I hear ya, bro. But they say never send an email when you’re pi$$ed off. So maybe your last sentence is the glimmer of psychological hope.

As for the penalty situation. I thought I was watching Auburn Football: The Movie, by Oliver Stone. Is it possible that Auburn would get so many penalties and Kentucky none? Really?

I also wonder about Todd’s arm.

Kudos to the defense for blocking the kick and running back for a touchdown. That was awesome fun.

I wasn’t going to log on today. Too depressed. But then I thought, I’ll check in with my homies over at Track ‘Em. I sure as hell can’t go to al.com. That’s gonna take a few days.

I’ve stayed quiet out of respect for our players. As I’ve been saying since day one, Chizik is an awful fit for Auburn. On two consecutive Saturdays, we’ve had a shortage of coaching talent. His arrogance, ego, and bubble gum need to move along … right behind Jacobs.

We got outplayed and manhandled by a mediocre team….at home….at night. Can’t blame this on 11am.

I think it is only natural to be frustrated and upset by what we have seen the last two weeks. We went from from being an SEC contender to a likely .500 team almost overnight. If that doesn;t get you rankled as a fan, there is something wrong with your internal information processor. Something doesn’t compute.

What is overly disturbing is that we didn’t respond to the thrasing we got last week. I’ll say this for Tuberville, when we got our butts handed to us, we usually gave somebody hell the next week. Last night, aside from Ben Tate, I didn’t see anybody playing inspired.

I’m not giving up hope. We went south over night, maybe we can turn it around just as quick but that is based on hope not on what I’ve seen the last two weeks.

If you are a player reading this, don’t be discouraged. We are upset as fans because we believe you are better, we believe you can win. Thats why we are critical when we see obvious mistakes not being corrected. Trust me, its worse when people don’t say anything. That means they don’t care.

Sub-par Talent

I think we should realistically just start looking for signs of the future. ‘09 is not our season either just like ’08 wasn’t. If we had trouble with Kentucky AT HOME and WITHOUT their starting quarterback, we are going to have major trouble with LSU, Ole Miss, Georgia, and Alabama. Right now, with the state of things we are losing those 4 games by 2/3 touchdowns atleast. I don’t even want to think about what ’Bama’s gonna do to us on Black Friday right now. Our homecoming game doesn’t even seem like its going to be ‘fun’ to watch.

I’m not mad about it, I’m not burning all of my Auburn clothes, I’m just calling it like I see it: It seems that Todd has run out of steam big time. Darvin Adams and Terrell Zachary have been found out and shut down and our running game is starting to become really bleh. It really has looked like a Tony Franklin coached offense the last 2 weeks (3 if you count our win against a tough UT defense). I think it all boils down to depth, everyone knows this but now we are all starting to realize it. I feel bad for the team as a whole because there are some great kids on this team and they started out so strong, but the signs were there all along. We all knew deep down something to this effect would begin to creep into our year.

And for Malzahn; I’m not calling for his job by any means, but I’ve come to the conclusion the he is either A.) been figured out by other coordinators and is needing some serious adjustments B.) He’s not the real deal C.) he’s dealing with some major personnel issues in this offense. Now, I honestly believe its a combination of A & B. Gus doens’t have any of his kids in there running his system. And no one on this staff does for that matter. But I have to wonder after our strong start on the offensive side of the ball why in the world we’ve looked so average the last 3 weeks.

I think we will be back, eventually. It may just be further off than we all thought. RIght now it doesn’t look like we’re even going to be in the running for the SEC next year but that’s just way too far off to call.

Everyone have a great cool Sunday afternoon and War Eagle!

We are all frustrated because we saw a spark in these young Tigers, that certainly wasn’t there last night. If they were playing all heart last night and still lost, I don’t think that we would be saying the things that we are saying this morning.

The penalties were highly frustrating yesterday. I have no idea why Auburn got all of the calls and Kentucky got none. We all know that Kentucky did not play a squeaky clean game. for example, it is hard for Darvin Adams to receive if he is either layed out flat on the ground or wrapped up by a defender.

 I don’t think that the penalties cost us the game. Our lack of execution lost us the game. But if you looked at other games going on in the SEC yesterday, our game was not the only one with seriously questionable officiating. Something has got to give in this area.

For once this season, this loss is not on the defense. Those guys got tired, but overall they played a better game than they had all season.