Let’s face it, when you’re going head to head with Nick Saban, you’ve got three choices: do business as usual and end up as a full time duck hunter, try to get creative, or totally capitulate. Of course, the latter is the superior option, but it seems that Auburn has chosen to go the creative route. The team that just one year ago boasted a six game winning streak against their in-state rival is now more well known for such hits as, “The Limo”, “The Big Cat Weekend”, and “That Stars and Stripes Thing That Curtis Luper Said Would Be Huge But Wasn’t That Great, Actually.”

Now, anyone in an Alabama metro area has probably been subjected to their latest bright idea…the billboards. The first one I saw was respectfully wedged between a Little Caesar’s Hot n’ Ready ad and a board for a local cheap motel’s free continental breakfast. Seeing this series of signs didn’t make me want to go to Auburn, but the thought of waking up to an assortment of pastries and danishes did sound appetizing.

However, one billboard does not an ad campaign make. You’ve got to have some alternatives. I mean, Geico wouldn’t only give the gecko one line to say over and over, right? Here are some suggestions for the next billboard on Gene’s path to world domination: