And that, as they say, is that. The 2009-2010 Auburn basketball season is over. We’ve already covered the elephant in the room here, but a few more thoughts about last night’s game:
– We can dither about a lot of factors, but the game basically came down to one thing: Florida hit their three pointers. Auburn [...]

You could see it coming this week as rumors swirled and swirled and swirled and Jay Jacobs did precisely nothing to quell them, but now it’s more-or-less official: Jeff Lebo has been fired as Auburn’s men’s head basketball coach.

If Jeff Lebo is retained for another season as head coach of Auburn men’s basketball, I won’t complain, I don’t think. Dismissing him will be costly. Hiring a replacement will be even more costly. A change in the head coaching position will likely produce a series of transfers and recruiting losses that will necessitate another [...]

In which a recruit’s name is plugged into Google and the bits of information that trickle out–guru ratings, newspaper profiles, YouTube highlights, all that stuff–are synthesized in the hopes of getting a clearer picture of the player we’ll see at Auburn next fall. Previously: Jessel Curry, Craig Sanders, Roszell Gayden, Brandon Mosley, Demetruce McNeal, and [...]

Let’s go ahead and call tonight’s first-round SEC Tournament game between Auburn and Florida what it is: potentially the final game of Jeff Lebo’s tenure on the Plains. Yes, Virginia, it’s kind of a big deal.
So for the first time this season, it’s time for a comprehensive hoops preview of tonight’s matchup.
Time and TV: 6:30 [...]

After the splintered horrors of 2008–with its rifts behind the quarterback situation, the open disgust from the players with the offensive coordinator (and the losing), the well-documented conflict between the offensive staff and that same coordinator–perhaps Gene Chizik’s greatest accomplishment was persuading the Auburn program to rally to the flag he’d planted.

Sign No. 1,931 that the thirst for college football coverage in the state of Alabama knows no bounds: yesterday’s Auburn Pro Day was a big deal. Every writer on the Auburn beat was there, Tweeting and writing and snapping photos and shooting video.
Nevermind that it amounts to nothing more than “departed Auburn players go through drills.”

In which a recruit’s name is plugged into Google and the bits of information that trickle out–guru ratings, newspaper profiles, YouTube highlights, all that stuff–are synthesized in the hopes of getting a clearer picture of the player we’ll see at Auburn next fall. Previously: Jessel Curry, Craig Sanders, Roszell Gayden, Brandon Mosley, and Demetruce McNeal.

Jake [...]

He sings the songs that remind him of the best times. And so the curtain has fallen–literally, if you remember The Curtain from the Ellis era–on Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum. Track ‘Em has a nice piece of nostalgia for the BEMC that’s well worth a read:
Today she stands only as a tribute to past glories.  Like [...]

So part of my absence last week was spent traveling back in time to the middle of last November, where I met with myself to discuss Auburn’s women’s basketball team.
“Wait, you’re only telling me about the Auburn women’s hoops team? Really? Former Jerry asked me. “You can’t tell me how Auburn does in the Iron [...]