Rueben Randle and Bryce Brown are expected to spend an official visit in Auburn. These are the nation's top 2 recruits. Neither are expected to end up coming to Auburn, but it's certainly a nice gesture with the visit.

Tyrik Rollison, the #2 running QB in the nation, is coming this weekend. We have a good chance of landing him, which would be rather huge

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she is hot though isnt she

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Cue iam4uf showing up, pooh poohing that as being totally meaningless - which of course is your only viable strategy if your team basically has no heritage, history or tradition beyond 10-15 years or so.

Oh, and as for the other two in the top 10 - a quick look to see who's missing in the ones already ranked from 11 down shows the other two to be the Big 10 twins - Michigan and Ohio State.

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James Willis, Auburn's LB coach and former AU linebacker, has left for the same position at Alabama. AU fans have dubbed him 'Benedict Willis'. He is replacing Lance Thompson, UA's previous super recruiter (the nation's recruiter of the year last season) and will continue to cover the Mobile region (which is where LT was assigned to, as well). I'm curious who we bring on board to replace him. This is one of our most prestigious coaching positions... most fans would love to see Joe Whitt brought back (take a look at our LBs from the 80s through the 2005 season to see what he accomplished).

The rumor on Willis is that he was paid substantially lower than Luper, Trooper, and Rocker (yes, I know... coolest trio of coaching names ever), despite receiving a $100K pay raise and a multi-year contract (which was unheard of with Tuberville).

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I was on campus 25 years ago (yes, that's a long damn time ago otto ) and we had some good teams. We beat USC at home. I was there. (Our QB was named Wayne Peace, and a giant balloon rose up over the stadium during the game that said 'The Trojans Can't Hold Wayne's Peace'.) There were some real good players, many drafted into the NFL during that time. I'd say we have heritage, history AND tradition going back a wee bit more than 10 to 15 years.

OK, OK, maybe at least going back 20 years - but 25?!?! Oh wait, I get it! Exactly 25 years ago, USC went 4-6-1, and you managed to beat them, at home huh? Good job!

Here's what the article said:
Gotta admit, I love the balloon story though!

Oh, and FWIW, my campus residency encompasses the 1973-1977 football seasons, so its been over 30 years for me!

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Hey man, it is what it is. It doesn't mean we didn't have fun back when we sucked right? We still drank a lot of jack, passed women up the stands and generally had a damn good time. But you gotta give us 25 (or maybe 28 ). Look up information about the teams that we had from about 80 to 85. Remember Wilber Marshal? He played then. Under Galen Hall. I have no idea how good USC was during those years (I knew you'd look it up though and beat on us if it fit your story). But they were at least nationally recognised and it was a big win. Before that? Ok, not much history. But I'll bet people still had a blast at games, supporting their football team.

Oh, and this is also from the article:

Positives: Florida has won two of the past three national championships (and three in the past 13 years). It is ahead of in-state rival Miami in fourth place in the BCS era. The Gators have chomped their way to 10 major bowls since 1991, winning six of them. A Gator has won the Heisman Trophy three times -- only four programs can claim more. Their 34 first-round draft picks are the fourth most of any program. They also haven't had a losing season since 1979.

Pretty impressive.

My radio (sports talk) was about to explode with the rantings of disgruntled Auburn fans this morning.

Well put, mriff. Have to agree with you, a lot of fun, lots of great memories.

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I can only imagine. People are talking about black-balling the sale of his home in Auburn, etc. It's quite hilarious, and seemingly very bitter. People defending Willis are chiming in how Auburn's Vince Dooley went on to be the greatest coach at Georgia and how Pat Dye, Auburn's greatest coach, was tutored by the Bear at Alabama for many years prior to coming to Auburn.

Honestly, prior to Willis, year in and year out, Auburn had the best LB corps in the conference under Joe Whitt. For 25 years, Whitt was a legend in college football. We've often been referred to as RBU (the SEC version of USC), but under Whitt, we were also known as LBU (the SEC version of Penn State and Ohio State). This past year, when we had so much talent at LB, it was the most underperforming squad on the team. The development of Tray Blackmon may say it all.

However, Willis was also over the most prestigious recruiting area in recent years - Mobile - so this one does hurt pretty bad from a recruiting standpoint. And if you think recruiting is not important, look at the recent staff hires of Auburn and Tennessee... it seems the 'recruiter first, coach second' philosophy may be the new 'in' thing to do.

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I was three years old back then... not a care or worry in the world

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Back then, boot cut jeans were in. I used to walk into the stadium with a half pint of jack in each sock. They weren't real big on checking like they are now. We used to buy the big cups of Coke, pour out half of it, and refill it with jack. By the second half we were feeling no pain. My father came to a many of the games, so we would sneak in several half pints. He was right there with us tossing back some good jack and coke. The good thing about being in Florida for football games was that it was usually not cold, at least during the early part of the season. The standard wear for most of the coeds was short shorts and halter tops.

Wow, seems like yesterday.

Hey, I didn't have many cares as a student. The only thing I had to do was do well in class. My parents picked up the cost of everything. Of course, at that time, I didn't realize just how easy I had it.

mriff, not much has changed in 25 years, I wouldn't say. Boot cut jeans are back in, people still carry in tons of half-pint and airline bottles of liquor and coeds still wear shorts and halter tops (or they even have the 'sun dresses' these days that are quite inspiring to Lil Otto, to say the least).

