Phillip Marshall

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Auburn Columnist at 247Sports

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Florida transfer signs with Auburn softball

1 week ago | 247sports.com | Phillip Marshall

Kylie Shaw will be a sophomore outfielder at Auburn next seasonOutfielder Kylie Shaw, who spent her freshman season at Florida has signed with Auburn for co-head coaches Chris and Kate Malveaux's second season. Shaw joins infielder Alyssa Hastings (Lipscomb) and pitchers Ella Harrison (Rutgers) and Abby Herndon (Ole Miss) in signing with the Tigers out of the transfer portal. "Kylie comes to us as a highly driven and competitive person," Chris Malveaux said.
#PMARSHONAU: Phillip's Monday morning musings

1 week ago | 247sports.com | Phillip Marshall

Fans say it. Third-year head coach Hugh Freeze says it. Auburn players say it. There is and should be a belief that better days are ahead for Auburn football. The question: What does that mean? As has been said repeatedly, there is no magic number. There is no demand to beat this team or that team. The truth is that athletics director John Cohen's confidence in Freeze's program, and his commitment to it have not changed. It would take a disaster to open the possibility of it changing.
Auburn lands softball left-hander out of the transfer portal

2 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Phillip Marshall

Left-handed Pitcher Abby Herndon has signed with Auburn after transferring from Ole Miss. She was redshirted in the 2025 season will have four years of eligibility remaining. Herndon will return to her home state, where she was rated one of the nation's top prospects after a glittering career at Brooks High School in Killen. Ranked the No. 28 recruit of the 2024 class by ExtraInning Softball, Herndon was a six-year letterwinner at Brooks.
#PMARSHONAU: Where the trouble began for college athletics

2 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Phillip Marshall

Even NCAA president Charlie Baker has joined the chorus complaining that the organization missed out years ago on opportunities to avoid the chaos that has overtaken college athletics in recent years. To understand how things got to this point requires a look at more than 50 years of history. For many years, there was a move to make college athletes just like "other" college students.
#PMARSHONAU: The good and the bad of a new day in college athletics

2 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Phillip Marshall

'I think you can get good quick and you can get bad quick'VIPSo much about college athletics these days is so difficult to swallow for those who remember a different day. Even with the approval of the House case settlement, we still don't know where it's headed. But one thing hasn't changed: In matters of varying importance, coaches view everything through lenses of what it means for them. A missed tackle to one is a broken tackle to another.
#PMARSHONAU: Phillip's Tuesday morning musings

2 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Phillip Marshall

Auburn will spend the max, and it mustSo, the House settlement has been approved, and Auburn athletics director John Cohen is all in. In case you missed it, Cohen said Auburn will spend $20.5 million, the entire amount allowed, and add 113 full scholarships at cost of another $5 million. There is really not much choice for a program that aspires to compete at the top of the SEC. Coaches celebrated, of course. But all of them would be wise to consider that nobody is spending that much money to lose.
#PMARSHONAU: After a lost weekend, Auburn's baseball future is bright

2 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Phillip Marshall

Tigers have the talent and the resources to be contendersAUBURN, Alabama - I have been around Auburn baseball coach Butch Thompson in good times and bad, going all the way back to when he was the pitching coach on Tom Slater's staff. One thing has not changed: He always responded to wins and losses with class and grace. Saturday, after a 4-1 super regional loss to Coastal Carolina ended Thompson's 10th Auburn season, was no exception. But there was a difference.
#PMARSHONAU: A gut-wrenching finish on a long night for Auburn baseball

3 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Phillip Marshall

Tigers rally, but in the end, Coastal Carolina makes the plays to winAfter Coastal Carolina took a 6-1 lead in Friday's super regional opener at Plainsman Park, I had half a column written about what went wrong. After Auburn tied it 6-6, I had more than half a column written about a stirring comeback. And now I am starting over. Scoring runs in five consecutive innings to tie the game was indeed a stirring comeback.
Coffee With Phillip: Friday morning musings, links of interest and more

3 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Phillip Marshall

Transfer portal calendar is a major issueWhen Auburn baseball coach Butch Thompson met with reporters Thursday, the day before the Tigers' super regional opener against Coastal Carolina, he joked that he'd been on the phone much of the day talking to players in the transfer portal. The portal opened Monday. Why does it open the week of super regionals in baseball, during bowl and playoff preparation in football and during the NCAA Tournament in basketball? That's a question coaches unanimously ask.
#PMARSHONAU: For Gross, Auburn is where his heart has always been

3 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Phillip Marshall

AUBURN, Alabama – For as long as he can remember, Gabe Gross has loved Auburn. After all, it where his father, Lee, was an All-SEC Auburn center who went on to play for five seasons in the NFL. Sports were part of Gross' life from the time he was young. Whether it was football, baseball or basketball, he loved to compete. And he was good at all of them. At Northview High School in Dothan, he was a standout a football quarterback and a big-time left-handed hitter in baseball.