Thank you for providing my post with an example.
Does anyone find it very weird that so many real life, prominent people associated with Auburn University is commenting on his wall? Very unprofessional and strange.
Good idea. It's getting crazy. Even tho I cut it out, I totally agree about the FB stuff. Some ppl take this stuff too seriously and go WAY too far when dealing with 17-22 year old kids/young men.
Lol my senior year in high school, after my SAT, auburn accepted me with a full academic schollie and I never applied nor did I consider them. Alot of the kids in my high school who didn't get into UGA or didn't qualify for HOPE went to auburn. Of course, these were the kids who didn't go to class, coked up for football games, etc.
I believe my point was made in my original post. Would you find me a more believable Bama fan if I came on here and started posting hare-brained rumors indicting the Auburn coaching staff? At one point, Alabama fans prided themselves on being a fanbase of class. It doesn't take a long look at a thread like this to realize this is not the case.
IMO he's under tremendous pressure from his coach and the clowns, ahem, coaching staff at Auburn to go to Auburn. His coach pushed him to take the visit and I think he pushed him to commit to Auburn. Bama is the one backing off, but Auburn refuses to leave him alone.
You are referring to me here, and the bottom line is that you wouldn't consider it a "hare-brained" rumor if you understood how the Auburn coaching staff operated. There is a reason why guys like Nick Saban and Urban Meyer dislike the way the Barn operates as they do...
First, no I'm not referring to you. Second, I understand the Auburn coaching staff engages in shady recruiting practices. It has been documented. What I am referring to is I cannot express an observation about how fellow fans' behavior has changed as a result of Auburn's success and the prospect of a top recruit choosing Auburn over Alabama without being automatically labeled an Auburn fan. I don't know what your rumor was, but you certainly don't have the only one on this thread. And yes, most of them are "hare-brained."
What if we took that same attitude towards Julio or some other great recruits? We wouldn't have won the national championship in 2009. It takes special players like Julio and Cyrus to win championships. It takes reliable workhorses like Reamer and Anders, too, but it also takes special players. No fans on this forum place Cyrus "above the program," that's a ridiculous statement. They want him because they love the program. We will win without Cyrus sure, but probably not as much. One unblocked defensive end could be the difference between a win and a loss, a national championship season and a top five finish. Cyrus is not above the program, but the program is not above great players. The truth is Bama needs great players more than great players need Bama.
I agree totally, nothing good happening here anymore. I think we need to lock the thread until further notice. It has basically become a chat with a variety of topics, with guys like me posting from lack of anything better to do (studying, listening to old online classes for test prep). I'm done in this thread until something more concrete comes out.
I third that motion...please shut this one down...
