Auburn Meltdown…
And people though our coaching search was a circus…The Auburn A.D. makes Bill Martin look like a mastermind…
http://www.trackemtigers.com/ Notes: “To say this move is shocking is an understatement. For many Auburn fans, this is a worst case scenario. There appears to be little logic in the choice”.
http://www.auburntron.com/ Notes: “Today, I am not proud to be an Auburn Tiger - and I blame you Jay Jacobs. No recruits want to hear what Gene Chizik has to say after Saban, Meyer, Richt, Nutt, and now Mullen sit down with them. Winless in the Big 12. Marginal recruiter, at best. No personality. No charisma. No national recognition. Nothing positive emerges from this. This proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that we have the worst, most inept, most pathetic athletic department, combined with the most damaging outside booster influence in all of college football. And apparently, zero leadership at the top of the university who could step up and stop this monumental blunder. We hired our absolute worst candidate”.
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Side note.
LET IT BE SAID. Rich Rodriguez is a great hire for Michigan.
Rich Rodriguez will retire as a beloved and successful Michigan coach. He will go down as a successful and transformation hire for Michigan! (yeah, I see nothing but maze and blue)
Go Blue.
December 13th, 2008 at 5:11 PM ^
why feel the need to put the side note in
December 13th, 2008 at 6:02 PM ^
Because of people who are screaming about the sky falling after a 3-9 season, when in all actuality we could've gone out and done something stupid- like Auburn just did.
December 13th, 2008 at 8:10 PM ^
Ninja, the new avatar = WIN
December 13th, 2008 at 6:05 PM ^
Even "Sailor" Bill couldn't have screwed up as badly as Auburn, unless, of course, he hired Mike Debord.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:08 PM ^
Seriously. This is the Auburn version of hiring Mike DeBord.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:10 PM ^
Yes, it's a perfect parallel right down to their only real credits being undefeated seasons under the guy they repleaced.
December 13th, 2008 at 8:19 PM ^
Its not that bad, Chizik was a really good DC. Debord wasn't even that.
December 13th, 2008 at 8:22 PM ^
Once upon a time, DeBord was a good OC. Then the game passed him by.
December 13th, 2008 at 8:31 PM ^
I'm not sure about Debord ever being a good OC, but, he was well respected as an O-line coach.
December 13th, 2008 at 10:24 PM ^
And again Shut Up Jay
December 13th, 2008 at 10:23 PM ^
Shut Up Jay!
December 16th, 2008 at 11:15 AM ^
I thought he was banned.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:16 AM ^
Oops, old post. My bad.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:08 PM ^
Iowa State is the perfect job for Turner Gill, so there will be some justice at least.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:10 PM ^
OT - What the fuck is the Turner Gill boner? I understand, Buffalo ain't a fucking hot-spot for college football, but they guy has experience as a good coordinator (not unlike, say, Gene Chizik) and a 7-5 year in the MAC. Let's breathe a little.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:12 PM ^
I agree, I don't get why he's considered "ZOMG!"... but Buffalo was in D-III a decade ago and won 5 games over 5 seasons before he got there. Pretty big turn around.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:16 PM ^
Buffalo was basically a permanent resident of the ESPN weekly "Bottom 10". A winning record there is spectacular. A conference title is even more spectacular.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:31 PM ^
A conference title in which he went 7-5, in the MAC, and needing 7 OT's for 3 of those wins. A season in which his team was both out-scored on the year (prior to their 13th game) and out-gained on the year (including the 13th game), and was +15 on turnovers (including an ultra-flukey +10 on fumbles).
I'm not trying to say he's not good. I'm just saying there is rooms for skepticism here. So, as a wise man once said - If you want to crown his ass, then crown him.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:59 PM ^
i agree with you to an extent. but as for 3 of those wins coming in close games... well, if we had done the same and gone 6-6 instead of 3-9 there wouldn't be so much backlash against the program. that would've been a big difference.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:17 PM ^
Damn....
This is worse than Mike Debord. At least DeBord sniffed a conference win while at CMU. This is hiring Gus the Field Goal Kicking Mule. Although that may be generous, since Gus the FG Kicking Mule actually won a game or two. They would have been better hiring the Fonz, b/c at least he got his team to a bowl game, granted it was a movie with Adam Sandler, but still...
