Official I've Given Up On Auburn Thread - Chizik is the new coach.

[Rancid Milk]

In the words of a famous Auburn man, "that's terbul."

Completely and totally frustrated...the guy made a lateral move and left us in the lurch after the 2004 season and now we're hiring him as the head coach after he won an Ears Whitworth-esque 20.8% of his games.  

I'll just keep sending my $150/$200 to the College of Science and Mathematics.

Our leadership is revoltingly bad.

This sucks.

[Talon]

You know guys, if Oliver & Hardy weren't in charge of the search committee I say this could be the ultimate smoke screen....unfortunately, with them, I don't think this is the case. Please God, please let me be wrong!!!!
Can you imagine what's gonna happen with recruiting now?!?!? The trickle we've seen cancel since Tubs left is about to become a raging torrent! SHIT!!!!!!!!!!

[AUChizad]

There is nothing positive to spin from this.
We are paying this guy over $3 mil....

[AUChizad]

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/firejayjacobs

[AUChizad]

Jay Jacobs: (334) 844-9891

I just called and left a message expressing my disapproval.

[Tiger Wench]

I am writing to express my disgust, disappointment and total dissatisfaction with the horrible head coaching hire you boneheads just made.  I am so upset right now that I am near tears.  Auburn is now officially a laughing stock.  This makes the Alabama coaching disasters look like CHILD’S PLAY.  At least in the end, Alabama got a decent coach out of it.  You idiots have just condemned Auburn to at least three more years of mediocrity.  This is the worst possible hire you could have made.  You fired Tommy Tuberville for CHIZIK?  Unreal.  UNREAL.  I just cannot wrap my mind around this.  Right now I am just SO GRATEFUL that I live in Texas and do not have to go to work Monday and face the hordes of bammer fans that are laughing their collective asses off at Auburn right now.  So much for winning any Iron Bowls as long as Saban continues to stalk the sidelines at Tuscaloser.

Everyone from the state to national media said we needed a big hire – a splashy, energetic, gutsy coach that would fire up recruits, win games and re-unite the fan base.  Someone without baggage, someone that is a proven success as a head coach, even if it is at a lower tier school.  Turner Gill was the right choice – on so many levels even the goobers at ESPN could see it. 

But you idiots hire Gene Chizik – a coach who made an already awful Big 12 team WORSE during his tenure there – oh, yeah, let’s hurry and hire him before someone else does!!!  Please.  You jerks hired him because of his connection to the 2004 season.  In other words, you have done something that we Auburn folks traditionally make fun of bammer for – we hired from the “family”, we hired from our “Past”.  Nice move, morons.  Now we are just like bammer. 

I am a proud Auburn fan, but you will not see me in a seat at JHS, nor will you see my money in any other area of Auburn University, until Jay Jacobs is FIRED and Chizik scurries back to whatever waste of space school will take him.  I realize I am no Bobby Lowder when it comes to getting my way at Auburn by threatening to withhold my money and my support, but let me just say that there are a large number of my friends and fellow alums who feel just like I do.  It may take a lot of us to equal Bobby Lowder, but when push comes to shove, Bobby Lowder’s ass (the one with all of your lip prints all over it) will only fill one seat at a time.  Unless he buys a lot of tickets, it will be hard for him to equal us in sheer numbers.

So, what do you do now?  You lay in the bed of rotten meat and empty seats you just made.  And while you do, enjoy the taste of losing games.  Enjoy the roars of laughter coming from our toothless brethren that wear the crimson and white.  Enjoy the headshaking and the “WTF?” coming from the media and the many fan based websites out there. 

Enjoy mediocrity, boys.  Thanks to this incredibly stupid and shortsighted hire, that’s just what you gave us Auburn fans for Christmas.

[AUTiger1]

Holy shit!!!  I don't know what to say or think.  GENE CHIZIK???!!!?????  I was not a staunch Tuberville supporter, always thought he was a good coach but not a great coach.  In saying that I have to ask, we gave up Tuberville for this shit?   What the fuck happened to Turner Gill, Paul Johnson, Gary Patterson, Jim Grobe, who ever else we wanted to talk to?  For Christ sake I would have rather had Brady Freaking Hoke than the shit we have just hired.  Damn, damn, damn you Jay Jacobs!  Thank you for making us the laughing stock of college football, you ignorant piece of shit.   Well I will still root for my Tigers, always have and always will, but you can bet your sweet ass that the money that I sent every year will stop and I will not be buying season tickets and attending games, until that ass pirate of an AD we have is fired.   

