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Tony Franklin has no illusions about playing quarterback in the SEC, calling it the toughest position for an incoming freshman to play.
But Barrett Trotter is not your everyday true freshman.
“He’s been in the offense for three years so he’s not like a normal freshman coming in,” said Franklin, Auburn’s first-year offensive coordinator. “He knows everything right now and the only thing he has to do is adjust to the speed.”
Birmingham’s Briarwood Christian installed the Franklin spread offense a few years ago and Trotter has mastered it over the last three seasons, throwing for 7,968 career yards and 88 touchdowns.
Since arriving a month ago, Trotter has already made a big impression on many of Auburn’s veterans. Senior wide receiver Robert Dunn called Trotter one of the biggest surprises this summer.
“Just coming in and stepping on the field the first day of 7-on-7’s and knowing the plays and being able to walk up there and call them, that makes a big difference and is a big help,” said Trotter. “I think it surprised some people for a freshman quarterback to come in and do that.”
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Trotter has certainly caught the eye of junior quarterback Chris Todd.
“I like Barrett a lot,” said Todd. “He’s a real good guy and real knowledgeable. He has a good, live arm. He listens and learns a lot. I try to help him out as much as I can.”
Heading into the fall, Todd and sophomore Kodi Burns are locked in a battle for starting quarterback position. At the very least, Trotter wants to make sure he’s ready if needed.
“I think it’s just going to depend on how Chris and Kodi do and how I do as well,” said Trotter. “If they step up and do the job they need to do, they’ll be able to lead the team.
“At the same time, if they need me to step in at any point, hopefully I’ll be ready for that.”
With Todd close to being fully recovered from the shoulder issues that plagued him in the spring and Burns apparently putting behind the inconsistencies he experienced as a true freshman last year — completing just 38.5 percent of his passes — it appears unlikely Trotter will be needed this fall.
But if Todd’s shoulder issues crop back up or Burns falters, Franklin knows he has at least one more option he can depend on.
“I wouldn’t be shocked if (Trotter) played,” said Franklin.
There is a funny story here that someone isn’t telling Source
Associated Press
Published: July 3, 2008ALEXANDER CITY —
Shannon McDuffie made a surprising find on Lake Martin’s drought-expanded shoreline: Pat Dye’s long-lost, mud-caked pants and alligator leather wallet.
From two decades ago.
Eventually, McDuffie managed to track down the former Auburn football coach and College Football Hall of Famer and reunite him with his britches. Dye was at a loss to explain how he lost them in the first place.
“Well, I had a place in Still Waters in the early 80s. … I don’t remember losing it, but now listen, that was a long time ago,” Dye told the Lake Martin edition of “Lake Magazine,” which reported the discovery in a story published online Tuesday.
McDuffie spotted the green-and-blue Madras golf pants sticking out of the mud along Lake Martin in the Emerald Shores area near Still Waters last December, with the water down 15 feet below full pool.
She carried the mud-caked wallet home and washed it off. Inside were a number of credit cards from the mid 1980s, an Alabama driver’s license, an honorary Alabama State Trooper card and a Delta Frequent Flyer card. It also contained a Chevron government credit card with the words: “University of Auburn Athletic.”
The name on the cards: Patrick Fain Dye.
McDuffie’s initial reaction: “Patrick Fain Dye — who is that?”“
Then I got to thinking, Pat Dye, Pat Dye, there was a Dye who was an Auburn coach … and about that time my husband came home from work and we both suddenly realized, in fact, that this was a wallet that once belonged to the famous Auburn football coach Pat Dye,” she told the magazine.
“After we had shared all the excitement with my mom and dad, we got in our golf cart and rode back down to the lake to retrieve the pants that were left in the mud.”
She said the pants were still folded and creased. The pockets held a set of Toyota car keys on an Auburn helmet key chain and a plain white handkerchief.
McDuffie was unable to reach Dye until the magazine helped her track him down. She brought them back to him at his Notasulga house.
Asked how he lost his pants, Dye responded: “Was there any money in there?”
But, he added, “I do remember those pants.”
“I don’t have any idea how I lost ’em,” he said, “but we can make up a good story.”
Dye invited McDuffie to attend the Blue Jean Ball, where he said he would donate the pants and their contents. The annual charity event is held on the weekend of the Auburn-LSU football game at Auburn Oaks, a commercial hunting property adjacent to his 786 acres, to benefit the Auburn University School of Nursing.
Dye led Auburn to a 99-39-4 record and four Southeastern Conference titles from 1981-92. He still serves as a special assistant to the president.
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