Aaron Murray drinking game?

I happened to notice, reading this CBS piece about the SEC’s TV schedule on September 21st, that Aaron Murray is part of the broadcast crew for the Auburn-Texas A&M game.

Hmmm… I wonder what the over/under is on how many times he’ll be asked about Nick Fairley and the 2013 debacle.

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One shining moment

Here’s how you make Greg Sankey proud.

Auburn running back JaTarvious Whitlow: "Nobody wanted to lose to Oregon. We feel like that's a bad reputation on them. What are they, ACC? Pac-12? I didn't even know what they were. A Pac-12 team coming in and beating an SEC team, we can't take that." https://t.co/VlVzbhgQAF

— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) September 1, 2019

Apparently, neither could Gus’ lucky rabbit’s foot.

Heaven sent

Tim Tebow just said on ESPN that God made Bo Nix specifically for Gus Malzahn’s offense.

— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) August 30, 2019

Between that and Gus’ lucky rabbit’s foot, Auburn is truly blessed.

TFW you really don’t want to pay that coach’s buyout

Gotta love Auburn.

There will be at least 41 college football games this season for which a Power 5 school is paying opponent a guaranteed appearance fee of at least $1 million.

Top two payouts are both coming from Auburn:
$1,937,500 to Tulane
$1.9 million to Kent Statehttps://t.co/YBP4ZDQjhv

— Steve Berkowitz (@ByBerkowitz) August 27, 2019

Money well spent, as far as Gus is concerned.

Friday morning buffet

One day ’til college football, and counting.

• One thing Mark Richt hasn’t lost control of:  “I don’t think they are going to win but they are back…”
• Here’s a quick refresher on new rules for 2019.
• Spurrier will say anything to get people to forget how he bailed on South Carolina.
• Georgia hasn’t been the only team that trained in Sanford Stadium this month.
• The launch of the ACC Network has its accompanying corporate gobbledygook.
• Here’s the latest guide on cord-cutting.  Once again, it’s YouTube TV at the top.
• Either the grand poobahs running the CFP are too stupid to recognize bad optics, or simply don’t care.  My vote is for the latter.
• Jacob Eason gets the nod.
• Gus Malzahn’s cliché work is in midseason form.

Wednesday morning buffet

Mornin’, campers.

• You may be in a transitional year when you replace your scout team with a “developmental team“.  (To be fair, I think this is a good idea.)
• Seth Emerson’s look at Jordan Davis ($$) makes the point that it’s not his size but his speed that makes him freakish.
• Sagarin’s 2019 starting ratings have the Dawgs sixth.  Interestingly, he favors every team he ranks ahead of Georgia to win a game played in Athens.
• Derek Mason gets tricky for Vandy’s opener against Georgia.
• Rock M Nation admiringly previews the Georgia-Missouri game.
• Does anyone in college football have a tougher job this season than Georgia Tech’s offensive coordinator?
• Here’s Jake Rowe’s latest stab at Georgia’s defensive depth chart.  David Marshall’s post-surgery situation seems concerning.
• Another parent questions Michigan’s response to a transfer waiver request.
• My first thought on hearing that Auburn named a true freshman its starting quarterback yesterday…

Tradition on the Plains

How many other schools could have a line written about them like, “And only Auburn, with its long and storied tradition of athletic dysfunction…” and have it ring true?

Well, to start with, it helps to hire the right kind of people.

Only Pearl, with his florid history of failing to adhere to recruiting parameters, could end up involved in this one. He was fired at Tennessee in 2011 after lying about having two recruits at his house for a cookout when the recruiting calendar did not permit it. Fifteen years ago, when he was at Milwaukee, the school turned in a secondary violation for an impermissible contact with a recruit that was cut from the same cloth — attending a function at Pearl’s house.

It seemingly never hurts to be brazen about it — brazenness being a useful tool to deploy on occasion that certain schools, which shall remain nameless, have never appeared to grasp in their dealings with the NCAA.  Of course, the risk you run with brazenness is you never know when you hit your limits, but then again, if you don’t care that much, that’s not really much of a risk, amirite?