Sauron

Was that gif from the same moment when Gary Danielson was saying "I love it."? He quickly clarified the statement by saying Mettenberger was a warrior or some such, but I remember in the moment thinking "That's a weird thing for a commentator to say when a guy is crawling on the field."

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I remember when he played for us. Was highly rated but didn't show that much on the field.

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I THOUGHT I recognized that name as a former player, but I wasn't sure. Thank you.

I get frustrated by the officials during a game, but in general I truly believe calls even out overall. Don't attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by incompetence, or just plain human error.

I DO think there have been instances when officials exercise a bias, either consciously or not, against a team. Three occasions of this spring to mind:

1. The period of 2008 - 2016 (or whatever it was) when Alabama's opponents just did not get called for offensive holding. There was a cluster chart done by someone (a Michigan fan, I think) that showed roughly 80% of teams within one or two standard deviations from the norm for holding calls against their opponents. Alabama was waaay out in the top right corner, all by itself. Our opponents somehow never held even though we had some of the best defensive lineman and linebackers in our program's history during that time.

2. The 2022 Tennessee game. Just blatant disregard of the rules by the officials.

3. The first half of the 2025 season for Auburn. I don't like them, and I enjoy seeing them lose, but man ... they did something to anger the football gods this year. Multiple bad calls or no-calls that negatively impact them.

The whining of Tennessee fans about officiating in Saturday's game is sad. Your team got beat, just like FSU beat Alabama. Tip your hat and move on.

That's funny.

And it's "reins."

Thanks, TideSaint. I made the point on the Help board that Texas A&M has a thread that's more than 10 years old on their board.

I honestly don't know what the deal is here. I'm sure you and CrimsonBoz are beyond frustrated.

According to an Auburn poster (GoCrazyAuburn), Chicken provided notice a year ago the multi-year mega threads would go away. Did we get the notice and then forget the effective date or something?

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I honestly don't understand the difference between digging through a few dozen pages in a season long recruiting or news thread ...

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As I understand it, having a year-long recruiting or news thread is fine -- it's when the threads span multiple seasons or years that it becomes a problem.

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We have pinned seasonal recruiting threads for football and basketball and the group pick em thread for this season. Do not lump us in with you malcontents.

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You're making my point for me. We had pinned threads for football and basketball recruiting, but they got killed. Our mods built new threads over the past few days, but a lot of content from the old threads was lost.

We also had a mega thread for the 2025 football season, but it was killed. Texas A&M, for example, still has a pinned mega thread for the 2025 football season. This seems to be an arbitrary approach to overall site moderation.

Chicken, I appreciate you explaining your rationale. As a long-time board member, I appreciated the mega threads -- they were a quick place to check throughout the day for new content. I understand the desire to make the board appear more active to new visitors by forcing the creation of multiple threads, but it also has created confusion and frustration for loyal site visitors.

Please don't make the mistake of trying to appeal to new customers by upsetting your long-term client base. Cracker Barrel did that, and it didn't work out very well for them. At the very least, communicate your plans and intent ahead of time so we can be prepared.

Yes we do need an OL coach. Pittman was one of the best around when he was at Georgia.

If he wants to coach OL again I'd be after him with urgency.

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This isn’t true at all. Our offense went on a 12 play 75 yard drive that took up over 6+ minutes on the 2nd possession of the game. Yet, we gave up 205 yards rushing IN THE FIRST HALF!

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This is true. It's also the only successful offensive drive we had the entire game. The other drives were:

- 3 plays, 7 yards
- 3 plays, -2 yards
- 5 plays, 19 yards
- 3 plays, 17 yards, interception return to our 14
- 5 plays, 20 yards, interception return for a touchdown
- 5 plays, 11 yards
- 6 plays, 20 yards, turnover on downs
- 12 plays, 64 yards, interception at OU 35

I agree the defense got embarrassed in the first half, and I have no clue why we didn't plan for a heavy running attack since OU had essentially no healthy wide receivers. Even with that, though, it was only 10-3 at halftime. Despite the yardage gained by OU, they weren't very successful converting that to points.

We needed the offense to pick up the slack in the second half and keep the defense off the field. Instead they gifted 14 points to OU.

Milroe had a QBR of 14.1 for the game, with three interceptions -- two of which directly led to 14 OU points. By contrast, Milroe's average QBR for all of 2024 was 82.8. Think of how frustrating Milroe was throughout all of 2024, and then realize he was almost SIX TIMES WORSE than his average in that one game.

If the offense had shown any sort of a pulse, and if Milroe had played even remotely close to his average performance and not turned the ball over, we win that game.

Others have said this, but with everything riding on winning that game, it remains the most baffling loss I can recall seeing as an Alabama fan. Granted the defensive prep work wasn't good, and the lack of adjustments was frustrating -- but that was the most pathetic offensive display I've seen from Alabama. The defense can at least say they hadn't seen OU run that offense on film before. Even with that, they really only gave up 10 points.

The offense has no such excuse.