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Fallout 11-12-07 by: Mark Let’s start by putting a happy, if not shallow, spin on things; 1. UGA doesn’t have an engineering school. So if you’re an engineer, you probably don’t work with any UGA grads and won’t have to put up with their gump. 2. At least Alabama has water. 3. And if we want to be really cheap, we can laugh at this picture of Mark Richt adjusting his pants (Photo credit to Kacie Jackson).  And now the pain begins; The
Auburn family has no business trying to make a loss feel better
by complaining about the lack of class from another team. Another
school in the state owns a monopoly over this tactic. The blackout
gimmick was awesome. Nothing was wrong with Georgia’s 3rd
quarter dance party. Their fans didn’t do anything many Auburn
fans do on a regular basis. Gimmicks make college football beautiful.
I was really hoping Auburn’s offense has been ‘saving’ some tricks for Georgia and Alabama. It’s the easy and least painful way of explaining the close games against Arkansas and Ole Miss, but it looks like that’s not the case at this point. The Georgia game was the meeting of two very equal teams; one on their best day, the other on their worst. Calling for the firing of Tommy Tuberville and Al Borges is harmful to the program. You can’t blame Tuberville for only having one SEC Championship in 9 years. In this century, there has only been one team to “control their own destiny” to the SEC championship. The rest have required luck – other teams losing games. It requires luck to reach the game and Tuberville has done what it takes to make it to the SEC Championship game nearly every year - but the actions of other teams have kept him from it. Very few games between other SEC schools kept Auburn from the championship game in 2006, 2005, 2002 and 2001.Unless the team is flawless, it requires luck to reach the game. The only coach who has been able to produce a flawless team in recent history is Tommy Tuberville. And for all evaluation purposes, Tuberville has a national championship. Here’s a pretty common situation: Your buddy just got dumped by his girlfriend. Because you’re a good friend, you tell him that his girlfriend was a dumb skank to make him feel better. Your real opinion of your friend’s girlfriend doesn’t matterl. As a friend, your job is to make him feel better about the situation. You’re not helping your friend by giving him advice on where he may have screwed up the relationship. He feels horrible. The only way to make him feel slightly better is to tell him what a horrible person his girlfriend was. Two weeks pass and you’re the girlfriend gets back together with your friend. Uh oh. Things are now really awkward with your friend because you just spent two weeks telling your friend his girlfriend was a dumb skank. The
Auburn Family = your friend. Moral of the story; don’t call Tuberville a dumb skank until he actually does something worthy of being called a dumb skank – something like change jobs without our written consent. Don’t do what West Virginia did to Rich Rodriguez after he flirted with the Bama job last year. If Tuberville does leave Auburn for a better paying job, Auburn fans will have no right to criticize the guy. Most Auburn fans recognize Auburn as the greatest place in the world - yet most of us left Auburn after graduation for better jobs. We can’t blame Tuberville for doing the same. However, if Tuberville leaves, fans WILL have the right to be very angry at Auburn’s administration for not paying Tuberville whatever he wants. Bottom
line: Auburn has a chance to beat Alabama for the sixth consecutive
time in two weeks. You can voice your outrage against Auburn’s
coaching staff and cheer when that same staff beats the man paid
$4 million dollars to beat a staff you believe is incompetent –
or you can support them. Luckily, your choice will have no impact
on the game. War
Eagle! |
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