[Tiger Wench]

My stomach hurts - does anyone else's stomach hurt?  Mine does.  It hurts.  Bad.

[AUTiger1]

My stomach hurts - does anyone else's stomach hurt?  Mine does.  It hurts.  Bad.

Yes, my stomach, head, heart and soul........they all hurt   

[Talon]

Damn! Guess it's pretty much official now. SHIT. I went to bed Thursday night thinking we'd have Coach Boom...and now tonight we end up with Chizik. WTF went wrong?!!? I'm telling you guys, God is paying us back for treating Tubbs so shitty.
I've read on a couple other boards a rumor that Gill turned down the job. Anyone else hear this?

[AuburnChopper 3.0]

Been too sick at my stomach to visit here today.  I'm hanging on the last thread that at least there hasn't been a presser scheduled that I know of yet.   I actually called Kaos earlier just to talk to him about it and vent... I could tell he was shaken also...  Even though I'm still proud enough to not have to look up at any bammer, I'm still embarrassed to be an Auburn Tiger today.  Sad.

[Snaggletiger]

I finished a big supper a while ago.  It's had time to run it's course.  Now, I have to go take a big Chizik.

[AUJarhead]

I've been a member of Tigers Unlimited for 11 years.  That donation stops this year.  Why the fuck should I pay 440 bucks to watch a dysfunctional office run a program into the ground, when it would take me a 10 hour drive each way to watch that team, when I can watch the St Louis Rams front office do the same thing, but only 20 minutes away, at a fraction of the cost.  And I fucking hate the Rams.

[Townhallsavoy]

I've been a member of Tigers Unlimited for 11 years.  That donation stops this year.  Why the fuck should I pay 440 bucks to watch a dysfunctional office run a program into the ground, when it would take me a 10 hour drive each way to watch that team, when I can watch the St Louis Rams front office do the same thing, but only 20 minutes away, at a fraction of the cost.  And I fucking hate the Rams.

Make sure you tell them the reason why you stop giving money.  Don't blame it all on Chizik.  I can't blame the guy for accepting the job.  Make sure it's the Jays who get pointed at. 

[AuburnChopper 3.0]

Presser at 1pm on Monday.  Sigh.   Closed to the public.... I can't imagine why.....

[Rancid Milk]

A serious suggestion for those of you who are completely disgusted with the asswipery that is our athletic department...direct your current AU-budgeted money to academic departments if you decide to drop season tickets or reduce athletic donations.

Better yet, pledge $0.25...kind of like leaving a dime for a tip for a waitress who gives you shitty service.

[stjaxn]

Awful...just awful.  I'm a Hog fan but feel sorry for you guys.  Last year when we were looking for a new coach (thank God) it was a time of nervousness, wondering who they were going to get...then wondering who they were going to be ABLE to get.  Worried about the future of the program, worried about everything.  We as fans got lucky.  You guys as fans got screwed.

I didn't understand Tuberville's firing, but I really don't understand this hire.

[Thrilla]

I can't believe I'm physically witnessing and eventually enduring one of the most monumental fuck-ups that has EVER come out of our Athletic Department.  I think of how, when I'm telling my grandchildren about Auburn football, I'm going to have to refer to this time as "The time of the Jays", and how it will always pain me to tell them about the firing of Coach Tuberville for this proven loser (as a head coach), CGC.
 
The one thing that is absolutely unexplainable is how our program has FAILED to hire a coach that was better than CTT.  It was an absolute abomination, an embarrassment, and as said before, all monetary donations should be redirected to academics.

These are the dark days of our program, and you're fortunate to be alive to enjoy them.  :thumbsup:

[Jumbo]

I can't believe I'm physically witnessing and eventually enduring one of the most monumental fuck-ups that has EVER come out of our Athletic Department.  I think of how, when I'm telling my grandchildren about Auburn football, I'm going to have to refer to this time as "The time of the Jays", and how it will always pain me to tell them about the firing of Coach Tuberville for this proven loser (as a head coach), CGC.
 
The one thing that is absolutely unexplainable is how our program has FAILED to hire a coach that was better than CTT.  It was an absolute abomination, an embarrassment, and as said before, all monetary donations should be redirected to academics.

These are the dark days of our program, and you're fortunate to be alive to enjoy them.  :thumbsup:

very well said and I 100% agree.

[tiger88]

If things go south next year, season ticket holders and others should stage a protest where they all stay home for an sec game that is on TV. It would speak volumes.