They said that SEC championships (to say nothing of national honors, since what sane person would say that?) would be totally beyond Auburn’s reach as long as Chizik was Auburn’s head coach. That Auburn’s time as a college football program that mattered had–for the foreseeable future–come to a close.
That’s what they said. They were wrong.

So Cam Newton is eligible at Auburn: I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover the army of Internet lawyers and would-be lawyers that swore Newton would be declared ineligible based on his father’s transgressions actually knew less than the paid professionals in Auburn’s compliance department, who have been insisting for weeks via channels [...]

The worst part about a story like this– No, wait, not the worst part. The worst part is knowing your football team is 10-0 and has an excellent chance to snap a four-game losing streak against their oldest rivals Saturday, but you still wake up terrified to find out what might have been written about [...]

One of the points I forgot to make in my Newton post on Friday was that as aggravating (and, still, potentially devastating) as the allegations against Cam are — well, the kinda-sorta-allegations-that-might-have-something-to-with-him against Cam — at least they surfaced in the best of all possible weeks for the to surface. We didn’t know whether they [...]

Here is a dot we will call Point A. There is a dot we will call Point B. At Point A we have a unscrupulous agent runner known to misrepresent himself-slash-former Mississippi State player telling his former teammate at Mississippi State that he can bring Cam Newton to Mississippi State in exchange for $180,000. At [...]

Once again, just a collection of thoughts and links while time permits: Unreal. Have you checked out the possession chart for Auburn from last Saturday? Not counting the meaningless possession at the very end of the game, Auburn had the ball 11 times. They scored touchdowns six times, field goals three times, fumbled once, and [...]

I haven’t written many posts that seemed sillier faster that the one I put up yesterday a few hours before kickoff, one I named “Survival” and which projected another nail-biting win for an Auburn team I expected to be tired, distracted, and emotionally drained. As we know now, the better title would have been “Flourish” [...]

I tried to write something about the Ole Miss game (well, something besides “this game scares the holy living tar out of me”) yesterday afternoon. I swear I did. I’d discharged my duties at the day job, handed the WarBlogEaglet off, and opened up a blank post with which to work. And I stared at [...]

Red Cup Rebellion answers some questions about the Rebels.

A few thoughts, links, etc. while I’ve got a minute: No. 1. I’ve spent most of the past week trying to weigh the good of Auburn’s BCS ranking against the bad. And there’s so much bad. The distraction. The swelled heads. The pressure. The amplification of the Iron Bowl to End All Iron Bowls hype [...]