Thursday Mailbag: Statues, Zombies, Baseball, Bammers
The Mailbag took a little break last week due to National Signing Day festivities, but it's back this week with a little baseball talk, a little zombie talk, and a few other topics. I'll keep the Mailbag going all throughout the year, so feel free to send any question you want answered at any time.
Tony wants to see Cam Newton's bronzed physique outside Jordan-Hare right now...
What's the word on the unveiling of the Heisman Trophy winners' statues? Can we expect that any time soon?
No idea. I've asked Auburn for a date and time, but haven't gotten anything back. My guess would be A-Day since it would be a lot to ask of fans to come to Auburn without any sort of actual sporting event going on, and an actual football game day would be way too busy for a ceremony outside the stadium. Plus, the school did say the statues would be revealed during the 2011-2012 academic year, which only leaves a few more months. A-Day just makes sense.
Bo would just need to hop on a jet and fly down. Cam would just need to take a few hours from sculpting his abs. The only one of the three that might have a problem would be Pat Sullivan since he may be going through Spring practice at Samford at that time as well.
I assume we'll hear something about it pretty soon, so I'll keep you updated.
Thursday Mailbag: Auburn’s Shaq, Loeffler, Kimbo Hits
I received a bevy of questions this week, most of them pertaining to Auburn's new offensive coordinator or the basketball team. For those that didn't ask about either of those topics, I'll get to yours down the road. For those that did ask about those topics, and don't see your question below, I'm sorry. You can't always get what you want.
Justin wants to talk about Shaq. No, not that one. He's talking about the guy who's playing for the Auburn basketball team next year.
Have you seen any videos of Auburn basketball commit Shaq Johnson yet? He is hands down the best high school dunker in the country. And he just doesn't wow in contests, he can throw it down big time in games. What do you think of him and the future of Auburn basketball?
First off, yes I have seen the videos of him, and probably too many times to be able to argue against having a mancrush on him. I love dunks. What can I say?
Point blank: the dude can fly, and he's not even that tall. He just looks fearless going after the basket. However, there's a big difference in dunking on a normal high school kid and dunking on a 7-foot SEC center, so we'll see how he does in the next few years.
Aside from the fact that Auburn is adding a high flyer to the roster, his commitment also shows what Barbee is able to do as a recruiter. Johnson was also recruited by Clemson, Florida, and Georgia, but Barbee was able to get him to commit to play for the good Tigers. As we'll see in football in about a week, anything can happen before or on signing day, but Shaq has shown no signs of wavering on his commitment. Bottom line, Barbee is bringing in exciting players, and is able to sell them on immediate playing time in first class facilities. The future should be bright for Auburn in the years to come.
Tuesday Mailbag: Basketball, VanGorder, Pike
After a holiday weekend family trip to Gatlinburg, and the longest drought in blogling over the last year and a half, I return with the new favorite post on the Blogle, the Tuesday (or whatever day it is that I post it) Mailbag. Welcome back, I know you missed me as much as I missed you, which is actually not that much. Sorry.
One of my unposted resolutions for 2012 was to do more blogling about basketball and baseball. Since I haven't done so yet, Michael all but forces me to in the first question of this week's mailbag.
I haven't seen much about Auburn basketball and you want to branch out more from football season so here are a few basketball related questions:
1) What do you think about Kenny Gabriel having the first triple-double in school history by recording 24 points, 13 rebounds, and 10 blocks?
Aside from being the best dunker on an Auburn basketball team since Chris Porter, Kenny Gabriel is also my favorite Auburn basketball player in some time. He's right up there with Kyle Davis and Marquis Daniels. Gabriel is something that Auburn has lacked for a long time: he's tall and lanky, which helps with the aforementioned dunking, but can still pop a three in your face.
He's the closest thing to an NBA basketball player that Auburn has had in a while. He doesn't play scared and stupid. He takes charge and plays like he wants to win, not like he knows he plays on a team that has struggled mightily for most of the past decade. He's just a fun player to watch because he knows what he's doing.
Tuesday Mailbag: Uniforms, Leaving Early, and Uniforms
Well, Christmas is over. It's time to get back to it. I've been out of it the last few days with opening presents, drinking some nog, and making room for all of those new presents, but it feels good to get back to doing a little blogling. Auburn has a football game in four days, so yeah, I really need to get on this thing. Let's do this mailbag.
George has inquired about Auburn wearing blue and Virginia wearing orange in the Chick-fil-A Bowl...
What do you think about the uniform situation for the Chick-fil-A Bowl? Will both teams wearing their home colors affect play during the game?
I like it and think it will look pretty cool. I can't think of any other major football game that I've seen where neither team wore white or some light color, so I'm interested to see how it's going to look.
I don't think it will have that much of an affect on the game, but one thing that worries me is that Virginia will be wearing orange, which also happens to be the color of the non-contact jerseys that the Auburn quarterbacks wear in practice. Hopefully the Auburn defense doesn't forget where they are for a split-second and pull up on a tackle. That may sound ridiculous, but do you remember how they tackled, or actually didn't tackle, against Clemson?
