I really think that Gerhart pulls in the Heisman this season. He has carried the Cardinal, without him they would be a sub .500 team. If Ingram was not at Bama, Upchurch and Richardson could do the job. Colt, in my opinion, blew it with the mismanagement of the clock against Nebraska. Tebow is just there for show.

While I would like to see Jordan-Hare get an upgrade, it is going to be a hard sell for me. We only sell out about 3 games a year. The other times the corners of the upper decks are almost empty. I know that those are reserved for the visiting teams, but it looks bad in my eyes. Maybe it is like that everywhere, but I have been to a few UGA games against “crappy” teams and they are still almost full.

What’s the over/under on how many years Mark Richt has left at Georgia? Next season is his best shot at getting off the hot seat.

Gosh how quickly things change in the SEC. At the beginning of the season, someone here at Track’em made a post asking for everyone to rank the SEC coaches hot seat “level”. EVERYONE had Richt as having the “coolest” seat in the conference. Now after one season most have him with the warmest seat.

Going into next season I think the top 3 warmest seats are:
1) Miles
2) Richt
3) Petrino

Coming out of next season I think the top 3 warmest seats will be:
1) Nutt (Ole Miss is going to finish last in the West next year)
2) Miles (Crowton doesn’t have a clue and doesn’t look like he’ll be fired)
3) Kiffin (They got no QB)

Auburn officials need to begin making serious plans for increasing the capacity of Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Really? Don’t you need to sell out all of your games before they’ll think about expanding? Ole Miss tickets were basically free this year, and Bammers were buying Iron Bowl tickets from the ticket office after the season had already started.

……Auburn games have ALWAYS been a “park and walk a mile or two” scenario. I enjoy the stroll most of the time. Didn’t like it so much before the West Virginia game this past year, though. Something about slogging through ankle-deep water made it less magical!

……I don’t see Mark Richt getting the axe unless they post a losing overall record. Dawg fans have been hollering for Willie Martinez’s head for a couple of years, and they got their sacrifice.

…..I don’t see Petrino on the hot seat yet, unless it’s of his own doing. Maybe he wants to jump back to the NFL! If Ryan Mallett leaves, it will be a transition year for the Razorbacks.

……Nutt does lose a ton of talent at the end of this season. Honestly, though, they might be better at QB next year. There has to be some sort of steady QB on the roster that can hand off, and make the occasional flare or ten-yard out, right? That would be an improvement over their current streaky NFL-talent guy!

…..Yes, I’m quite baffled by LSU’s offensive woes. This IS the same Crowton that was lighting up the NCAA record books ten years ago with Tim Rattay and Troy Edwards at La. Tech, right? Of course, teams didn’t rotate coverages as much in the late 1990s as they do now.

I’m sorry, but I think he has to go

I really don’t think that Auburn needs to expand the stadium. As much as having the biggest or the newest stadium in the league is a drawing point, I think filling a stadium with fans who actually want to be there is far more important. Look at Oregon. Autzen is only about 55,000ish but it is easily the loudest stadium west of Texas. I once read that when they were looking to expand, they visited a number of stadiums with huge capacities, Tennessee and Bama among others. Eventually, they settled on 10,000ish extra seats. The reasoning for not adding an extra deck and adding a total of 30-35,000 seats was to keep tickets “scarce”. That way, the stadium would always sell out, and it made you think that the tickets were a must have kinda thing, almost like you HAD to be there.

A stadium upgrade would be nice. Maybe not a huge amount of more seats, but I would like to see the North end zone ‘dressed up’ a little bit. Maybe a bigger video screen or a totally unrelated pirate ship that fires cannons everytime we score (like Tampa Bay) haha. It could have tigers dressed as pirates with eagles on their shoulders instead of parrots.

I am really anxious to see where our football team goes from this season. I hope we some glimpses of the 2010 season on the first day of 2010 in the Outback Bowl. Our team should be completely healthy for the first time in awhile and I think we can really make a statement in that game.

Finally, my number one wish for Auburn is to get a big time quarterback. I like Chris Todd but he’s gone. AU is far past due an amazing quarterback. A playmaker in this position can put our offense over the top very soon. Malzahn will keep us in most games with our backs and receivers, but if we have a QB step up in ’10 we can be very very dangerous. Chizik an company need to deliver on this. Whether it be, a player we already have or going out and getting one. Auburn has to make this happen.