The reasons why I'm backing Coach Chizik is because I know he's a Great Coach (albeit his two year HC record at a Cesspool doesn't reflect that), he has hired some Really Good to Great Coaches that happen to be Really Good to Great Recruiters, and the fact that You (kaos) and greaseydick have been on here basically blasting Coach Chizik from the get go and have yet to let up. If you and your little buddy would just open your fuckin' eyes and realize that Coach Chizik is more than just (5-19) and that there's a possibility that he could do great things at Auburn. But, NO....your vendetta against JJ has gotten in the way of that kind of thinking
So when I say, "Hey, Coach Chizik is actually a Great Coach", people, like yourself, come back with, "You don't know anything about football...you wouldn't know a good coach if he came up on your doorstep"....Really? If Coach Chizik was just an average coach, then why would ISU propose a 2 year extension to his contract, after he went (5-19)? Why would Texas want him back as DC and extremely possible HCIW after the '07 year?
Also, how many people here were fuckin' Pissed when Coach Chizik left, not only that he took a lateral move, but that he was that good of a coach and Auburn let him get away? Being that I know a thing or two about football, I knew that CTT is a Great Coach, he was the one that made the hire, and I felt that he would bring in another coach that was almost as good as Coach Chizik....Funny thing, there was one coach that was on the list of possible replacments for CGC, but at the time, he was in his third year as the HC at Duke. I didn't want to see CGC go, because I knew how great of a coach that he was. I was pissed that he took a lateral move and that he stated that he felt he could get a HC job quicker at Texas than at Auburn. But what do I know about football.
Being that a lot of people know a thing or two about football, you don't have the only legitimate viewpoint.
Elite programs hire elite coaches. Second-rate programs roll the dice on experiments, take chances on rejects, give mulligans to inferior candidates.
With this hire, Jay Jacobs clearly indicated what he believes Auburn to be.
I will never, ever get over that.
Winners win. They don't have to make a thousand excuses for why they didn't. What was Bowling Green before Urban Meyer got there? Any idea?
They were 5-6, 4-7, 3-8, 5-6, 5-6 and 2-9 in the six years before he got there. They were 8-3 and 9-3 in his two seasons as head coach. When he left, they went 11-3 and 9-3 on his recruits before sliding back to 6-5, 4-8.
What was TCU before Patterson got there? What was Tulsa before Graham? What was Buffalo before Gill?
Winners win, Prowler. Winners don't have to write essays (or have other people write them) to explain all the reasons why they didn't.
Chizik did a decent job as a coordinator. I don't doubt that Texas might have welcomed him back as coordinator. You're pulling things out of your ass and making them up to support your argument, however, when you state they "may have wanted him as HCIW." They may have wanted to name him homecoming queen or fairy princess too.
I've got no problems with him as a DC. If he'd come back to AU in that capacity, I'd be right there with you arguing his case. But he didn't. World of difference.
When given the reins of a program he failed by every measurable standard. He could not handle THAT job. As you yourself confirmed, offense, defense, recruiting and wins dropped while he was there. Who knows why ISU allegedly offered an extension? They're stupid, I guess. Why did Alabama give Mike Shula an extension? Why did Notre Dame give Charlie Weiss a 50-year contract? Because they're idiots? ISU's interest or lack thereof in Chiz is of no consequence to me.
Prowler, there's nothing you can say that will convince me at this point that chiz is a great or even a good head coach. There's nothing on his resume other than some big ass talk that he hasn't backed up to support that idea.
It's absolutely ridiculous on your part to disparage people as Bammers just because they don't share your optimism. Most of us realize that we're stuck with the guy and don't have a whole lot of other choice but to see how it plays out. Some are cautiously optimistic, some are more along the lines of dreading it, but hoping it somehow turns out okay. Some folks just think its an abortion. Doesn't mean that anybody loves Auburn any less or that they "don't know football" just because they don't agree with you. Frankly, not many people do. The island you're on is just as small or smaller than the one GW is.