Reserve your seats NOW for the South Carolina game

 

First, thank you and a big WAR EAGLE to all the Auburn Tigers who joined us for the bus ride to Clemson! We got two busloads of Auburn fans to the game and even had some Tigers fly in from New York and Florida to join us for the ride. Great group - great company - and great spot to spy all the Crimson Tide fans sitting in traffic for our game (what was that all about?!) 

  

Our next stop this season is SOUTH CAROLINA! We only have one bus reserved for this trip and there are still seats available. If you have a ticket to the game and plan to join us... please reserve your seat now!! We realize that many people are waiting to hear what time kickoff will be but we need to make our minimum seat occupancy to ensure that this bus trip moves ahead!  As soon as kickoff is announced, we will let everyone know the departure time. Departure location will be the Sandy Springs MARTA station (directions below). 

 

Satellite TV is ordered for ALL of our bus trips this year. And, as in years past, riders can bring personal-sized coolers aboard the bus (larger coolers must be stowed below). So why worry about driving when you can start your tailgating earlier and ride with us to the game?!!   

  

NEXT TRIP: OCT 1 - AUBURN at SOUTH CAROLINA (one bus only) -- Kickoff TBA, Cost: $50/per person. Click here to reserve seats:  https://quickclick.com/r/dr60b  This will be a one-day trip.  Depending on kickoff time we will arrange to get there early enough for tailgating - departure will be one hour after the game. 

There will also be an Auburn Alumni Tailgate at the South Carolina game - click here for details

   

Seats can also be reserved now for these bus trips:

 

Oct. 15: Florida Gators at Auburn (one bus only) - TBA, $35/per person. Click here to reserve seats:  https://quickclick.com/r/hvsgl

Nov. 12: Auburn at Georgia -- TBA, $35/per person. Click here to reserve seats:  https://quickclick.com/r/l12b0 

If anyone has trouble ordering, please email us at: communications@atlantaauburnclub.org 

 

Atlanta Auburn Club Bus policy for the 2011 season:

Seat reservations are confirmed only through pre-payment via credit card links posted by the Atlanta Auburn Club. The Atlanta Auburn Club has no control over TV kickoff times, and to secure buses we must reserve them early. Pre-paid fares for game day trips are non-refundable, but can be transferred (with notice to club) to another Auburn Tiger or someone on the club waiting list (if applicable). Bus departure times and locations will be announced prior to game day travel. If there are not enough riders for a particular bus trip, the club will refund prepaid funds to riders for said trip. 

 

Woooooo! Did everyone read that number?! We want to say it again -- 316!   

We are going to have an amazing turnout of Auburn Tigers at the Georgia Dome for Cam Newton's hometown debut as quarterback for the Carolina Panthers. Lee Ziemba is also playing for the Panthers. Thanks to everyone who took advantage of our great group ticket deal with the Atlanta Falcons.  It is probably safe to say that the Falcons will be offering us some group discounts in the future after this outstanding response. The Falcons said we can cheer for Cam and Lee all we want.... as long as we pull for Atlanta to win ;-)

This game is part of a BIG Auburn football weekend that includes the Tigers home game versus the Florida Gators on Saturday. (The Atlanta Auburn Club has a bus trip to Auburn planned for that Saturday)  

So, with such a big part of the Family joining us in Atlanta for the Falcons game, too, we're thinking TAILGATE!  The Falcons have recommended that we target the Yellow Lot for our pre-game tailgating on Sunday, October 16 because it is cheaper and has easy access both in and out on game day.  We cannot pre-order spaces in any of the lots and typically all of them fill up about 90 minutes to 2 hours before kickoff.  But the Falcons have told us as long as we are set up by 10am - we should be fine. So, who's ALL IN??

Here is link to a map of the Falcons game day parking: http://vsv.atlantafalcons.com/#/parking/

Anyone who can help us get this Tailgate going -- and Tigers to the lot -- please contact club president Kathleen Saal at communications@atlantaauburnclub.org -- and at the game, we'll be expecting to see everyone wear something Auburn - we also want to see some Auburn signs for TV coverage! WDE!!   

