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Oats completely whiffed in the portal this year and will limit this team in the tournament. Williamson is unplayable, TBB is close to unplayable and Bethea is a defensive liability. The rest of the transfers are injured.

re: Auburn basketball is dead

Posted by ETT2001 on 2/19/26 at 11:25 am to
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Bruce is a legend. Of course he would have more wins.


Point is the team is not devoid of talent. There are enough pieces to be a 5-6 seed type team.

re: Auburn basketball is dead

Posted by ETT2001 on 2/19/26 at 10:38 am to
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I disagree. Bruce abandoned y'all just so Steven could get a shot. However, while this might have been a rebuilding year with Bruce, he still would have had y'all firmly in play for the tournament, just like Tennessee and Bama in rebuilding years. Steven just isn't a good coach. The fix is simple: hire a real coach, not somebody's kid.


Yep, Bruce waited until right before the season to retire because by then the roster was intact for his son to have some success even though it was rebuilding year. Steven is just a bad coach. Bruce would likely have 3-4 more wins with this group.
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Arkansas game is going to be huge


How does Bama matchup with Ark? Acuff is their man and we tend to let those guys for 30+. Haven't watch them much but are they big inside defensively?
Because Bama involved it is getting people attention. Baylor won a national title a few years ago and outrage basically non-existent.
Bediako never should have declared in the first place and was never drafted. Too many of these players are getting bad information. He’s a good college player but that is about it
Golden talked shite and backed it up, bad look for Oats ability to motivate. This Florida team is good but not great. Florida just owns Bama in basketball the last 20+ years to the point I don’t think we will ever consistently beat them.
Glad I didn’t watch the game, had a feeling this would happen. This team is middle of the pack SEC team this year, very disappointing.
It’s primarily Walz and Frey fault for inciting riots and violence. If they had let ICE go in and do its job this would all be over or almost over by now. Let them get in and do the job and get out.

ICE raids are going all over the country yet this is the only place this shite is happening.
Problem is it will be too late if we wait to make a run because we either won’t get in or get a shitty seed. This team can’t defend or rebound and TBB and Williamson were terrible misses by Oats
Team just not very good, this is the biggest drop off in the Oats era. Will end up around .500 in conference on the bubble and bounced the first weekend.
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He is really replacing Collins Onyejiaka who is out for the season.



Yes, I agree that Bediako is a different player than Williamson and more like Onyejiaka, but still the point remains that the coaching staff missed here taking a flyer on a guy with a heart condition. Now they are trying to cover it up.

I think this has a lot to do with Byrne saying FU to the rest of the country all of this is insane and needs to be fixed pronto. Nobody cared when Baylor did it but now that it is Bama it will get some people's attention.
Going to be difficult for AU and many other programs in NIL era however hopefully NIL/portal is rectified at some point. TX and OU joining the league knocked AU down a peg. They will be consistently middle of the pack in the SEC going forward.
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getting drafted not void your eligibility?


Bediako was not drafted. Interesting loophole.
Very odd with Young he showed a lot of promise early. Makes wonder about his attitude and drive, he never got any better or rose to the occasion

re: Ty Simpson Injury

Posted by ETT2001 on 1/14/26 at 9:59 am to
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He shouldn’t have been playing.


Agreed, I guess this shows the lack of confidence in Mack to get it done against high level competition.

I heard from a co-worker who knew someone connected with the program midway through the season about the bulging disc. Just terrible luck that impacted the ceiling of this team. Injuries are the great neutralizer.
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Do we even know that Latham is coming back?


I thought he was done as well. Assuming he’s healthy I would think he could get a medical waiver.
And he’s old, maybe old grown men are the way to go
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nothing else the NFL putting pressure down. I can't believe the minor leagues of baseball hasn't suffered the same fate. Truly wild


You have to think all the portal action is diminishing the product and player development. Therefore the NFL is getting less polished players in the draft. GMs and coaches should be jumping up and down to get this fixed. You have to wonder if this madness is fueled more by players that truly have no shot at a successful NFL career (Pavia, Chambliss,etc.) and is ruining the sport
IDK I’m afraid this team will struggle to go above .500 in the league if you can’t protect your home floor against the lower tier teams. That Oklahoma game was on the road
That makes 2 games now if we make it 3 we may be playing ourselves out of post season if this snowballs. Texas sucks no excuse for losing that other than not ready to play.Regardless this team was exposed in the non conference and is not a top 4 seed, probably end up in the 5-7 range come March