First, kudos to all those fans who spent their time and money to go down to this travesty of a game yesterday. They put a lot more effort into the game than the players and especially the coaches. When we finally get to the end of this long nightmare I think I can safely say this coaching staff will have put up one of the worst college coaching jobs ever done. The numbers from yesterday are staggering. First the score, Texas A&M 63 Auburn 21, the most points permitted by an Auburn opponent since Georgia Tech steamrolled the Tigers 68-7 on Nov. 29, 1917. The worst margin of defeat since Auburn's last winless season in-conference in 1980 when Tennessee won 42-0.
It just goes on from there... Texas A&M had 400 yards by halftime and a staggering 670 yards for the game. Auburn had negative total yards on offense till into the second quarter when the game was already over. Other than the clock running out on them in the first half, Texas A&M scored a touchdown ever single time they got the ball till almost the fourth quarter. Other than one punt and the end of the half and end of the game, the Aggies scored a touchdown everytime they got the ball. Auburn now joins Kentucky as the only teams in SEC history to give up 42 points in a half. It is the worst defensive performance I have ever seen by an Auburn team.
This team has completely quit on these coaches... and we have four games to go including our big rivals. It is sad to see and hard to watch. The only bright spot, if you can call it that, is Jonathan Wallace showing a spark at quarterback. However that was mostly against the Texas A&M second team with them knowing they had the game won. I really do not think that you can take a lot away from that. Jonathan Wallace will be knocked out of the game if he tries to run the ball like that against Georgia or Bama just like he was in the LSU game. It shows just how bad the defense was to steal the show from this awful offense.
It is going to be hard to take what is going to happen against Georgia and Bama. Knowing that it is going to happen still does not prepare you for how bad it feels. We have no chance of winning. We have no chance of even playing a competitive game. Even in 1980 and 1998 those teams played somewhat competitive games against Georgia and Bama. In 2008 Tub made his last stand against Georgia before collapsing at Bama. I do not think this team is capable of doing even that. I just have never seen anything like this at Auburn especially on a team that does have some talent.
Fortunately I guess we will get a couple of wins over New Mexico State and Alabama A&M. Auburn is lucky that New Mexico State is terrible and that they play a FCS team like A&M. Auburn will end the season at 3-8 and 0-8 in the SEC with a brutal no-mercy beat down in Tuscaloosa. Auburn must then rebuild their entire athletic department or find a way to do a coach search with out using the athletic director. They must do this on a year when there is not a whole lot of obvious great coaching prospects and with several other big-time SEC schools looking for coaches as well.
The same questions will stay at the forefront until they are answered... Who is in charge at Auburn? Will that person or group do what needs to be done and completely clean out the atheltic department? If not, how will they handle the inescapable fact that Jay Jacobs is a failure as an athletic director? How will a football coach be hired in the midst of all this? Can Auburn get a decent coach with all this going on? As I said last week, wrong answers and choices could lead to a prolonged down period for Auburn in football. Hope will never completely die out though because I also believe what I said three weeks ago and that is that Auburn will not be be down forever, it will just feel like it.
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