Auburn football coach argues with fans on social media after Georgia loss

Auburn football’s defense was shredded in the fourth quarter. Specifically, Georgia tight end Brock Bowers completely took over the game, gaining 127 yards in the period and scoring the go-ahead touchdown that would eventually give the Bulldogs the victory.

Auburn’s defense had no answer for Bowers, and this understandably led to some blowback for the coaching on social media.

One coach, Auburn defensive coordinator Ron Roberts, hopped on X (formerly Twitter) and swiped back:

This is obviously an incredibly bad look. After such an abysmal stretch late in the game, in which Georgia receivers were wide open on several occasions, the last thing a coach should be doing is arguing with fans.

There’s clearly some tape to be studied and some strategy to be reconsidered after a performance like that.

This isn’t the first Auburn coach to get blowback for his social media activity either.

It’s evident that this is a top-down issue. If the leaders of the program are picking fights online after games, that kind of petty behavior is only going to trickle down to the rest of the building.

Auburn is in year one of a major rebuild, and the change has to be wholesale. These kinds of things do absolutely nothing to benefit the program, and neither do they make the defense better in any way.

If Roberts was defending a player, that would be one thing. Getting into spats over coverages, however, is something that should be beneath someone in a position of that stature.

Losing that game was tough, but not embarrassing in the slightest. Georgia is an elite football team and Auburn simply ran out of gas in the late stages.

Twitter fights, on the other hand, are extremely embarrassing.