11/30/2022 0 Comments Tank when we you tube![]() ![]() It’s just the wrong time for all of this, but here we are in it. Not being like them all but disqualifies you from having a shot at their level of success. Being like them with a mercenary recruiter does not mean you will get the same results as them. Not with the NFL factories we face year in and year out. I just did not think in December of last year nor do I think now that this is what Auburn needs right now. Instead we have someone trying to overhaul a culture and talk about how more guys need to love this game more. We needed a mercenary recruiter and to this point I don’t have tangible proof we have anything close to that. I didn’t love the Harsin hire, not because I don’t like the guy (though I understand why many think I don’t and I truly hate that I haven’t been able to better convey that), but because he is a guy who has spent most of his career in Idaho and is now at an elite job in the Southeastern Conference and time is not on Auburn’s side to have someone figure this out on the job. Where are we better today than a year ago? How is this going to get better next year when the cupboard is REALLY bare compared to this year along the offensive line (barring guys coming back with their COVID year)? Where is the hope in the future of this program? The cupboard should be full enough to have a better call on the goal line than a fade to the corner in Happy Valley.This is a mentally weak football team that has unraveled in all three facets of football before our very eyes over the last month, and for the life of me I’m struggling to see where there is hope out of it. The cupboard should be full enough to move the ball against A&M when your defense surrenders 12 points. The cupboard should be too bare to beat Alabama and Georgia today. The cupboard ain’t so bare that you should lose to South Carolina and look just inept in every facet of the game, in game 11 no less. The cupboard ain’t so bare that you should be facing 4th and 9 at the end of the game needing a touchdown to beat Georgia State. But dear reader the cupboard ain’t so bare that you blow a 25-point lead and along the way surrender 40 unanswered points to Mississippi State in a loss that the previous 128 seasons of Auburn football had not seen anything quite like. I completely get that and am glad we moved on because we needed a fresh start with a coach and staff hell bent on narrowing the gap with the Alabamas and Georgias of the world. It’s easy to see the cupboard that Gus Malzahn left Auburn along the offensive line is bare. ![]() And all I can think about is how lucky we are to have that 6th win thanks to late game heroics against…Georgia State. Yet here we sit, on the precipice of a 6-6 season where we have consistently gotten worse since halftime of the Ole Miss game. If you had told me we’d be 7-5 with a win over LSU and a loss to Ole Miss I would have considered this season a step forward by getting the monkey of Baton Rouge off our back and assumed a better QB had a better night with the Lane Train. If you had a crystal ball in August and told me we would be 7-5 with losses to Penn State, LSU, Georgia, A&M, and Alabama I would have believed you because they all are recruiting at a higher level than we are. With uncertainty around the new President, Allen Greene, and the schism between Harsin’s Boise folks and the holdovers, the offseason (or the leadup to it) might get ugly in a hurry. There’s now an outside shot that Tank Bigsby leaves due to frustration with his role, and the offensive line/receivers situation is going to get worse before it gets better. The realist in me recognizes that these last two losses lay squarely at the feet of a coaching staff that had superior talent at its disposal compared to what was on the other sideline, but could not position it in a manner that would produce success and victories. The childlike optimist in me says to hold off and allow Harsin to recruit and develop his players, because this clearly isn’t his team and the roster has glaring flaws. did we have faith that they’d do anything with the opportunity anyway? SNAP JUDGMENTS Auburn wasn’t even given a chance to go for the win on a final drive due to an abhorrent call by the officials, but let’s be honest. ![]() Everything that could go wrong after Auburn got up 14-0 last night did go wrong, and it’s taken all day to come to grips with the 21-17 loss. ![]()
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