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🏈 Has Gus Malzahn been fired yet? Official web site link (Stories are coming out about the validity of him being fired.)
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Gus Malzahn: By The Numbers
As of Saturday, November 24th, 2018, Gus Malzahn is:
As of Saturday, November 24th, 2018, Gus Malzahn is:
- 2-4 vs. Alabama [1]
- 2-5 vs. Georgia [2, 8]
- 2-4 vs. LSU [3, 4, 10]
- 1-4 in bowl games [5, 6]
- 0-3 in bowl games vs. major conference teams
- 0-9 in Baton Rouge, Athens and Tuscaloosa
- 27-20 vs. SEC opponents
- 11-11 vs. SEC opponents on the road
- 4-5 vs. non-conference Power 5 teams
- 2 NY6 bowl appearances (0-2 in them) [7, 9]
- 5 straight seasons (and counting) with at least four losses
- 1st loss to a non-major conference team in 27 years [9]
- 1st loss to Tennessee in 19 years (20 years at home) [12]
- 0 playoff appearances
- 0 National titles
JoseyWalesTheOutlaw
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@#80, @JoseyWalesTheOutlaw, @BamaBoyJosh,
...might not want to get too ahead of yourselves here. We are talking about Auburn.
The latest from our ol' pal, Phillip Marshall.
High-level meetings Sunday involving Auburn athletics director Allen Greene, head football coach Gus Malzahn and administrators produced no news, at least not news that had been shared by late in the night.
Perhaps we’ll know today what transpired. Perhaps not. And now comes a report from our own Brandon Marcello that CAA, the agency that represents Malzahn, has told him it might be wise to look for a job elsewhere.
It all started last December when president Steven Leath decided it would be a grand idea to give Malzahn a seven-year, $49 million contract and guarantee 75 percent of it. Since that day, Auburn has gone 7-7 overall and 4-7 against power-five teams and Central Florida. What a mess. And I’m not sure anyone in a position of leadership knows how to fix it.
In today’s SEC environment, if Auburn falls behind programs like LSU, Texas A&M, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee, catching up will take a long time.
Whoever is going be in on making the call on what to do going forward, whether it’s Leath or athletics director Allen Greene or Raymond Harbert, Leath’s closest confidant on the Board of Trustees, it needs to be made. It needed to be made Sunday. Now it needs to be made today. Statements that were made in October aren’t enough.
Are any of them really aware of the urgency in the situation they face? If they’re not, that is potentially a really big problem for a proud and historic program.
Auburn administrators have only two reasonable choices after a tumultuous and disappointing regular season: Make a change in head coaches or get fully behind the coach they have. Anything else will doom the football program to mediocrity or worse.
They can swallow hard, pay Malzahn his huge buyout and move on. Or they can throw all their support behind him, give him what he believes he needs to win, let him make the staff moves he wants to make and tell the world he’s their guy not just next season but beyond.
The only other choice, by far the worst one, is to let Malzahn return, resist giving him the tools he believes he needs to win and for him to be labeled a lame duck. That would be bad for everybody. Most of all it would be bad for the future of Auburn football.
If Malzahn truly wants to be Auburn’s coach for the future, he needs to take a look at himself, too. And it needs to be a hard look.
According to multiple sources, Malzahn has gone further than ever in controlling everything on offense. Position coaches don’t decide who they recruit. Malzahn does. They don’t decide who starts. Malzahn does. They don’t decide who plays at what points in the game. Malzahn does. They don’t decide what they need to work on in practice. Malzahn does. And for much of this season, Malzahn has called plays, whether they came out of his mouth or out of offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey’s mouth.
No head coach is an expert on every position. That’s why all of them – well, almost all of them – lean on assistant coaches who are experts. It’s too much for one man to do it all successfully.
Is Malzahn willing to change? Can he change? Does he want to change?
Malzahn has had strange six-year run at Auburn. He’s won a conference championship, played for a national championship and won a division championship. He’s played 13 games against top-five teams and six games against No. 1 teams.
Yet, here we are talking about his job security. The debate is really not because of losses to those top-five teams or No. 1 teams. It’s about managing the program. It’s about losses that never should have happened. And no game was worse than this season’s 34-27 loss to Tennessee. All you had to do to know that was watch Tennessee being physically beaten down by Vanderbilt last Saturday. The Vols lost six games by 25 points or more.
