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Walked into a gas station this morning to get a little breakfast snack and coffee.....DeBoer's cutout was still there.

I just don't know where the Freeze cutout might be. They were both always there to greet everyone coming through the door.
 
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Well he did lose his pants and “had no idea how or when he lost them”. My guess is that his cousin, Jack Daniels, had something to do with it.

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I really wish I would have told Pat Dye what I thought of him when I came across him wearing a Yellawood polo shirt off of Hwy 82 near Booth on the way back to UA (after visiting my disaster of a girlfriend back in Montgomery). I knew he'd fallen far from his head coaching job, but I had no idea how far he'd fallen until I saw he was just a traveling salesman.
 
What's funny is this: a lot of folks think "well, with NIL, Alabama lost their advantage because they were the only ones paying players" along with the twin insanity that says, "Players would go to Saban for a discount because NFL." Look, I'm not an idiot - I have no doubt that every major program among the top 50 has done some things that technically are against the NCAA's rules (especially their stupid rules), and I'm sure it's gotten worse since the NCAA has the bite of an old man with no teeth.

But NIL, the portal, and the lack of continuity I honestly think will keep Auburn to the point they better accept ten straight 8-4 seasons with 3 Iron Bowl wins and like it.

What coach is going to come there with their lack of continuity, especially without a huge buyout?

What player is going to go to Auburn when he can be paid much more elsewhere and it's not like Opelika is exactly DFW or for that matter Nashville.

And Alabama automatically enjoys the advantage of extreme recent success.


My own opinion is that if they don't find a way to batten down the hatches of the portal and NIL to something reasonable, we're going to be reduced to 16-24 college football teams in FBS total. You know, part of how they broke up the 1970s dynasties (Alabama, Oklahoma, USC, Notre Dame) was to limit scholarships and spread out the talent. NIL has the opposite effect, so you'd think at some point there will have to be some reasonable salary cap limitations.
 
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What's funny is this: a lot of folks think "well, with NIL, Alabama lost their advantage because they were the only ones paying players" along with the twin insanity that says, "Players would go to Saban for a discount because NFL." Look, I'm not an idiot - I have no doubt that every major program among the top 50 has done some things that technically are against the NCAA's rules (especially their stupid rules), and I'm sure it's gotten worse since the NCAA has the bite of an old man with no teeth.

But NIL, the portal, and the lack of continuity I honestly think will keep Auburn to the point they better accept ten straight 8-4 seasons with 3 Iron Bowl wins and like it.

What coach is going to come there with their lack of continuity, especially without a huge buyout?

What player is going to go to Auburn when he can be paid much more elsewhere and it's not like Opelika is exactly DFW or for that matter Nashville.

And Alabama automatically enjoys the advantage of extreme recent success.


My own opinion is that if they don't find a way to batten down the hatches of the portal and NIL to something reasonable, we're going to be reduced to 16-24 college football teams in FBS total. You know, part of how they broke up the 1970s dynasties (Alabama, Oklahoma, USC, Notre Dame) was to limit scholarships and spread out the talent. NIL has the opposite effect, so you'd think at some point there will have to be some reasonable salary cap limitations.
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Salary cap for some teams would be about as effective as it is in MLB. Certain teams would find a way around it. Deferred payments.
 
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selmaborntidefan said:
Reminder as I've said it here before:

Auburn really thought winning that 2010 national championship was going to change everything.

Then they woke up the morning of January 11, 2011 and even though they were #1 in the nation, they were STILL the #2 program in the state (and at that time facing the prospect of having it stripped).
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The analogy I often use. An Auburn guy and a Bama guy are standing next to each other at the urinal in the men’s restroom. It’s Bama guy that keeps saying “Hey buddy…keep your eyes straight forward. Stop peeking this way…”
 
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Cruloc said:
Walked into a gas station this morning to get a little breakfast snack and coffee.....DeBoer's cutout was still there.

I just don't know where the Freeze cutout might be. They were both always there to greet everyone coming through the door.
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I grabbed a biscuit this morning and wondered the same thing. After walking around the restaurant for a minute I was able to locate Freeze in the back making hashbrowns. Sidenote, he does one heck of a job because those hashbrowns were hot and salted just right!
 
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cdub55 said:
I grabbed a biscuit this morning and wondered the same thing. After walking around the restaurant for a minute I was able to locate Freeze in the back making hashbrowns. Sidenote, he does one heck of a job because those hashbrowns were hot and salted just right!
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I heard McDonald’s was trying to hire him away from Jack’s. McDonald’s management figured with a last name like “Freeze”‘it was almost dead certain he could keep that darn ice cream machine working….
 
