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 [...]

There was a blueprint for an Auburn NIT bid: sweep the remaining home games, win one road game, and win two SEC tournament games. The first part went according to plan. The third part we’ll get to in a moment. They had four different chances at fulfilling the second part. After last Saturday’s loss to Alabama, though, they finished the season having whiffed on all four.

I am exhilarated and terrified. Kudos to Jay Tate for getting the first on-the-record commentary from an Auburn coach on this year’s upcoming Big Cat Weekend, a Q&A with Trooper Taylor that finds him both confident about producing similar positives as last year’s event … and hardly reassuring about not producing the same negatives:
On his [...]

Man, for being the football offseason and having the weekend in Auburn basketball already covered there’s still a ton of news to get to. Taking a look around the Auburn beat, by sport …
FOOTBALL
Your headliner this weekend was NFL draft combine star Ben Tate, who put together one of the strongest workouts of any running [...]

And so Tyrik Rollison has moved on, and we all remind ourselves to quit salivating over high school players who may or may not ever see the field at Auburn*.
Except for the kids in this 2010 class Chizik and Co. just signed, of course. Those guys are going to kick all kind of ass.
But getting [...]

May 12, 2009 – “Tyrik Rollison: let everyone know…I’ma put Auburn on tha map!!!”

Tourney talk. Fields of Donahue takes a useful look at the upcoming men’s SEC Tournament and the road Auburn might have to travel. And as it turns out, less might be more in terms of Auburn’s place in the league standings:
Auburn might be better off finishing #5 in the West as opposed to #4. Right [...]

If I’m the head coach at a major college football program, the first thing I do is ban my players from using Facebook and Twitter. It’s not fair to the players, no, and obviously it would be a blow to those of us in the bloggin’ business. But fairness doesn’t matter a whole lot, if [...]

We’ve already done a bit of charting regarding the expectations of 2010 Auburn from the national media … namely, that there may not be a whole lot of expectations. Even if you’re a pundit who believes the Tigers will be the fifth-best team in the SEC and “have a chance to make a run at [...]