Notes from The Georgia Dome

Coming into the Taco Mac area. My brother commented on the guy with the LSU visor.

We were in a luxury suite through a friend of my brother. What an excellent time in Virginia’s endzone right behind the left upright and raising hell the entire game.

But you got to give it to Virginia’s fans. They were together…. and a lot of fun to watch. They were pretty good sports. And we did our best to respect our school as well. But getting to drink in a glass with ice?? Whew. It was tough going…. lol. Thank God for the food!

We didn’t dominate anyone but we did play well. I was very proud of Barrett Trotter and Onterio McCalleb. What a team players. And redemption is a great way of saying it.

And while I think a lot of Clint Mosely, I will be the first to admit 1/4 isn’t a way you are going to win a game. I doubt we would have won if he had stayed. No offense Clint.

All I can say is that Auburn did it’s part for the SEC. Not every team can say that can they Vandy or Georgia? Oh well… C’est la vie.

Any news on coordinators?? With the FSU game being over for days now… I am extremely surprised we haven’t heard anything on Mark Stoops. I guess that was just speculation of a few who wanted him to come??

The rumor I heard on Dyer is that Gene Chizik was going to meet with him and his family this week. The message I think will be: We want you at AU if you want to be here, but if you don’t, you need to go! And I can say with 100% certainty…. I second that thought!

AU has work to do. Right now it’s off season conditioning. And most importantly… for our coaching staff…. we need to get on with our recruiting. We still can finish in the top 5. AU needs to rock the football world and sign some kids that amaze!

WDE

Might be fun for all to congregate, swap stories and at the very least, have some wagers settled in full.

Paging Todd92…

I bought a couple of club tickets for the game at an FCA fund raising event. I live in Brunswick, Ga so needless to say; I got a pretty good deal on them. The plan was to take our 3 kids and I would let this be my 11 year olds birthday present to go to the game with his mother. I cashed in a voucher I earned with Hilton to try and get a room close to the dome. The closest was outside of I-285, bummer. At the last minute, I happened across an available room at the Hilton downtown, wow. We arrived and had the experience of a lifetime… We walked in the lobby past the Auburn cheerleaders and had the thought, "huh, maybe the team is staying here…" The look on my kids face was priceless. The team was in fact staying there and my boys bout pee’d themselves in the lobby… We checked in looking around at everyone with some size to them wondering if they were on the team. I think my 9 year old asked for some errant autographs from big guys who were working at the hotel… We went to the parade and then I forked out my last bit of cash to get us all into the fan fest event where we stood in line for three hours so the boys could bounce on air inflated play grounds. My wife and daughter held our place for Tiger Walk which was held in the venue. The energy was amazing as the band played and our National Champs danced through the crowd. Bo even walked with the team and I was able to grab my childhood hero’s arm as he walked by. I reminded the kids that was the greatest athlete to ever walk the face of the earth… After the pep rally, we sent mom and son on their way. I kissed the wife, hugged the boy, handed them the pom-poms that we’ve had for 8+ seasons and told the boy, "Go get ‘em". Then the three of us headed to Mellow Mushroom to pick up a pie and then back to the hotel for kickoff. My 13 year old daughter was embarrassed as I tried to pick us up some cheap tickets on the way back to the hotel. "Need three real cheap!" I told the 9 year old it would help if he could drum up some tears… The game was awesome to watch! Hated it for Clint but was glad to see Barrett get the chance to lead the team again. We were bummed about Dyer but happy to see McCalebb step up and we even got a laugh at Gene’s reading glasses… The 9 year old drove us crazy jumping from bed to bed as though he was scoring the game winning touchdown. I called my wife after the game and told them to head back to the hotel and we would see what chance we might have to meet some of the players. Little did I know that we were about to have complete access to the team, their families and our coaching staff… We had a mini Tiger walk as they entered back into the hotel. We chanted "One more year!" for Barrett, expressed our gratitude to Gus and his family and would you believe it, we were offered another Bo sighting… My kids had a blast and we had the chance to interact with these athletes in a way we never thought possible. I told my kids as we were leaving the next morning and they were grabbing some last autographs, that this is the definition of ‘serendipitous’. I can’t tell you how great it is for me and my family "to be an Auburn Tiger!" WAR EAGLE!

Glad that you got to go to the game, WEA! It was certainly a fun game to watch.

Anyone want to share the latest on the coordinator situation??

……I’ll show. I know y’all are getting tired of recycled A-Day pix!

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