https://twitter.com/FootballAU/status/456215000051220480 You hear it every year–the summation that we don’t really learn anything from A-Day. I expect to learn something this year. I expect to learn whether the spring testimonies of Nick Marshall’s significant improvement as a passer are true. These testimonies will be easily judged Saturday. If Marshall has indeed improved his passing, then…
The Navy Thread is a series of posts (today is vol. 5) examining the historical parallels between the Auburn coaching careers of Pat Dye and Tommy Tuberville. These posts will later become the core of a short e-book of the same title. Here’s another Dye / Tuberville Iron Bowl parallel. Both coaches led the Tigers…
If you’ve read Orange Is Our Color, you know a little bit about my good friend Sam, and about the intensity with which he participates in Auburn football. What you, nor I (nor Sam) never know is when or where such a participant might show up on the internet. It so happened today that Sam…
The Navy Thread is a series of posts (today is vol. 4) examining the historical parallels between the Auburn coaching careers of Pat Dye and Tommy Tuberville. These posts will later become the core of a short e-book of the same title. There are several Dye/Tuberville parallels that pertain to the Iron Bowl. For instance,…
The Navy Thread is a series of posts (today is vol. 3) examining the historical parallels between the Auburn coaching careers of Pat Dye and Tommy Tuberville. These posts will later become the core of a short e-book of the same title. Let’s talk about 1984 and 2003. Wait, didn’t we do this last week?…
Are you a Barner? If someone called you a Barner, would you take offense? Apparently you should, if you’re an Auburn fan, according to an article posted today on AL.com. The final item on a list of 10 things we have to explain to out-of-towners about Auburn University reads, Aren’t Auburn fans called “barners”? The need…
What was the first First Tweet ever by Gus Malzahn? How about Bo Jackson, or Nova? Twitter is celebrating its birthday by encouraging everyone to look up their first tweet ever. Here are the first tweets by several famous Auburn Tiger tweeters. Check ‘em out! First up, Gus Malzahn, who first tweeted about this time…
The Navy Thread is a series of posts (today is vol. 2) examining the historical parallels between the Auburn coaching careers of Pat Dye and Tommy Tuberville. These posts will later become the core of a short e-book of the same title. Let’s talk about 1983 and 2004. In both of these seasons Auburn had…
Orange Is Our Color is not strictly a history of the Tuberville decade. Instead, it is also a thesis on how/why the events of those years shape the Auburn Football Program, and the Auburn Family, today. I recently saw another example of this influence. In the book, I argue that the Tuberville decade’s lasting impact…
The Navy Thread is a series of posts (today is the first one) examining the historical parallels between the Auburn coaching careers of Pat Dye and Tommy Tuberville. These posts will later become the core of a short e-book of the same title. Today we will examine the following historical parallel between the Auburn coaching…
Warning: If you want to continue believing that Tony Barbee’s seemingly apocalyptic tweet from last night was completely out of nowhere, don’t read the rest of this post. I pulled the curtain back a little—without really meaning to—and discovered Barbee was not musing over the fiery end of an old Auburn basketball facility on the…
Here’s a thought (arguably): what if the Auburn basketball Tigers beat South Carolina tonight? And, what if Auburn then wins Thursday, and Friday, and Saturday and Sunday? The Tigers would bust the bracket before it’s even announced. Or, rather, they would bust Jay Jacobs’ to-do list for Monday, which everyone assumes must be headed by…
Image via AU Athletics A few years ago I heard a caller to a radio show say Alabama fans always think they’re on the verge of something great, and that Auburn fans always think they’re on the verge of something terrible. This comment was made during the Golden Age of Tuberville (2004–2007), when Auburn compiled…
Today is Pro Day at Auburn. Fifteen Tigers will be running and jumping and lifting weights in front of people who are not the public. One of those Tigers will be Nosa Eguae. In unrelated research yesterday I happened to come across Eguae’s comments from SEC Media Days 2011. Maybe you remember this: There was…
Image via Auburn Athletics Have you ever wondered what would be the correct, or best, or any punctuation of Rod Bramblett’s prophetic utterance (uh, I mean, call—more on that below) of the final play of the 2013 Iron Bowl? No? Well, I have, and below I offer my attempt—I welcome your corrections/suggestions. By prophetic utterance,…
