This is an opinion column.

I said it three years ago , and I’ll say it again: Go ahead, Auburn, surprise me.

Go ahead, John Cohen, squash that mistake you made early in your tenure as Auburn’s athletic director, when you probed football coach candidates with a list of 58 questions and whatnots. Back in 2022, you should have balled up that silly list and spiked it into the trash. Let’s pretend it never existed.

Now, go ahead and do what you should have done back then. Do what your heart screamed for you to do. Do what your gut churned for you to do.

Do what the resurrected Auburn faithful — even a few deep-pocketed reluctant ones — would have blessed in abundance. Do what they wanted to look you dead in the eye and say after an Auburn legend gave them a glimpse of what actual hope loo

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