Talk:Auburn Tigers football

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[edit] SEC Western Division Champions

Each Southeastern Conference division can have more than one champion in a given year. The champion moniker is given to the team or teams with the best record. The conference then uses a tiebreaking formula to determine which team goes to the SEC Championship Game.

As of 2005, Auburn has been champion of the western division six times. They have won the tiebreaker to go to the SEC Championship three times.

68.159.168.46, please stop reverting this article and the Auburn University article. — Fingers-of-Pyrex 14:51, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

After 68.159.168.46's most recent reverting at 14:53, 6 December 2005, I'm thinking about requesting page protection for the article. — Fingers-of-Pyrex 15:02, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned anything about the recent article in the NY Times on the Auburn athletes called "Top Grades and No Class Time for Auburn players." I'm also surprised that no one has mention that Auburn leads the SEC in NCAA violations. Besselfunctions 17:07, 23 August 2006

Well, I'm not that surprised. Admittedly, I wrote most of this article and was not seeking out info of the sort, but upon review, Texas, USC, Alabama, and every other program's football/athletics articles do not mention their past NCAA troubles either. Most likely fans would edit the info out anyway, to the point where we have a polar edit war going, but if you think it is necessary (and appropriate), by all means start a section to talk about the issue (include reputable reference links like NCAA.org). From what I know the last NCAA violation/probation was in early 1990's (went into effect 1993) from the Eric Ramsey tape. MANY other programs have had more recent indescretions with no mention so not sure why to single out Auburn on old stuff? Concerning the NY Times article, from what I read, there were no violations committed and no NCAA investigation looming. It was based on an internal memo whistleblowing by an AU professor complaining of the overcrowding of classes (Auburn has grown attendance rapidly with little/no increased faculty).[1] On top of that, only about 10% of the students taking that "directed-reading" class in question (only for seniors needing a few hours to graduate on time where other classes were full) were football players, so if anything that is an indictment on the rapid growth (and perhaps questionable academic practices for those overcrowded majors) of AU recently and not necessarily the football program per se. The AP reported weeks ago that an internal investigation had cleared all the athletic programs - that is the last I've heard of it.[2] Again, I have no association to Auburn other than living in the state, but that is how I see it. I welcome other non-biased opinions. otduff 21:00, 25 August 2006

I'm bias towards Bama, but, I'm gonna offer and unbias opinion. I don't think that the info has to be on there about the bad stuff. It would start an editing war, but, that's not why I don't think it needs to be there. But, like you said, if someone wants to start a section and take care of it, more power to'm. AlaGuy 01:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC)