Get On The Bus

[boartitz]

 :eyeroll:

http://blog.al.com/kevin-scarbinsky/2009/09/scarbinsky_get_on_the_bus_with.html

[War Eagle!!!]

I thought the article was pretty accurate...

[AuburnChopper 3.0]

Scarbinsky: Get on the bus with Auburn's Gus or you'll get left behind
Posted by Kevin Scarbinsky -- Birmingham News September 13, 2009 5:30 AM
Categories: Auburn Football

Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn reacts to the Tigers' first touchdown of many against Mississippi State on Saturday. (The Birmingham News / Hal Yeager)
AUBURN -- The jury's still out on Gus Malzahn.

Wait. Put your poison pen back in its holster. That's not my opinion.

That's what Tommy Tuberville said two weeks ago in one of his new gigs as a weekly pundit on WJOX in Birmingham.

Kinda explains why Malzahn is now employed as a member of the Auburn football coaching staff and Tuberville isn't.


 
When it comes to judging offensive coordinators, or simply letting them do their job, the former head coach is as wrong as the O.J. Simpson jury. Again.

Malzahn is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but.

In fairness to the former head coach, he shot off his mouth and shot himself in the foot before he had a chance to see Malzahn's version of the Spread Eagle in action.

Before Auburn 37, Louisiana Tech 13.

Before Auburn 49, Mississippi State 24.

It's a wonder, after a decade of Tuber-stall, the Jordan-Hare Stadium scoreboard didn't "Tilt!"

Auburn hasn't scored this many points against an SEC opponent since it hung 49 on Kentucky in November 2005. Auburn hasn't put up more points in a two-game span since it rang up an even hundred against Ball State and Western Kentucky that same season.

That was the second year with Al Borges calling the plays from the sideline while trying to avoid Tuberville's handcuffs.

Malzahn calls plays from the sideline, too, but he has one advantage over Borges. Tuberville is not on the same sideline.

Gene Chizik is, but literally and figuratively, he keeps his distance.

Through two games, Chizik has made good on his preseason vow not to meddle with his offensive guru, and Malzahn has made good on his promise to spread the field and still run the ball.

It's not easy for the running game to make history at Running Back U, but these guys are rewriting a thick and impressive record book.

Ben Tate ran for a career-high 157 yards and didn't even play the first quarter Saturday. Onterio McCalebb ran for 114 yards and barely broke a sweat.

McCalebb became the first Auburn freshman to rush for more than 100 yards in each of his first two games. He and Tate became the first Auburn duo to rush for more than 100 yards each in two straight games.

That means McTate, the two-headed monster, has done something that Carnell Williams and Ronnie Brown, Bo Jackson and Brent Fullwood, Joe Cribbs and James Brooks didn't do when they played together.

It also means McCalebb has gotten off to a faster start than any running back in Auburn history.

Imagine what he might do when he grows up.

This is the first time Auburn has rushed for 300-plus yards in consecutive games since 1985, Bo's Heisman season. This is the first time Auburn has piled up 500-plus yards of offense in consecutive games since 1970, the year before Pat Sullivan's Heisman year.

Since even the new-and-improved Chris Todd is no threat to win that award, and neither Tate nor McCalebb is likely to be in the running, either, it must mean that Auburn is running up these numbers for a reason other than all-world talent.

It must mean the offensive coordinator knows what he s doing, and the head coach knows enough to let him do it.

"Coach Malzahn gives us hope as an offensive coordinator," Kodi Burns said after the Wildcat quarterback scored three touchdowns and passed for another.

Malzahn got one vote of confidence after another from the Auburn camp. He'll face tougher defenses in the near future, but the only way the jury's still out on him is if Tuberville sits on that jury like he used to sit on a lead. With no good reason.

[Sensi]

No, Kevin. Auburn fans do not need to get behind CGM. He won't be here long. We have seen this movie - Petrino - and we know what will happen. Chizik will let chest bumper try to run this offense and it will epic fail.

Auburn is not and will not ever be Florida. To titillate with any thought otherwise is as bogus as the Jacobs regime in Auburn athletics.