College football is littered with committed programs that plunged downward because of bad decisions. Tennessee has been wandering in the wilderness for more than a decade now and has had eight losing seasons in the last 14. LSU, with all its advantages, had six consecutive losing seasons from 1989 through 1994 and losing records in eight in 11 seasons. Alabama had non-winning records four times in seven seasons from 2000-2006 before getting it right with Nick Saban.
Auburn has time to get it right before experiencing a similar crash. Whether it’s with Malzahn or without him, it’s going to take strong leadership and the willingness to make bold decisions.
...might not want to get too ahead of yourselves here. We are talking about Auburn.
The latest from our ol' pal, Phillip Marshall.
High-level meetings Sunday involving Auburn athletics director Allen Greene, head football coach Gus Malzahn and administrators produced no news, at least not news that had been shared by late in the night.
Perhaps we’ll know today what transpired. Perhaps not. And now comes a report from our own Brandon Marcello that CAA, the agency that represents Malzahn, has told him it might be wise to look for a job elsewhere.
It all started last December when president Steven Leath decided it would be a grand idea to give Malzahn a seven-year, $49 million contract and guarantee 75 percent of it. Since that day, Auburn has gone 7-7 overall and 4-7 against power-five teams and Central Florida. What a mess. And I’m not sure anyone in a position of leadership knows how to fix it.
In today’s SEC environment, if Auburn falls behind programs like LSU, Texas A&M, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee, catching up will take a long time.
Whoever is going be in on making the call on what to do going forward, whether it’s Leath or athletics director Allen Greene or Raymond Harbert, Leath’s closest confidant on the Board of Trustees, it needs to be made. It needed to be made Sunday. Now it needs to be made today. Statements that were made in October aren’t enough.
Are any of them really aware of the urgency in the situation they face? If they’re not, that is potentially a really big problem for a proud and historic program.
Auburn administrators have only two reasonable choices after a tumultuous and disappointing regular season: Make a change in head coaches or get fully behind the coach they have. Anything else will doom the football program to mediocrity or worse.
They can swallow hard, pay Malzahn his huge buyout and move on. Or they can throw all their support behind him, give him what he believes he needs to win, let him make the staff moves he wants to make and tell the world he’s their guy not just next season but beyond.
The only other choice, by far the worst one, is to let Malzahn return, resist giving him the tools he believes he needs to win and for him to be labeled a lame duck. That would be bad for everybody. Most of all it would be bad for the future of Auburn football.
If Malzahn truly wants to be Auburn’s coach for the future, he needs to take a look at himself, too. And it needs to be a hard look.
According to multiple sources, Malzahn has gone further than ever in controlling everything on offense. Position coaches don’t decide who they recruit. Malzahn does. They don’t decide who starts. Malzahn does. They don’t decide who plays at what points in the game. Malzahn does. They don’t decide what they need to work on in practice. Malzahn does. And for much of this season, Malzahn has called plays, whether they came out of his mouth or out of offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey’s mouth.
No head coach is an expert on every position. That’s why all of them – well, almost all of them – lean on assistant coaches who are experts. It’s too much for one man to do it all successfully.
Is Malzahn willing to change? Can he change? Does he want to change?
Malzahn has had strange six-year run at Auburn. He’s won a conference championship, played for a national championship and won a division championship. He’s played 13 games against top-five teams and six games against No. 1 teams.
Yet, here we are talking about his job security. The debate is really not because of losses to those top-five teams or No. 1 teams. It’s about managing the program. It’s about losses that never should have happened. And no game was worse than this season’s 34-27 loss to Tennessee. All you had to do to know that was watch Tennessee being physically beaten down by Vanderbilt last Saturday. The Vols lost six games by 25 points or more.
College football is littered with committed programs that plunged downward because of bad decisions. Tennessee has been wandering in the wilderness for more than a decade now and has had eight losing seasons in the last 14. LSU, with all its advantages, had six consecutive losing seasons from 1989 through 1994 and losing records in eight in 11 seasons. Alabama had non-winning records four times in seven seasons from 2000-2006 before getting it right with Nick Saban.
Auburn has time to get it right before experiencing a similar crash. Whether it’s with Malzahn or without him, it’s going to take strong leadership and the willingness to make bold decisions.
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planomateo
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Rane had a role with Kay Ivey, didn't he?
This whole story is playing to script. Whether it's Jetgate II and it falls apart on them is another story.
I'll tell you this. When I'm seeing Marshall, Marcello, and Tate taking on Gus and his future there it tells me something is afoot. (there's likely a pun there.)
@BamaSon25, Don't trust the Auburn PR machine.
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