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(11/18/21 4:04pm)
There are a few reasons as to why the evolution of rock music has yielded some of the most influential, creative, and unique albums and artists of any genre. Whether it be for the simple fact that rock music sees no instrumental bounds, can be enjoyable in any context, and can be independent from or wholly dependent on technology and electronic production, it is undeniable that rock music is a constantly changing spectrum of sounds and emotions filtered through the lenses of different musical geniuses throughout the last 100 years. Of all the genres and subgenres contained within the realm of rock music, few have as distinct of a sound as shoegaze. Dubbed “shoegaze” due to guitarists and singers being known for standing in one spot, sometimes staring at the ground or “shoe-gazing” for the majority of a show, the layered, fuzzy, reverb packed guitar tracks, pounding drums, and touches of ambient synth make this a timeless form of rock music since its original conception in the late 80s and early 90s. With major pioneers of shoegaze-like instrumentation dating back to the 60s with creative minds like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and the Beatles, followed by the sounds and styles of The Cure, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr., and eventually brought into true form with groups like the Cocteau Twins and the Jesus and Mary Chain, it is debatable if any band captured the true essence of shoegaze-rock better than My Bloody Valentine.
(11/18/21 9:36pm)
On October 24, 2020, a little-known freshman named TJ Finley started under center for the LSU Tigers for the first time. The Bayou Bengals welcomed South Carolina to Death Valley in the middle of a brutal start to the fall following the program's perfect season the year before.
(11/13/21 11:17pm)
It was the largest collapse and blown lead in school history.
After taking a commanding 28-3 lead and largely dominating in every aspect of the game, Auburn fell apart in the final 32 minutes of the game. Mississippi State, once trailing by 25, scored 40 unanswered points on its way to defeating Auburn 43-34 on Saturday.
Auburn was outscored 40-6 in the final 32 minutes of play.
“Everybody’s disappointed, being at home and losing, in the locker room, no one’s happy in the locker room,” said Auburn head coach Bryan Harsin. “We’re all disappointed.”
The offensive struggles, which looked to be a thing of the past based on the first half of play, returned in the second half. Along with it came Auburn’s worst defensive performance of the season, in which it allowed 332 yards of total offense and five touchdowns in the final 30 minutes.
Mississippi State quarterback Will Rogers had more touchdown passes than incompletions in the second half on his way to leading the Bulldogs to their largest comeback in program history.
After scoring 14 points in both the first and second quarters, Auburn’s offense went silent, Mississippi State scored its first touchdown with just under two minutes to go in the first half, but the Tigers had an 18-point lead at the midway point.
Harsin said an 18-point lead is “not enough.”
Mississippi State’s offense showed new life out of the locker rooms, scoring a touchdown on its first five drives in the second half. Three out of the five drives lasted less than three minutes.
But as time progressed and Mississippi State continued to climb back into the game, the energy inside Jordan-Hare Stadium continued to fall.
“You know, I’m not quite sure what happened there,” Nix said. “Just felt like the entire stadium — the life — just kind of mellowed out and the life of the stadium kind of relaxed there for a minute and it was hard to get some momentum back.”
One of the key momentum shifts came midway through the fourth when Auburn lost its most experienced player on defense. With Auburn trailing by eight, on a second-and-16 play at the Auburn 22-yard line, senior EDGE rusher T.D. Moultry made a hit on Rogers to set up a third-and-long for the Bulldogs.
The play went to review and to the disliking of Auburn fans, Moultry was called for targeting. It gave Mississippi State a fresh set of downs to work with, which it eventually capitalized on with Rogers’ sixth touchdown pass of the day. The score put the Bulldogs up 43-28 with 5:31 to go.
“What I saw on the replay was him going up because the quarterback's in a passing position to try to block the pass,” Harsin said of the targeting call. “The quarterback freezes. He's coming down, and then he sacks the quarterback in that situation right there.”
“So...targeting, you've got to define who's defenseless, the crown of the helmet -- there's all these other things that come into play. And I didn't see that on that play, but they called it from the booth because it wasn't called on the field.”
Auburn’s defense not only lost one of its core defensive linemen for the rest of the game, but Moultry will not play in the first half of the South Carolina game because the penalty occurred in the second half.
