Amen X1000000.Go back and read the JessN's review after the Auburn game. He was pretty tough on CNS at the time for not making Auburn more of a "priority game" (my words, not JessN's).
Of course, there was a lot up in the air at that time about "CNS to Texas." Glad that is over with!!!
But the real issue Jess brought up is that the Auburn game falls on our schedule at a place where we can't affort to ever lose to them if we have any "post season" hopes.
I think CNS, might have been fooled by the rivalry, especially after 2008. Even though it took a clutch drive led by GMac at the end of the '09 game, he might have still felt like we were in control of Auburn then. But 2010 should have been the wake up call.
CNS has treated the LSU game like we want him to, but we also wish he'd put Auburn in the same catagory, and I'll say it again, history has proven we can lose to LSU and it not bite us near as bad as losing to Auburn.
And then there is the whole side of living in the state with the Auburn fans that CNS doesn't understand. He's not a part of the fanbase and doesn't have to "put up" with the Barn fans when we lose to them. He's insulated and isolated from that.
So I do like the idea of using our former greats as a resource to remind the players AND CNS about the Auburn rivalry and how much it OUGHT to mean. Surely CNS knows how important it is to win this game in terms of where it falls on the schedule but I'd like for him to have a better understanding of just how important winnning that game is for US too. Perhaps I'm "judging" CNS and perhaps he has a better understanding of the rivalry than we think, but, the "fruits" we judge doesn't seem to suggests the players are being taught to hate all things having to do with the Barn like we wish they would.
And I'll throw this out there too. IF (that's a big if), UT ever gets its act together again, we'll need that generation of players to learn to hate them too.
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