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Trump's masculinity (lack thereof)

can anyone explain why he is associated with masculinity, tough guy persona? This is perhaps the strangest of all his cult's behavior. He has managed to coalesce the "bro sphere" and incel community around him by portraying himself as some type of macho figure, yet in reality he's the furthest thing from it.

This is a good video breaking down the topic.

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This is what the recruits see:

"I think they’re building it back up by doing it the right way, getting young players. It might not look good now, but in a few years as the young players develop and teach the younger guys coming in how to be good players, good people, I think it’s really gonna show how good Auburn can be."

Interesting that the young's see it so different than the Bunk.

Cash investment help

There was a previous thread several months ago on a way to deposit with the Federal reserve on short term CDs. It had a rather high interest rate and short terms like 90, 180 and 360 days or so. Anyone remember this, and could give me details.

If not, I am looking to deposit 75-100k and a decent return. I don't want to put into stocks currently.

For your troubles, I present Mrs. Lindsey
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Have to see results w/another QB

think we have to give freeze a second chance with another QB.

QB is such a key position and we’ve played ~6 or 7 teams so far this year with a better one than ours. Thorne may not be making big mistakes anymore. But fact is he’s proven he doesn’t bring any juice. He doesn’t make plays when a play breaks down. He doesn’t respond in pressure situations. He holds the ball because he doesn’t make good quick decisions in the moment. He can’t throw deep accurately. These things aren’t changing and our opponents know it.

So blame him for not replacing Thorne? Sure that’s fair. But how many of our freshman class would you trade if we had spent that money on a portal QB? I understand his thought process here.

In the end, I think Hugh can win. But we need oline maturity and a QB. We are still 2 years away from a talented and mature oline. QB will likely be portal. But I’d even be willing to throw Deuce or Walker out there if they can handle it.

Now - why Jarquez only had 2 carries in a second half where the score is close? I have no idea.

The good news is - we have Pearl. But even he took 3-4 years to turn us around. (Note: 16-17 had some wins vacated).

2014–15Auburn15–204–1413th
2015–16Auburn11–205–1313th
2016–17Auburn6–14**0–11**11th
2017–18Auburn26–813–5T–1stNCAA Division I Round of 32
2018–19Auburn30–1011–7T–4thNCAA Division I Final Four
2019–20Auburn25–612–6T–2ndNCAA Division I Canceled*
2020–21Auburn13–147–11T–10thIneligible**
2021–22Auburn26–615–31stNCAA Division I Round of 32
2022–23Auburn21–1310–87thNCAA Division I Round of 32
2023–24Auburn27–813–5T–2ndNCAA Division I Round of 64
Auburn:214–119 (.643)90–82 (.523)
Total:676–264 (.719)
National champion Postseason invitational champion
Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion
Conference tournament champion

Rent has come due… time to drop off my check to the bourde

TLDR: I was wrong and all that stumping for reverend HEW on here was a gigantic waste of time and energy. I hope we GIT BETTA but it doesn’t look like that will happen under Hugh & Co.

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Well, very little makes sense to me at this point in time, but I’m a man of my word. I still find it difficult to articulate why ole Hew hasn’t worked out up to this point and it doesn’t look like he will fair any better moving forward, but I’ve finally sat through enough abominations in JHS this season to reach that conclusion.

By almost data point, issue, or metric that could be considered secondary, tertiary, or tangential measurements of whether or not an AUFB has been successful, I would argue Hugh has been. Hugh has checked off almost every box we’ve clamored for a coach to do for years now. Create alignment, be honest with media, drop bags, bring in and develop top 10 HS recruiting talent, convince money people to open their checkbooks, offensive and defensive statistical production etc.

But at the end of the day the primary measure of success, and the only one that really matters, is wins and losses, and Hugh has performed horribly in this regard. I genuinely think he expected the results on the field this year to be drastically different and he is at a loss as to why wins are so difficult to come by, but ultimately it’s his job to figure it out and he’s failed to do so. I hope for Auburn’s sake the highly improbable occurs and it all comes together on the field next year for Hugh and co. Probably not though, and if not we’ll look back at this tenure as either an indictment of Hugh or Auburn football in general, hopefully it is the former.

Silver lining is that if Hugh does fail, he will undoubtably leave the next guy a full cupboard the likes of which no prior incoming Auburn coach has ever been lucky enough to inherit and possibly a legacy of stability and alignment at the administrative and institutional level. If such a hypothetical holds true amidst all the uncertainty of yet another change at head coach, then Hugh will have left Auburn in a better spot than when he inherited it, and I will be grateful to him for that.

WDE

@stutsman23 @Aurules @Uncle Baby Billy + anyone else I’ve given a hard time over this.
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