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This is embarrassing.
All of these rumors and threads related to turmoil and melt downs at FSU is apparently (and painfully obviously) are coming from Auburn fans, and it's embarrassing to say the least.
This is EXACTLY what I expect from certain rival fan bases....not ours. Have we really gotten this bad after two Top 5 recruiting classes and a national championship? If we see it slipping away or see a challenge (like a non-top 5 recruiting class) we now have to resort to such things?
It's a slippery slope. It starts with a little made up rumor here and there. Next thing we know we're creating fake AP stories and photo-shopping pictures. Where does it end? When we're creating websites on the same level of insanity as "As the Plains Burn"?
BE DIFFERENT PEOPLE! BE AUBURN PEOPLE.
Go to Google and look up the Alabama Creed. Then try the LSU Creed. For most schools, if they even have one, it's typically relate to rules and guidelines to follow as a student. It might be a phrase or a single paragraph. The Auburn Creed is more than how to act as a student. It's about being a particular kind of person. It doesn't end the day you graduate. It doesn't get put on hold when you're not on campus. It doesn't apply only to University events and grounds. We certainly don't get a pass on it just because we're on the internet.
It's about being an "Auburn" person. A "type" of person.
And the Auburn "type" person or fan, simply doesn't need to trade in the Creed and trample on what shapes our University in an effort to "win"...at anything....especially freaking recruiting 18 year old kids to the football team.
Most Auburn fans I know love Auburn University FIRST, and Auburn football second.
I hope I'm not watching those two things switch place as the pressure to "win" is at an all-time high. Let fan bases like Alabama put football above University. As Auburn fans, I hope we can all agree to not sit back and watch ourselves devolve into something that for decades we have been proud that we are NOT. Simply put...don't be them.
War Eagle.
PS. This isn't a personal message to those who have posted FSU rumors....I know it's easy to catch a rumor here or there and just want to share it....it's just gotten to the point now that we look a little obsessed with it and it's become apparent that these lame rumors are starting with our fan base. It's with that in mind that I wrote this, not as a personal shot at anyone particular....I hope you understand and see the difference of the intent.
PPS. This is also in regards to what is apparently happening on other Auburn boards as well. I share it here because I know a lot of you spend time on those boards as well. Be a voice of reason there....if possible.
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jadennis said...
This is embarrassing.
All of these rumors and threads related to turmoil and melt downs at FSU is apparently (and painfully obviously) are coming from Auburn fans, and it's embarrassing to say the least.
This is EXACTLY what I expect from certain rival fan bases....not ours. Have we really gotten this bad after two Top 5 recruiting classes and a national championship? If we see it slipping away or see a challenge (like a non-top 5 recruiting class) we now have to resort to such things?
It's a slippery slope. It starts with a little made up rumor here and there. Next thing we know we're creating fake AP stories and photo-shopping pictures. Where does it end? When we're creating websites on the same level of insanity as "As the Plains Burn"?
BE DIFFERENT PEOPLE! BE AUBURN PEOPLE.
Go to Google and look up the Alabama Creed. Then try the LSU Creed. For most schools, if they even have one, it's typically relate to rules and guidelines to follow as a student. It might be a phrase or a single paragraph. The Auburn Creed is more than how to act as a student. It's about being a particular kind of person. It doesn't end the day you graduate. It doesn't get put on hold when you're not on campus. It doesn't apply only to University events and grounds. We certainly don't get a pass on it just because we're on the internet.
It's about being an "Auburn" person. A "type" of person.
And the Auburn "type" person or fan, simply doesn't need to trade in the Creed and trample on what shapes our University in an effort to "win"...at anything....especially freaking recruiting 18 year old kids to the football team.
Most Auburn fans I know love Auburn University FIRST, and Auburn football second.
I hope I'm not watching those two things switch place as the pressure to "win" is at an all-time high. Let fan bases like Alabama put football above University. As Auburn fans, I hope we can all agree to not sit back and watch ourselves devolve into something that for decades we have been proud that we are NOT. Simply put...don't be them.
War Eagle.
PS. This isn't a personal message to those who have posted FSU rumors....I know it's easy to catch a rumor here or there and just want to share it....it's just gotten to the point now that we look a little obsessed with it and it's become apparent that these lame rumors are starting with our fan base. It's with that in mind that I wrote this, not as a personal shot at anyone particular....I hope you understand and see the difference of the intent.
PPS. This is also in regards to what is apparently happening on other Auburn boards as well. I share it here because I know a lot of you spend time on those boards as well. Be a voice of reason there....if possible.
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jadennis said...
This is embarrassing.
All of these rumors and threads related to turmoil and melt downs at FSU is apparently (and painfully obviously) are coming from Auburn fans, and it's embarrassing to say the least.
This is EXACTLY what I expect from certain rival fan bases....not ours. Have we really gotten this bad after two Top 5 recruiting classes and a national championship? If we see it slipping away or see a challenge (like a non-top 5 recruiting class) we now have to resort to such things?
