Chris Denson scored 10 as Auburn scored 84 points against McNeese St.
Auburn put in its best offensive performance under Tony Barbee in its season opener against McNeese State on Friday night, shooting 53.2 percent from the field and scoring 80 points in regulation for the first time in the second-year coach’s tenure.
It was an encouraging sign for a team that struggled mightily on offense last year.
But Barbee’s not about to dwell on the Tigers’ success.
And his players better not, either, not with another game looming Monday.
“It will give us a true test of how they would carry over emotions whether a there is a lot on the positive end or a lot of minuses on the negative end,” Barbee said. “There will be pluses and minuses from both areas of the game, and we want to see how they will be able to put that behind them and go into a fresh start.”
Well-known Nick Saban hater Daniel Tosh took his latest, subtlest stab at the man who left Tosh’s beloved Miami Dolphin’s in the lurch four years ago (by “not going to be the Alabama coach“), and whom Tosh regularly refers to as “an awful person,” by offering a “War Eagle” to this manic multi-sneezer on Tuesday night’s episode of Tosh.0.
In a February episode, Tosh was shown hurling a two-handed broad sword through the head of a Saban Fathead wall decal.
When asked his motives by a fan via Twitter, Tosh replied: “Saban deserved it.”
After being dinged up at South Carolina, Dyer is ready to run over Arkansas.
Running back Mike Dyer is “doing fine” after tweaking his ankle against South Carolina, Auburn head coach Gene Chizik said Tuesday.
Dyer hurt his ankle midway through the third quarter against the Gamecocks — after his 25th carry of the night — and hobbled off the field.
He returned to carry 16 more times and finish off his 41-rush, 141-yard performance.
Chizik said the Little Rock, Ark., native is good to go.
“He’s going to practice as normal, as usual,” Chizik said. “He’ll be excited to play, and, obviously, going back to Arkansas, it will be exciting to play.”
Dyer leads the Tigers with 103 carries for 567 yards and seven touchdowns this year.
He ran six times for 53 yards — including a 38-yard touchdown — against the Razorbacks last season.
Barrett Trotter, standing in the pocket and waiting for a slow-developing play to run its course, knew he was about to get creamed.
The Auburn quarterback, who had been wearing South Carolina defensive end Melvin Ingram like a jacket all day, heard the footsteps coming behind him and had a pretty good idea whose they were.
With the clock running out and his team down by 4, though, Trotter knew he just had to grit his teeth and bear it.
“When you look at what you’ve got to give up for what it’s worth, it’s not even close at all,” Trotter said. “I’ll take that every time if I have to.”
Tackle A.J. Greene had to break the news to Trotter, who was lying sprawled on the Williams-Brice Stadium turf: Philip Lutzenkirchen had just caught his pass for a 9-yard, go-ahead score with 1:38 to go, the eventual winning touchdown in the Tigers’ 16-13 win over then-No. 10 South Carolina.
Barrett Trotter, standing in the pocket and waiting for a slow-developing play to run its course, knew he was about to get creamed.