October 8: Auburn at Arkansas Game-watching at Twisted Taco (Wieuca Road location)   

October 22: Auburn at LSU Game-watching at The Bucket Shop

The Atlanta Auburn Club is also joining forces with the Hudson Family Foundation (Braves Tim Hudson and his wife, Kim) to launch a children's book drive in October. We've been challenged by the Auburn Alumni Association to do a community service project during the week of Oct 1-8; we're getting it started that week, but we're going to continue it for the rest of the football season! The Rookie Reader Program benefits schools and youth serving organizations throughout Georgia and Alabama. The Atlanta Auburn Club will be asking Auburn Tigers to bring children's books to our game-watching locations. How many books can we collect?!  We are going to count all of them! So we really want this to be a home run!      

In October, we will also be asking everyone to check their couches and under their car seats for forgotten and unwanted pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. We will be collecting spare change again this year for another Auburn-founded charity: it's Rally Foundation's "4 Quarters 4 Research" fundraiser to raise money for Childhood Cancer Research.  

More details on all of this..next week! War Eagle!     

This week's Opponent: Florida Atlantic University - FAU, founded in 1961, is a public, co-educational research university, well known for its ocean engineering and marine biotechnology schools. Their student population is 28,000.  The university is located Boca Raton, in south Florida.  They are known as the "Owls", their colors are red, blue and silver, and their mascot is "Owlsey" the burrowing owl. For more info:

Auburn Game Day 2011 Website 

www.auburn.edu/gameday 

Auburn University's comprehensive website aimed at giving fans the most up-to-date parking and traffic information for Tigers' home games. Site includes stadium and lodging information, tailgating regulations, game day maps, important contacts, game day activities... and more!  You can also access ticket info by clicking this link: AubTix.com  

Game Watch Locations For Tigers On-the-Go! State-by-State Listings

http://www.aualum.org/clubs/ 

Traveling on business or away from home during an Auburn football game this Fall? You can still watch the game with your Auburn family. Check out the game watch locations for clubs across the country, and gather with alumni and friends to cheer the Tigers.

Auburn Tiger Football on Radio/TV and the Web:

There are currently NO Atlanta area radio stations that carry the Auburn Football Network. The Auburn Tigers can be found on XM/Sirius satellite radio. Web link for Auburn All-Access also below.

---SiriusXM College Sports Nation    

---Auburn ISP Sports Network Football Radio Affiliates 

---Auburn ISP Sports Network Tiger Talk Affiliates 

---Coaches Shows Affiliates (on TV) 

---Live Webcasts - Video & More with Auburn All-Access 

CSS Fall Football Replay Schedule for the 2011 Season 

Auburn Tigers Schedule for the 2011 Season 

AuburnTigers.com - The Official Home of Auburn Athletics

http://auburntigers.cstv.com/

AuburnWarEagle.com - Auburn Football Fan Site  

http://www.auburnsaturdays.com/ 

SECSports.com

Click here to view a listing of all SEC sports radio and TV listings.  

Auburn Football Media Guide  

Jordan-Hare Stadium Map

http://auburntigers.cstv.com/facilities/aub-10-football.html  

Questions? Need additional info? Have more great links to add?  

Contact the club at: communications@atlantaauburnclub.org 

September 21, 2011  

If you have not had a chance to make it to Auburn this fall, this weekend would be a great time to visit.   

The Auburn football team will play its first night game of the season against Florida Atlantic at 6 p.m. CT on Saturday. There is nothing quite like a night game at Jordan-Hare Stadium, and single-game tickets for Florida Atlantic are still available. Fans can purchase single-game tickets online at www.aubtix.com, by calling (855) AUB-2010 or on the day of the game at the west-side ticket windows of Jordan-Hare Stadium and the Auburn Arena Ticket Office.  

Football isn't the only sport in action this weekend. Auburn volleyball hosts Alabama at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 23 at the Student Act. If you have never attended a volleyball match at Auburn, I would encourage you to give it a try. It's a fast-moving sport and a great environment. Auburn is currently 6-6 with two key SEC match-ups at home this weekend. In addition to Alabama on Friday, first year Head Coach Rick Nold's team plays Ole Miss at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free.  

Coach Karen Hoppa's soccer team is ranked No. 22 in the country with a 6-2 record. Soccer opens SEC play this weekend with a Friday match against Kentucky at 7:30 p.m. at the Auburn soccer field, followed by a Sunday match at home against Vanderbilt at 2:30 p.m. CT. Admission is free.  

