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Could be a mental health thing too

I'm making an assumption about our defense staying at the same level of performance as this year AND getting competent offensive play.

Baylor @ ATL - Baylor is losing a lot of talent - W
Southern Miss @home - W
JSU @home - W
Bama @away - Auburn has found ways to lose to Alabama and I will continue to believe we will until proven otherwise - L
Arkansas @home - Arkansas was somehow even worse than we were this year - W
UF @home - major underachieving at UF right now but this is still a toss-up to me - W
LSU @home - unfortunately Kiffin will have them humming I think - L
Vandy @home - curious to see how Vandy is without Pavia, not anything special - W
UGA @away - same as Alabama above - L
MSU @away - also somehow worse than us this year - W
Ole Miss @away - not sure how this will pan out but I think Ole Miss flounders a bit next year - W
Tenn @away - Tenn seems to have a good offense every year and it's away - L

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Are there many big programs who will take a chance on him to come in and be “the Guy?” Or, will they want him to come in, and be groomed for a year, then take over?

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I think the former is more likely than the latter, especially if it's a smaller P4 team or any G5 team. The latter would only make sense at a QB factory type situation like Ohio State

It was more convenient at the time to place the blame at the feet of Thorne then to recognize and admit that the Freeze controlled offense was an absolute fraud.

So sad to hear about his father.

Right? This won't hold water once a few more losses come in but right now it's actually true :lol:

Back to relevant portal discussion...

It would be great for a QB to sit and develop until they are ready but that simply is not happening in the current CFB era.

If a QB has a high enough ranking coming out of high school they are either getting immediate playing time wherever they commit or going somewhere that will give them playing time at the next stop.

In most situations a coach has to balance immediate wins versus long term development, but with how bad Auburn has been the last few years I'm not thinking Golesh has time to consider anything other than getting immediate wins. The best way to do that is to bringing an established QB that he has history with.

Wins > any single player sticking around. Hell you can even use the wins and NIL money to get another QB in the portal for the next year.

I think the main factors for Cam are going to be:

A. Going to a program that has a current history of developing WRs in the NFL
B. Money

Really the only pipeline lately has been Ohio State for A - and they just lost the guy responsible for it as a coach. Also Auburn hasn't had a good track record for WRs for like 20 years at this point so anyone that comes here otherwise just likes the place or is interested in B.

If B. then it doesn't particularly matter because Auburn can throw it around with pretty much anyone except the absolute monied elite programs.

Freeze was clearly checked out in his time here aside from the first season. Will be refreshing to have a guy who eats/sleeps/breathes football for a change.

He has another year, which is why he did not play against Mercer to preserve eligibility.

He's more than welcome to return. He wasn't responsible for all the drops or even the turnover.

Defense played good, potentially excellent if the refs didn't extend drives with bullshite.

Yeah, I mean the $10m is like what a sixth of the conference annual payment right?

It's a new market, until some some sort of CBA is signed that includes coaches/players the numbers will just keep going up.

I thought there was a hiring floor of Summarall but turns out it can be a whole lot lower.