A day didn't help to solve the fans quarterback questions for the new season.
Cameron Newton hit Darvin Adams on a frozen rope for his first pass in front of a live Auburn audience Saturday and followed later with a 61-yard pass to put Blue in the red zone.
Neil Caudle had big passes, too. He hit Quindarius Carr for a 70-yard touchdown and was part of three touchdown drives.
Barrett Trotter was just as sharp. He had two long touchdown passes and ran the offense without showing any ill effects of a season lost to a torn ACL.
If you found clarity in Auburn’s quarterback race Saturday, you weren’t at the highest-attended A-Day scrimmage in program history.
The game ended, by the way, with Blue on top, 21-17, after Dontae Aycock’s touchdown run early in the fourth quarter. If the drive would have finished in the third quarter, the points would have been awarded to White team, a perfect summation of just how trivial the final numbers were Saturday.
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Cam Newton makes his debut at the 2010 Auburn A day game.
The first time Cameron Newton dropped back to pass, he was sacked.
Not the start he –— or any of the 63, 217 fans in Jordan-Hare Stadium — wanted to see.
Maybe he isn’t made of steel.
Well, it wasn’t officially a sack. I mean, Antoine Carter never really touched him, let alone brought him to the ground. Maybe, Newton could have spun out of it, tucked the ball and flew into the end zone.
Maybe.
Or, maybe he would have been dropped to the Pat Dye Field turf like a 6-foot-6 sack of potatoes.
Maybe.
Who knows?
Reading too much into what would have happened on that play would be like trying to figure out a fortune cookie. It’s silly.
And, really, who cares?
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Who will it be? Cam Newton?
By: Mike Szvetitz | Opelika Auburn News
How’s your bracket looking?
That good? Yeah, mine, too.
Well it’s not like you have to pretend to care about college basketball anymore, now that spring football is kicking off.
Oh, and how’s Auburn’s search for a new basketball coach? Yeah, it’s still going.
Now, what’s that you said about spring football?
Oh, yeah, it starts today. Like you didn’t know.
Of course you did. You’ve been holding your breath ever since Auburn’s 500-play, overtime win over Northwestern in the Outback Bowl on New Year’s Day, only coming up for air on National Signing Day at the beginning of February.
Now, you can rest easy as the Tigers begin preparations for the 2010 football season.
And this year is just as handwringing as last year. Probably more.
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By: Kaos
Auburn head coach Gene Chizik has been around the game long enough to know the stakes. He knows that his hiring was not popular among Auburn fans. He understands that the key to Auburn’s future success lies in recruiting. He recognizes that in order to quell the fan unease and to help build recruiting momentum, his first Auburn team has to, at the very least, show improvement.
When Chizik announced last week that Chris Todd had earned the role as Auburn’s starting quarterback he had to know that the decision would have detractors.
Knowing that and also being aware of the urgency of getting off to a positive start, the decision to start Todd is a bold move.
It defies conventional wisdom and sends the clear message that Chizik intends for his team to win, and win now.
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