It was a defensive breakdown, unlike anything that Auburn has seen this season. Meanwhile, the second-half offensive woes are nothing new.
Since the Ole Miss game, Auburn has scored a total of nine points in the second half of its last three games. That’s nine points in 90 minutes of football.
“We've got to continue to keep attacking in the second half as aggressively -- just playing and executing -- as we do in the first half,” Harsin said. “It doesn't seem like we do that in the second half.”
Although Mississippi State is known for its air-raid offense, it had more rushing attempts in the second half than Auburn did. The Bulldogs ran the ball 14 times in the second half, averaging 4.4 yards per carry. Meanwhile Auburn had a scarce eight rushing attempts, averaging a negative 1.8 yards per carry.
“I think there were things that we did; there were some assignment errors in there,” Harsin said of the run game. “Things that [the Bulldogs] were doing. So it just wasn't consistent enough at the end of the day, and that's really what it comes down to. “
The Tigers never had a first-down rushing attempt in the second half.
As Auburn’s offense continued to send the punting unit out on the field, Mississippi State continued to find the end zone. Harsin made the call for a fake punt to attempt to regain momentum, but it was also stopped.
Rogers continued to rip the defense apart and broke the Mississippi State single-game passing touchdown record with six scores. By the time the clock hit zero, fans had filed out of the stadium and Auburn was on the wrong side of one of the most historic comebacks in college football history.
“Just being from Mississippi, personal for me — that one hurt,” said EDGE rusher Derick Hall. “Shed a few tears walking in obviously.”
It was the most points that Mississippi State had scored against Auburn since 1952 when the Bulldogs beat Auburn 49-34.
The Tigers will now turn their heads to South Carolina, going on the road for the second consecutive season against the Gamecocks. That game will kick off at 6 p.m. CST from Williams-Brice Stadium on Nov. 20.
“Obviously we didn’t get the job done but obviously we still have games left, and we want to finish off on the right foot,” Hall said. “We’ll have to just keep moving forward and keep assessing this game in the right way.”
(11/13/21 11:16pm)
The 50th anniversary of Auburn’s first Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan did not transpire to a Tiger victory. In fact, Saturday’s contest against Mississippi State was the largest comeback in college football this season after the Auburn offence stalled out after leading 28-3 with 1:56 remaining in the first half. Playoff hopes ended last week in College Station and SEC West hopes now to end following Auburn’s fourth loss.
(11/13/21 3:04pm)
Mike Leach and company will march into Jordan-Hare Stadium with an offensive style that the Tigers have not seen this season: the air raid.
(11/13/21 3:25am)
Auburn Soccer, in its 17th NCAA Tournament appearance, lost in the first round to Samford 2-0 in a hard fought match. The Tigers were in control for most of the scoreless first half but two huge goals in the second half made all the difference.
(11/12/21 10:36pm)
Auburn football (No. 17, 6-3, 3-2 SEC) will look to get back on track this week with a home date with the Mississippi State Bulldogs (5-4, 3-3 SEC). Kickoff is slated for 11 a.m. Saturday morning in Jordan-Hare Stadium. Auburn’s offense struggled mightily on the road last week against Texas A&M and has now gone six straight quarters without scoring a touchdown. Meanwhile, the defense has not allowed the opposing offense to score a touchdown in the last six quarters as well.
(11/11/21 6:00am)
Adam Melchor brings his Fall Tour to Atlanta's Terminal West with special guests Hotel Fiction.
(11/12/21 6:13pm)
AUBURN, AL — The Auburn Tigers (12-6-1) Soccer team was selected as the No. 4 seed in the NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament on Monday afternoon. As a top-16 seed in the tournament, the Tigers get to host the first round of the tournament against Samford (15-3-2) Friday at 5 p.m. at the Auburn Soccer Complex.
(11/12/21 6:17pm)
The Auburn Tigers (0-1) kicked off their season against the Georgia Southern Eagles (1-0) on Thursday, November 11 and lost in thrilling fashion 68-66.
(11/11/21 4:27am)
AUBURN, AL — The Auburn Tigers (13-11) volleyball team played host to the South Carolina Gamecocks (14-11) on Wednesday night where the Tigers were swept by a score of 3-0.
