Auburn Quotes

I don`t really follow college basketball much, but I`ve been lead in the direction to pick Auburn as my favorite. I think they would be somewhat of an underdog, and that`s right up my alley so I`ll go with the Tigers.

The only thing I would change is during the summer - when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn.

It`s a great stadium, great crowd, ... That`s what Auburn football is about. But it`s unacceptable to lose at home and that`s what we did. It can`t happen anymore.

Since the minute the Auburn game ended, there were a lot of questions from the press - `Can you follow this up?` Tech is 1-3 in games following an upset of a Top 25 team under Gailey, so it`s certainly been a problem ... but I think right now there are enough senior leaders on this team that have seen what happened in the past and are determined not to let that happen again. If they lose this game it`s not going to be because they weren`t focused and ready to play.

It`s very good to have this type of service in the north of the county, ... In an emergency situation, sometimes the trip to Syracuse or Auburn might be too long. Now we have full-time medics right here.

Beating the Auburn Tigers never gets old, even after 27 years. The pressure and the magnitude of this event never ceases to amaze me.

That was a game of two completely different halves. I was thrilled with the way we played in the first half. I was very disappointed by the second half. Give Auburn credit - they have not packed it in. They are well coached, and they will be good down the stretch.

Obviously the season Auburn had this year will really help them in recruiting. They are finding themselves in the hunt with players they wouldn`t have had a chance on at the beginning of the year.

How can the Jackets follow their opening thriller at Auburn by giving North Carolina even the hint of shocking Tech for the second consecutive season?

They got beat pretty bad. They (Auburn) lost a lot of people,

He`s been telling me, `Y`all got to beat Auburn.` He calls me everyday with it. He`s like, `You got a good game plan?` And I`m like, `Yes, sir.`

I didn`t pay too much attention to Auburn. It was always `Roll Tide` at my house. Auburn was the only school in the state that didn`t recruit me and they were the closest to my high school.

Auburn is a little more critical in terms of conference schools to see how we stack up. Each week our goal is to have the best performance at each conference meet. Our progress is geared toward doing better later in the year.

I`ve been tailgating here for about 15 years, and I like tailgating here better than at Auburn,