🏈 Finebaum: Gene Chizik copies Nick Saban's template, and steals his thunder

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Auburn folks are acting as if their team will be preseason No. 1.

Would someone kindly escort Gene Chizik to the front door, toss him out into the street on his derriere and tell him the Alabama national championship celebration is a private affair? No party crashers allowed.


With the way Auburn's new football coach is behaving, would anyone really be surprised if he shows up in April at the unveiling of the Nick Saban statue outside Bryant-Denny Stadium and demands one of his own? Who does this guy think he is? What's he accomplished?


He arrived at Auburn with a 5-19 record. Chizik's Auburn team lost five of its last six SEC games in 2009. In three of those games, the Tigers blew 14-point leads. The regular season record was 7-5 (3-5 in the SEC). So Auburn leads Alabama for 58 minutes and 36 seconds in the Iron Bowl? Is that worthy of an SI commemorative issue or a special collectors' DVD?


Well, don't tell Auburn fans, but they are celebrating these days like they have just run the table over the last two regular seasons. They are acting like they are on a 26-2 run which includes a national championship, to say nothing of a Heisman in the house. This, as opposed to the way it's really been -- a record of 13-12 over the past two years, paying off one coach nearly $6 million to go away before starting all over again.



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[XXL TideFan]

I think that I am about to projectile vomit!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TidePride50]

And most important, and bothersome to Tide fans, Auburn has surprisingly stolen some of the thunder from Nick Saban during the afterglow of the national championship celebration.

The only thunder they've stolen is in their own minds. Well, and I guess Finebaum.

 

[CrimsonPirate]

Delusion, thy name is Auburn.:lance:

 

[alagator]

I guess I see the article a little differently. Think it is mostly a jab at the Auburn people and a question of why exactly is the local media spinning this as an Auburn revival.

Asking the question why the Auburn people think they are now suddenly "back" on top when they have really done nothing yet?

Off topic slightly, but I do get a good laugh. Auburn people will probably correctly tell us the last twenty-five years represent the nadir of our program - and the peak of their own. Yet in that nadir, we have roughly the same number of SEC titles as do they (four for us to their five I think), they have only a two or three game advantage in our head-to-head match-ups, and the same number of undefeated seasons (two each). And we now have the same number of Heisman Trophy winners as do they (during this period only of course). And we have competed in the SECCG more times than have they.

But buried in all that is the fact we have two National Titles to their NONE.

Somehow, that little factoid trumps everything else. In my mind at least.

So, the very best period of their football history just happens to coincide with the worst period in our history, yet we STILL have more accomplishments than do they. That has got to leave a mark of some kind.

 

[bamafan4ever]

I guess I see the article a little differently. Think it is mostly a jab at the Auburn people and a question of why exactly is the local media spinning this as an Auburn revival.

Asking the question why the Auburn people think they are now suddenly "back" on top when they have really done nothing yet?

Off topic slightly, but I do get a good laugh. Auburn people will probably correctly tell us the last twenty-five years represent the nadir of our program - and the peak of their own. Yet in that nadir, we have roughly the same number of SEC titles as do they (four for us to their five I think), they have only a two or three game advantage in our head-to-head match-ups, and the same number of undefeated seasons (two each). And we now have the same number of Heisman Trophy winners as do they (during this period only of course). And we have competed in the SECCG more times than have they.

But buried in all that is the fact we have two National Titles to their NONE.

Somehow, that little factoid trumps everything else. In my mind at least.

So, the very best period of their football history just happens to coincide with the worst period in our history, yet we STILL have more accomplishments than do they. That has got to leave a mark of some kind.

Kudos!

 

[TerryP]

I guess I see the article a little differently. Think it is mostly a jab at the Auburn people and a question of why exactly is the local media spinning this as an Auburn revival.
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That's how I read it and the reason I moved it here.

It's almost on the same lines as LSU at this time. That's a comparison of a 8-8 record (in league play) the last two years versus what we've accomplished.

 

[XXL TideFan]

I was speaking of cheeze stick in a Bama shirt

 

[LBS]

And what it the standard being used here? That's right.