Sometimes those damn facts get in the way.
Bullshit.
Auburn athletics was profitable before Jacobs got there. He hasn't done anything except keep it from going in the toilet in his first three years.
Pat Dye made Auburn athletics profitable. David Housel continued his work and had Auburn athletic in the best financial shape in the school's history.
You can't give Jacobs any credit for that. He walked into a situation where he didn't have to do ANYTHING but stay out of the way. But the idiot fuck couldn't do that, could he?
No. He fumbled and farted David Marsh out of Auburn with his mismanagement and incompetence. He allowed the baseball program to sink into utter irrelevance by his inaction. He bungled Will Muschamp's contract and then acted like such an ass that he drove him out of Auburn. He showed arguably the second-best football coach in Auburn history the door for reasons unknown. He's a self-important prick who makes Auburn look stupid by association.
Now that he's hired a buffoon for a football coach, now that the reaction to that hire (combined with the economy) has caused donations to shrink we'll see. When Chizik's monkey ass drives the football program into an iceberg we'll see how good that pretentious fuck is at maintaining profitability.
There are some facts for you.