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Gus should make it to the end of the season at least -- should be favored against everyone until Georgia and I don't even know if I'm scared of a stumble in any of those as bad as the SEC looks this year. Now is he actually safe winning nine but losing the exact three everyone cared about? That probably depends on the turmoil in the athletic department and the nature of the losses -- the Iron Bowl would have to be bad enough for a Sunday morning firing cause they couldn't let him coach probably a decent bowl with a shot at a tenth win if they really wanted him gone.
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Gus Malzahn is garbage and to the greatest extent legally permissible I hope his house burns down
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Just pay the buyout, whatever Mac did is probably pretty dumb but it's not worth sending this message to the next coach you want to hire.
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Duckaerobics posted:So I'm pretty sure Malzahn might have lucked himself into another year with all of these SEC opening that look likely. I think it's all going to come down to the A&M game for him. I think if Auburn wins Sumlin is fired and Auburn waits for a more stable year to look for a new head coach. If Auburn loses I think they have to beat Georgia and Alabama for him to save his job and I don't see that happening.
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General Dog posted:I think the loser of Auburn-A&M is in pretty deep trouble, although I think Auburn would be crazy to fire Gus regardless. Everyone I hear saying it's nuts (Steven Godfrey and BillC on Podcast Ain't Played Nobody take this side a lot) sounds like they're a) actually retroactively defending Mark Richt, who Gus ain't and b) importing a lot of assumptions about how trigger-happy Auburn is that I think have gained a memetic currency greater than their truth (Dye got us hosed so hard by the NCAA we got a TV ban the next year -- last major program to ever get one?, Bowden was 0-5, couldn't recruit once Dye's players left and was supposedly boning someone he shouldn't, Tuberville had probably earned one more year but if you wanna tell me you think he would've turned it around you're just lying, anyone wanna go to the matresses for Gene Chizik? didn't think so)
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LeeMajors posted:UF won close and got destroyed by any contending team. Destroyed.
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OK guess I can retract this nowKICK BAMA KICK posted:Gus Malzahn is garbage and to the greatest extent legally permissible I hope his house burns down
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An uh unsettling amount of serious talk that, in the event of a loss to Bama, Gus may voluntarily self-demote to the relatively low-pressure Arkansas job. Had kinda vaguely been brought up as a hypothetical on the 24/7 Auburn site's podcast earlier in the season as like an alternative to him getting straight-up fired but they always phrased it as just speculation, not backed by any actual reporting. Now that he beat Georgia and presumably silenced any questions about his security, SBNation is running with it as a serious possibility. My *guess* is that this doesn't come to pass -- clobbering Georgia, the kind of meaningful win we've been waiting for since the Kick Six, earned him a degree of goodwill far beyond last season's six-win streak that saved his job but didn't really make anyone happy. He genuinely has some cushion now (and I'm still at this point ~50% he's gonna beat Bama for the SECW title which would probably earn a raise/extension). It's still loving weird to be having this conversation, and hard to gauge given the larger uncertainty surrounding the athetlic department with Jay Jacobs on the way out.
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Joey Freshwater posted:I dont know Gus’s history, is he an Arky guy? Why would he go there? Auburn is a better job. It's also not like he's univerally loved there -- that 2006 season was an insane cauldron of drama and plenty of Arkansas people did not side with him.
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Is there a solid idea about what Ole Miss is going to do? A&M please take Jimbo or at least look dumb trying cause in the (I'm still thinking unlikely) event Gus decides to bail for the lower-pressure environment of Arkansas I don't want him to be our target.
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Noctone posted:I would think highly unlikely? Y'all are two wins away from the playoff. There's more talk than I would like
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Duckaerobics posted:Two wins from the playoff, but half the fanbase will be yelling for Malzahn to get fired if they don't make it.
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Duckaerobics posted:I think he has hit his ceiling at Miss State, and there is a chance he goes some place that's easier to recruit to see if he can at least get to the sec championship.
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Bielema sounds like a terrible fit for the Pac-12. I know Stanford exists but they're weird for a reason.
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General Dog posted:I'd agree it's a risky move, but here's the contrarian take- Bama aside, the west is going to be composed of a post-Mullen Mississippi State, a (likely) sanctions impaired Ole Miss, an Ed Orgeron-helmed LSU, and whatever Arkansas decides to be. For the immediate future, it's not necessarily going to take a herculean effort to reach the point where you're competing for #2 in the division. A&M has high expectations, but if he's winning 9 or 10 games a year he's going to be just fine for a long time.
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Also: "generational" or "once in a generation" has been applied to Cam, RG3, Jameis, Johnny Football, Deshaun, Lamar, etc. That's at least six guys of the same generation.
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FWIW sounds like Auburn reporters are still expecting Arkansas to come at Gus with as much money as they can muster and dare him to turn it down; expectation is it ends with Auburn giving him an extension with a raise but more importantly a gently caress-you buyout and assistant money but still, they're saying it's not zero chance he would go under the right circumstances.
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If that goes down it's gonna own. I don't know if he cracks a ceiling higher than 10 wins but it's gonna be fun to watch.
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Honestly Florida and Tennessee should trade their new coaches, better fits for both.
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What is FSU owed for a buyout?
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I mean I want Gus to stay but I'm not giving him $7m. You don't get $7m long term when you're capable of looking as stupid as he does on a regular basis.
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Glad we kept Gus with little drama; not my money so I shouldn't really give a poo poo but I think fair is closer to $6m than $7m and we'll probably need to spend some more to keep assistants.
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I imagine you'd have to fight us pretty hard for Steele.
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Kevin Steele missing Broyles Award presentation today, as he is also meeting with Fulmer reportedly.
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KKKLIP ART posted:I'd prefer Tennessee leave Mel alone and take Pruitt.
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That's a bad take but it did remind me that I had some leftover Popeyes biscuits in the kitchen and I'm eating one now and it owns so actually it's a good post
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Was Pruitt ever in the mix for an HC job before?
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Who were the other realistic options for Oregon at this point in the carousel anyway besides random MWC OC
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Brian Daboll to the Bills?!?!?!
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Speak of the devil https://twitter.com/BarrettSallee/status/953090127307464705
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Herb Hand leaving Auburn for the co-OC/OL job at Texas. His contract had expired the day of the Peach Bowl and there was some uncertainty about his future but the impression I got was everyone was kinda assuming they'd ultimately work it out. Longtime friends with Malzahn, line played well at times but was inconsistent in big moments, like at Clemson and that Peach Bowl. I think OL recruiting was also not going great.
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Auburn rehires Hand's predecessor JB Grimes, late of UConn. Not exciting but it's probably fine.
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Ink is on Malzahn's $49m/7 contract; Auburn owes him 75% of what remains if they ever fire him, but the buyout on his end is essentially negligible.
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