers.
In that sense, Roberts may be the best thing to happen to Jacobs.
It’s too early to tell if Gogue’s committee will be more independent-minded than the committee that assisted Jacobs in bringing back Gus Malzahn as the safest possible hire as head football coach. There is one common thread. Mac Crawford, fresh off his work on the coaching search committee, will be part of the athletics department review committee, too.
Gogue also tapped an old friend in Dave Maggard, who was the AD at Houston when Gogue served as president there.
As important as it’s been for Jacobs and Chizik to speak up and not let questionable allegations go unquestioned, it’s just as important that Auburn athletics take a hard look at the way it goes about its business.
Otherwise, the Tigers risk falling farther behind their rivals in the state, the division and the conference.
Remember, some of the same people cheering the current AD and the former coach now were jeering them last fall, calling for a regime change rather than a coaching change.
Gogue wouldn’t clean house then. It’s hard to imagine this committee would suggest he go that far now.
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If Gouge doesn't make a change, he best watch his own ass.
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If Gouge doesn't make a change, he best watch his own ass.
How does one go about getting rid of the pres?
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How does one go about getting rid of the pres?
Well see... first you have to preoccupy the Secret Service...then.....oh wait...you meant Gouge
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How does one go about getting rid of the pres?
You get rid of the BOT to get rid of the pres. Or, you stop sending $ or supporting AU. It's not an easy fix.
I have been on the fire JJ bandwagon since last season. I have one foot off since the response to roostypoot's report. Results on the field (outside of equestrian) are needed very, very soon. If not, then well, ahh, I guess we'll do whatever Mr. Rane decides.