It's a slippery slope. It starts with a little made up rumor here and there. Next thing we know we're creating fake AP stories and photo-shopping pictures. Where does it end? When we're creating websites on the same level of insanity as "As the Plains Burn"?
BE DIFFERENT PEOPLE! BE AUBURN PEOPLE.
Go to Google and look up the Alabama Creed. Then try the LSU Creed. For most schools, if they even have one, it's typically relate to rules and guidelines to follow as a student. It might be a phrase or a single paragraph. The Auburn Creed is more than how to act as a student. It's about being a particular kind of person. It doesn't end the day you graduate. It doesn't get put on hold when you're not on campus. It doesn't apply only to University events and grounds. We certainly don't get a pass on it just because we're on the internet.
It's about being an "Auburn" person. A "type" of person.
And the Auburn "type" person or fan, simply doesn't need to trade in the Creed and trample on what shapes our University in an effort to "win"...at anything....especially freaking recruiting 18 year old kids to the football team.
Most Auburn fans I know love Auburn University FIRST, and Auburn football second.
I hope I'm not watching those two things switch place as the pressure to "win" is at an all-time high. Let fan bases like Alabama put football above University. As Auburn fans, I hope we can all agree to not sit back and watch ourselves devolve into something that for decades we have been proud that we are NOT. Simply put...don't be them.
War Eagle.
PS. This isn't a personal message to those who have posted FSU rumors....I know it's easy to catch a rumor here or there and just want to share it....it's just gotten to the point now that we look a little obsessed with it and it's become apparent that these lame rumors are starting with our fan base. It's with that in mind that I wrote this, not as a personal shot at anyone particular....I hope you understand and see the difference of the intent.
PPS. This is also in regards to what is apparently happening on other Auburn boards as well. I share it here because I know a lot of you spend time on those boards as well. Be a voice of reason there....if possible.
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jadennis said...
This is embarrassing.
All of these rumors and threads related to turmoil and melt downs at FSU is apparently (and painfully obviously) are coming from Auburn fans, and it's embarrassing to say the least.
This is EXACTLY what I expect from certain rival fan bases....not ours. Have we really gotten this bad after two Top 5 recruiting classes and a national championship? If we see it slipping away or see a challenge (like a non-top 5 recruiting class) we now have to resort to such things?
It's a slippery slope. It starts with a little made up rumor here and there. Next thing we know we're creating fake AP stories and photo-shopping pictures. Where does it end? When we're creating websites on the same level of insanity as "As the Plains Burn"?
BE DIFFERENT PEOPLE! BE AUBURN PEOPLE.
Go to Google and look up the Alabama Creed. Then try the LSU Creed. For most schools, if they even have one, it's typically relate to rules and guidelines to follow as a student. It might be a phrase or a single paragraph. The Auburn Creed is more than how to act as a student. It's about being a particular kind of person. It doesn't end the day you graduate. It doesn't get put on hold when you're not on campus. It doesn't apply only to University events and grounds. We certainly don't get a pass on it just because we're on the internet.
It's about being an "Auburn" person. A "type" of person.
And the Auburn "type" person or fan, simply doesn't need to trade in the Creed and trample on what shapes our University in an effort to "win"...at anything....especially freaking recruiting 18 year old kids to the football team.
Most Auburn fans I know love Auburn University FIRST, and Auburn football second.
I hope I'm not watching those two things switch place as the pressure to "win" is at an all-time high. Let fan bases like Alabama put football above University. As Auburn fans, I hope we can all agree to not sit back and watch ourselves devolve into something that for decades we have been proud that we are NOT. Simply put...don't be them.
War Eagle.
PS. This isn't a personal message to those who have posted FSU rumors....I know it's easy to catch a rumor here or there and just want to share it....it's just gotten to the point now that we look a little obsessed with it and it's become apparent that these lame rumors are starting with our fan base. It's with that in mind that I wrote this, not as a personal shot at anyone particular....I hope you understand and see the difference of the intent.
PPS. This is also in regards to what is apparently happening on other Auburn boards as well. I share it here because I know a lot of you spend time on those boards as well. Be a voice of reason there....if possible.
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Well Said and on point. The one advantage we have as Auburn Fans is that most of us do have ties to the University. A lot of programs across the country (State) do not have a fan base that gives a rip about the University. Case in point, several years ago the two State Universities were rasing money for a cause. Auburn asked for donations at the A-day game and bammer did the same. Auburn raised about $35,000 that day while at bammer where they had a larger crowd raised less than $5000. Auburn Fans care about our University, bammer fans care about their football team. I would like to see a study done on football season ticket holders at each school and see how much money is donated from each fan base to the University, outside of football. I believe Auburn would be proud of the results while the bammer's would be embrassed. AUBURN, The University of Alabama. Best in State.
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