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Locked On Auburn -  Daily Podcast On Auburn Tigers Football & Basketball

RUMORS: Kenny Dillingham to Auburn rumblings seem LEGIT, Auburn is a better job than Arizona State

Locked On Auburn - Daily Podcast On Auburn Tigers Football & Basketball

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4.6 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kenny Dillingham rumors surge as Auburn Tigers face a pivotal coaching decision. Could the Arizona State head coach make a dramatic return to Auburn and rejuvenate the Tigers program? Zac Blackerby and Darrell Dapprich break down Dillingham’s candidacy versus front-runners Jon Sumrall and DJ Durkin, explore insider perspectives, and analyze the impact of NIL, resources, and Auburn’s unique appeal. Betting odds and fan reactions add extra fuel to the speculation. Practice insights reveal Ashton Daniels emerging as quarterback favorite and offer updates on injuries to key players like Cam Coleman. Auburn basketball’s shaky overtime win against Bethune-Cookman raises questions over interior defense, player development, and Stephen Pearl’s bold comments. Will Auburn football and basketball bounce back or are deeper issues at play? Get the latest analysis, insider takes, and predictions for the Tigers’ trajectory this season.

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0:00.0

Rumors are swirling around Kenny Dillingham and Auburn.

0:05.1

Dilly, Dilly.

0:06.3

Yes.

0:12.1

You are Locked on Auburn, your daily podcast on the Auburn Tigers.

0:17.1

Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Yes, welcome on into Locked-on Auburn, your daily Auburn Tigers podcast. I'm your host, Zach Blackerbie, and thank you so much for making Locked on Auburn, your first listen every single day. We're dapping it up with the Daryl Dappardtch-Montgomery Radio Legend hanging out with us on today's show. Is Auburn basketball, okay, are we panicking?

0:38.7

That's coming up as well as Auburn's practice yesterday.

0:42.3

Some interesting notes, especially involving the quarterback.

0:47.2

But let's start with what everybody wants to talk about.

0:49.5

And it's any sort of inkling of information regarding who's Auburn's next head coach is going to be.

0:56.1

And, Daryl, there are rumors and kind of some like light reporting from several different places,

1:04.0

different parts of the country geographically, people have different status as far as insiders,

1:10.0

as far as boosters, as far as insiders as far as boosters as far as former players

1:12.7

that Kenny Dillingham leaving Arizona state and going to Auburn it's I think there's

1:19.6

some legs here I do I want to set this up so we get the whole concept I want to preface this by

1:25.7

saying that I'm talking about this is not

1:28.5

endorsing a particular candidate. I'm not saying this is who it's going to happen or this is who I want.

1:35.4

I will say this. I'm really in a place where the three names that we've heard the most chatter about,

1:44.0

I'm excited just that I feel good about all three. If it's Sumerall, if it's Durkan, or if it's Dillingham, I think that's a good place to be. I'm, I'm really comfortable and have no, and that's, that's refreshing, you know, that really is. So the Dillingham stuff and why I think it's important to touch on it is

2:02.2

right away there was this narrative. A lot of times there's these false narratives that come out

2:07.3

immediately about things seemingly lately about Auburn that people want to kind of lock hold of.

2:14.5

And that is, I love Dillingham. It was early on, he was one of the first choices I had. I had conversations with you about it. I said, I hope Auburn pursues. And there was this opinion that he wouldn't even listen. There is a narrative out there by people that think he wouldn't listen. He's happy. I saw that too. Okay. I thought that Arizona State, it felt like he was home.

2:37.9

And now we're hearing that may not be true.

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