TheRealTigerHorn

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He and UI just beat the frick out of Ohio State for the Big 10 title and Bama in the Rose Bowl. Who cares about the early season exhibition games all teams play.

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I was referring to 2024, not 2025. They gelled the team in '24, going 11-2 and losing to the only two teams with a pulse that they played, tOSU and ND. Take that same team to the SEC, and the record is worse.

In '25, they had a more veteran-led team with a few key xfer pieces (7 of their starting 22, one of which was Mendoza). They played only two ranked teams (Iowa and Oregon) in the regular season, which again gave them plenty of time to gel the team and pad stats. Compare that to the gauntlet that AU faced.

The problem is that the selections committee cares very much about your overall record - see Texas and Vandy for two examples from this year - who could have been one loss teams at worst against IU's schedule.

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After Curt Cignetti was hired as the Indiana football head coach, a significant number of players entered the transfer portal, with reports indicating 39 players left the program in that offseason.

This high number was part of a major roster overhaul, which also saw Indiana bring in a large number of new players via the portal. Cignetti notably brought 13 players and several coaches with him from his previous job at James Madison.

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Just keep in mind that Cignetti played something like the #60 schedule that first year. He had multiple cupcakes to gel his team against and get them playing together. Transplant that group here last year, and they're probably 8-4/7-5 IF the SEC refs let them, which is an improvement over where we were, but not what he did at Indy.

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cheaper


Its why they also have plastic oil pans.

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Wrong. Plastic oil pans are lighter, quieter, and far less leak-prone than stamped steel. The only difference is if you high center hard enough to break it. The same event would dent a steel pan badly enough to impair oil flow in a modern car because there is absolutely no margin for extra depth in the pan like there used to be (regulations at the bottom of this). Either way, the engine either shuts down immediately (holed plastic pan, oil pressure to 0) or dies slowly (dented steel pan). In the former case, you MIGHT have a shot to save the engine.

WRT to rubber belts, running the oil pump with them is far lighter duty than the rubber timing belts a lot of cars - mostly foreign - used to come with. If you change oil remotely on schedule, you should get 200k out of an oil pump belt. 99.9% of first and second owners never hit 200k.

PS - VW Group, Stellantis, Kia and Hyundai also use wet belts.

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Daddy was dirty.

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For telling a MSU booster on tape "I'm not gonna send my son where he's going to be a rented mule" ?

Did you get all your facts from that bama moron who was on the radio during that time until he got shut down because the stations were about to get sued out of business? Was it Redfish?

Harsin, and it's not close. At least Barfield brought in some talent, and Freeze brought in far more than Barfield. You have to go back before 1957 to find comparable to Harsin.

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"Oh, you graduated from Auburn, well step to the front of the line!" said no hiring manager ever. Our HR loves grads from Georgia, Alabama and Ole Miss, and says they're generally better prepared to succeed in a team environment. Unless you're building rockets or curing cancer, social skills are every bit as important as ACT scores, and there's not many people building rockets or curing cancer. If that's your bag, Georgia Tech and Emory are probably your best best. That's where the smart kids go.

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Cute. Ever heard of Tim Cook? Or Jimmy Rane? Harbert Construction?

You're just digging your hole deeper. Auburn men and women have gone into space, built successful companies, run Fortune 500 companies, and yes, we built rockets (von Braun directly credited an AU grad with enabling the success of the Saturn V's F-1 engines) and we might have some people working on curing cancer. We have more astronauts than the three schools you listed - combined. If your HR really has that preference, then they're as moronic as you are. Go ahead, dig some more.

Interesting numbers across the conference. Some observations:

1. Although Auburn has great OOS scholarships on paper, the total cost of attendance is still higher than most in-state options with NO scholarship at all. This is the case for Texans when comparing UT and ATM to AU. Some other SEC schools throw more at OOS students.

2. Texas and ATM have the state's automatic admissions criteria controlling their enrollment. They have to take the top x% of Texas HS students each year. "X" was originally 10% but now floats at around the top 5-7% for both schools.

3. Back through the 1990's, AU and Texas were screaming bargains in higher ed. I think if you could find data from the '80's and '90's, you would see larger percentages of OOS students for both. That would also be true of other schools that were bargains at the time. Texas as late as 1991 was something like $330 per semester for a full load IIRC, but it has been a long time.

4. Alabama has made a conscious effort to recruit the NE and MW as part of their drive to increase enrollment, which shows in their enrollment breakdown. Others can make the case whether that is good or bad. It is a mixed blessing at best.

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Dupree is from Philadelphia

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Yep, I remember that now. For some reason, I was thinking someplace near Bham.

Meh. We'll pick him up in the '27 portal class.

Right now, we have to burn NIL on the young roster that we have and key pieces in the portal. Been done befo', see OM, except their roster of HS recruits already on campus wasn't as good.

In my 2nd startup company, we were in a big metal building out in the Texas Hill Country with a high bay that stayed open most of the time. We had all sorts of tarantulas, scorpions, and the rare but much-feared Giant Red-Headed Texas Centipede. I tried to insert a pic, but it didn't work. They are the stuff of nightmares.

The internets say these things can grow to 8", but I have a pic of one somewhere spanning the width of a 12" tile, body about the diameter of a good-sized man's thumb. They are big, and every now and again, the guys out in the bay would catch one and put it into a death match with scorpions or whatever other critter they could catch and toss into a box with it.

Well, we caught a really big one once, and it won a lot of death matches before finally dying of natural causes. One of the guys was so proud of it that he bagged it up in a Ziplock and left it on his desk, thinking to take it home to show his kids. We all went to lunch. Except for this one quiet, mild mannered young Catholic kid who was one of our most junior engineers, he said he was going home.

Well, we all came back from lunch, and that Ziplock bag had a hole "chewed" out of one corner, and the champion centipede was gone. It was a bullpen office with five guys and two women in it. The women sat in their chairs with their knees pulled up to their chests, feet off the floor, while the men armed themselves with various improvised centipede smashers and began to search. The quiet Catholic kid finally pulled open his file drawer about 20 minutes into the frantic search and showed us the centipede, still dead, the real Ziplock bag fully intact.

We never trusted him again. He followed me through two more jobs and I promoted him to management. He has four kids of his own now and is in upper middle management. I'm not sure if I feel sorrier for his kids, who he has surely pranked, or for him, because now he has four of him to prank him back.