Plain Trouble on "Da Plains" (all AU posts here)

AUDub · Oct 14, 2017

OBMS said:
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/06/former_auburn_rb_eric_smith_se.html

Quote - In late February, an Auburn spokesman told reporters Smith was dismissed from the team for an unspecified violation of team rules. The university did not say when Smith was dismissed from the team.

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20091220/Sports/604168831

Quote: "Auburn running back Eric Smith is academically ineligible for the Outback Bowl against Northwestern."

He played the following season, thugging it up during the BCSNCG against Oregon though.

PitMaster · Oct 14, 2017

Who? And how long ago?

jabcmb · Oct 14, 2017

QB Jeff Burger got suspended for academics back in the 80s. But the school administration reversed it. So I guess it didn’t happen.

PitMaster · Oct 15, 2017

jabcmb said:
QB Jeff Burger got suspended for academics back in the 80s. But the school administration reversed it. So I guess it didn’t happen.

I think he missed one play

On a side note, the Auburn fan base has reversed field once again. They are jumping off the wagon, won't Gus fired again, and want him fired immediately many cases. Hilarious stuff on their board

bamacpa · Oct 15, 2017

That was a long play he missed.

jabcmb said:
QB Jeff Burger got suspended for academics back in the 80s. But the school administration reversed it. So I guess it didn’t happen.

NoNC4Tubs · Oct 15, 2017

B1GTide said:
Fair enough, but some people put their personal integrity first. If a person has no integrity, they become even less credible.

edwd58 said:
If I'm working as a part-time tutor and want to get paid, and they require me to sign a "no knowledge of wrongdoing" statement in order to get a check, I'm signing that thing every time - no matter how much wrongdoing I know about. It doesn't mean I don't have actual knowledge of wrongdoing, it just means I have a greater want/need of my paycheck. If I tell them I know of wrongdoing; a) how long does that delay receiving my check and b) does that jeopardize my continued employment? The only purpose those type statements serve, especially in conjunction with pay, is to enable AU to do exactly what they're now doing: were you lying when you signed the forms or are you lying now - either way it succeeds in eroding the creditability of the claimant and deflects attention away from the real issue of whether infractions were committed. You don't suppose a certain law firm would have come up with that idea, nah...

THAT is exactly what happened here. In telling the truth, she is technically "changing her story" and thus costing herself credibility.

NoNC4Tubs · Oct 15, 2017

CB4 said:
Fullwood quit attending class a few weeks into the fall quarter of his final year at Auburn. He was by all intents and purposes academically ineligible but it wasn't "discovered" he wasn't attending classes until after the season was over. Dye still played him in the bowl game he wasn't "technically" ineligible until his grades posted and the next term started.

Seventeen players quit going to class during the 2010 season. Many of these were starters. The deadline for finalizing these grades (which would have rended them ineligible for the NC game) was pushed back to the dsay after the Championship game.

I laugh every time I see them use the "All In" term. The academic and athletic administration are definitely "All In" down there...

bamafaninbham · Oct 15, 2017

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/...e_pop?li_source=base&li_medium=default-widget

Wow.

If this is a representation of what the barn players come to see while they spend their collegiate years on the plains, why do they consider themselves such a cohesive family???

Sounds downright dysfunctional to me.

RT27 · Oct 15, 2017

He is going to HIGHER better coaches, has auburn degree and cannot spell, please aubs higher him bahahahahahaha idiots

PitMaster · Oct 15, 2017

bamafaninbham said:
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/...e_pop?li_source=base&li_medium=default-widget

Wow.

If this is a representation of what the barn players come to see while they spend their collegiate years on the plains, why do they consider themselves such a cohesive family???

Sounds downright dysfunctional to me.

Heath needs to be tested for CTE

Skeeterpop · Oct 15, 2017

Good thing Heath is not applying as an English teacher. His grammar sux! But then again he sent in his resume via twitter.

LOL. He gets my vote. "Higher" him!

RT27 · Oct 15, 2017

Nick may be onto something about recruiting SMARTER players, maybe aubs issue is their players cannot read the playbook LOL

AUDub · Oct 15, 2017

Skeeterpop said:
Good thing Heath is not applying as an English teacher. His grammar sux! But then again he sent in his resume via twitter.

LOL. He gets my vote. "Higher" him!

Hell, LSU's coach can hardly talk, and he out coached ours. Being a head coach is more about management and motivation than being a great coordinator. It's about passion. Passion can make kids run through walls for you. It's infectious. We don't have that. If Heath brings that to the table, and he is one of my all time favorite Tigers, bring him on in the interim while we search. Can't be any worse than what we have right now.

cuda.1973 · Oct 15, 2017

-Give me full control to recruit who/how I want w/ no interference from AD/Board.

He must be new around there.

Cruiser · Oct 15, 2017

PitMaster said:
Heath needs to be tested for CTE

The fact he wants this job , and can't spell/use proper grammar on his application, is a STRONG indicator.

Elefantman · Oct 15, 2017

AUDub said:
Hell, LSU's coach can hardly talk, and he out coached ours. Being a head coach is more about management and motivation than being a great coordinator. It's about passion. Passion can make kids run through walls for you. It's infectious. We don't have that. If Heath brings that to the table, and he is one of my all time favorite Tigers, bring him on in the interim while we search. Can't be any worse than what we have right now.

Bringing a former player with little or no coaching experience on as the head coach works wonders. We should know.

RT27 · Oct 15, 2017

Sorry but motivation only takes you so far. Better talent wins, coaches who can make good decisions in the heat of a battle wins games. Discipline, coaching talent and focus wins titles. Many things make up great teams, one ex player with zero experience as a coach, recruiter or motivator does not win games. Tebow motivated as good as any player on the planet, how did that work when Bama player made plays? MANY many things make a team great, and better men than this kid have failed. I hope you guys hie him, one less game to ever worry about again.

KrAzY3 · Oct 15, 2017

It is kind of funny to watch LSU and Auburn on a seesaw. First it was Auburn's coach that should be fired, then LSU's, now it is Auburn again. Fact is both of those teams have a ton of talent and a lot of problems.

RT27 · Oct 15, 2017

KrAzY3 said:
It is kind of funny to watch LSU and Auburn on a seesaw. First it was Auburn's coach that should be fired, then LSU's, now it is Auburn again. Fact is both of those teams have a ton of talent and a lot of problems.

Imagine if they both had REAL coaches who knew how to coach, the west would be a scary place to play.

AUDub · Oct 15, 2017

RT27 said:
Sorry but motivation only takes you so far. Better talent wins, coaches who can make good decisions in the heat of a battle wins games.

Gus's decision making is wasting what talent we have. He's a deer in the headlights when the pressure's on. It sucks when you go into the final quarter with a lead but know exactly what's coming.

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