I thought you were for keeping the status quo?
You wanted change but you wanted Tubby, also?
I am perplexed.
*sigh*
I'm really tired of saying this.
I wanted change. But I wanted the RIGHT change. The hire of Chizik was monumentally bad, so bad that even if Chizik is actually THE guy, the uphill battle he faces is so severe that he might not survive long enough to find out.
Given the situation that exists in the rest of the SEC, with elite coaches at most rival schools -- including Arkansas -- Auburn needed to make a bold statement if it was going to part ways with Tuberville. It needed to announce to the college football world that it was a serious player in the game and was making a major upgrade.
Instead he hired Chizik.
Gene might be a great guy. He might eventually be a fantastic coach. But what Auburn did NOT need at this critical juncture in football history was to put an experimental product on the field. Chizik is just that -- an experiment, a roll of the dice. Had Chiz come straight from Texas, hot on the heels of a national title and a series of Top Ten runs the hire would have looked much better. Then if he blows it, the hole isn't as deep and the damage not as severe.
But that's not how it played out. Chiz was hired on the heels of two fucking miserable seasons at a shithole. Rampant rumor is that he begged for the job and took it regardless of what it paid. You can see that as loyalty and love or you can see it as the stink of desperation. Had he fumblefucked his way through another dismal year at ISU, he would likely have been tossed out on his ass.
I don't hate Chizik. I don't even hate the fact that he was hired. I simply think that in the situation Auburn faced, having parted ways with a coach who, for all his undeniable faults, was until this season considered one of the top two or three coaches in the SEC, you can't follow that with Chizik. It puts the program in a no-win situation.
Please don't make me go through all that again. I'm tired of explaining it. Very tired.
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