r/wde

Hello darkness my old friend

He had the most success of any coach in my life (90s baby) clearly cares about Auburn athletics, and honestly we were wrong in how we treated him 6 years ago. Lift the curse! Fire Cohen regardless.

Through 5 games:

- we’ve committed a total of 30 penalties compared to 44 penalties through the first five games of the 2025 season.

- averaging 30.0 points per game and approximately 458.3 total yards per game, compared to 26.8 points per game and 373.9 total yards per game through the first 5 games of the 2025 season

- allowing an average of 20.75 points per game and 365 yards per game. through the first five games of the 2025 season, the Auburn defense allowed an average of 16.4 points per game and 316 yards super game

Regardless of what you think, this is a more disciplined team by penalties and a more productive offensive team than under Hugh Freeze. There has been improvement in those areas, despite the problems we still have. We had a horrible outing from a penalty perspective yesterday in a tough road environment.

The defense is playing respectably given the talent we lost on that side of the ball. There are problems to correct here but I can personally let most of this slide.

Usually when an AD makes the decision to fire a coach, the new guy they bring in will bring in new people and have new ideas and there will be some year to year improvement. Even if a team doesn’t gel at first they improve as the year goes on. For 5 years in a row through 3 head coaches there hasn’t been any improvement even when there was talent on the roster. Meanwhile other programs have brought in new head coaches who have their teams rolling now. Cignetti at Indiana, sumrall at Florida Mario Cristobal at Miami are good examples. I’m not ready to pull the plug on Golesh yet but the fans have been more than patient for years and they are tired of watching this every Saturday. That Tennessee team isn’t that good, against a team with more offensive firepower they would have lost that game.

First off, I really like Coach Golesh. Definitely a breath of fresh air compared to the previous hire. However, listening to the post game conference, I don’t know if he sees Brown objectively and seems very protective of the offense, his OC, quarterback, and play calling. I get it! They are his guys but there are major issues that are being overlooked or in denial about that will keep getting exposed throughout the rest of the season. Byrum seems to panic and freeze up keeping him from seeing the open receivers and the indecisiveness. If the coach isn’t acknowledging and addressing it, then there won’t be much room for improvement. He doesn’t seem to see the flaws in the QB play and therefore we keep seeing the same thing. That 4th and 1 did it for me and the realization that either Golesh and/or Gordon are way over their head in SEC play. I still don’t know what that “trick” play coming out of the half was! Cute doesn’t work in these games! Humility, focus, grit, flexibility to go off script, and recognizing when changes at QB need to be made. Even if it’s for a play or two, it can’t hurt at this point! Freeze held on to his QBs for too long and seems like Golesh may do the same!

Whoever is calling the offense needs to go. This is flat out disgusting to watch. I understand we don’t have the horses right now but I refuse to believe we can’t put up more points with some competent play calling.

Auburn brought in a significant amount of USF players to do the roster for this team. We've been bad, really bad, so it's reasonable to see how we couldn't pull big time recruits and transfers. USF will lose to an SEC team 9/10 times. We're not going to be good immediately. That's just facts. The rest will have to see what time gives us. Do we have the right coach...I don't know? But mostly expectations for this year were hopeful thoughts ( I'm one). If Gol keeps moving in the same directions without improvement or coaching changes then will know if this hire was good or not, but again this isn't the year to make that determination

I am deeply disappointed in many aspects of today’s loss, but this was a road game against a very good team who just took the #1 team in the country down to the wire last week. We have a TON to work on, but we can be thankful we have an actual leader at the helm.

Also for those who were pining for Sumrall, they just got boatraced by an ok Mizzou team...

I'm tired of being an Auburn fan!

Anyone who thought the season was going to go any differently than it has so far should seriously get their head checked.

All of the talent left through the portal and we replaced them with G5 players. Golesh botched the offseason as badly as he botched that 4th down call. Harsin 2.0

The Auburn football you know is gone.

To the “give him more time!” folks - there is no more time. It’s not fair to Golesh, but it’s been 10 years since Auburn has fielded a competitive football team and been part of the national conversation. We don’t hire coaches to compete for championships anymore, it’s actually rude of you to expect a winning season.

With the modern era of the transfer portal and NIL, we’ve been left behind to wander the wilderness. We’ve been cemented as the new Vandy/Arkansas not just because we always lose, but how we look doing it. It’s such a consistently terrible product no matter the coach or players wearing the AU on the field. It’s not a “down year” or even a bad stretch, it’s the standard.

Rewatching that play is pissing me off. Based upon what happened to the center on that play, I think the play call was actually sound. It appears to me our LT and FB execute well enough against the DE and OLB to get the first down.

It appears to me that this play failed because nobody even attempted to pick up the play side DT, who blew up Cobb in backfield. Meanwhile, the LG looks like he perhaps tried to double team the DE but ends up legitimately not blocking anybody on a 4th and inches running to his side. WTF?

I see a lot of folks concluding that we don’t have the talent to win. I think we’re perhaps a bit disadvantaged. But to my own eyes, that one play didn’t fail because we lost a physical battle in the trenches, it failed because we didn’t even try to get a hand on the closest threat to the ball carrier.

Seems like something we’ve seen a thousand times the last couple of years. Good news is that I think we have room to improve this season, but I’m concerned that it happened in October already.

Maybe I’m missing something or don’t know ball, I only ever played in high school. But leaving a DT uncontested on the run side is not a play design feature I’m familiar with.

We apparently spent 3 mil on the QB and 1 mil on the OL.

I'd rather have a 3.5 mil OL and a have a 500k qb. A decent on paper QB without a running game is almost worthless. A mediocre QB with a solid OL and running game can shine. Idk how many times we can make this same mistake in team roster building over the years.

Hes completely changing the mentality of the program and the only loss right now is a close one to a stout Florida team. For all those wishing we had Sumrall, dont forget Terry Bowden was 11-0 his first year and it was all downhill from there. Malzahn was 12-2 his first year and never got less than 4 losses the rest of his tenure. Id rather have someone who builds a program and improves.

Replace the punter immediately, or at least designate a punter for longer distance situations. I want to point out one specific punt yesterday that had a huge impact at the end of the game..

Hudson Kaak hits a 37 YARD PUNT when we’re already backed up. Tennessee drive starts at our 42. This almost guarantees them 3 points minimum, which they end up getting. Yes I know it is tougher to punt backed up in the endzone but a 37 yard punt is inexcusable. That’s just not a college level punter.

Now fast forward to the end of the game. We’re down 10, in desperation mode. Imagine only being down 7 in that situation and how it would’ve changed the play calling etc. I am not trying to say this would’ve guaranteed us overtime, but it certainly puts us in a better position to do so.

This team is flawed enough as it is, let’s quit making things even harder on ourselves. We have a 6’4 punter just chilling on the bench. You’re telling me he couldn’t have done better in that situation? I call BS, I’ve watched his tape

We have priorities! We are ok with G5 Linemen but damn if we wont watch them from a stadium rave!