Tony Franklin's Undefeatable Patented Offensive System© Under Extreme Fire

Tony Franklin's Undefeatable Patented Offensive System© Under Extreme Fire
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Vanderbilt, which does NOT run Tony Franklin's Undefeatable Patented Offensive System©, remained undefeated by beating Auburn 14-13.

“We don’t run Tony Franklin’s spread offense,” Tuberville said. “This is Auburn’s offense. It’s like our defense. We’re going to run what works and what we’re going to match up better with the other team. Everybody has to do that. You can’t put a square peg in a round hole. Why would you do that?”

"It takes 100 percent commitment to run the spread offense because you have to practice it daily plus run it in your offense. We have been doing this for years," Said Coach Hortmann, whose high school team runs the spread offense, "let Franklin run the offense or get yourself another Offensive Coordinator. Let Franklin go elsewhere where the spread is appreciated."

"I live in Alabama and I attended the game between Auburn and Tennessee. I also am a OC for a high school football team that runs the system." Said another coach, "From what I have seen this year from Auburn, this is not the system. It seems to me that Franklin is getting told what to run on offense. Tuberville wants to run the ball to set up the pass and Franklin likes to set up the run with the pass. I never saw any hurry up offense from Auburn at this weeks game. I saw the freeze quite a bit, but they never got into a hurry up mode. Franklin has said that to be sucessful in this offense you must be good at the screens, and get a lot of snaps (maybe like 80) on offense. I dont think I have seen but maybe 4 screens all year and I don't think they are close to getting 80 snaps.At the high school level we have been getting 70 snaps. That is with us slowing down in the 4th so we dont run up the score."


Kodi "Blunt" Burns Career Stats: 20 completions out of 50 attempts for 224 yards, 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

"We've got to figure something out," Burns said. "This … man, I don't know. This isn't the Auburn I saw when I was recruited. This isn't the Auburn I saw last year. I don't what's going on."

"This is a tough loss," receiver Rod Smith said. "Everybody's hurt right now. Just to come out and play so well on offense and drive down the field and put up points and then just watch it disappear like that, it's hurting us right now."

"We've got to turn it around," Tuberville said. "We'll go back and we'll look at it and see who's healthy."

"I don't know what we are right now: spread, old Auburn offense," Smith said. "I'm just really confused right now. Everybody's confused. Everybody's hurting and speechless and confused. We just have to go back to work (today) and whatever changes coach Tuberville makes, we just have to go with that."

"Guys are confused because this isn't Auburn — just watching on the sideline and seeing this offense put up 13 points," Burns said. "We're capable of putting up 35 or 40 a game. That's why guys are confused. We're not producing like we should be. A lot of guys are confused. We are a team. We're looking out for each other. Nobody is pointing fingers, but a lot of us are talking about how we've got to figure something out. We can't keep going out like this."

"A lot of guys are upset because we should be putting up more points than this," Burns said. "This is unacceptable. You can't play in the SEC and put up 13 points and expect to win. All we can do is get better. We can't really take a step back from this point. I guess that's the good thing. All we can do is improve."

You're not going to sneak up on people by being a "spread" team. It just doesn't happen anymore. People have seen it, kids have played against it for years, and there's not going to be a scheme advantage. So the learning curve is steep since it involves learning the system and getting the players, like anything else. So the spread is in a tough bind, because it gets sold as a quick fix, but it's not. It's just another offense you can run, and it needs to be well coached and you need players. There's at least fifty major college teams running some a good deal of spread, if not more. How different is it then to be spread?

When asked if the changes would be drastic, Smith said it would "probably will be drastic changes.” We need to get back to old Auburn football,'" said Smith.

ESPN reported that Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville told his team following Saturday's loss to Vanderbilt that changes were coming on offense. How in the name of Toomer's Corner did the Tigers get to this point after being such a successful tailback-oriented, power football team under Tuberville the last few years? The spread is clearly not the answer, at least not the version of the spread the Tigers have tried to run under first-year coordinator Tony Franklin.


