Nice "I know you are but what am I" defense, Pee-Wee.
Too bad it's all hat no cow.
I like you, and have up until recently respected your opinions. You have got to get out of this funk and acknowledge the positives coming from this coaching staff.
Awwww... you like me.
Where's my fucking valentine's day card, huh? You break it off right before so you don't have to give me a present, is that it? Yeah? Well fuck you, mister!!
I've never said Chiz will fail. Only that he is more likely to than even Tuberville.
I've never said I WANT Chiz to fail. Only that based on his history, I fear (deeply) the damage he could do.
I never said he didn't hire a good staff. I never said anything either way, really. Want to see something first (beyond talk).
I never said he was recruiting only Texas. I looked at his history at ISU -- where his first move was to barge into Texas and try to get recruits -- and wondered what kind if strategy he was seriously going to employ, because IMO a Texas-first-based concept was a fuck up.
I never even said I want to be right. I want to be wrong. Even though it would give certain dimbulbs the chance to dance a victory dance for the first time in their lives, I want to be wrong. But my instincts were right about Franklin. My instincts were right about Mike Price. My instincts have been right a lot more than they've been wrong. And they're still making noise. Not as much, but still noisy. It certainly doesn't help the case at all when you've got one or two people telling me exactly the same things today they were saying three weeks into Franklin's tenure (when my soul was aching).
I like to make fun of AUVolcano.. I mean Chopper. I like to poke Prowler's cage. Because both of them can get so far up Chizik's ass I can see their eyeballs if he burps. Chopper was that far up Franklin's ass, too with his vaguely gay condecension. How'd that work out?
Look, here's the thing I can't get past. I've seen some of you guys say stuff about Mack Brown not winning his first two years. Or Johnny Majors struggling at first. But the point is that Brown didn't get to double his salary and take a big time job after failing for two years. He had to learn -- over eight more seasons -- what winning meant and how to do it. Texas didn't call on him until he'd proved he could put ten wins on the board multiple times. Majors didn't get to jump after two years (two years that were an improvement over his predecessor, BTW) to a major program. He had to work his way up. Chizik didn't. Yeah, Brown at Texas and Majors at Tennessee turned into pretty good coaches, but they didn't go to Texas or Tennessee until they'd proved they were ready. Chizik hasn't. He put in two (by any estimation dismal) seaons and parlayed that into the Auburn job?
I simply cannot accept that Auburn is now the kind of school where coaches to go to learn. I am still seething because Jacobs, with this hire, put AU on par with Toledo, Tulane, Bowling Green and schools of that nature. That's where coaches go to figure out how to win. Not Auburn. I've got friends who are Southern Miss fans. USM is a fine school and has a good football program, but they know they aren't AU. They would have been royally pissed if USM had hired Chizik. What does that say about AU? I'm not sure I can ever get over that.
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