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Petey Smith, a four star LB and brother of one of our RB's (Eric Smith), has decided to commit to Alabama. This is quite astonishing. I'm hoping this may help our chances with Tana Patrick coming to Auburn. That would be a huge pickup for us. Still surprised about Petey, though. Sigh.

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Not bad prognostication, Otto. 6-10 was just posted on the ESPN site, and you had 3 of the top 5 right. Now that 6-10 have been released, the 5 left to rank 1-5 (in no particular order) are Nebraska, USC, Oklahoma, Notre Dame and Ohio State. Anyone want to predict the order of the Top 5 tomorrow? Notre Dame has the most NC's, but a number are before the 1936 date. Oklahoma and Ohio State both have more NC's than Nebraska, but both have been on NCAA sanctions multiple times, which counts against them in the formula.

Personally, I hope neither USC or Notre Dame ends up on top but I'm afraid they might. Any of the rest wouldn't bother me so much. I'd love to see Nebraska there, but not sure they'll be able to put up the points.

Here's my best guess:

5. Ohio State
4. Oklahoma
3. Nebraska
2. USC
1. Notre Dame

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Otto, any comments on the following, posted on a Husker board today?

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Haven't been to a game in a while. Think I'll take my two boys, ages 17 and 14 to a Gator game this fall. We'll pick one of the blowouts so we're sure to get tickets. I think they will be impressed with the scenery.

I think either OU or Nebraska will make it as high as number 2.

I keep reading about how teams are doing in the BCS era in that article (UF at number 4), but I don't see a link to that specific list.

Yeah, lots of similar memories for me. The one thing you absolutely win hands down on, is the standard attire for coeds that you mentioned! Standard attire into the fall & early winter in Nebraska was MUCH different, and I'd sure have enjoyed the "sightseeing" you mention. On the other hand, multiple layers of clothing, heavy winter coats, insulated hats and gloves made it pretty darn trivial to get the jack into the stadium for us, comparatively. Sounds like those coeds down there can't sneak anything in - unless it was with sexy smiles and purposeful distractions of course.

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Oh, it was easy. Any number of men were usually falling all over themselves to be a volunteer courier.

mriff, as lovely as your regular picture postings are, I think we're making it too easy on ya! After all, its easy to find pics on the net of "hot sexy girls" if that's the only criterion. I think the bigger challenge is, finding ones that have some kind of college football tie in.

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Aw come on. I just thought that picture was over the top! I didn't know there were any rules for our women pics.

But ok then, how about some more of your favorite Husker?

I am up to the challenge.....

According to Rival's current list, Nebraska has commits from 6 of the top 83 players in Texas. Not bad at all for a school NOT in Texas, who's name isn't Oklahoma.

Texas - 16
Texas A&M - 8
Oklahoma - 8
Texas Tech - 7
Nebraska - 6
TCU - 6
Baylor - 4
LSU - 4
Kansas - 3
Oklahoma State - 2
Missouri - 2
Arkansas - 2

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Definitely no rules! We don't need no steenkin' rules! Challenges are different than rules.
If you're speaking of Melissa Midwest, I'm thinking that's just too easy also. If I'm holding you to higher standards, have to do the same for myself.

How's this?

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Hey mriff, I think I just struck the motherlode! Take a look at the URL of the site where this one comes from.

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I think that one criteria needs to be 'real, not photoshop pictures'. Stacey Kiebler in a photoshop Florida shirt does not qualify

DF, as for Chizik giving up on recruiting last year, I'm not sure if I would believe it. Late November and early December are when teams like ISU would consider their hot time. They aren't in a bowl game and they have that advantage over those playing in one. If it would have said the first two weeks of December, I could believe it - he had just interviewed for and accepted the Auburn position. But to think that recruiters such as Jay Boulware (ISU's RB coach and best recruiter who's now at AU) weren't out there recruiting is hard to believe.

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Uh oh, two demerits for mriff for using fake pics!
Otto, had it just been an online post, I'd not have given it a second thought. With it coming from Jeremy Crabtree at Rivals, I figured it had a bit more credibility, although I'm still not taking it as gospel.

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Shit, how the hell do I know whether or not something is photoshopped! I'm just a simple biologist.

I think the rules should be, if it's enjoyable to the eyes then it's ok to post. Not that we're going to post nothing but women pics, but it's nice to see a couple times a page in this forum.

Back to google images......

It must be off season if we're arguing about hot college girl pics......

Can't go wrong with a website called hothuskers.com.

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Dawg was obviously up to the challenge.....

well hell ya. May not want other sports in the thread but half naked women I am all over that........well I used to be anyway

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great pics dawg, those schools are well represented.

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Nebraska came in 5th in the Prestige rankings.

This is the first time they've dropped in the rankings ever. With respect to 'historical' importance mentioned quite a bit by DF (*pot shot*), it points out that Notre Dame reigns king in this category, earning 1/3 of their points PRIOR to 1950. Oklahoma has been ranked 1st in these rankings since the dawn of time, it would appear. WOW!

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