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[Buzz Killington]

Where's Snaggle?  He usually eats these things.

Not since he found out they were high in cholesterol

[The Prowler]

My point:

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/auburn-football/auburn-say-hire-kenny-dillingham-offensive-coordinator-2018/

Gus Malzahn got his guy.

With all due respect to new Auburn offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Kenny Dillingham, I say that tongue in cheek.
A week after Chip Lindsey left Malzahn to go join forces with Les Miles at Kansas, Auburn announced on Sunday night at 10 p.m. ET that it hired a 28-year-old assistant from Memphis to take the position. As recently as 2016, Dillingham was a grad assistant at Memphis.

I don’t want to poke holes at Dillingham’s résumé or insist that he isn’t one of the “rising stars in the profession” as Malzahn laid out in the official release, but I think it’s at least worth mentioning that this is a real paragraph in his bio on Memphis’ website:


In other words, when Malzahn was leading Auburn to a national title berth in 2013, Dillingham was working his way up as a football camp manager for the City of Scottsdale.

In other shocking news, Dillingham won’t be calling plays for Auburn. Malzahn will go back to filling that role, which he did in his first 3 seasons.

Call me crazy, but this says a ton about the current state of the program.

Again, I really don’t want this to come off as my way of saying Dillingham can’t succeed at Auburn. Of course he can. Young offensive minds are all the rage in football these days. We just watched 35-year-old Lincoln Riley lead his second Heisman Trophy quarterback in as many seasons. Maybe Dillingham was indeed the secret sauce behind Mike Norvell’s high-powered offenses at Memphis.

But to me, this hire is all about Malzahn trying to get control back. By bringing in someone nearly half his age, Malzahn has a coordinator who’s young enough to be his son. I’m not saying that he’ll get treated like that, but the fact that it came out that Malzahn will be handling play-calling duties now doesn’t exactly go against the belief that he hired a “yes man.”

That’s what you’d expect someone entering a make-or-break year to do. Malzahn is. He knows it. Everyone at Auburn knows it. That’s why he’s putting all of his chips on himself to try and find the magic that he had early in his Auburn tenure.

In a different way, that’s why it made sense that Malzahn reportedly wanted to hire Hugh Freeze, AKA the other guy who beat Nick Saban twice. Considering how Freeze left Ole Miss and how desperate he is to rebuild his tarnished reputation, Freeze would’ve done anything that Malzahn asked of him. Malzahn could have taken on play-calling duties while Freeze was probably just giddy to get back into the SEC in an on-field role.
But that, in fitting Auburn fashion, didn’t get the nod of approval from the folks upstairs

It’s worth noting that according to Auburn Undercover, Dillingham agreed to a 2-year deal to become the Tigers’ new offensive coordinator.
Just sayin’.

So Auburn reportedly waved its multi-year contract restriction to hire Dillingham. Why? It was either desperate to fill the position with the Early Signing Period just a week and a half away, or it realized that Dillingham’s contract is probably half of what it would have paid Freeze.
Again, that’s just speculation. It’s also technically speculation to say that Dillingham wasn’t Auburn’s first choice.


Dillingham is a hustler. No doubt. That’s why the guy was coaching junior varsity football … while he was a high school senior. He’s basically been grinding as a coach since before he could legally vote. The fact that he’s risen to such heights so quickly is a testament to just how hard he’s worked.
But let’s be clear. Auburn doesn’t make a move like this if everything is business as usual. Malzahn will enter 2019 with a seat hotter than anyone in America, and nobody is going to blame the 28-year-old offensive coordinator if the Tigers’ offense repeats its 2018 offensive dud.

Malzahn wanted to get back to what he had with Rhett Lashlee, who was only 29 when he was hired as Auburn’s offensive coordinator in 2013. He was just over a decade removed from being Malzahn’s quarterback at Shiloh Christian High School (Ark.). And despite how things ended, that plan benefitted Auburn greatly in the short-term. There’s no doubt that Malzahn is trying to recreate that dynamic with the 28-year-old Dillingham.

It wasn’t a coincidence that in the release that Auburn sent out at 10 p.m. ET on Sunday night, it made no mention of Dillingham’s age, or that he’s one of the youngest FBS coordinators in the country. That’s fine. They didn’t have to. The internet took care of that.

There’s another sentence that wasn’t in the team’s release that certainly could’ve been.
“Auburn is desperate, and everything that’s happened on The Plains the last few months suggests that 2019 will be filled with angst.”

[GH2001]

Because the Twirly Bird worked well with Lashlee.  There was no power struggle, Gus had final say on the calls. 

Don't forget Lindsey resigned, dude left on his own accord to rid himself of Gus.  Again it didn't matter who we hired at OC Gus is calling the plays next year.  We could have hired Bobo the Chimpanzee for OC.

