Likely the last football victory Auburn will see this year. Definitely the last they’ll see at home. Alabama A&M put on their “Just happy to be here” smiles and had a great day under a warm sun and beautiful skies. The A&M players were excited to run out onto the field and put on a good show, but they were overmatched from the start, despite Auburn coming into the game 2 and disappointing 8.
Everyone wanted to see the Bulldogs get a feel-good score. Everyone wanted to see the Maroon and White march. And the Showband of the South was the best show we’ve seen at Jordan-Hare in years. It should happen more often.
Freshman Jonathan Wallace made his third start at quarterback. Seems he’s running the show from here:
Just out of Sammie Coates’ reach. This happens to Coates too often:
Between the true freshman QB, the redshirt freshman Coates and sophomore C.J. Uzomah, the youth movement is on:
Then you add in the young line, two starting corners who are freshmen and so on and so forth and you wonder … where are the juniors? Everyone, on this senior day, was already reminded how small the senior class is. There are 13 of them. And even fewer of them are starters or real contributors. There’s Onterio McCalebb, of course, and some of those statistical photographs I like to make:
Not bad for a guy that everyone thought was too small. And his numbers should be far, far higher: he was misused this year and everyone knows it.
There’s also Emory Blake, who’ll go on to a nice low round draft pick or a great free agent deal somewhere next year:
The last rolling of Toomer’s Corner:
The trees will be coming out soon as they’re all but gone. We’ll all be doomed to something put in place by a committee. There’s just no winning sometime
A few more pictures tomorrow.