Chris Todd Career Stats: 83 completions out of 146 attempts for 885 yards, 5 touchdowns and 5 interceptions.

Franklin was not allowed to speak with reporters following the loss to Vanderbilt, nor was defensive coordinator Paul Rhoads.

"How do we continue this downward spiral without making some drastic changes? What are the real problems with this Auburn football team? Can the Auburn men and women continue to trust Coach Tuberville? Is Tuberville only a one hit wonder with the remarkable 2004 team?" Asks The Bleacher Report's Deric Winslett. "There are too many questions to answer. We the fans have zero power to do anything about it. What—start-up a Fire Tuberville.com website? The Auburn players should not be blamed. This season’s failures thus far fall squarely on the coaches. Every coach on the sideline bares responsibility for the loss to Vanderbilt. With some last minute hope to salvage what is left of this terrible first half of the 2008 season, some changes may be on the way and I mean soon."

"These guys are professionals," Tuberville said. "They're all in it together."

Tuberville said Sunday that changes to the offensive staff were "not even talked about."

He said Franklin works harder and is more disappointed than anyone about the offense's poor performance.

"He takes probably more blame than he should," Tuberville said.

Tuberville said adjustments to the Tony Franklin System have not been foisted upon the coordinator: "It's all him. He's the one making the changes."


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Chris Todd wins The Job, Auburn Hopes For Revenge Against Mississippi State

Chris Todd wins The Job, Auburn Hopes For Revenge Against Mississippi State
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Chris Todd, Auburn's Official Starting Quarterback, Finally.....

Following a surprisingly sloppy Louisiana-Monroe game in which neither Chris Todd or Kodi Burns were able to break through and outshine the other, Chris Todd had the chance to win the starting job last week against Southern Mississippi. He delivered to the tune of going 21-31 for 248 yards. Kodi Burns was expected to be out entirely for the game, but came in for a few plays in the third quarter, throwing an interception among his three pitiful pass attempts.

Many Auburn fans are no doubt disappointed, as Kodi Burns has been a known quantity since last year, and many expected that he would be the heir-apparent to Brandon Cox, last year's senior starter. While Burns is unquestioningly electric in certain running situations, his passing has always been the weak part of his game. Through last weeks game his career passing statistics are 14-38 for 159 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.


Sylvester Croom, if he doesn't sleep through the alarm clock like he did in week one against Louisiana Tech and entirely miss the game, looks to continue his personal sparring match with Tommy Tuberville.

Sylvester Croom, quarterback Wesley Carroll, and the Mississippi State Bulldogs look to see if they can make lightening strike twice as Auburn seeks to avenge the 19-14 upset the Bulldogs brought to Jordan-Hare Stadium last year.


Wesley Carroll, like Chris Todd, is looking to make a name for himself this Saturday.


Todd played in five games for Texas Tech in 2006. He completed 25 of 35 passes (71.4 percent) for 241 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions. Todd's best game of 2006 was a 10-of-12 passing effort for 151 yards and one touchdown against Southeastern Louisiana.
Todd played in three Big XII games against Missouri, Colorado and Baylor. He completed 11 of 18 passes in those three games for a combined 69 yards. Todd redshirted in 2005.


Coming out of high school, Todd was a Top 300 recruit by Man Emfinger Recruiting, a three-star recruit (Rivals.com) and was rated the No. 21 pro-style quarterback in the nation after his senior season. Todd threw for 10,776 yards and 120 touchdowns in his high school career.
As a senior in 2004, Todd guided his team to its first state championship since 1981. As a junior he completed a state-record 303 passes for 4,595 yards and 50 touchdowns in taking EHS to the state championship game. As a senior, Todd threw for 3,180 yards and 38 TDs.