Tough test ahead for Auburn football
As we saw last Saturday, our football team will experience some growing pains this year. This season's schedule ranks among the toughest Auburn has ever played. In the month of October, we play at No. 12 South Carolina, at No. 14 Arkansas, at home against No. 15 Florida and at No. 2 LSU. Auburn has only played four ranked teams in a row three times in school history, and never with such a young and inexperienced team. The last time Auburn played four consecutive ranked teams was in 1987.  

Our youth and inexperience is not an excuse. It is a fact. Consider the following:
· Auburn signed a total of 58 players in the 2007 and 2008 recruiting classes (the classes that are this year's fourth and fifth-year seniors). Only nine players from those two classes remain. Roughly half of the players who signed in 2007 and 2008 either never enrolled at Auburn, quit or transferred.
· Auburn has seven seniors on its two-deep depth chart. Auburn has four seniors on the offensive depth chart and only three on defense. We know from last year's success that a large class of fourth and fifth-year seniors is crucial for success. It will be several years before we reach those numbers again.
· By comparison, the first four teams that we play in October (South Carolina, Arkansas, Florida and LSU) have an average of 14 seniors on their two-deep depth chart. 

Even though we face an enormous challenge the remainder of this season given our youth and inexperience, the future is bright for Auburn football. Coach Gene Chizik and his staff are recruiting the kind of student-athletes who qualify and who will make a difference as they gain experience. Fifty-six of the past 57 players who signed with Auburn the past two years in back-to-back Top 5 National classes qualified academically. That bodes well for the future.  

You will not hear Coach Chizik talk about our youth, but those are the facts. That is the reality we face. The future is bright with 36 freshmen and sophomores on our depth chart, but this season will be a huge test. As I learned as a player, growing pains now will pay off later in terms of experience and wins.  

As I shared with you before the season began, it is easy to be "All In" when things are going well. We need you to be "All In" all the time-this year and every year.  

Thanks for being the best fans in the country. I look forward to seeing you in Auburn for our first night game of the season and at our other athletic events during this busy but exciting weekend.  

God Bless and War Eagle!  

Jay Jacobs

Director of Athletics

The 3rd and final run of the 2011 Atlanta BeltLine Running Series is set for Saturday, December 3, and a Tailgate Challenge is being added to the mix for this event.  On 'Championship Saturday' all Auburn runners/walkers are invited to participate in this 10k which explores new parks, such as the Historic Fourth Ward Park and Skatepark - and we'll see which Atlanta-area alumni group has the most school spirit! (Ummmm, we all know who that is!  Hint: we wear burnt orange & navy and say "War Eagle!!!" to everyone... and by the way -- the race director for this BeltLine series is an Auburn Tiger, so we want to get a big Auburn showing out for this event!! WDE!)

What: Atlanta BeltLine Eastside 10k Run/Walk
When: Saturday, December 3rd at 10am ET (please arrive early)
Where: Registration: Piedmont Park/Park Tavern, 500 10th Street Atlanta, GA
   - Post-race activities: Park Tavern, 500 10th Street Atlanta, GA
   - Ample parking is available for a fee at the Piedmont Park/Botanical Gardens parking deck. 
    Limited parking is available for a fee at Park Tavern. We encourage you to take MARTA to the Arts Center or Midtown stations, which are a short walk from Piedmont Park.

Save on your entry fee! Register by October 12th for $30, it will go up to $35 after the 12th and race day registration will be $40.

So many reasons to sign up!
    - 2 Free Beers during post-race activites at Park Tavern, bring your ID and race number
    - Tailgate Challenge - Prizes to top associations, including Cash or Happy Hour events
    - Giveaways to great Atlanta Venues
    - Free food and music
    - Great shirts
    - Medals for the top finishers overall and in their age group
    - Dogs and strollers are welcome, but will be asked to start in the back.
    - AND, proceeds from the race support the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership!

Atlanta Auburn Club Special Offers

Order Photos From the AAC's 2011 Tiger Trek Atlanta Event!   

Pictures can be viewed and ordered now on the Village Photographers website at: http://www.villagephotographers.com/  Once on the website, click the link for "special events" and then find the link for Atlanta Auburn Club. Enter the password WAREAGLE to view both the Trophy Pictures and Candid shots from our event. A portion of all picture sales will benefit the Atlanta Auburn Club's 501(c)(3) Roy B. Sewell Memorial Scholarship Fund. 

Questions/Problems? Email the club at communications@atlantaauburnclub.org