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Countdown to Football

52 Days

“Run it!  Run it!  Hurry!  Run it!  Run it!  Now!  Run it!”

The alarm clock chirps its first call.  It’s 5:30 in the early morning, and the sun has yet to show its face.

He would usually want to stay in bed.  That’s how he felt years ago when he still living in his parents’ house attending grade school.  He was the superstar then.  Every morning was the start of another humdrum day of being the big man on campus.  The most athletic kid on the teams of multiple sports.  Another normal day of success in the classroom and praise from his elders.

But that was then.  That was all usual.

Now, things are peculiar.  At 5:30, he feels the incessant need to hurry.

Countdown to Football

54 Days

Let’s give the opposition an inch.

They say, “Gene Chizik is a 5-19 coach.  He just got lucky with Cam Newton and Nick Fairly.”

Gene Chizik is 22-5 as Auburn’s football coach.

To give you an idea of how that ranks among Auburn’s best coaches in their first two years:

1.  Terry Bowden 20-1-1
2.  Pay Dye 14-9
3.  Tommy Tuberville 14-10
4.  Shug Jordan 7-13

Bonus points to Chizik for winning the SEC and national championships within two years of being hired.

The bigger and more important question concerning college coaches is how do they do building a program?

We see Terry Bowden dominated the scene as soon as he arrived.  He went undefeated his first year as a coach, and for all we know, he could have won the national championship that year as well.

Thoughts – Week 7

Before we begin, we need to discuss an established problem that plagues the SEC.

The Officiating…

- I’m an Auburn fan, but I’ll be the first to admit that a few of our touchdowns were total bullshit.  The replay officials must have been blind or must have been so obsessed with the “conclusive evidence” rule that they were unwilling to overturn two calls on the field that went Auburn’s way.

- But before rival fans jump up and down and say “Auburn won THIS game because of bad calls,” the officials have helped numerous teams over the years win football games when it may have been possible for them to lose.

- Bad celebration calls.  Bad fumble calls (who signaled touchdown when Fannin apparently fumbled going into the endzone?).  Bad pass interference calls.  Bad late hit calls.  These bad calls happen enough that I believe it’s time to take a big roll of toilet paper and wipe the shit stains off of the SEC asshole.

Curtis Luper talks about Big Cat Weekend, Tiger Prowl and recruiting against Nick Saban

(Photo credit: Todd Van Emst)

It’s always fun getting a chance to catch up with Auburn’s recruiting czar Curtis Luper.

Namely because there might not be a person in Lee County with more knowledge/opinions about the NBA than Luper.

I like that, considering I’m a diehard Cleveland Cavaliers fan and follow the Association with passion. I don’t like that Luper thinks the Lakers will repeat this season because he said that last year and, well, he was right.

I talked with Luper on the record for about 15 minutes this afternoon with the heavy focus on Auburn’s upcoming recruiting ventures, including the returns of Tiger Prowl and Big Cat Weekend. Here’s a sneak peek of the Q&A, which will run in tomorrow’s Opelika-Auburn News.

(Why do Big Cat again?)
“Coach Chiz wants to make those events annual so if it warrants it being an annual event, we think it did so we’re going to do it again.“