Week 3 SEC Picks

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Heisman Era Steve Spurrier


It seems like an easy week this time around so lets get to it:


UAB (0-2) at Tenn (0-1) TENN: 99%. My Pick: tn. Athough I pray for any Alabama based team to beat the hell out of Tennessee every time out of the gate. Maybe the Blazers will get 'em. We can always hope.

Georgia (2-0) at S Carolina (1-1) UGA: 95%. My Pick: UGA. I would like to see a reminder of Everything The Ol' Ball Coach Once Was, but despite that, Mark Richt, Matt Stafford, and Knowshon Moreno clobber South Carolina. If not all three can forget their Heisman Hopes.

WKU (1-1) at Alabama (2-0) BAMA: 99% My Pick: Alabama. Another glorified practice for the Crimson Tide, the only question is, will Alabama look like the one that humiliated Tommy Bowden and the entire Clemson Football Program, or the one that looked sheepish versus Tulane last week.

Rice (2-0) at Vandy (2-0) VANDY: 95%. My Pick: Vanderbilt. After being burned by picking against VANDY twice in a row, I join the bandwagon. Watch them burn me this time.

Samford (2-0) at Ole Miss (1-1) MISS: 93%. My Pick: Ole Miss. Houston Nutt and crew nut-up and beat Samford like they would punch the mom's of the Wake Forest players, just like Coach Nutt told them to.

Auburn (2-0) at Miss St (1-1) AUB: 95%. My Pick: Auburn. The only reason is that I can't change my pick depending on if Sylvester Croom wakes up to his alarm clock or if he hits the snooze button until 10PM tonight. IF he wakes up Auburn might have a hard time, but look for them to start rolling behind astounding arm-cannon Chris Todd.

Mid Tenn (1-1) at Kentucky (2-0) UK: 99%: Middle Tennessee might give Kentucky fits, watch the Wildcats put up about 30 points, and as unlikely and counter-intuitive as it sounds, the other team put up less points.

North Texas (0-2) at LSU (1-0) LSU: 100%: My Pick: LSU. IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT LES MILES WILL BE ABLE TO CANCEL/POSTPONE THIS GAME, thus countering his hopes of being the only team ever to win a National Championship by playing less than 6 games.

Inside the Tony Franklin Undefeatable Patented Offensive System©

Inside the Tony Franklin Undefeatable Patented Offensive System©

by Michael Bernard

It is well storied that Tony Franklin designed and started consulting with his Undefeatable Patented Offensive System© after the fall-0ut caused by his authoring Fourth Down and Life To Go about his time and controversies surrounding his tenure at the University of Kentucky. Black-listed from coaching, Franklin slowly lost everything while trying to create and promote his niche football system, eventually building that audience in Texas, Alabama, and his home state of Kentucky.

As he told ESPN's Pat Forde. "It was desperation," Franklin said. "I was broke and trying to survive. A lot of great things happen out of desperation."

Now no less than 300 High School teams and a handful of college programs use their own version of Franklin's Undefeatable Patented Offensive System©, and Franklin first revitalized Troy's offense before being tapped by Tommy Tuverville to resurrect Auburn's floundering offense prior to last year's Peach Bowl versus Clemson. Under Franklin, the Trojans progressed from 109th in total offense and 111th in scoring in 2005 to 16th and 25th in 2007, Franklin's second year, while leading the Sun Belt in yards and points in '06 and '07 and winning 13 of 14 conference games.

One of the secrets to the Franklin/Troy success was Omar Haugabook, who, as an extrodinary run-pass option quarterback, led the Sun Belt in completion percentage and total offense two consecutive years. And the greatest stumbling block for the implementation of the Tony Frankline Undefeatable Patented Offensive System© in Auburn this year may be the tremendous amount of talent equally split between their two primary quarterbacks, arm-cannon Chris Todd and run-option quarterback Kodi "Blunt" Burns. Both are highly vaunted, and the party line coming out of Jordan-Hare is that both are so good that choosing one or the other is too difficult. Which many understand in doublespeak to mean "neither is what we need to run our offense".

