GUNDLACH NOT GOING AWAY: THE AUBURN STORY CONTINUES...
James Gundlach, the professor/whistle-blower/leading recipient of death threats in the last week in Alabama, isn't going away--though the more Gundlach talks, the less it seems likely that the school did anything that the NCAA will find unseemly. (Accreditation woes remain an entirely separate issue, however.) Tubs is confident an academic review will turn up nothing, but his coach's confidence didn't keep Will Herring from dropping a quote that we're betting zillions on to come back in mocking triplicate from rivals one day:
It has not been a distraction, not to the team, linebacker Will Herring said. Has it been fair? I can say it hasnt been fair, but lifes not fair, you know? Weve climbed up to the top of the nation academically and when youre on top, people want to shoot you down.
Yup. Just take that one, sniff the bouquet, and let it roll around the palate for a while. Ahh, quality.

James Brooks and friend showing what they learned in their math class.
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Never commit a crime with anyone affiliated with Auburn. They never know when to just shut the fuck up.
by Cool Hand Mike on Jul 31, 2006 11:07 AM EDT reply actions
Herring’s quote is a pile of shit. There are no SEC schools that are at “the top of the nation academically”…unless the school rhymes with Landerbilt.
by Aerobab on Jul 31, 2006 11:09 AM EDT reply actions
The funny thing about the quote is that we’d happily admit that UF—while respectable—ain’t “top of the nation.” Herring shooting off his mouth like that seems like hubris just begging for a divine smiting.
by Orson Swindle on Jul 31, 2006 11:10 AM EDT reply actions
Yeah, but…
I mean….
Damn.
Just because James Brooks is illiterate doesn’t mean he can’t do math.
by AU03 on Jul 31, 2006 11:12 AM EDT reply actions
It’s a bit sharp, but we had to use it since we couldn’t find a pic of Will Herring in a smoking jacket reading Proust.
by Orson Swindle on Jul 31, 2006 11:13 AM EDT reply actions
James Brooks math: 4+4= franks and beans
by Cool Hand Mike on Jul 31, 2006 11:18 AM EDT reply actions
I hereby put Chancellor Gee, Coach Johnson, and all athletes at Vanderbilt on notice that I intend to withhold all contributions to the University until it reclaims its academic superiority from Auburn. Second best is not good enough, nor will it be rewarded.
by Doreblogger on Jul 31, 2006 11:20 AM EDT reply actions
an auburn education…they can’t read, but they could sure as hell fill you in on how drought affects the color of cow shit
by matt on Jul 31, 2006 11:34 AM EDT reply actions
Flakes up nicely after several days without rain. That’s just what I heard.
by Cool Hand Mike on Jul 31, 2006 11:40 AM EDT reply actions
Tah dap rah gnow. Es geddin mo bebuh d’ever.
James Brooks
by James Brooks on Jul 31, 2006 11:47 AM EDT reply actions
I’m sorry, I can’t donate to your Web site drive today. I’m too busy sinking all of my available cash into the Slap The Shit Out Of Will Herring Fund. Won’t you help?
by Doug on Jul 31, 2006 12:02 PM EDT reply actions
Tah dap rah gnow. Es geddin mo bebuh dever.
James Brooks
good work james…with the au bachelor’s degree already in hip pocket, it looks like you’re gearing up to go for the masters
illiterate people of the world…there is a small town in SW Alabama where truly the sky is the limit
by matt on Jul 31, 2006 12:05 PM EDT reply actions
He never graduated, although he did somehow manage to stay eligible for 4 years.
Matt, were you a geography major at BAMA?
by AU03 on Jul 31, 2006 12:16 PM EDT reply actions
Bee gunta kadjewate pum ahberd.
The Irons Brothers
by The Irons Brothers on Jul 31, 2006 1:06 PM EDT reply actions
someone call ben leard. auburn eagles got some peanut butter on their wings
by S on Jul 31, 2006 1:15 PM EDT reply actions
au03…I meant SE not SW alabama. you will have to forgive my mindslips…I’ve never had the benefit of the Auburn experience…from the incredible gayness of 20 yr olds rolling Toomer’s corner, to the penetrating minds developed in the classroom…God I am fucking jealous
by matt on Jul 31, 2006 1:32 PM EDT reply actions
AU03, I was thinking what the fuck is he dissing on Mobile for?
by Cool Hand Mike on Jul 31, 2006 1:33 PM EDT reply actions
To be entirely fair to Herring (and as a Gator-from-birth, saying that pains me beyond belief), Auburn was ranked something like fifth nationally on last year’s Academic Progress Rate, which demonstrates either that the APR is horribly deficient or that Auburn is cooking the books in truly monumental fashion. I vote both…
by peachy on Jul 31, 2006 1:45 PM EDT reply actions
Actually, that ranking might have been just in football, which is even more absurd – there was a graphic about Auburn’s place within the APR universe with the infamous NYTimes article, but I can’t recall all the details (and I’m not paying to read it again), and the NCAA’s pdf files keep crashing my computer. Bastards.
by peachy on Jul 31, 2006 1:49 PM EDT reply actions
Yes, Mike, or the University of South Alabama- well, I guess he has the right to do that.
BTW I was in Mobile this past weekend- I saw a chick walking down Dauphin St. in a gimp mask, and a dude wearing assless chaps- I lived there for 23 years, and never saw that before.
Matt, again, if only your mother had the ability of foresight…
by AU03 on Jul 31, 2006 2:36 PM EDT reply actions
The only APR that ever mattered in Auburn, Alabama was the interest rate on a used mobile home.
by Doreblogger on Jul 31, 2006 2:50 PM EDT reply actions
I guess USNews is right there with the AP when it comes to unjustly dissin’ the Aubies. Like Will says, it just ain’t fair.
I smell a parade!
by UgaLuver on Jul 31, 2006 4:29 PM EDT reply actions
UgaLuver,
Hopefully yuo aren’t dissin’ the plainsmen for their peoples national championship parade.It was a first-class tribute to a bunch of first-class players. And besides, that was BRAND NEW farm equipment they were riding in.
by John in Hsv on Jul 31, 2006 10:14 PM EDT reply actions
I had the good fortune to stumble upon a column written by Birmingham News sports columnist and resident Auburn fellater Kevin Scarbinsky about the whole academic-scandal thing — basically trying to make the point that however much “fear the dumb” stings the Aubies, “fear the thumb” stings the Bama fans worse. Yawn.
But the best part of the column, because it was nearly as much of a knee-slapper as Herring’s dumbass statement, was something along the lines of “But whatever happens, there’s one thing they can never take away from Auburn — their 2004 People’s National Championship.” Yes, Auburn fans, you can breathe easy, because nobody can lay a finger on your entirely contrived title that was never earned on a field of play and is recognized by precisely nobody. Time to celebrate!
by Doug on Aug 1, 2006 8:04 AM EDT reply actions
scarbinsky…the same guy who called for gene stallings head in 1991, you remember what happened in ’92
by matt on Aug 1, 2006 10:52 AM EDT reply actions
Everybody knows the Awfulbarn is in Southwest Georgia.
by Joe Schmoe on Aug 1, 2006 4:15 PM EDT reply actions

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