Aubserver Mailbag 24: What's the way-too-early basketball lineup for next season?

Plus: Justin Powell's transfer, that open scholarship spot, switching football schemes, Southern accents, local restaurants and more wrasslin'

SG Devan Cambridge and SF Allen Flanigan (Shanna Lockwood/Auburn Athletics)

It’s Friday. You know what that means.

Auburn couldn’t cruise during the week between the end of basketball season and the start of spring football practices without some major news.

This week’s Mailbag covers all things involving the fallout from Justin Powell’s departure, including a discussion on what to do with the open scholarship, Sharife Cooper’s NBA Draft decision (of course) and the Tigers’ future starting lineup.

There’s also a big-picture question involving football practices, a journey through linguistic history, my updated top Auburn restaurants list, a countdown of my favorite pro wrestling matches of all-time and a hypothetical about fighting Painter.

The Mailbag never takes an off week. Let’s go.

What does it mean, Justin?

Allie

“It,” of course, refers to the biggest news in Auburn this week — Justin Powell’s decision to transfer from the Plains after a freshman season that started strongly and was end…