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selmaborntidefan said:
This needs to be imprinted at the entrance to Toomer's Corner. Because that's REALLY all it was ever about.

They actually did win (here come the brick bats) a national title before we did.* But when Coach Bryant won three in five years, all of a sudden national championships were nothing but popularity contests (this is rich coming from the group that ran a telephone ballot stuffing operation in 1957 to get that title and resulted in changes to how the AP poll works).

Then they went with "the only difference is us and Alabama is Bay-uh Bryant and he pays players!" They said this while compiling a record of probation second only to SMU at the time - but they had a ready excuse for that, too, Bryant was protection from the NCAA (which is funny when you remember aTm was put on probation for actions Bryant took there).

Then they beat us something like six times in eight years and said, "See, we told you so," and when the Eric Ramsey scandal broke, they said (they really did) that Ramsey was basically an Alabama plant sent to make up charges against them who spliced tapes together for conversations that never happened.

Then they played the "we gonna have the Iron Bowl on campus and show them Bama snobs" card - which hid the motive of money. To this day, every one of them is focused more on the LOCATION of the 1989 game than the final result.

Then when we were on our fourth coach in less than a decade, they made fun of us for running off coaches, not one of whom we fired or paid a buyout.

Then they finally reached the mountaintop in 2010 surrounded by scandal, dug in their heels (because all of a sudden national championships DID exist), and now look back and see the size of their program with that little blip surrounded by three Alabama national titles and nobody else.

They were happier about winning the Kick Six game with us than they were about winning the SEC or almost the national title.

After years of making fun of us for retroactive titles - they suddenly decided they won a bunch of titles in years they had cried about getting screwed out of national titles. Go figure.

Now Auburn is a bigger laughingstock than Alabama was between the 2000 UCLA game and the 2006 Auburn game.

It's the one thing they've done better than Alabama in football.


* - I'm not arguing with the "but what about" folks in regards to how history unfolded. AT THE TIME, Auburn's national title was reported as first by all sources nearly 30 years before Wayne Atcheson decided to embarrass us with claiming a national championship in 1941.
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Don’t forget all the crowing they did about having a lock on the Heisman trophy when they had two winners and we didn’t have any and then three to our one. Then we sailed past them, and I haven’t heard anything about it since.
 
Cruloc said:
Walked into a gas station this morning to get a little breakfast snack and coffee.....DeBoer's cutout was still there.

I just don't know where the Freeze cutout might be. They were both always there to greet everyone coming through the door.
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Where’s those sandwiches we bought at the gas station? I’m so hungry I could eat a sandwich from the gas station.

- Clark W. Grizzwald
 
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DzynKingRTR said:
Salary cap for some teams would be about as effective as it is in MLB. Certain teams would find a way around it. Deferred payments.
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There will always be some creative ways, some of which may involve stuffing money in McDonald's Happy Meals. But it's one of those things where it will at least mitigate the reverse osmosis that marks the sport now.

This whole thing is why any playoff expansion beyond four was a horrible idea. As many of us warned, a 2- or 3-loss Ohio State or Texas with access to the playoff will find winning national championships EASIER rather than TOUGHER.
 
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Where’s those sandwiches we bought at the gas station? I’m so hungry I could eat a sandwich from the gas station.

- Clark W. Grizzwald
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The funniest thing in those movies is that his Cousin Eddie is as dumb as a brick (with a plate in his head), but with no GPS and nothing more than the street name IN CHICAGO, he's able to figure out which house Clark's "Jelly of the Month" giving boss lives in, break past whatever security measures he had in 1989, get a pair of handcuffs with leg irons, and drive him all the way back to the Griswold house with a bow on his chest (not his head).

I mean, I can suspend disbelief with everyone, but Eddie moved quicker than 007 in accomplishing his mission.
 
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selmaborntidefan said:
The funniest thing in those movies is that his Cousin Eddie is as dumb as a brick (with a plate in his head), but with no GPS and nothing more than the street name IN CHICAGO, he's able to figure out which house Clark's "Jelly of the Month" giving boss lives in, break past whatever security measures he had in 1989, get a pair of handcuffs with leg irons, and drive him all the way back to the Griswold house with a bow on his chest (not his head).

I mean, I can suspend disbelief with everyone, but Eddie moved quicker than 007 in accomplishing his mission.
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A scene showing Cousin Eddie accomplishing his mission would have been epic.
 
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