OT: Auburn dismisses DC, "eyes" Muschamp

Submitted by Bodogblog on

Auburn has dismissed their DC Ellis Johnson after getting ka-chunged by Alabama and finishing 10th in the SEC in scoring defense.  This comes one year after helping them reach the national championship game. 

But more importantly, for anyone who thought Muschamp was a a contender for the Michigan DC job, there apparently is mutual interest.  Muscshamp spent 2006 and 2007 as the Auburn DC.  

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11960622/auburn-tigers-d…

 

OccaM

November 30th, 2014 at 8:02 PM ^

I'm not saying anything will be different. I'm just laying out two different possible scenarios for why Michigan may be waiting (1 being they got a plan; the other being they got no plan or idea). I really don't care whether we fire him now or later because it honestly doesn't do anything. 

This stuff generally happens behinds the scenes. If it saves speculation to keep the fanbase in a tizzy over why we aren't firing Hoke, then go for it. Make sure it works, b/c if the plan falls through chances are other coaches will be taken up by January. 

Or Michigan can reassure its fanbase by firing Hoke as a symbolic gesture and invite speculation for its next HC since the spot will be vacant now. 

Either route you choose, get it right. I'm all for either direction as long as it doesn't involve flying all over the country like a show man "acting" like you are interviewing qualified people when in reality under-qualified Hoke was your guy all along like Brandon did in mid-January. 

Don

November 30th, 2014 at 7:27 PM ^

burning the 30-day clock right down to the last 5 minutes, when Interim-Semi-Permanent AD Jim "Palpatine" Hackett announces that there aren't any acceptable candidates and therefore Brady Hoke will return in 2015. His new second-in-command Lord Debord then states that he finds our "lack of faith disturbing."

wolpherine2000

November 30th, 2014 at 8:42 PM ^

...watch Star Wars Episodes 1-3.  What is the scenario by which Brady Hoke becomes a super powerful evil cyborg that senses his enemies movements before they even make them and destroys the planet Columbus just to prove to everyone he's not f-iing around?  



'Cause if that happens in the off-season I am okay with giving him one more year.

aiglick

November 30th, 2014 at 8:48 PM ^

I always thought Hoke was Jar Jar Binks. Very likeable character who bumbles around and at times helps to defeat the droid army by clumsily launching projectiles out of wagon that destroys several droids and battle tanks. Howver, he is also responsible for getting Chancellor Palpatine emergency powers. We just got to take the good with the not so great.

Mr. Yost

November 30th, 2014 at 7:32 PM ^

Florida has candidates that they may want to hire now.

Nebraska definitely has candidates that they could hire now.

Michigan does not. It just sucks for us. All of our top candidates are still coaching.

Like I've said before, if Scot Loeffler was the OC for an undefeated Virginia Tech team and they were on back to back years of a BCS level run. Then you fire Hoke 3 weeks ago and bring Loeffler in now. He'd be the hot assistant coach everyone is buzzing about.

If Teryl Austin had a little more experience and he was the guy that was at the top of most lists. You'd fire Hoke and hire him now.

That's not the case for us. We're not looking at a hot/top assistant coach with Michigan connections. We're not looking at a hot/top head coach at a smaller school with Michigan connections.

Hell we're not looking at either of those withOUT Michigan connections. At least not at the top of our list.

Our clear cut top candidates are Harbaugh, Harbaugh, Mullen and Miles by most EVERYONE. That's NFL, NFL, SEC, SEC. If one was coming from a recently dominant mid-major program, this would be an easy call. That's not the case.

Darker Blue

November 30th, 2014 at 7:01 PM ^

Guys

I'm worried about the coaching thing

I think Michigan is going to end up fucking around and Cam Fucking Cameron is going to be the Head Coach here. 

Please help me overcome these fears. 

CLord

November 30th, 2014 at 7:02 PM ^

Not much we can do right now while Harbaugh is still a month from seeing if he's done at SF.  We just have to pray they miss the playoffs so if we don't get Harbaugh there won't be any woulda/shoulda/coulda's and we move on with another good alternative.

madmaxweb

November 30th, 2014 at 7:08 PM ^

Some guy named Eric Olanowski just said Hoke is coming back according to sources. He's a Big Ten Wrestling Analyst though so not sure on his credibility.

LSAClassOf2000

November 30th, 2014 at 7:28 PM ^

It looks as if this might have been a crack that got a little out of hand, based on how he is reacting to the lambasting he is getting. The next person to post this tweet as an actual source gets the Flying Fickle Finger Of Fate award for their mantle. It's a nice award which will constantly remind its winner of how they are thought of.