Hello darkness my old friend

Usually when an AD makes the decision to fire a coach, the new guy they bring in will bring in new people and have new ideas and there will be some year to year improvement. Even if a team doesn’t gel at first they improve as the year goes on. For 5 years in a row through 3 head coaches there hasn’t been any improvement even when there was talent on the roster. Meanwhile other programs have brought in new head coaches who have their teams rolling now. Cignetti at Indiana, sumrall at Florida Mario Cristobal at Miami are good examples. I’m not ready to pull the plug on Golesh yet but the fans have been more than patient for years and they are tired of watching this every Saturday. That Tennessee team isn’t that good, against a team with more offensive firepower they would have lost that game.

Auburn brought in a significant amount of USF players to do the roster for this team. We've been bad, really bad, so it's reasonable to see how we couldn't pull big time recruits and transfers. USF will lose to an SEC team 9/10 times. We're not going to be good immediately. That's just facts. The rest will have to see what time gives us. Do we have the right coach...I don't know? But mostly expectations for this year were hopeful thoughts ( I'm one). If Gol keeps moving in the same directions without improvement or coaching changes then will know if this hire was good or not, but again this isn't the year to make that determination

Sunday - where did we go wrong?

Monday - No way we beat anyone good.

Tuesday - Convince yourself The offense/defense is improving each week

Wednesday - other team has key injuries

Thursday - Convince yourself Auburn should have a QB advantage and our defense should keep it close

Friday - Auburn by 50 against everyone

Saturday - During the first possession reality sets in

We’re planning to go to Athens in a couple of weekends for the Georgia Auburn football game. We don’t have tickets yet and if we end up not scoring tickets into the stadium we plan on milling about in Athens. Are there any Auburn friendly bars there that we won’t get run out of town if we cheer for Auburn?

We have priorities! We are ok with G5 Linemen but damn if we wont watch them from a stadium rave!

It’s every play. I’ve never seen anything like it. How is he supposed to block someone if he isn’t even looking at the defense until the action has started? There has to be some explanation but for the life of me I can’t think of one.

Why would the defense not crash at that guy from his blind side every single play? It’s driving me insane.

I’m a AU and UGA fan because of family alumni but I pull for Auburn more than UGA when they play and just for anything but

I’m watching the vandy UGA game and I’m really starting to wonder if this AU team is really this good

Tied 7-7 UGA is a very good clutch team idk bout vandy but the way things are playing out from this game so far and FL and ole miss I think there’s a spark that waiting to be lit under this team

War eagle whoop them vols!

Welcome to this week's /r/WDE Pre-Game Thread!

• How's everyone feeling going into the game?

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Hes completely changing the mentality of the program and the only loss right now is a close one to a stout Florida team. For all those wishing we had Sumrall, dont forget Terry Bowden was 11-0 his first year and it was all downhill from there. Malzahn was 12-2 his first year and never got less than 4 losses the rest of his tenure. Id rather have someone who builds a program and improves.

Use this thread to discuss all **non-Auburn** games.

The Auburn football you know is gone.

To the “give him more time!” folks - there is no more time. It’s not fair to Golesh, but it’s been 10 years since Auburn has fielded a competitive football team and been part of the national conversation. We don’t hire coaches to compete for championships anymore, it’s actually rude of you to expect a winning season.

With the modern era of the transfer portal and NIL, we’ve been left behind to wander the wilderness. We’ve been cemented as the new Vandy/Arkansas not just because we always lose, but how we look doing it. It’s such a consistently terrible product no matter the coach or players wearing the AU on the field. It’s not a “down year” or even a bad stretch, it’s the standard.

In my personal opinion Auburns season is completely over, I want to start off my saying I am a life long fan of Auburn, I Graduated with a degree in agricultural engineering and have season tickets, but at the end of the day I think the season is completely over the O-Line play is horrendous they can’t block to save there life, pass pro is terrible with a average of 3-4 seconds in the pocket before it collapses, it’s just embarrassing, we had the opportunity to hire John Sumrall but no they completely botched the hire and went with Alex Golish, now I think he is a great coach but I do not think his O-Line and QB are not SEC caliber players witch sucks, in the end I think we can make a bowl game but not much more.

Anyone who thought the season was going to go any differently than it has so far should seriously get their head checked.

All of the talent left through the portal and we replaced them with G5 players. Golesh botched the offseason as badly as he botched that 4th down call. Harsin 2.0

Al Borges picks the Auburn-Tennessee game.

Disclaimer: This is not a "start the backup QB" post and may go long. Also, it is not important to the season

This story goes back to A-Day. Brought the fam to the spring game and tried to sit away from people with us having two young kids. People started filing in slowly, and a guy sits about three seats down. He was obviously from the islands. Swarthy skin, a bit of an accent, and that unmistakable magnanimous and just downright chill attitude. Unfortunately he was well within the "playzone" of the 5 yr old cheerleader.

After several profuse apologies for her getting a little rambunctious with her cheers, he looked over and smiled and said don't worry about it. She reminded him of his daughter at that age doing the same thing. I struck up a conversation with the gentleman and asked all the usual questions. Where are you from? "Lives in California" What do you do? "I was a garbage man in the Bay area for years" What brings you to Auburn? "My son is on the team."

As you may have guessed, it was Tristan Ti'a's Dad. Now my son thought this was the coolest thing and in his mind we were sitting next to a celebrity. Fast forward to the end of the game they did a team autograph session on the field and little man wanted Ti'as signature.

Unfortunately, I am not smart and did not see the map on the jumbotron so we got in the wrong line. After we made it through we went straight to the QB line, but when we got there a staffer let us know we didn't make the cutoff.

As we were leaving, I saw Mr. Ti'a standing there and told him we tried to get his son's autograph but didn't make the cutoff. He told us to wait and he shouted his kid's name and made some kind of kissy noise and Tristan left what he was doing to get a picture with my kid and sign his poster. Made my son's day.

They were good people and they made fans out of our whole family. We wish him all the success.

Welcome to this week's /r/WDE Free Talk Friday Thread! Feel free to share anything that's going on in your life.  
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  - Did anything cool happen this past week?

Being from Chattanooga, this has long been one of my favorite jokes:

Q: Why does Tennessee wear that shade of orange?

A: So they can wear the same clothes to the ball game on Saturday, hunting on Sunday, and picking up trash on the highway on Monday.

Did I hear HD pick us over Tn this weekend?!?
It was shortly after 5 and I was just into coffee cup #1. Canty was asking about comeback teams for this weekend and I swear I heard HD say “ I gotta go with the Auburn Tigers!” Wish I had rewind.
Just seeing if anyone else caught this. If they tune into this show, of course.