Auburn University Should Not Re-Hire Tommy Tuberville

Auburn University Should Not Re-Hire Tommy Tuberville

October 27, 2015

Auburn University Should Not Re-Hire Tommy Tuberville The mammoth roller coaster ride that is college football at Auburn University continues through corkscrew twists and 60 mph turns, championship ups and nosedive season downs that leaves its passengers elated, ready to jump back on and ride again or in the nearby bushes barfing and crying for change.  The Auburn football 2015 season with its deceiving 4 – 3 win/loss record has fans wondering where the lowest point on this ride will go before Auburn University athletic director Jay Jacobs, who hired two coaches, with likely lower winning percentages than their predecessor,
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Steve Spurrier Retiring Exits Without Dignity

Steve Spurrier Retiring Exits Without Dignity

October 20, 2015

Steve Spurrier Retiring Exits Without Dignity There’s a Japanese proverb that goes like this,   “Fall Seven Times Stand Up Eight.”   What attracts people to love, admire and follow leaders, sports figures and football coaches? Never giving up, never quitting, sheer guts and perseverance are not just wonderful traits, but aren’t they the prerequisites at the core of being a courageous leader?  Traits that Steve Spurrier somehow lost along the way. In the midst of a disastrous South Carolina football season and days following a catastrophic flood of October, 2015, leaving people across his state without homes, transportation or
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Alabama Defense 2015: Aggies not the only team punched by Kirby Smart Saturday

Alabama Defense 2015: Aggies not the only team punched by Kirby Smart Saturday

October 18, 2015

Alabama Defense 2015 Aggies not the only team punched by Kirby Smart Saturday Getting to the top of the mountain, tough.  Staying there, oh boy!  How does Nick Saban and remarkably Kirby Smart’s Alabama defense 2015 manage a consistency rarely witnessed in college football?  Maybe it’s what we saw last Saturday in College Station against the Aggies of Texas A&M.  And that is this, Alabama has two competitors every Saturday.  First, there’s the one on the opposing side of the field wearing the other school colors whose band plays a different fight song.  The second is their chief competitor, the
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Alabama Defense Early Bragging Prevents Future Rewards

Alabama Defense Early Bragging Prevents Future Rewards

October 13, 2015

Alabama Defense Early Bragging Prevents Future Rewards If it’s true that self–confidence makes anything possible, Alabama should win the rest of its games.  Based on the post-game comments from a couple Bama defenders, this Alabama defense believes in itself, but is it too much?   “I think we are the best defense in the country, honestly,”   said senior cornerback Cyrus Jones after the win over Arkansas.   “As long as we come out there and execute like we’re supposed to, I don’t think anybody can beat us.”   Be careful there.  A team’s worst games can come after a great
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Shiny Sophomores Flashy Freshmen Top New Teammates Carving SEC Football Teams

Shiny Sophomores Flashy Freshmen Top New Teammates Carving SEC Football Teams

October 4, 2015

Shiny Sophomores Flashy Freshmen Top New Teammates Carving SEC Football Teams By week five of college football underclassmen are not really that any more.  At almost mid-season, they’ve strapped on their helmets and sported their collegiate colors for five games, which includes a couple conference matchups and a road game or two.  But when outstanding performances by underclassmen just can’t be overlooked, let’s don’t. The special passion that southerners have for SEC football teams attracts more top talent, which gives them more to be passionate about.  It’s not a viscous cycle it’s more like a wonderful cycle.  Top high school recruits
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Auburn Football Doom Gloom Replaced The Boom

Auburn Football Doom Gloom Replaced The Boom

September 27, 2015

Auburn Football Doom Gloom Replaced The Boom If Auburn football fans knew walking into Jordan-Hare Stadium that Auburn’s struggling defense would hold a former Heisman hopeful Dak Prescott led Bulldog offense to 17 points, they would walk into the game expecting to win it.  After all, in the 55 games played by the SEC so far this 2015 college football season, only three games were lost by the team with a defense that held its opponent to 17 points or less. But that’s not how this one ended. And if Auburn football fans knew that Tigers’ backup quarterback Sean White, in his
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Winning Impossible Alabama Auburn Football Victory Prevention

Winning Impossible Alabama Auburn Football Victory Prevention

September 23, 2015

Winning Impossible Alabama and Auburn Football Victory Prevention Many Alabama and Auburn football players were not even born yet, but their parents could have met on Match.com, which was newly launched, jammed to Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose,” which was number one on the charts and enjoyed Sony’s newly released PlayStation.  That’s the last time Alabama and Auburn football teams both lost giving up 40 plus points in the same day, October 14, 1995.  Well, until Saturday, September 19, 2015, where in Bryant-Denny Stadium and Baton Rouge it happened again.  Alabama 43 – 37 at home with Ole Miss; Auburn
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SEC Matchups Two Teams Guaranteed to Lose

SEC Matchups Two Teams Guaranteed to Lose

September 18, 2015

SEC Match-ups Two Teams Guaranteed to Lose A bottle of Champagne broken on the bow of the 2015 Season with the first SEC matchups and fans witnessed the first SEC teams take their first loss at the hands of fellow SEC brethren last Saturday.  Both on-the-edge-of-your-seat nail-biter games won on the road, LSU beat Mississippi State in Starkville, 21 – 19, and Kentucky beat South Carolina in Columbia, 26 – 22.  Usher in a pair of big SEC matchups this week in the Western Division and a pair in the East.  Records could be broken.  Hunts for the College Football Playoff
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Auburn Coaching Problems Revealed in OT Victory to FCS Team

Auburn Coaching Problems Revealed in OT Victory to FCS Team

September 14, 2015

Auburn Coaching Problems Revealed in OT Victory to FCS Team Two weeks of college football and Auburn is undefeated.  So why aren’t the orange and blue clad faithful dancing in the stands under the largest video board in any college football stadium?  And why did Auburn’s ranking drop from sixth to eighteenth in the AP Top 25?  Apparently Auburn Tigers Fans and the AP are underwhelmed by a team whose quarterback, Jeremy Johnson, completed as many passes to its opponents as Auburn star wide receiver, Duke Williams.  There’s an old saying, a fish stinks from the head down.  This continuously struggling
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Alabama Auburn Iron Bowl 2015 Crazy Early Predictions

Alabama Auburn Iron Bowl 2015 Crazy Early Predictions

September 7, 2015

Alabama Auburn Iron Bowl 2015 Crazy Early Predictions Iron Bowl Jenga Even though we’re still wearing shorts, watering the hydrangeas and going to the beach, southern college football is here and after one game, we are ready to start comparing Alabama and Auburn for the season-long lead-up to the Iron Bowl.  Is it ever too early to see how Alabama Auburn Iron Bowl 2015 stacks up?  No, no it is not.  Especially when both teams face a formidable opponent in their 2015 football season debut.  There’s data to be studied, debated and most of all, compared. The study of Alabama Auburn Iron
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