By the time a recruiting cycle ends, and certain recruits that were locks have gone places they weren’t supposed to and certain studs have wound up looking far less studly and Recruit X’s signing has made former must-get Recruit Y superfluous, there’s always going to be an avalanche of ironies. Fans get so excited about whatever shiny four-star gets dangled in front of them that there almost have to be.
One of the biggest of the 2010 cycle for Auburn: Michael Dyer was a bonus.

Auburn fans think of Bo Jackson as the embodiment of everything great about the 1980s.
Thanks to Michael Weinreb, we know we’re not alone.
In his latest great book Bigger Than The Game, Weinreb traces the birth of the modern athlete to the Year Of Our Bo, 1986, when Reagan was referee, the Bears were rappers, and cocaine as innocuous as Big League Chew.

This time in 2009, what with Darvin Adams coming off of a nagging camp injury (and being just a dude who looked not-bad at A-Day), it looked like Terrell Zachery’s two career catches were going to be the only career catches for the entire on-field receiving corps against Louisiana Tech. Trooper Taylor’s pedigree (and Chris Todd’s), notwithstanding, no element of the offense was a bigger question mark than the wide receivers.

Another year churning out five yards a carry (a 1.5 yard increase per attempt on 2008), with hopefully a few less sacks and penalties, and the Ziemba-Berry-Pugh-Isom quartet will graduate from Auburn as one of the most productive, talented, dedicated groups of linemen the Plains has ever seen.
It’s the final go-round. Make it count, guys.

Third in WBE’s season preview series. Previously: Expectations, the QBs. THE CAST The Starter: Mario Fannin (5’11″, 228, Sr.) The Backup: Michael Dyer (5’9″, 215, Fr.) The Wildcard: Onterio McCalebb (5’10″, 171, So.) The Specialists: Eric Smith (5’10″, 240, Jr.), Ladarious Phillips (6’0″, 290, Fr.) THE BREAKDOWN I’ve already spent a lot of words this [...]

This is one baseline we can establish for Cam Newton’s season, coming as it will under the tutelage Gus Malzahn: he’ll be one of the more productive quarterbacks in the country. There’s no precedent for less.
But the pulse-quickening truth is that if that’s the baseline, there’s no precedent for Newton’s ceiling under Malzahn either.

On the one hand, we’re still not even two years removed from 5-7 and a contentious, awkward coaching transition. We’re not yet three years removed from the recruiting disaster of 2008; in fact, this is arguably the first Auburn team more talented, top-to-bottom, than its predecessor since 2004. In terms of the typical, natural progression of a rebuilding SEC team, it’s too soon to expect big things. Then again…

Ryan Seacrest will hire her. I know he will. You know he will. If there’s one thing Auburn students have learned this year, it’s that you if you simply dot com your dreams, there’s a good chance they’ll come true.
It worked for those Taylor Swift dudes, and they weren’t even hot.

We’ve seen her. Brick Oven. Thach. Haley. Panera Bread. Walgreens. Jordan-Hare (even when she wasn’t there).We’ve seen her eulogize her favorite bar. We’ve seen her pose in any t-shirt we could find an excuse to ask her to pose in. We’ve seen her study for finals.
And we never wanted to see her leave.

We talk about the Auburn Man, but it’s kind of like Woody Thornton is a living, breathing, 24/7 mascot for everything Auburn stands for.
There are lots of reasons why.
Being half tiger is one of them.