Why does it seem that we have no positive carry over from our NC? I know we had a rough season, and now are looking to replace a couple of coaches (and what the fuck is taking so long with that), but it just seems like we don't have any momentum or excitement with our program right now. I was really expecting to see a couple of players commit to AU last night, but I didn't. All I heard was he's a bammer, or gaytor, or bengal tiger and it was really a bit of a let down. Also read where one of you posted that bammer and lsu were about done with recruiting so we should finish strong. WTF? We now have to wait for them to get who they want and then take the leftovers? FUCK THAT! AU won it all last year and should be able to get just about anybody we want, but for some reason can't, and that has me feeling a little dissappointed.
Couple of questions for you...
Did you expect Gus to get a HC job sooner rather than later? If you're like most, you did, but now it seems that to some it's a complete shock.
Did you want Roof to be our DC next season? Expect him to be? Not if you have any sense, but now, it's a bad thing for some reason.
Did you expect to win 10 or 11 games, or compete for the SECW this year? Most outside of Auburn said we'd be going well to win 6. We won eight, but the entire focus isn't on over achieving in the win column, it's on the way we lost 3 of the 5.
Fact is you feel the way you do because you buy in to the constant stream of negativity that flows from the Finefuck show. And you don't have to listen to the show to hear it. Everything that happens at Auburn is spun negatively. Gus turned down Vandy, and everybody got that when it happened. It's a shitty job, and I don't give a fuck what Franklin did by having a glorious 6-7 season, it's a shit job. Go look at the list of Vandy coaches, and find one, just ONE that parlayed it in to a bigger, better job. It's a coach killer job. But, when Gus takes Ark. St., Vandy is suddenly painted as a "premier SEC job". "Gus could have been an SEC Head coach!". Vandy isn't "an SEC job" it's a job in the SEC.
Roof leaves, as we all wanted, and lands softly at UCF, and he is painted as wanting to be anywhere but Auburn. He left Auburn on his own for a lesser job. It's not portrayed the way we all know it went down with Gene telling him to find a new gig.
Player gets in trouble at bammer, is suspended or booted, Lord Saybinz is a stern disciplinarian. Same thing happens at Auburn, and Gene's program is out of control. Bammer OC takes a job at a non BCS school, where they have a home stadium capacity of 32,500, and a program that is a lifetime .471 winning %, and Oh, McElweenie is moving on up. Look what he's done for himself. Yippee. Gus goes to Ark St., stadium capacity of 31,000 and a lifetime winning % of .482, and he was "getting while the getting was good"..."He wanted to be anywhere but Auburn"...which is the case with all coaches at Auburn if you listen to bammers.
Recruiting isn't over. 9 more players will make a huge difference in the ranking, and they won't suddenly all turn out to be 2* scrubs either.
Learn that you don't win them all every year. We had a deficit of upperclassmen this year. If a NC is the high point, and 8-5 is the low point for this staff I can live with that. 2009, IMHO showed what Chiz can do. Last year was special, because of a load of Sr. players, and 2 very special players. Sorry, but nobody wins NCs without great players. They may not be Cam, but you won't find a team with a crystal ball that has a bunch of non name players with no awards.
Go ahead, wallow in your sorry that the bammers try to create, or say fuck em, and enjoy what's really going on. Auburn football is winning, we're not on probation, we're recruiting well, it's all good. It's not without bumps along the way, but nobody's program is. Ours bumps are just magnified by the local media, while bammes are swept under the rug or simply ignored.
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