You'd feel this way about Kirby Smart?
Why?
My biggest beef with Gus is that he was part of Chizik's program just a season ago. If Gus had the same success at a different school and went to Arkansas State and then came to Auburn, I'd probably support him.
Agree that Smart > Malzahn, but he was just as unproven as a HC.
Both hires demonstrate that Jacobs suffers from insanity by the very definition: Doing the same thing and expecting different results.
Chizik was a fantastic DC, and a fuckup HC. Because the two are not equatable.