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My thing is depth. Regardless how crappy the O was, these are young uns that could provide us depth and possible PT in a year

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Here is your problem: a guy like DeAndre Carter has been sitting here for 2 years already while producing nothing. Neither party wants him sitting on the bench for a 3rd season "providing depth". The kid himself obviously wants to play, and Auburn isn't going to continue paying him his NIL salary (which might be starter-salary) to sit the bench again. You can't pay a kid starter money for 3 seasons to do nothing, and hope that you get 1 season out of them as a starter.

That's what some of you need to understand now with HS recruiting. You want to sign "elite HS players"? Great, but they better be starting or at least contributing by their second year, otherwise it is a waste of time and money for everyone. When you sign an "elite HS talent" you are committing hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more) to them, which means they need to produce in the near future. Providing depth is not good enough, hence why getting rid of guys like Perry Thompson or DeAndre Carter was actually likely initiated by Golesh, not the other way around. If either of those two were evaluated as likely starters next season, then they would have been paid to stick around and told that they were in line to start.

This is why NFL rookie contracts are structured such that guys drafted past the ~3rd round have very little money committed to them. These are your depth/developmental guys, and an NFL team isn't going to pay starter or contributor money to a guy who is going to be riding the bench for 2-3 seasons. "4 and 5-star" HS players in NCAA are like your Top 1-3 round picks in the NFL draft: if they aren't producing soon, then they can be replaced for cheaper through the Portal. Again, guys like Thompson and Carter have already been paid north of $1M each. It is VERY poor use of resources to continue that structure unless you are certain that they are impact starters next season.

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Lagway to the portal

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This is very similar to some of the players that we will have leaving. He didn't like how conversations went with Sumrall, and I'd bet money that those conversations revolved around a decrease in salary. Lagway squeezed a ton out of Florida, and the new staff doesn't see the value.

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I am glad we could dump the #1 IOL recruit in the nation to pick this kid up.

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Carter? He was ranked #15 IOL by 247 and #10 on the Composite.

Either way, this kid has been here for two seasons and has basically been a ghost. He plays on the special teams unit.

If you believe that he is actually some elite talent, why hasn't he shown it yet? We clearly had an average at best OL so its not like he was sitting behind All Americans. They had 17 year old Ellis pushed into the lineup and not a peep about Carter.

He is also listed at nearly 350 pounds. Clearly there are issues with weight/work-ethic.

This really isn't even a loss. You are talking about a guy who never saw the field. You can find these former high recruits who never saw the field all over the Portal. I'm sure that LSU and Florida have some former Top 150 bust OL that is about to enter the Portal that we can scoop up, if you are worried about just picking up former top recruits who really haven't panned out at all.

Favour Edwin is gone too:

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Don't understand how we can watch the iron bowl and not give Simmons a bump.

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Oh wow - he played one good game. Back the Brinks truck up! The guy got a bump last offseason after he threatened to leave, and he didn't reward Auburn at all for the extra cash, considering that he almost got kicked off the team and then went ghost for 90% of the season.

Some of you would make the worst negotiators imaginable LOL.

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It does but he may come back.

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Golesh has to set a standard here given that he inherited a VERY overpaid roster. I do not expect these guys who don't like our new NIL offers and choose to enter the Portal to be taken back, even if they change their mind. That's not normally how a new coach operates in year one.

Simmons did this exact same shite last year as well and received a bump in pay to convince him to stay, and yet he produced nothing extra. A lot of these guys have gotten too used to siphoning Auburn money since they were first recruited out of HS, and Golesh is going to need to put an end to that.

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Before I say this, I will say it’s of his own doing.

The guy lost his job
Lost his wife
Lost his “baby mama”
All the details made public
Publicly criticized
Etc.

I’d say he was in a dark spot. Not sure why you think it would be funny to think someone under that amount of pressure would contemplate killing themself.

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The guy is a multi-millionaire and would have eventually landed another job coaching somewhere. He clearly didn't like his wife that much, otherwise he wouldn't have been in a "relationship" with this girl for several years. And this baby mama is a 7/10 at best; this isn't some supermodel that he'll never be able to replace.

In other words, the guy threw his life away like a complete retard for no reason. The guy should have millions sitting in the bank, who gives a shite about his job. He could have gone and chilled in Mexico for a year or two and banged other sluts and then landed some OC job back in the NCAA once this whole story blew over. Instead, he now has criminal charges and will be unhirable forever. Straight up brain-dead decision making.

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Mhmm. My last post to BigBlue will probably be my last lesson on the subject. Everybody else can stay ignorant or you can try to talk some sense into them

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The Mercer thing is even funnier once you realize that Jackson Arnold also burned them for a 50+ yard touchdown run AND would have been 5 for 5 passing if not for two absurdly clear drops (one by Coleman). So then why go ga-ga over Deuce's performance when the guy who everyone is convinced is terrible also had zero issue against that defense?

It really is next-level ridiculous to use an FCS opponent as PROOF that any player is a known product, let alone a QB.

Larry Porter is back as RB coach:

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Rocky that ain’t no MK677 for the old guy that’s test if I ever seen it

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Its AI generated :lol:

Derrick Nix might be heading off to Florida:

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