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He signed an extension last month to last through 2032. He already had a huge buyout. Can only imagine what it might be now.

It was the Cooley facility that did more than anything to make the Barnes heyday. But I think now it will be more about NIL.

I had hopes of Larry proving to be one, but he has been an absolute disaster this game.

Pope. Taking an off balance three instead of working the clock.

AN ASSIST! And there was almost a whole minute left in the half!

Shedrick has played well in the first half. He didn't finish or get a foul on that one drive to the basket, but he mostly held Broome at bay during their time on the floor together, and his 3 offensive rebounds are why we are in the game right now. We have 0 assists with 3:32 left in the half. Wrap your minds around that. I hated the addition of Frank Haith to the coaching staff on the fear that it was doing nothing more than getting the old gang together. I was somewhat ameliorated by the thought that he is a decent offensive coach. Well, this ain't an offense. This is 5 guys each doing their own thing. I have yet to see anyone working to get a teammate open for an easy shot.

over/under Our first assist will come with 4 minutes left in the first half.

I ragged on the addition of Kaluma, but in an offense that has very few parts working to get other people open, he's one of our most effective players because of his ability to drive and finish.

Absolutely hideous last few minutes by Texas. Shedrick actually did a decent job of controlling Broome before he sat and Kent and Onyema came in. Since then Auburn has scored at will inside. Our offense resulted in stupid turnovers by Larry and Mark dribbling straight into defenders. If this team doesn't ever work to help teammates get open, we'll finish 6-12 in conference and have an early out in the NIT. I'm doubting that it will.

Then had a Hunter moment and walked on the baseline.

Larry showed the ball on the dribble and got stripped.

If Johnson is going to force stuff like that, this will be a long game.

Three offensive rebounds in the first 90 seconds. Maybe they came to ball tonight.

I'll take a 200-0 win, but I'm bothered that we didn't have a single player do anything on our first possession to help a teammate get open.

They aren't showing a whole lot of pissed offness in the second half.

I'll take the over. Baring a huge injury, we'll have at least 5 wins in conference before the start of March.

The last time we hosted the Pomeroy #1 team, we were hosed by a bogus blocking foul near the end of regulation when one of our guy's chests was guilty of being in the way of Shead's extended forearm.

And if the season didn't get real enough against the Agroids, look out. Auburn is Pomeroy #1, has the most efficient offense in the country, and defends relentlessly. It shoots well from everywhere on the floor, doesn't get turned over, rebounds very well on both ends. Shedrick, Kent, and Onyema need to play out of their minds tonight against Broome and Cardwell. If we have no inside game and don't rebound several degrees of intensity better than we did against A&M, then we are toast. We have lost 3 games. We lost to tOSU because we couldn't hit threes but it could. We lost to UConn because UConn doubled us in offensive rebound %. A&M beat us by 20 because it doubled us in offensive rebounding %, we couldn't hit threes, and we couldn't stop A&M in the paint. That made for a lot of things we needed to fix in two days. Meanwhile, our next opponent, #1 in the polls Tennessee, will be in Gainesville tonight.

tOSU was a one possession game with 9 minutes to go and a 7 point game with 4 minutes left. We answered their 12-0 run to try to run away in the first half with a 10-0 run of our own. We lost by 8, but it was a competitive game.

I have never understood why we don't throw 10 yards or so downfield and not to the sideline on most plays.

Unmitigated mean absolute, unqualified, or not softened or lessened. We lost twice to the only team we played that is likely to finish in the top ten. So, yeah, it's a success, but it's mitigated.

This thread is silliness posing as an argument that we might win the natty if only someone else would beat tOSU for us then roll over for us in the finals. We nearly crapped the bed and wound up being lucky to win in the quarterfinals against a team that we were nearly unanimous in thinking we should run off the field. Let's not talk crap about supposedly being favored against semi-finalists we aren't facing. Who among us thinks ASU would have beaten PSU or ND? And those of you that claim you did, please link to comments you made about ASU before the Peach Bowl that would support that. If we want to win the natty, then we have to beat whoever it is we have to play. Beat tOSU, the worry about the finals, and don't dream about a different bracketing.

Despite what the announcers are saying it is, it is not "one of the great traditions in sports." It's totally gross. It's a suitable finish to a completely worthless bowl game between conference also-rans.

tOSU looks like it could score touchdowns today even while taking a knee.

Georgia played Texas twice and Clemson and Tennessee once each, so while Georgia didn't play more CFP teams, it played more games against CFP teams.