Posts Tagged ‘pat dye’

To Be Disciplined, To Work Hard, and To Bleed Orange and Blue

By Posted on: March 19th, 2013 in Football 5 Comments »
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He was a part of some of the most glorious years of Auburn Football – the decade of the eighties. It was a time when the Tigers dominated the South Eastern Conference. From 1983 – 1988 the Tigers had the fourth highest winning percentage in the nation. He played on two SEC Championships and was Continue Story…

Listing the Top 20 Iron Bowls

By Posted on: November 20th, 2012 in Football 37 Comments »

                         This is it. This is Iron Bowl week. It’s what nearly 5,000,000 citizens in the Heart of Dixie (and millions more across the country) look forward to at the end of Thanksgiving week. It’s the renewal of the nation’s No. 1 rivalry … Auburn vs. Alabama. This is the game coached Continue Story…

It Will Take More Than a Coach to Fix Auburn

By Posted on: October 22nd, 2012 in Football 60 Comments »
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Debating the future of Gene Chizik is futile at this point. Agree or not, he’s done following the Iron Bowl on November 24th. But then what?Do Auburn officials really believe they can land a coach capable of competing with Nick Saban under the present leadership structure in the athletic department?Noted leadership expert John Maxwell often Continue Story…

Gloom and Doom Time for Tigers?

By Posted on: September 12th, 2012 in Football 4 Comments »

It was an uncharacteristically cool September day. I had arrived in Northeast Mississippi the night before to watch Auburn play their SEC opener against the Mississippi State Bulldogs. I marched into Davis Wade stadium prepared to watch another hard fought game between two SEC Western Division schools. As I sat down in Section 312 with Continue Story…