I don’t think we disagree man. Other than the stories of Chip and Gus on the matter of plays. Sometimes you could tell it was gus. Sometimes it had chip written all over it. That back n forth and hybrid of play calling was the issue to me. 

The plus with Dilly is he is coming in as a yes man. And to NOT call plays. Gus will own this one all by his lonesome. I am curious if he tries to go back to the 13 mojo. 

Sent a couple of txts this morning stating what the author said about the “2013 magic”. Not saying I think it will work but he’s making his own personal “guster’s last stand” with it. 

[The Prowler]

I don’t think we disagree man. Other than the stories of Chip and Gus on the matter of plays. Sometimes you could tell it was gus. Sometimes it had chip written all over it. That back n forth and hybrid of play calling was the issue to me.

The plus with Dilly is he is coming in as a yes man. And to NOT call plays. Gus will own this one all by his lonesome. I am curious if he tries to go back to the 13 mojo.

Sent a couple of txts this morning stating what the author said about the “2013 magic”. Not saying I think it will work but he’s making his own personal “guster’s last stand” with it.

I wonder if Malik Willis can run the offense like Marshall.

[jmar]

I wonder if Malik Willis can run the offense like Marshall.

We would need to equip him with jetpacks. 

[GH2001]

I wonder if Malik Willis can run the offense like Marshall.

Ya know he passes horribly. But can run.  bo nix passes the eye test for sure. 

[Kaos]

I wonder if Malik Willis can run the offense like Marshall.

Fuck no. 

[jmar]

Marshall could misread at mesh and get 7 or 8 yards. He was also quick enough to find a receiver open from a run scheme. If a guy is slower he will certainly be more apt to leave it with a back and passing game will not flow as freely. I hope it's Willis because I don't want any of these assholes fucking up Nix's game. They will ruin him.

[Godfather]

I don’t think we disagree man. Other than the stories of Chip and Gus on the matter of plays. Sometimes you could tell it was gus. Sometimes it had chip written all over it. That back n forth and hybrid of play calling was the issue to me.

The plus with Dilly is he is coming in as a yes man. And to NOT call plays. Gus will own this one all by his lonesome. I am curious if he tries to go back to the 13 mojo.

Sent a couple of txts this morning stating what the author said about the “2013 magic”. Not saying I think it will work but he’s making his own personal “guster’s last stand” with it.

I'm not disagreeing with you anyways, just my airing of grievances.

[The Six]

I'm not disagreeing with you anyways, just my airing of grievances.

Is it Festivus already? Sneaks up on you when you're busy.

[Kaos]

Is it Festivus already? Sneaks up on you when you're busy.

December 23.  But it seems like it comes earlier and earlier every year.  The pole was up in Wal Mart before Halloween. 

[Snaggletiger]

Malzahn will call plays until the end of the Oregon game.  Then, he'll announce that he's better suited to be a CEO type and will turn over the play calling to the very capable, Coach Dilly Dilly.  From that point forward, they'll have a string of great practices and the future will be bright.

[Kaos]

Malzahn will call plays until the end of the Oregon game.  Then, he'll announce that he's better suited to be a CEO type and will turn over the play calling to the very capable, Coach Dilly Dilly.  From that point forward, they'll have a string of great practices and the future will be bright.

Will we still be young?  

[Godfather]

Malzahn will call plays until the end of the Oregon game.  Then, he'll announce that he's better suited to be a CEO type and will turn over the play calling to the very capable, Coach Dilly Dilly.  From that point forward, they'll have a string of great practices and the future will be bright.

You get me.

[Godfather]

Will we still be young? 

Young but close.

[GH2001]

I'm not disagreeing with you anyways, just my airing of grievances.

Word. 

I think we’re all frustrated. 

[GH2001]

Malzahn will call plays until the end of the Oregon game.  Then, he'll announce that he's better suited to be a CEO type and will turn over the play calling to the very capable, Coach Dilly Dilly.  From that point forward, they'll have a string of great practices and the future will be bright.

Complete with the lumberg-esque “yeahhhhhhhhhh were gonna have to take a look at that”

[Buzz Killington]

I'm not disagreeing with you anyways, just my airing of grievances.

I'll get the pole from the crawlspace

[The Prowler]

Fuck no.

Yeah, didn't think so...it's gonna be another long season.

[djsimp]

I will say this, from what I saw from Memphis against UCF, there is hope in Auburns new OC, Coach "Dilly Dilly". (That is his new name by the way, all proceeds got to Snags). Now look, that hope is almost Biblical, ya know, the needle in a haystack kind. Still though, there is hope. The Braveheart kind, ya know, "they may take away our lives, but they'll never take away our freedom!".







On third thought, fuck it, we are screwed.