AuburnAlum01

1. Auburn had more quad one wins than one, but since those games, the teams they've beaten have fallen apart (State/Ole Miss). 2. Georgia Tech has four wins over quad 1 opponents and I don't think they're even making the tournament, so I wouldn't make quad 1 wins your sole reason for believing Auburn won't make a deep run. Plus, Auburn has no bad losses and is undefeated in quad 2 and 3 games. 3. The SEC needs to move up the tournament from Tuesday-Saturday so that it actually matters in the NCAA seeding.

I hate that we didn't go out and get someone for this season. I think Walker White is the future, but I don't want to throw him out there his very first season. I have zero confidence in Payton Thorne. Time and time again, he's shown that he just can't cut it passing wise.

A one-off issue my behind. You literally had a player and staffer killed while racing last January. You also had multiple players caught doing the same thing - not to mention the Stetson Bennett arrest (icing in the cake).

Agree. Outside of the win against LSU, FSU’s schedule was pretty weak.

All three QBs offer unique qualities that make them good, but unfortunately, I don't think either of the three are great. I wish we could combine them all into a super quarterback.

I've been wondering how FSU has secured so many good players. Has to be money, beecause it's not like they've been good in a minute.

College football used to be my favorite sport, but now it’s a d*mn circus. I don’t care who you are, but no kid coming out of high school deserves a million dollar payday. I’m not saying these kids don’t deserve something, but it makes it really hard to root for some smug 18-year-old flashing his NIL deal/money on Instagram. Not to mention, it’s become a sport if the haves and the have nots. Unless you catch lightning in a bottle, your team doesn’t have a chance unless you’re one of a handful of school. It’s a shame.

Agree. Just because the West doesn’t have a team with UT’s record, doesn’t mean it’s a race to the bottom. It’s actually one of the most misleading headlines I’ve ever read. I would contend, the West is the much tougher half of the SEC than the East.

Yeah, but there’s a big difference between those coaches and Harsin - they could recruit, Harsin cannot.

I agree. We’re screwed. Even if Harsin goes after the portal hard after Spring practice (and there’s nothing to suggest he will), the players hunting for new schools will be the ones who couldn’t hack it to win starting jobs. They won’t be program-saving type players. Not to mention, the only receiver we had bolted, and our QB options are a terrible TJ Findley, a mediocre Zak Calzada or a true freshman. Oh, and we still don’t have an offensive coordinator. Anyone who thinks we’re going to have a good season needs their head examined. We should’ve just cut bait and got Hugh Freeze.

That doesn’t explain coaches leaving and is not being able to get a single recruit this week or players we need in the portal. Not to mention, we lost seven games. The guy is a walking disaster.

Ditto. I’ve hated that UT hasn’t been that great. Someone needs to rise up and challenge the dummies in Athens. Now that they’ve won a championship, they’re going to be unbearable. They were already awful to live among.

Because it’s Mississippi.

Anyone but Steele. The dude is ancient. And I don’t know a single Auburn fan that wants him anyhow.

Don't give us any thought? Really? Except all your fans and your coach have done is make excuses since the loss. We can fully admit Kentucky could still be a better team, but you're certainly not the most mature fan base. And you actually think Pearl would leave such a good situation at Auburn because one guy tweeted about it? Get real.

Dude, I know it seems like the comments from Bama fans are them just being nasty, but you gotta take off the orange-colored glasses. When coaches leave Bama, it’s to become head coaches - not make lateral or worse moves. I wasn’t that sold on Mason for reasons that don’t really matter. Having said that, it’s never a good look when a coordinator leaves your program, especially to go to a lesser job.

join our team, not are.

Face it, we're toast. The earliest any offensive lineman can join are team now is summer. The deadline to join Spring classes was yesterday. So any players we get now, will barely have enough time to get settled before the season starts. What we have is what we have.

I can't believe this writer gets a paycheck. I'd be shocked if Finley didn't end up in the portal by summer. Obvious starter my behind. If Finley is the starter, Auburn will have another losing record.

JT is graduating, so he can start immediately wherever he ends up.

Harsin can get some O lineman in the portal until he’s able to get a handle on the recruiting. We do need a QB though. I think our freshman coming in will be good, but I don’t want to have to start him year one.

Your comment is proof you don’t know what you’re talking about. Considering Harsin hadn’t even had the job for a year while trying to recruit players Bama and UGA had courted for years, I don’t think #13 is bad. Heck, the class ranking could go even higher come February. If you want to knock Harsin for other issues, fine. But so far, recruiting isn’t our issue.

Would love to hear why Auburn at 17 is a joke. Two of our losses came against two of, if not the two best defenses in college football. We play that Penn State game again and I think we win. Also, five of our nine games have been against ranked opponents - and we still haven't played Alabama. How many other teams can say that?

God, Georgia fans are THE worst.

Please! My mom could coach all the five stars in Athens to 8-0.

Agreed. The East is usually always worse than the West, but this year is especially lopsided. And wouldn’t you know, Georgia plays Clemson the one year Clemson is no longer Clemson. The only other decent game Georgia has had was the trip to Auburn - where the Tigers dropped a thousand passes and beat themselves. Georgia gets to spend the season playing a JV schedule and fine-tuning everything, while the Western teams are beating up on each other. It’s ridiculous.

glad2bsec - You literally lost a game. So yeah - you're beatable. I'm not saying Auburn is going to beat you, but ya been beat.

I’ve been saying this for awhile. It’s so easy of fans of Alabama and Georgia to tell us to “recruit better” like we have control where this kids go. They’re all choosing the same four schools because they’re the only ones they see in the playoff year in, year out. It’s a sick cycle. Bring on the 12-team playoff already.

Hater much? I’ll admit, that play should never have worked. But you have to give the guy credit for being athletic enough to make SEVERAL big plays just like that. Just because you don’t like us doesn’t mean you can just dismiss Nix because it wasn’t run-of-the mill or because he didn’t automatically hit the player you might have. Next week, Nix may fall flat again - and I’ve been one of his biggest critics. But the guy played his butt off, whether you give him credit or not.

They’re just a really young group, which is why we went and got the kid from Georgia in the portal. But even he hasn’t been all that great. I want to know what Sam Pittman is doing at Arkansas to turn the program around so fast?! Does he have a magic potion?! I don’t understand how a program that couldn’t win a SEC game for two years is now one of the best teams in the SEC like 16 games into Pittman’s tenure? Makes absolutely no sense. No shade, I’m just flabbergasted.