December 13th, 2008 at 6:25 PM ^
I just started reading the auburn boards... it's like someone just took their favorite dog, shot him between the eyes, and fed him to a bear right in front them. Kind of cathartic really... in a sick, "I really like Saw IV" kind of way.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:48 PM ^
I can't remeber the last time a coach sucked horribly in a major conference and then got a coaching upgrade at well respected school in a better conference.
It is not that hard to win at ISU (Mccarthy, [I think that was as his name] was taking to ISU to bowl games and they ran him out of town).
In other news the stock on Chizik nickles must have plummeted...
December 13th, 2008 at 6:52 PM ^
Dennis Erickson from Wazzou to Miami.
December 13th, 2008 at 7:13 PM ^
Erickson went 9-3 his last season at Wazzou and won their first bowl game since 1931 before he took the Miami job. His first year at Wazzou was 3-7-1 and second year was the 9-3 season. Plus it was at Wazzou which historically, sucks donkey balls.
December 13th, 2008 at 7:29 PM ^
Actually you were partly right... while the Erickson Wazzou-Miami transfer is correct as I wrote it, Erickson did perform the losing season at crap school to respected BCS program leap when he went from Idaho (4-8 in 2006) to Arizona St in 2007. He did however have a 4-3 record at one point in 2006 before losing 5 straigh to end the season, still performing higher than Chizik.
December 13th, 2008 at 8:40 PM ^
had a history of success as a head coach before he went to ASU, so it wasn't a shocking hire.
This chizik move just reeks of desperation.
December 13th, 2008 at 7:09 PM ^
for message board content. This from a auburn fan at EDSBS:
"Looks like we decided to go full retard for this hire."
Paging Bobby Williams. Bobby Williams, please report to the Auburn coordinator's office
December 13th, 2008 at 8:24 PM ^
SJU,
Thay went 0-8 in the Big 12, and didn't play Oklahoma, Texas OR Texas Tech. He's 5-19 over the last two years. Debord was the suck, but it doesn't get much worse.
December 13th, 2008 at 8:27 PM ^
Iowa State is an impossible place to recruit and there is no money. It's probably the worst job in the BCS... I think the best coach there ever was Earle Bruce, and he made the Hall of Fame.
December 13th, 2008 at 8:51 PM ^
program, from 2000-2005 they only had one losing season and had a 9 win season. Mccarney took them to bowl games in 5 out of 6 seasons during this time.
Not saying they are the shit or anything, but you should no go winless in the b12 when Baylor is on your schedule.
December 13th, 2008 at 8:55 PM ^
McCarney was an aberration, the Mike Price of the Big XII.
December 13th, 2008 at 9:16 PM ^
Not enough booze and strippers to be the Mike Price of the Big 12
December 13th, 2008 at 9:17 PM ^
IT'S ROLLING, BABY, IT'S ROLLING!
December 13th, 2008 at 9:28 PM ^
Was the side note really necessary? I think just about everyone here (and for that matter, most Michigan fans in general) has a pretty level-headed perspective on the program's future.
December 14th, 2008 at 12:19 AM ^
Was the side note really necessary? I think just about everyone here (and for that matter, most Michigan fans in general) has a pretty level-headed perspective on the program's future.
Um........yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaah. I'm just gonna go ahead and assume you've been away for the past 4 months. Tell me- is Bin Laden really that tall in person? How did you find a cave with high enough ceilings? Inquiring minds (and the CIA) want to know.
December 14th, 2008 at 1:08 PM ^
OK, tell me: how many people on this website are bitching constantly about RR and calling for him to be fired? People are beating a dead horse.
December 15th, 2008 at 2:29 PM ^
For the record, I didn't think that our coaching search was a circus.
December 15th, 2008 at 3:29 PM ^
Well, for me it got really bad when I watched a 1-AA playoff game and came online saying K.C. Keeler would make a great last ditch choice... only for the next day to bring news that K.C. Keeler was an actual candidate.
December 15th, 2008 at 3:44 PM ^
for it was: "Regatta".
December 15th, 2008 at 3:50 PM ^
Our coaching search was actually very typical. It took a few weeks, there was a bunch of rumormongering and names thrown all over the place, and people freaked out. Then we ended up hiring a guy that we didn't expect to be available in the first place, and almost everyone was satisfied. It only seemed like a circus to us because we weren't used to going through them, given that our last real football search happened 39 years earlier - and because our basketball search earlier in the year went unusually smoothly.