{"id":573884108,"date":"2012-11-03T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884108"},"modified":"2012-11-05T00:27:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T06:27:22","slug":"new-mexico-state-at-auburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/11\/03\/new-mexico-state-at-auburn\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico State at Auburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of those years:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/nov18.jpg\" alt=\"upper deck\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But along comes New Mexico State, to make Auburn fans feel good about their team for a day. The Aggies made more than <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alamogordonews.com\/natsports\/ci_21898437\/when-nmsu-visits-auburn-1-7-teams-clash\">$900,000 today<\/a>. Not bad for an afternoon in the sun. I&#8217;m sure that pays a significant portion of their annual athletic budget. And even that money seemed like a bonus early. It took Auburn three drives to break into the positive yardage. And that third drive ended in an interception. <\/p>\n<p>Late in the second quarter the offensive, which has been set to sputter for most of the year, finally found a little traction. Tre Mason claimed the first score of the game, capping an 89-yard drive, the Tigers longest of the year:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/nov19.jpg\" alt=\"Tre Mason\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>New Mexico State and Auburn had similiar yardage at halftime, but the Tigers found ways to expand their 7-0 lead after the homecoming festivities. All-American and fan favorite fullback  Jay Prosch scored on a one-yard run in the third quarter. It was two months to the day since his mother died. <\/p>\n<p>Linebacker Daren Bates picked up a fumble:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/nov20.jpg\" alt=\"Daren Bates\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>stiff armed a guy he outweighs by 20-plus pounds:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/nov21.jpg\" alt=\"Daren Bates\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>looked around:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/nov22.jpg\" alt=\"Daren Bates\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>and imitated Superman to score:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/nov23.jpg\" alt=\"Daren Bates\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Onterio McCalebb scored twice. He finally put the kind of numbers that have eluded him all year, including a key kickoff return, to move him up the school record charts a bit:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/mccalebb.jpg\" alt=\"Onterio McCalebb\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My guess is he stays in pretty much those spots as the season wraps up, but there you have it, he&#8217;s an incredibly talented player that has often been overshadowed by others.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Trovon Reed finally scored the first touchdown of his career, wearing the number 37 in honor of Ladarious Phillips, a former Auburn football player who was shot to death last summer. <\/p>\n<p>Things finally went more or less right for Auburn. They improved to 2-7 with the <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.auburntigers.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/recaps\/110312aaa.html\">42-7 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those years: But along comes New Mexico State, to make Auburn fans feel good about their team for a day. The Aggies made more than $900,000 today. Not bad for an afternoon in the sun. I&#8217;m sure that pays a significant portion of their annual athletic budget. And even that money seemed like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-football","category-photo","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573884108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884110,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884108\/revisions\/573884110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}