Tony Franklin's Undefeatable Patented Offensive System© caught on with high school programs because, in part, it was the first to comprehensively unravel and explain the nuances of the Spread Offense, which was just gaining national luminance in the late 1990's. Most high schools still ran modified versions of the Veer-Option and simplistic passing attacks, with versions of the spread offense popping up randomly, independantly, in various places, largely the work of zealous coaches reinterpreting onto their teams what they saw teams such as the University of Florida doing each Saturday. Later, teams that signed up for one of the $3,000 seminars ran by Franklin could even elect to exclude other teams from their competitive districts and regions, ensuring them a monopoly on the underground phenomenon slowly sweeping Football Nation. It could be argued that at this late hour, Auburn is behind the curve in adopting a spread offense into their playbook, and Tommy Tuberville has admitted that the old-school perception of Auburn as a 3-yard and a cloud of dust rushing program has deterred the program's ability to sign highly touted reciever recruits. Indeed, many think that Auburn's shift to the Spread Offense may, in fact, be more of a ploy to woo blue-chip recruits that a shift in actual style of play, if we are to ignore the Peach Bowl.......

9 days and eight practices. Tony Franklin was brought in to replace abruptly departed Al Borges, the West Coast football guru that proceeded him as Auburn's Offensive Coordinator. Senior starting quarterback Brandon Cox was embattled from all sides, many in the media and fans calling for his being replaced by the younger run-option quarterback Kodi Burns. The Peach Bowl, against a very strong Clemson team, was approaching, and time was short. All year Auburn had been plagued by an inability to put points on the board, and against a potentially explosive Clemson rushing attack led by C.J. "Lightning" Spiller, Auburn would need to score. While Al Borges had his own cult-following, it was mostly out west, mostly nuanced by experiences with Bill Walsh and many others whose names mean nothing to SEC Football. Tony Franklin has a coaches-coach grassroots following that rivals Dionysus himself, and his being brought into Auburn had immediately tangible possibilities--with a greater sense of wonder considering that an entire off-season would not swell with the possibilities, but that they would be immediately apparent in the Peach Bowl.

Tommy Tuberville's Indecision Will Destroy Auburn's Season!

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Despite affirming at SEC Media Days less than a month ago that a 2-quarterback system (aside from using a gimmick running qb on third down and goal line situations) is one that he whole-heartedly disbelieved in, Tommy Tuberville is not steering his ship any closer to chosing a starter, and essentially, a leader for his team. There will be a lack of focus early, and with big games coming quick in Auburn's schedule, any sort of stumble can be mega-disasterous.

Chris Todd, the veritable arm cannon, is competing for the starting job with the prototypical gimick running quarterback--Kodi "Blunt" Burns--whose effectiveness as a passer or leader has yet to be seen. And instead of deciding between the two sometime during-or-after spring practices and scrimages, thus allowing a summer and pre-season to gear toward a specific assemblage of skill players, the coaching staff has found it more wise to put off making this all-important decision until, presumably, opening kickoff.

Which is exactly what a team with many question marks on both sides of the ball needs to do more than anything. It needs to let lingering uncertainties fester in a sort of sargasso-like purgatory, letting the media hawkishly hover and peck at the obviously divine decision-making ability the new Tony Franklin offensive regime brings to the table. Obviously Tony Franklin's Undefeatable Patented Offensive System© is so good it doesn't even matter who run's it.

This is good news to Tommy "The Riverboat Gambler" Tuberville, who likes to know that his often sublimely idiotic decisions late in the game can be bailed out by an undefeatable© patented offensive scheme that is ran by over 275 high schools and universities. Surely no one has ever devoted ANY TIME AT ALL to devising a defense to defend against such tom-foolery.Only time will tell, and it seems that it is Auburn's die-hard fans who will be punished for the next few months.