Wednesday Mailbag: Yeldon, DCs, OCs, and Secret RBs
The Mailbag questions this week were all what you'd expect them to be: lots of yelling about Yeldon, queries about offensive coordinators and defensive coordinators, and the need for insight on the mysterious 3-headed, winged running back that Auburn has secretly obtained. In fact, out of the twenty-or-so emails I received, every single one of them asked about those three things. Nothing else. Here are a few random ones I selected.
Truman (loved your show by the way) wants to know about the rumors surrounding a certain recruit's recent flip-flop...
How do you feel about T.J. Yeldon's sudden flip? Do you feel it was an orchestrated lie all along; or do you believe they used unsavory recruiting methods to get him to switch?
I kind of already wrote about my feelings on Yeldon's decision and how it affects me in my critically-acclaimed piece entitled "Watch Your Mouth When it Comes to Bashing Recruits," but I do feel the need to elaborate. If he doesn't want to go to Auburn, then I don't want him to. If he was persuaded by any means to pick our rival school, then let him go.
I know I live in a dream world, but I would like for all of Auburn's players to grow up Auburn fans and would never consider the school in Tuscaloosa. I know that will never be the case, but when it comes down to choosing the two, and they end up going over there in the end, let him go. We'll have fun beating him.
Now as far as there being some big orchestrated plan to lure Auburn into thinking they had him, only to switch at the last minute, I don't think that's the case at all. There are crazy things similar to that scenario that do happen, but when it comes down to it, things are usually pretty cut and dry and boring.
Thursday Mailbag: Cam Jerseys vs. Houndstooth, etc.
When I tweeted a request for questions early Tuesday morning, about 75% of them were asking me if I thought Gus would leave for Arkansas State. Well, now I can officially say yes, I'm pretty positive he would. Needless to say, I needed some new questions. Here are a few I got.
Shannon, who is becoming a regular on the mailbag, has a question about jerseys and lets us know of a ridiculous claim made by an Alabama fan that she works with.
My question is, how do you feel about the number on the jerseys that fans wear? Should we adorn a number in support of a current Auburn Tiger, a Heisman winner, or simply one of our favorite players from the past. I was told by a co-worker that wearing a #2 or #34 jersey was the equivalent of wearing a houndstooth hat. How do you feel about this?
First off, who was this coworker because I want to take them on for you. I've never heard something so dumb. There are so many things wrong with their line of thinking. For starters, Cam Newton (#2) played last year. He was still playing for Auburn less than a year ago. Alabama fans have taken this "living in the past" completely wrong, and I'm not surprised. Talking about games and players from last year is not living in the past. Obsessing over a coach from the 60's, 70's, and early 80's or bragging about retroactive and completely fake championships from the 40's is living in the past.
Thursday Mailbag: Trotter, Strengths, GOTC Part 2
Hey, I told you last week not to worry. Mailbags will be coming on any day of the week during the offseason. I know all three of you were worried. Alright, enough of that. Let's get to it.
Taylor is putting out an APB on Barrett Trotter. Trotter....? Trotter....?
What happened to Barrett Trotter? They never showed him on the sidelines during Iron Bowl. Wasn't even a mention of putting him in. Is there more below the surface?
He's still there. He's calling the plays in just like last year. They just don't really have a reason to mention him anymore since, technically, he's the third-string quarterback by now. Plus, with Auburn being beaten so badly in the last few games, there really wasn't any reason to talk about Auburn's unknown storylines from the sideline like they do when games are out of hand.
Instead, they were talking about Mark Richt and his hair that always seems to be windblown, and how the rematch of the century gave Verne ten more years to live. It's kind of sad because Trotter has paid his dues, but that's big boy football. Ask Neil Caudle.
Wednesday Mailbag: Bowls, Clemson, and the Malzahns
Alright, new strategy. Now that football is basically over, and the weekly recurring posts will be put on hold, I am going to post the Mailbag on Tuesday, Wednesday, or maybe even Thursday, depending on the amount of posts I have on any of those days. And at least for the time being, I won't stick with "Tuesday Mailbag" even if I post it on Wednesday. I'll actually give it the name of the week that it was posted on. Novel concept, huh? I know you care.
Lily has a question about where Auburn is going bowling. No, not the thing with balls and pins and awesome shoes. Like bowl games....
I want Auburn to go to the Chick-Fil-A bowl, but everyone is telling me they're going to go to the Gator Bowl... so if you have any information about the bowls could you please share this knowledge.
I believe wholeheartedly that Auburn will play in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl against an upper ACC opponent. Chick-Fil-A Bowl representatives have been at the last three Auburn games promoting their bowl very hard. The Gator Bowl does not even have Auburn listed in a poll on their website about who fans would like to see in their game.
The Chick-Fil-A Bowl pairs the SEC's #5 with the ACC's #2. Considering there are likely to be two SEC teams in the BCS Championship game, that moves Auburn up the list. Typically, the loser of the ACC Championship game (Virginia Tech vs. Clemson) goes to the Chick-Fil-Bowl, but if that is Clemson, I have a very hard time believing they would put the Tigers vs. the Tigers for the second time this year. Not to mention, the two teams open up next season in the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Classic.
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