Please Roof...Let my Coleman GO!
By: Kevin Strickland
A week after being punched in the face and abused like a nerd at a biker convention by the Arkansas Razorbacks, the Auburn Tigers have the opportunity to show the college football world how this team and its new coaching staff respond to adversity when the Kentucky Wildcats come calling Saturday night.
Will Auburn of 2009 self destruct and allow the misama of the Arkansas loss to pollute the remainder of the season? A loss to Vanderbilt in 2008 set in motion a chain of events that led to infighting, turmoil, mid-season firings and the first non-bowl season for the Tigers in a decade.
Or will the Tigers rebound, recover some of the offensive swagger that marked the first four games of the season and begin to find some defensive identity?
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Probably too Soon?
By: Kevin Strickland
About 1:30 Saturday afternoon, Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs slipped into the relative privacy of a stall in the restroom of the pressbox at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville and punched numbers into his cell phone. When the call connected, Jacobs barked orders in an urgent whisper:
“Tell the sculptor to hold off on that statue of me and Gene Chizik. What? I don’t care if he’s 90% done with it, tell him to put a hold on it, we’re not putting it out in front of the stadium just yet. And cancel the order for the Chiz-nickels, too. “
For the past two and a half hours Jacobs watched as the Arkansas Razorbacks served a healthy dose of 44-23 humility to the Auburn football program.
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Good Morning Football: Auburn vs. the Piggies
By: Kevin Strickland
Will tomorrow’s early morning start be a wake-up call for the resurgent Auburn Tigers or will the Arkansas Razorbacks hit the snooze button on another SEC season?
All signs point to a high noon (well high elevenish at least) wild SEC West shootout. When the dust clears in the streets of Fayetteville tomorrow afternoon, one gunslinger will put a sixth notch on his pistol while the other crumples to a fatal 0-3 league sprawl.
Auburn will dodge the Mallet bullets, and utilize the Gatling gun, Gus Malzahn-directed offensive arsenal of Chris Todd, Ben Tate, Onterrio McCalebb, Darvin Adams, Mario Fannin, Tommy Trott and Terrell Zachary to shoot down the hopes of the ‘Hogs.
If you listen really closely right now you can hear the squealing. “What about Arkansas’ offense,” it goes. “We don’t just have Mallett, Joe Adams, Greg Childs, Jarius Wright and Michael Smith. We can score too!”
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By: Kevin Strickland
What if Heisman campaigns were fast-food franchises? Who’d have the best fries? Who would serve the frostiest shake?
Let’s take a look at a few of the front-runners.
Tim Tebow = McDonald’s
When you say fast food, your mind immediately thinks McDonald’s. Try it. Fill in the following: (_blank_) hamburgers. How many of you said McDonald’s? That’s right.
Now do the same thing with the following: Heisman Trophy winner (_blank_). Raise your hand if Florida’s Tim Tebow filled the blank. Yes, even you in the back, the Georgia fan. Put your hand all the way up.
Tebow is the face of the trophy. He is hailed as one of the best ever to play the college game, expected to guide his Gators to the third BCS title game in his four years in Gainesville.
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