(11/09/21 8:03pm)
The Auburn Tigers will host the South Carolina Gamecocks at Auburn Arena tomorrow night at 8:00 pm. Auburn is looking to improve to 14-10 overall and 6-8 in the SEC, and South Carolina is looking to improve to 14-11 overall and 6-9 in the SEC. Both teams have struggled to find success this season, but they have not been the worst. Auburn is currently sitting in ninth place in the SEC, while South Carolina is sitting at 11th place.
(11/07/21 1:43am)
The Auburn defense kept the Tigers in the game throughout, but eventually the Tigers’ offensive woes doomed their hopes of a third straight win over a ranked SEC West foe. Texas A&M (No. 14, 7-2, 4-2 SEC) scored 17 unanswered points in the second half to pull away for a 20-3 victory. Auburn (No. 13, 6-3, 3-2 SEC) went into the locker room with a 3-3 tie but could never get on the scoreboard in the second half. Neither teamed scored an offensive touchdown, as A&M scored their points via four Seth Small field goals and a fumble return for a touchdown by defensive lineman Michael Clemons. Anders Carlson scored Auburn’s only three points on a 32-yardfield goal in the first quarter.
(11/06/21 3:04pm)
The SEC east is figured out. Georgia has punched its ticket to the SEC Championship for the fourth time in five years. Florida and Kentucky, once thought to be challengers for the spot, had their chances personally squashed by the Bulldogs, without hardly a fight.
(11/05/21 8:43pm)
Kyle Field, the home turf of the Texas A&M Aggies (No. 14, 6-2, 3-2 SEC) is one of the largest and loudest stadiums in college football and is known everywhere as the home of the 12th man. And while it is widely acknowledged as a hostile environment for road teams to play in, the Auburn Tigers (No. 13, 6-2, 3-1 SEC) have made Kyle Field their home away from home since Texas A&M joined the SEC. The two teams have played nine times since A&M joined the SEC and the road team has compiled a perplexing 8-1 mark in those nine games. This includes Auburn’s 4-0 mark at Kyle Field. Continue reading for a breakdown of each of the last four games at Kyle Field.
(11/05/21 4:04pm)
Johnny Manchild and The Poor Bastards are the greatest band you’ve never heard of. The band consists of a piano, trumpet, saxophone, guitar, bass, and drums create a sound that you can’t here anywhere else. They mix jazz, rock, punk, alternative, and more. The Oklahoma city band has up to ten members or “bastards” that can rotate in and out. They have produced 2 studio albums with a third that arrived today. They are even innovative in their approach to releasing music. They released a single a month in 2019 until ultimately compiling all the songs together on “One Big Beautiful Sound”. At the start of this year, the band had a crowdfunding effort for their new album which raised $36,000. At the forefront of it all is Johnny Manchild. Johnny is the guy who writes the lyrics and helps compose a lot of the music. The band started because Johnny decided he wanted a band and picked guys from his college to be in it. I got the pleasure of interviewing Johnny on the morning before the band’s new album, “We Did Not Ask For This Room” released. This is the result:
(11/05/21 11:20pm)
This is a companion piece to this weeks episode of Through the Lens, where Alex and Davis discuss the new Dune movie. You can find the full episode here as well as on Spotify on Apple Podcasts. Here is a more formal and condensed version of what they discussed on the show with some history of Dune thrown in.
(11/04/21 5:00am)
No Time To Die is the 27th film in the james bond franchise and Daniel Craig’s fifth and final time as James Bond. Craig’s tenure as Bond has been as one of the most successful runs of any actor to play James Bond in cinematic history by grossing over $3.2 billion in four films and having the highest grossing bond film in Skyfall. His fifteen year tenure as bond is the longest of any actor to play the role without the role being recast in between films. The film was delayed over a year because of the pandemic, so anticipation grew to an all time high.
(11/03/21 4:31pm)
A month ago, the South Carolina Gamecocks outlasted Auburn for a 3-2 win in Columbia. In that game, the Tigers fell behind by three goals in the first 47 minutes on the back of crucial early mistakes. Auburn's defense held on for the rest of the game, but the offense couldn't quite generate the goals needed to turn the game on its head.
(11/02/21 4:00am)
Smallpools return to Atlanta with special guest morgxn on the "Life in a Simulation Tour."