Was Dameyune Craig Mocking Trooper Taylor?
We all remember Dameyune Craig from the Bowden days. We all remember him running and passing the ball all over place, and pretty much being the entire Auburn offense during the years following Patrick Nix.
You may also realize that he has never returned to Auburn for a big game, celebration, etc. since then. Why not? I don't know. Some say that he didn't exactly enjoy his time at Auburn or that a few people at Auburn rubbed him the wrong way. Most of those people are probably long gone, so it doesn't completely make sense that he would still have some beef with Auburn. Either way, he hasn't exactly been an ambassador of the school. In his defense, he has pretty much been playing or coaching football since he left the Plains.
Regardless, watch Dameyune in this video from Seminoles.com, following Ronald Darby's National Signing Day announcement that he would be attending Florida State instead of Auburn. He's wearing a red hat. I'll let you finish before I tell you what I think I see.
2012 Auburn Football Schedule Unofficially Complete
After some digging and connecting of dots by the site FBSchedules.com, we can officially say that Auburn's 2012 football schedule has been set. We knew weeks ago what Auburn's SEC schedule would be, but the non-conference games were still up in the air, aside from the opener against Clemson.
Now that Auburn is not allowed to have an open week before the Alabama game, it appears they are going to go the route of playing a smaller in-state school for Homecoming that week, Alabama A&M, like they did with Samford in 2011. Update: New Mexico State will actually be the homecoming game according to the schedule released by Auburn today (2/16/12).
So after the opener was set and the week between Georgia and Alabama was set, we were left with three dates to fill: 9/15, 9/29, 11/3. The pieces fell into place when New Mexico State released part of their schedule that included their game with Auburn on 11/3. That left 9/15 and 9/29 for the Louisiana-Monroe. According to the FBSchedules.com, the WarHawks will be playing Tulane on 9/29, which leaves 9/15 for the Auburn game.
Sept. 1: Clemson (Georgia Dome)
Sept. 8: at Mississippi State
Sept. 15: LOUISIANA-MONROE
Sept. 22: LSU
Sept. 29: OPEN
Oct. 6: ARKANSAS
Oct. 13: at Ole Miss
Oct. 20: at Vanderbilt
Oct. 27: TEXAS A&M
Nov. 3: NEW MEXICO STATE (HC)
Nov. 10: GEORGIA
Nov. 17: ALABAMA A&M
Nov. 24: at Alabama
Pre-Signing Day Q&A with Justin Hokanson of Rivals
Justin Hokanson covers Auburn football and recruiting for Auburn's Rivals affiliate, AuburnSports.com, and also co-hosts the "Eyes on Auburn" radio show with Rob Pate. Hoke was nice enough to answer a few questions last year, and he must have enjoyed it because he wanted to do it again. DISCLAIMER: some of the questions are the exact same as last year because they are still work and because I was lazy.
You should follow him on Twitter, and be sure to get all the latest recruiting updates on AuburnSports.com. We will be doing a post-Signing Day interview as well to discuss Auburn's 2012 class. Note: I said that last year, and we never did. I promise we will this time.
1. Do you foresee any major surprises on National Signing Day?
I would imagine there will be a surprise, but no telling what it will be. It could be Auburn landing more than their fair share of Eddie Goldman, Ronald Darby, Leonard Williams, Avery Young, or it could be Auburn having to fall back on other prospects that may surprise people. I'd expect a surprise, but not sure which way the surprise will go right now.
2. What have other schools used against Auburn in their recruiting pitches this season?
The lack of coordinators, first and foremost. Auburn went an extended period of time without a defensive coordinator, and even longer without an offensive coordinator. Other schools used that against Auburn commitments and top targets, pitching the uncertainty of the direction of the defense or offense, and the fact that they wouldn't have time to build a relationship with the coordinator that is hired. Despite Auburn's five loss season, I don't think that played much into things. Auburn lost five games in 2009 and landed a top five class.
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.
Top 10 WarBlogle.com Posts of 2011
I know 2011 still has a few more days until its end, but I don't see any Earth-shattering posts coming out of me in the coming days. Therefore, I'm going to go ahead and give you my top ten most read posts of the year. This also happens to be my 1000th post on the 'Blogle so that's the main reason I'm doing this now. I wanted it to be special.
Let me give you a quick update (brag) on the past year. This year, WarBlogle.com had over 1.5 million hits, up from just over 400,000 last year. That's probably due to the fact that I never missed more than two days without posting a blogle this year, but still. 1.5 million? I love y'all.
Twitter followership went from around 4,000 to over 16,000. This is my pride and joy. I wish all of those 16,000 were reading the 'Blogle every day, but I'll take it. In this "gimme quick news now" world, I guess it should be expected. I know some people just don't like to read. But seriously, couldn't all of you just give me a dollar a month? How hard would that be?
Anyway, this was a big and exciting year for me as the WarBlogler, and I will try recap it in a post before the end of the year, though that may happen after New Year's. For now, here are the top 10 posts. Notice that five of them are uniform related. I know what you guys like.
10. A Few of the Rumored Uniform Changes Confirmed (8/15/11, Views: 6,733)
Let's see, last week it was the 'War Eagle' and the two stars that were spotted on the replica jerseys in Auburn's bookstores. A few months ago it was the 'War Eagle' on the belt line of the back of the pants that was spotted in the EA Sports NCAA 12 preview. I come to tell you today that all are real, and all are on Auburn's uniforms this year.
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.
Gus is Gone. WHY GOD OH WHY?! But seriously…
Unless you've been under a rock, or just don't have Twitter, you know by now that Gus Malzahn is expected to be announced as the next coach at Arkansas State sometime tomorrow/today. Yes, Arkansas State.
At first it stung. Again, ARKANSAS STATE?!? That team we beat 52-26 in the 2010 opener?! I don't understand. He turned down Vanderbilt and Maryland for that?!
After reading the typical and expected tweets from rival fans and some seemingly uneducated national journalists, reason began to creep back in my head. It's amazing how being defensive helps you come up with some pretty good and reasonable explanations.
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