Auburn fans are fickle AF. You have to fire a coach after the year Chizik posted before we fired him. And you have to fire a coach after multiple under .500 seasons in a row. You maybe get by firing a coach if he can't post more than 7 wins several years in a row.
You don't fire a coach for 12-2, 8-5, 7-6, 8-5, 10-3. The grass is not always greener and Auburn fans always have a hard time grasping that concept. Especially when the other team in the state is dominating nationally.
The point is that I don't give a plastic shit how many times an Auburn coach beats Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Vandy, Arkansas, Missouri, Mercer, Western Kentucky, South Dakota or Chicken Dick State.
Those things better happen most every time. A blind capybara could coach the average Auburn team to six wins.
It's what happens against LSU, Georgia, Alabama and to a much lesser extent A&M that matters. Period.
If we are Big Six, we should act like it.
Can we get a better coach than Malzahn? Can't answer that. Florida did okay after Zook.
Do I want to go coach searching with the oily hustler leading the parade? Nope.
BUT... we've crapped the bed against some of the weakest UGA teams in memory. Looked clueless and inept in doing so. That cannot continue. There was NO excuse for losing to that abysmal team last season. The losses to A&M are not tolerable.
I can handle staying competitive against the most corrupt and unethical team in the history of the sport. I'm patient with that knowing that all things must end and when they do it will be glorious. I'm sort of okay with LSU because we trade blows and I have no expectation that Orgeron will be successful. But we can't start dropping inexplicable games to the yaw yaw bengals.
So. I don't want to start the process over but it's past time for this learning-on-the-job greenhorn to prove he's more than a glorified in over his head high school coach.
He's got to solve the Georgia problem. And he's got to avoid us looking utterly inept and baffled in meaningful games.