What Gus Malzahn Needs to Do to Be Successful

[AUownsU]

No one is rooting for him to fail.  It's just that I see us as a middle of the road SEC type team for the next 4-5 years.  Pencil in a loss to LSU, Bama, UGA, and either Arky or aTm.  Lose to someone we shouldn't.  We are a 7-5 team.

Some people are ok with that.  I'm not.

Exactly. Don't be suprised, when we go 3-5 in the SEC next season and 7-5 overall, to hear dumbasses clamoring over what a fine turnaround it was. Nevermind that AU is set to have a team loaded with highley recruited upperclassmen. Btw, I slap the shit of someone when they say, "well we got to wait till Gus has a chance to recruit his guys." For the most part, they already are his guys.

[AWK]

Don't argue facts!!@#@!#  Facts hurt the brains of Auburn Lemming fanbase!

[AUTiger1]

Serious meh on that rumor.  Not because I don't believe it, but because thinking Kirby Smart and Alabama really think recruits will care about Smart turning down $3.2 million dollars because of possible NCAA rumors. 

We already have a few big time recruits reaffirming their commitment to Auburn.

Self inflicted wounds...and Auburn specialty finally mastered by Jay Jacobs.

  This is what I was getting at.  That was his prediction, not rumor.   This whole situation is nothing more than self inflicted wounds. 

Please to be showing me those commits that are also being recruited by Alabama.  Liner is the only one I see. Some other LB that isn't on their radar? The rest are our offensive guys, not worried about them near as much as I am the defensive guys. 

[AWK]

Exactly.  Yet, if you point this out to certain people.  You are dumb and should read the creed.  Sometimes our fan base makes me 

By the way, I watched the video of Malzahn landing at the airport.  It was eerily similar to Chizik landing 4 years ago.

Bump.  See Chizad's comment.

[GH2001]

And that's moreso what I am angry about. This hire and how it was done was just a symptom of the issue at hand: JJ and the den of vipers that is the athletic dept. The search and the committee was a joke. A total fabrication for show. JJ had his guy all along. We knew it was Malzahn. He put together this "search" to save his ass while all along choosing his own guy.

Yikes.

[dallaswareagle]

Exactly. Don't be suprised, when we go 3-5 in the SEC next season and 7-5 overall, to hear dumbasses clamoring over what a fine turnaround it was. Nevermind that AU is set to have a team loaded with highley recruited upperclassmen. Btw, I slap the shit of someone when they say, "well we got to wait till Gus has a chance to recruit his guys." For the most part, they already are his guys.

I'm beginning to wonder if Jay J. gets kickbacks from all the money we have to spend on buyouts.

[AUJarhead]

I'm beginning to wonder if Jay J. gets kickbacks from all the money we have to spend on buyouts.

Motherfucker has a perpetual 5 year contract, with a 3M buyout...

Details on Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs' contract

Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs' contract will stretch through at least 2020 and could soon be extended into 2021, according to documents obtained by AL.com.

Jacobs' five-year contract, which he signed in 2011, has a one-year renewal option at the end of each academic year. The deal is set to expire June 30, 2020, but could be renewed an additional year through 2021 with an automatic rollover on June 1, according to the wording of the contract.

Rumors of Jacobs' future spread across the Internet and radio waves in December as he entered his 11th year on the job. He addressed the discussion during an appearance on WJOX-FM Dec. 29.

"I'm not retiring, stepping down," Jacobs said on WJOX-FM's Opening Drive. "I don't have anything else that I want to do right now. I love what I'm doing. When I get to the point I'm not excited about getting up and going to work every morning for these student-athletes I'll probably do something different."

He said at the time he had a "multi-year contract and I plan to honor it." Jacobs did not immediately respond to an AL.com request attempting to clarify the length of the contract, but an open records request and an Auburn administrator confirmed later the length of the contract, which is currently set to expire in 2020.

Internet rumors spread in December about Jacobs' future with the program. The same happened in 2012, when Auburn's football team went 3-9 and Gene Chizik was fired as head coach.

He faced similar questions after Auburn's 6-6 regular season in 2015. The Tigers went on to defeat Memphis 31-10 in the Birmingham Bowl.

"Look, when you go 6-6 in football all kinds of rumors pop out," Jacobs said.

Jacobs is paid $600,000 per year in base salary, with several additional incentives built into the contract, which he signed in 2011. He is eligible for a raise at the end of each academic year, but an Auburn official said the contract in 2011 is the latest document Jacobs has signed.

Incentives -- academic performance, coaching performances, etc. -- can increase his salary to as much as $750,000 per year. If Jacobs is fired, Auburn owes him the full value of his base salary for each year remaining on the contract.

[Jumbo]

We hated this hire from the start and sadly we we're right. 

[Kaos]

We hated this hire from the start and sadly we we're right. 

If you're talking about Jacobs, yes. I hated his hire from the second I first saw him.  After I read this article
about him I'm trying to find I loathed him with ev he finer of my being. When I find it I will post it. 

[Snaggletiger]

If you're talking about Jacobs, yes. I hated his hire from the second I first saw him.  After I read this article
about him I'm trying to find I loathed him with ev he finer of my being. When I find it I will post it.

I love your post with ev he finer of my being.

[Kaos]

I love your post with ev he finer of my being.

PS:
Fuck the iPhone 10 update. 

[Jumbo]

PS:
Fuck the iPhone 10 update.

The update is shit.

[bgreene]

The update is shit.

It has screwed my camera up

[Jumbo]

It has screwed my camera up

My selfies turn out about as bad as Snaggle trying to scratch his balls.

[jmar]

My selfies turn out about as bad as Snaggle trying to scratch his balls.

Is that what that was?

[Jumbo]

Is that what that was?

It's a mess.

[Godfather]

It's a mess.

a hot mess? Where heat is applied.

[Jumbo]

a hot mess? Where heat is applied.

Get your brooms out because it's a mess.

[bgreene]

http://auburn.247sports.com/Bolt/Auburn-names-starting-quarterback-for-LSU-47633548


AUBURN, Ala. — Nothing is changing at quarterback at Auburn, apparently.

Sean White will remain Auburn's starter heading into a showdown with No. 18 LSU in what might be the most important game of Gus Malzahn's career.

"We feel like he gives us the best chance of winning," Malzahn said. "We've got to be better around him. We've got to put him in better situations from a coaching standpoint to help him. That's the reason.

Malzahn said John Franklin III "will be available."

Franklin III played the entire fourth quarter of the 29-16 loss to Texas A&M. The offense averaged 6.1 yards per play, the best quarter in the game, with Franklin III at quarterback.

Kickoff Saturday is scheduled for 5 p.m. CT on ESPN.

[Godfather]