Plus, it is TWO games against two of the worst teams on the schedule.

[ssgaufan]

No, Kevin. Auburn fans do not need to get behind CGM. He won't be here long. We have seen this movie - Petrino - and we know what will happen. Chizik will let chest bumper try to run this offense and it will epic fail.

Auburn is not and will not ever be Florida. To titillate with any thought otherwise is as bogus as the Jacobs regime in Auburn athletics.

Plus, it is TWO games against the worst teams on the schedule.

Really?  Furman is better than those two?   

[Kaos]

:eyeroll:

http://blog.al.com/kevin-scarbinsky/2009/09/scarbinsky_get_on_the_bus_with.html

You hog people might have had some insight on Malzhan.  He does seem to be as good as advertised so far.  I'll give you that.

Stat I didn't realize?  Auburn scored six offensive TDs last night. Should have had two more.   We played eight SEC games last year and scored only seven.  All fucking season. 

No wonder last night felt like so much more fun. 

[wesfau2]

You hog people might have had some insight on Malzhan.  He does seem to be as good as advertised so far.  I'll give you that.

Uh...not to pat Howie and myself (and a few others that I can't recall) on the back too much, but we were also verrrrry excited, and vocally so, about Gus because of our familiarity with his history in Arkansas.

Of course, that is due mostly to our incestuous message board posting on woopig, et al.

[boartitz]

A stat I heard on an Arkansas board.
The only coach to hold Gus's SEC offense under 500yds is Houston Nutt.

[wesfau2]

A stat I heard on an Arkansas board.
The only coach to hold Gus's SEC offense under 500yds is Houston Nutt.

Allsome.

[Sensi]

Really?  Furman is better than those two?   

Should have read two of the worst.

Was typing from a phone on I65

[Pell City Tiger]

A stat I heard on an Arkansas board.
The only coach to hold Gus's SEC offense under 500yds is Houston Nutt.

***

[Jumbo]

A stat I heard on an Arkansas board.
The only coach to hold Gus's SEC offense under 500yds is Houston Nutt.

Thats Nutty.

[Saniflush]

Stat I didn't realize?  Auburn scored six offensive TDs last night. Should have had two more.   We played eight SEC games last year and scored only seven.  All fucking season. 

Another stat is that after two games we have 1/3 of the yards that we had total in 12 games last year.

[Kaos]

Uh...not to pat Howie and myself (and a few others that I can't recall) on the back too much, but we were also verrrrry excited, and vocally so, about Gus because of our familiarity with his history in Arkansas.

Of course, that is due mostly to our incestuous message board posting on woopig, et al.

I might have listened to you if you hadn't done the same happy dance over Franklin last season. 

Track record wasn't real good. 

[wesfau2]

I might have listened to you if you hadn't done the same happy dance over Franklin last season. 

Track record wasn't real good. 

Right.

[Kaos]

Right.

Well, some of you any way. 

And don't tell me I wasn't on an island with it because I was.  The island started getting crowded as the season progressed, but after week one it was mostly just me, the coconuts, a few native girls in string bikinis and the occasional boat passing by to take a look -- or tell me to "chill out" or something else equally inane. 

[Saniflush]

Well, some of you any way. 

And don't tell me I wasn't on an island with it because I was.  The island started getting crowded as the season progressed, but after week one it was mostly just me, the coconuts, a few native girls in string bikinis and the occasional boat passing by to take a look -- or tell me to "chill out" or something else equally inane. 

I took the bait, ran for deep water, and got pan fried like most everyone else.

[AWK]

I hate to tell you guys, but it was just as much Tuberville and his assistants fault as it was Franklin's.

[Godfather]

I took the bait, ran for deep water, and got pan fried like most everyone else.

You?!? I saw that shiny spoon and it looked so yummy, I didn't even see that damn 50 lb test. Sumbitch!

[Kaos]

I hate to tell you guys, but it was just as much Tuberville and his assistants fault as it was Franklin's.

Now don't start that again...