Quote from: Redbeard on Today at 10:10:31 amYeah, very small crowd compared to Arkansas. I think they had 4,742.

Quote from: Hawg Red on Yesterday at 06:22:54 pmDude, he was 12/51 from the field from the first conference game up until the Mississippi State where he started taking off. That's 23.5%.....from the field! He played like ass. I'm sorry, that's just the truth. And he had 6 games in that stretch where he played 15 or more minutes.

Y'all have very selective memories. There was not some hit job by Muss to just not play the kid. He was playing bad. Yes, I understand other players that were playing bad were also playing. Try reading between the lines there.

QuoteFiguring out what SEC football programs paid per win isn't an exact science. Schools report their revenues and expenses to the NCAA based on the fiscal year, which most recently ran from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.

There's no breakout for preseason and in-season expenditures, and the fiscal year extends well beyond the actual football season. Still, taking the total football spending a school reports for the fiscal year, and dividing it by the team's number of wins in the season, can give a rough estimation.

Among the schools counted, which includes every current and future SEC school except for Vanderbilt, which is private and not subject to open records requests, Auburn took the lead. Tigers were second in the league in football spending for FY 2023, but only won five games in Bryan Harsin's final season as head coach.

Auburn will likely drop down the list in FY 2024, winning six games in 2024. Texas A&M finished second in spending per win for the 2022 season, with $54 million spent, against just five wins.

Aggies appear to be a contender for first place when 2023 season (FY 2024) numbers are released. This past season, TAMU won seven games, but swallowed an enormous buyout for coach Jimbo.

Quote from: Birminghog on Today at 12:04:33 pmIt's 74°, the humidity is 76%, and the wind is out of the SSW at 8 mph. I have no idea about the orientation of the ballpark, so if someone can tell us what that means (looking at you, JHicks), we will appreciate it!

Quote from: Coach Dal on Today at 11:40:27 amDavis got invited to the G-League Elite Camp, a good performance can lead to a NBA Combine invite.   Not out of the woods just yet...

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Quote from: Hawg Red on Yesterday at 04:20:43 pmI actually wanted a lot more from him. Maybe we would have won more games. His late-season hot streak is obviously driving a lot of opinions here whereas only a few of us are considering how he played for the entire season. Why is it that must be the player who got hot late and not the inconsistent, and sometimes plain bad, player he was most of the season? I mean, we're talking he played okay defense at the very end of the season and y'all are acting like he wasn't a complete no-show for the whole season on that end before that late stretch. He was MIA for a lot of games and that just doesn't, oops, happen accidentally. He either wasn't earning the time on the court or in practice, or he pissed off the guy that controls his minutes.

Quote from: Salty spork on Today at 11:59:37 am1. People dealing with folks who can't handle the world they are living in.

2. We are talking about whichever degree you land on. Most of the doors the name on my diploma opens for me are guarded by people who have no idea why my grad school is respected. They don't know the history that made it a desirable place to study. They just know the reputation. Guys who know about those 'bigger research toys' tend to care less about where you graduated from.

But, this thread is 100 percent about reputation. And UNC has a better reputation than the U of A.

That is the only claim in this thread. And it is true. Proven with stats. Proven with anecdotes. Why is there even pushback here? No jobs are at stake.

Quote from: Birminghog on Today at 12:13:35 pmPonderin' is our winner today with a lag time of 1:24! I feel certain there will be numerous Honorable Mentions (Honorables Mention?)

QuoteFreeze's wife had heard enough of her husband's griping:

"My wife has made me promise I'm through complaining," Freeze said in early April. "But it's just difficult. It's difficult to manage."

Freeze has long maintained his desire to build Auburn's football roster through high school recruiting, even if that's now considered dated (like those girls on the road/rode).

"Idealistically I'd love to just sign a bunch of high school and build great relationships with them and never lose them," Freeze said in December. "I don't know — that may be in dream land."

Freeze and the Tigers' coaching staff, for the most part, did just that as they landed a top 10 recruiting class, which featured a historic crop of wide receivers and the last-minute, signing-day flip of 4-star defensive lineman Amaris Williams.

None of that came easy.

During his national signing day press conference on Dec. 20, Freeze recalled having to "stay up all night and play video games" in an effort to fend off some of the "late-night pushes".

Keeping those high school players in the fold was Freeze's priority and it showed —

"I don't think I have done very well, truthfully," Freeze said of Auburn's success in the transfer portal during his press conference on Dec. 16. "It's difficult."

At the time, Auburn had added just two transfers in Georgia State transfer wide receiver Robert Lewis and Kansas transfer defensive lineman Gage Keys, all while having seen a dozen Auburn players enter their names into the transfer portal.

And while the Tigers went on to add seven more transfers before the transfer portal window closed on Jan. 2, Freeze felt he and his staff left opportunities on the table.

"We've had many visits set and they never even get to campus and they've already decided where they're going before we ever get to ever get in front of them," Freeze said. "Maybe I need to change our approach some to that, but before we get really serious with someone, I'd love to get in front of them and have some conversations."