It is my first post in over a month and much has happened. To start with the oldest, bama and lsu were selected to play in the national champ game. If you want to see my view of this click here: http://drivelforyou.blogspot.com/2011/11/bama-review-and-playoff-plea.html.
Mike Dyer has been dismissed from the team for unspecified reasons. Most people seem to think it was due to smoking pot, but I have heard grumblings all year about his attitude. It was also said that Dyer was with the infamous 4 that got arrested before the season started earlier in the night. He was, I heard, trying to talk them out of it, but that shows you the type of company he keeps. Thugs come to mind. He got mad at the way Chizik handled the situation (aka suspending the players); he thought they players didn't get a chance to tell their side of the story. Um... maybe it's just me, but if you hold up someone at gunpoint, you have no side. Anyway, he has a list of things he has to accomplish before he can be let back on the team and one of them (again, something I heard), was to complete 12 hours of credit this summer. That is not impossible to do, but for a football player that is not known to be a great student it can be really tough. Some seem to think Dyer will not be back next year, possibly transferring to a lower tier school. That would be a really big shame, but no one player is bigger than the team so if he can't or won't do it, see ya! Auburn has two 5-star running backs eligible next year and a four-star coming along with Tre Mason and possibly O Mac so that is one position where AU is ok. I really do hope Dyer is back, but won't cry if he's not.
Speaking of RB's coming in next year, a 5-star recruit TJ Yeldon from Daphne (a known bama stronghold) that has been committed to AU for 6 months, all of a sudden decommitted and committed to bama on the night before the dead period began. It seems really really fishy and with all the crap that went on last year with Calloway and Cyrus K. it's hard not to think something is up. I won't really comment on it, but I think that they way it went down was really shady.
In the midst of all this, AU lost both coordinators. Ted Roof "left" and took a DC job with O'Leary (his mentor) at UCF. Malzahn decided that he probably should have taken a job last year when he was extremely popular and took the head coaching job at Arkansas St. He is from Arkansas and going home was too much of a pull. Alot of chatter about a sinking ship and such about AU, but that is not the case. AU has incredible talent coming back next year and will have a great recruiting class as well. Whoever inherits the coordinating jobs will get a wealth of talent and a year experience. AU only loses 15 seniors and only 7 of those are scholarship. 7 scholarship players! What a change from last year when AU lost 36 players plus 4 more after the arrests. Chizik will be coaching the defense for the bowl game, and hopefully in the next few days, AU will hire some good coaches to fill the slots and finish the recruiting period really strong.
Enough of football. Today, my two boys had surgery. Colt had his tonsils and adenoids removed and West had his tonsils and adenoids removed along with ear tubes placed. They both did really well. Colt and I are at home and he has already eaten really well and wanted to go play. West had to spend the night, and on last check, he had eaten all his food and was working on a parfait and laughing like crazy. So very thankful they are doing so well and hopefully will continue to do so.
Hopefully, I will have a Chick-fil-a/Virginia preview (dont hold your breath) and an update about the boys soon. I am off work until next tuesday so I am going to enjoy the time off.
Mike Dyer has been dismissed from the team for unspecified reasons. Most people seem to think it was due to smoking pot, but I have heard grumblings all year about his attitude. It was also said that Dyer was with the infamous 4 that got arrested before the season started earlier in the night. He was, I heard, trying to talk them out of it, but that shows you the type of company he keeps. Thugs come to mind. He got mad at the way Chizik handled the situation (aka suspending the players); he thought they players didn't get a chance to tell their side of the story. Um... maybe it's just me, but if you hold up someone at gunpoint, you have no side. Anyway, he has a list of things he has to accomplish before he can be let back on the team and one of them (again, something I heard), was to complete 12 hours of credit this summer. That is not impossible to do, but for a football player that is not known to be a great student it can be really tough. Some seem to think Dyer will not be back next year, possibly transferring to a lower tier school. That would be a really big shame, but no one player is bigger than the team so if he can't or won't do it, see ya! Auburn has two 5-star running backs eligible next year and a four-star coming along with Tre Mason and possibly O Mac so that is one position where AU is ok. I really do hope Dyer is back, but won't cry if he's not.
Speaking of RB's coming in next year, a 5-star recruit TJ Yeldon from Daphne (a known bama stronghold) that has been committed to AU for 6 months, all of a sudden decommitted and committed to bama on the night before the dead period began. It seems really really fishy and with all the crap that went on last year with Calloway and Cyrus K. it's hard not to think something is up. I won't really comment on it, but I think that they way it went down was really shady.
In the midst of all this, AU lost both coordinators. Ted Roof "left" and took a DC job with O'Leary (his mentor) at UCF. Malzahn decided that he probably should have taken a job last year when he was extremely popular and took the head coaching job at Arkansas St. He is from Arkansas and going home was too much of a pull. Alot of chatter about a sinking ship and such about AU, but that is not the case. AU has incredible talent coming back next year and will have a great recruiting class as well. Whoever inherits the coordinating jobs will get a wealth of talent and a year experience. AU only loses 15 seniors and only 7 of those are scholarship. 7 scholarship players! What a change from last year when AU lost 36 players plus 4 more after the arrests. Chizik will be coaching the defense for the bowl game, and hopefully in the next few days, AU will hire some good coaches to fill the slots and finish the recruiting period really strong.
Enough of football. Today, my two boys had surgery. Colt had his tonsils and adenoids removed and West had his tonsils and adenoids removed along with ear tubes placed. They both did really well. Colt and I are at home and he has already eaten really well and wanted to go play. West had to spend the night, and on last check, he had eaten all his food and was working on a parfait and laughing like crazy. So very thankful they are doing so well and hopefully will continue to do so.
Hopefully, I will have a Chick-fil-a/Virginia preview (dont hold your breath) and an update about the boys soon. I am off work until next tuesday so I am going to enjoy the time off.
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