Chizik not happy with Auburn's performance against Utah St.
Auburn coach Gene Chizik was relieved – but not pleased – after his team’s furious fourth-quarter comeback to beat Utah State on Saturday.
That hadn’t changed Sunday, as the No. 23 Tigers set about preparing for their SEC opener against No. 20 Mississippi State on Saturday.
“We have been spending a lot of time today going back and re-evaluating yesterday’s game,“ Chizik said Sunday. “Spending a lot of time getting some of the issues worked out so we can obviously play better than we did this past week in order to have a chance to play well against Mississippi State.”
For Chizik, most of Auburn’s Saturday struggles boiled down to its play on the offensive and defensive lines.
The Tigers’ rush defense, which gave up an average of 109.1 yards a game, surrendered 227 to the Aggies on Saturday.
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It could get ugly...
By: Kevin Strickland
Due to the potential for excessive violence and simulated sacrificial slaughter, network censors mandated a 6 p.m. kickoff for Saturday’s showdown between Auburn and Ball State. Despite the late start, the game will likely carry a parental warning. Cover your eyes, kids. What the Tigers do to the Cardinals won’t be for the squeamish.
Predicting the outcome of an upcoming game normally takes a bit of research, particularly early in the season. For that reason, predictions normally come on Thursday, giving a few days to digest the events of the week that just transpired.
No such research is required this week.
The Auburn Tigers (3-0) will annihilate the Ball State Cardinals (0-3).
Little known fact: Joyce DeWitt, who played Janet on the 70s sitcom Three’s
Company is a Ball State alumnus. Even if she and TV co-star Suzanne Sommers (in their prime) were prancing the sidelines Cardinal cheerleader outfits it wouldn’t help Ball State avoid a Saturday thrashing.
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by: Kevin Strickland
To the casual observer there was very little difference between Auburn’s 2008 season opener and the 2009 debut.
In both season openers, the Tigers subdued an inferior opponent from the state of Louisiana with a strong second half showing. In 2008, Auburn clubbed Louisiana Monroe 34-0. Last Saturday night, the Tigers devoured Louisiana Tech 37-13.
In both games, Auburn scored in low double figures in the first half. Against the Louisiana Monroe Warhawks, Auburn posted 17 first half points. The Tigers managed 13 against the Bulldogs of Louisiana Tech last week.
In both cases Auburn put up impressive offensive totals. Auburn racked up 406 yards against the Warhawks and piled on 556 against the Bulldogs.
Both offenses were paced by a punishing rushing attack. Auburn chewed up 321 yards on the ground against Louisiana Monroe while churning for 301 against Louisiana Tech.
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A better comparison?
By: Chizad
When Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel had the audacity to compare Urban Meyer to Bear Bryant Almighty, it ruffled Paul Finebaum’s feathers. He found it his civic duty to write not one, but two articles obsessing over how blasphemous and sacrilegious it was to make such a claim. He then used it as an opportunity to drive the inane conversations of the inbred callers on his show for weeks, who were of course equally outraged.
I’m taking a page from Finebaum’s book. I too am going to take an article that I have recently read in which the author compares a head coach of whom I’m not a fan with a beloved figure, and obsess over how ridiculously stupid I think the comparison is.
Ray Melick recently compared Nick Saban to Batman.
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