Chris Todd is the starter for now, but for how long?. In Auburn's SEC road opener against the Mississippi State Bulldogs, the Auburn starting quarterback will have more than Derek Pegues to worry about.
The Auburn coaching staff has put themselves in a precarious situation, the kind that makes or breaks coaching careers in this "win or die trying" of a league they call the Southeastern Conference.
Since the beginning of the summer, when new offensive coordinator Tony Franklin brought in his prodigy child, Chris Todd, to run his offense, there has been surprisingly
little controversy. It seems now that it was only the calm before the storm. (It is hurricane season, I can get away with cheesy analogies like that, okay?)
Tuberville's and Franklin's (not sure whose job it was to make a decision) decision to not make a decision on the quarterback early in fall camp might come back to bite them in the arse.
It is one thing to wait to declare a starter the week of your SEC opener against Croom's Bulldogs with the Citadel peeking around the corner, frightened of what they see. It is quite another to do so with the Hat's (Les Miles) LSU Bengal Tigers looming around the bend waiting to pounce.
Luckily for Todd, he seemed to get in a rhythm against a pesky Southern Miss team last week and in a half-hearted kind of way claimed the reins of the Auburn offense. This rhythm, however, was thrown for a loop by the newly formed dynamic duo that is Tuberville and Franklin.
The random decision to put Kodi Burns in for Todd in the second half of the Southern Miss game negated any and all of Todd's rhythm, which he so desperately worked to achieve.
Imagine yourself in college spending an entire night listening (pretending to listen) to a smoking hot freshman girl stammering on about her trip to Bed Bath and Beyond with her sorority sisters, assuming there is a reward for your undivided attention.
Yet, when you bring her back to your apartment she throws herself at your roommate who has been sitting on the couch all night, taking bong tokes and watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
here is only three words to describe this and they are: What the Faq? That has to be how Todd felt when he was replaced for that one crucial series.
Tonight, it is absolutely imperative that Auburn gets their offense to click in all areas and the person who will be most responsible for that is Chris Todd. Tuberville has named Todd the starting quarterback, but Kodi Burns will play a role in the Auburn offense.
The Tigers coaching staff has had the entire fall camp and two weeks of non-conference proverbial practice games to get this 'Spread Eagle' offense going. With the SEC Western Division Championship game (Bama, get back to me in November before you interject here) one week away, Auburn absolutely cannot afford to still have questions on offense after the Mississippi State game.
All questions about this team need to be answered, not just addressed, tonight
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Matthew 9 months ago
Auburn has not chance of winning the west especially with their performance last night... Tuberville won't be looking for any more digits to hold up this year. He might be getting shut out.
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Matthew 9 months ago
Bama, LSU, and ole miss are the only legitimate contenders for the west right now.
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Daniel Walters 9 months ago
Wow.. you should "upload" this piece of material to the front page of AL.com. I would love to see the barner family reaction today considering Tony Franklin once again failed to live up to all his hype. Franklin obviously sweet talked and schemed his way into the Auburn Offensive Coordinator job and you can tell tubby is not too happy of being scammed. I guarantee Auburn University president Jay Jacobs will make any future hires intern for $8.00 an hour before they get desperate and make bad decision.
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Clayton 9 months ago
Typical Bammers. There is still alot of football to be play. Remember last week when bama sucked on offense vs. TULANE.... just reminding ya'll.
Also just refreshing my memory... hasn't bama lost the last 2 times to miss st. just checking.
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kenney holdder 9 months ago
hahahahaaha, good one Clayton... funny how no bammers were here after the Tulane Game, but now they have the greatest offense since sliced bread... won a game against a newly annointed (1-A) FBS team... my how they have a short memory... if i'm not mistaken we are 3-0 adn have 12 penalties against MSU and still won the game... we they will have their chance when they go on the road to lowly Arkanny... we will see how tuff hey are away from CTT-West Stadium....
WDE!!!
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covvb0y covvb0y 9 months ago
Spread Eagle? More like Dead Eagle offense from what I've seen
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