Outside of Derrick Brown and Marlon Davidson, Auburn's defense was not elite. KJ Britt hits like a truck but he plays as out of position as one trying to turn tight corners, too.
The offensive line was a questionable group going into the year and proved to be THE issue with the offense all year. No push, unable to establish consistent run game, all of that put too much pressure on a freshman QB who we know is not running the most complicated nor modern passing scheme in football.
Getting nine (9) wins including beating Alabama (yes, that matters) with those factors in play is remarkable. A lesser coach would not have done it. Face it, that's what would be here if Auburn fired Gus. We will not get a better one at this stage. Ride this out and see where it goes is the smart play.
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Wrong answers.
Gus squanders goodwill like he squanders talent. He got taken to school by a COACH who guided a team full of two and three-star recruits.
Go look. Here's Minnesota's history:
2016: 46th in recruiting. 0 five stars, 1 four star. Mississippi State was 28th.
2017: 59th in recruiting. 0 five stars, 0 four stars.
2018: 38th in recruiting, behind every SEC team not named Vanderbilt. 0 5 stars, 3 4 stars (AU had 15 four star recruits and was a disappointment).
2019: 45th in recruiting. 0 four stars. 0 five stars. Kentucky was 34th. Arkansas 23rd.
Currently: Projected to be 33rd. 0 five stars, 2 four stars.
The LOWEST Auburn finished in recruiting in any of those years was 12th. The total haul of four and five stars for Minnesota over the last five years doesn't even reach any single year of any of the five for Auburn. Every single year, AU signed more four/five stars than Minnesota has in total over the last five years. Think on that.
Yes, Gus coaches his ass off against Alabama. And I agree, that matters. But if we're ever going to be what we want to be, it cannot be ALL that matters. It has to be one piece of the puzzle. Beating UGA matters. Beating LSU matters. Beating UF matters. Beating UT matters. Never falling behind A&M, MSU, UM matters.
So Gus coaches his ass off against Bama. But he coaches like ASS much of the rest of the time. A lesser coach? PJ Fleck would take the talent Auburn has and dominate the SEC. Dom.IN.ate. Given the talent disparity, I think Brian, Snags and I could win eight games a year. A donkey with a testicular hernia could have coached AU to wins over Arkansas, Ole Miss, MSU, Tulane, Kent and Samford. The only other teams we beat were Oregon, A&M and Alabama. Of those? I think the donkey (as long as Steele was there) would have gotten outs against Oregon and A&M.
Don't tell me that if AU hired a moderately competent coach that we'd be any worse off. A offense with half a pulse would have beaten LSU and UGA. Instead? He dragged a dead dog out on the field and left it to stink and rot. Fuck that.
The man has squandered more talent and more goodwill than any coach I can ever remember. Beat Alabama and Georgia!!! We're rolling! Shit the bed in the SEC-CG and fuckall in the bowl. Win and look like your head is out of your ass finally!! Lose inexplicably and look like dingo dong doing it.
He's not a good coach. He's just NOT. At this point I'd be okay with a clean sweep. I want it all gone. Kodi (bless him), Carnell (love you, man), the whole damn lot. I'd rather SUCK for a year or two knowing that we were rebuilding it than continue this slow boil of perpetual mediocrity.
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