Two years after a BCS title, could Auburn’s Chizik get fired?
Brian VanGorder (right) watches his career path take a discernible downturn. (AP photo)
Even as Auburn was en route to the BCS title, there was something unreal about the journey. Not that the 2010 Tigers weren’t the nation’s best team. But you wondered how they got that way.
This is a reference to Cam Newton, but not in the way you’d think. Nearly two years after it was reported that Newton’s dad had sought $180,000 to send his son to Mississippi State, we await the first bit of evidence that Auburn paid, or even offered, anything beyond a scholarship. The NCAA investigated at length and found nothing untoward. So far as can be discerned, Auburn won with Newton fair and square. That said …
Newton blew across the Plains in the time it takes to change, er, planes at Hartsfield-Jackson. (OK, slight exaggeration. But only slight.) He arrived from Blinn Junior College in January 2010, took his team to 14-0 the next January and, Heisman Trophy in tow, was gone. He was an Auburn student-athlete for roughly a year.
Auburn began its championship run ranked 22nd in the Associated Press preseason poll — one spot ahead of Georgia, six spots behind Georgia Tech. The Tigers were 8-5 in the season before Newton, 8-5 in the season after Newton. Today they’re 1-4, the victory coming in overtime against Louisiana-Monroe. They just lost 24-7 at home to an Arkansas team that was outscored by 100 points in its two previous SEC games. Which brings us to the other part of the disconnect.
The 2010 national championship was won by Gene Chizik’s team. Is Gene Chizik a national championship coach?
Counting two seasons at Iowa State, his career record is 36-33. His record without Cam Newton is 22-33. His record before Cam Newton was 13-24. His record since Cam Newton is 9-9.
A BCS title should buy a coach a long honeymoon, but let’s remember that Chizik works at Auburn. Where Terry Bowden resigned under pressure 11 months after he’d led the Tigers to the SEC championship game. Where school officials were moved to take a clandestine flight to Sellersburg, Ind., to woo Bobby Petrino, then of Louisville, to fill the head-coaching position occupied by Tommy Tuberville. Where Tuberville himself was gone four years after an undefeated season.
Things happen faster in the win-or-else SEC, and Auburn occupies the epicenter of Football Gone Wild. The Georgia-Georgia Tech relationship has been described as clean, old-fashioned hate. There’s nothing clean or old-fashioned about the feelings Auburn and Alabama have toward one another. Theirs is the dirtiest form of loathing, updated daily.
Alabama again reigns over college football. It has won two of the past three BCS titles and is in Position A to claim yet another. For one year, Newton and Chizik and Auburn usurped Nick Saban’s throne, but that year seems now — heck, it seemed so even then — as the one-off to end all one-offs.
So today we ask: Could the coach who claimed a national championship in January 2011 get fired before 2012 is done? Anywhere else, you’d say no. Auburn, however, is not anywhere else, and this is among the worst Auburn teams ever. It ranks 113th among 120 FBS teams in total offense, 117th in scoring, 110th in passing efficiency, 75th in total defense and dead last in turnover margin. This with a new offensive coordinator (the overmatched Scott Loeffler) and a new defensive coordinator (Brian VanGorder, of whom you’ve heard).
According to Rivals.com, Auburn’s signing classes from 2010 through 2012 ranked fourth, seventh and 10th nationally. Continuity, alas, has gone missing. Nick Fairley, who won the 2010 Lombardi Trophy, arrived as a JUCO transfer and left for the NFL after two seasons. Running back Michael Dyer was the offensive MVP of the BCS title game and was kicked off the squad 361 days later. Auburn has begun each of Chizik’s four seasons with a different quarterback; the latest, sophomore Kiehl Frazier, has thrown eight interceptions against two touchdown passes.
The Tigers’ next two games are at Ole Miss and Vanderbilt. (They’re a six-point underdog against the Rebels.) If Auburn loses both, it could well finish 0-8 in SEC play — two years after going 8-0. The SEC has seen all manner of strangeness, but such a plunge would have no precedent. Then again, Auburn’s rise to No. 1 didn’t have many antecedents, either. Yes, Herschel Walker lifted Georgia from 6-5 to an unbeaten national championship in his first collegiate season, but he stuck around a couple of more years and the Bulldogs stayed really good. And nobody wondered if Vince Dooley, who’d won three SEC titles before Herschel, could actually coach.
The former Auburn coach Pat Dye, who seldom makes a lick of sense, recently claimed he wouldn’t trade Chizik “for 10 Sabans.” If Chizik keeps losing, Auburn might soon swap him for one Bobby Petrino.
By Mark Bradley
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Donald
October 10th, 2012
2:00 pm
Do you believe Gene Chizik and Jay Jacobs should be fired after the 2012 season? I’m for it 100%.
Donald
October 10th, 2012
2:04 pm
If Chizik is fired, (which he should), then we MUST have a SPLASH hire. And a really strong hire for a new AD.
Karma is ALL IN
October 10th, 2012
2:05 pm
Karma has a funny way of taking care of scum
Chip
October 10th, 2012
2:10 pm
I said it right after Auburn won the National Championship that Chizik would be fired in three years.
misterwax
October 10th, 2012
2:10 pm
I hear Al Groh and soon Paul JOhnson will be available….YEAH!
tvradioguy
October 10th, 2012
2:12 pm
So, if things happen so quickly in the SEC and results are demanded – WHY IS RICHT STILL AT GEORGIA? Mark, it is time for another tough look at RICHT’s record over the last few years – let’s take an honest look and see after his teams not winning against ANYONE of worth over the past few years (since the BAMA blackout game) if he deserves to remain the UGA head coach. I would say that he has peaked and the program has peaked and the coaching staff has no real answers for the future. What say you? Please write a column soon on this! I appreicate your work and thoughts on this!
Weyman C. Wannamaker Jr. (A Great American)
October 10th, 2012
2:13 pm
RIP Alex Karras.
(Sorry… not on topic.)
tvradioguy
October 10th, 2012
2:13 pm
Also – to follow up the previous post, what kind of buyout does Richt have now on his contract?? Didn’t they bring that down the last time it was renewed?
Blazing Gooch
October 10th, 2012
2:13 pm
what about kermit?
Petrino would fit right in!
October 10th, 2012
2:14 pm
I can see it now with recruiting young girls to go to school there. They should have a college course called “Motorcyle Riding 101″ or “How to meet your Sugar Daddy”. I bet they hire him.
Michael Veli a.k.a Jim Donnan's financial advisor
October 10th, 2012
2:18 pm
Well written article Mark, you must be learning from Ken!
Seriously
October 10th, 2012
2:18 pm
UGA has one loss and we are rightfully unhappy but we arent nearly in the same boat as AU. Also there’s no way in heck we would ever hire Petrino. Only one school in the SEC would fit that category and thats why he ended the story that way.
robodawg
October 10th, 2012
2:19 pm
What’s weird about Chizik’s national championship at Auburn is he did it without building a program. They were lucky enough to keep winning the first half of that season and became a great team by the end of the season. But it’s rare to see a whole team carried by a handful of star players for such a short period like that.
Fred Sanford Stadium
October 10th, 2012
2:20 pm
Richt to Auburn, Willie Taggart new head coach at UGA!
LHarding Dawg
October 10th, 2012
2:20 pm
Hey tvradio guy, stay on point. The story is about Auburn and Chizik, not Georgia and Richt. Again, really focus and stay on point.
Bob in SF
October 10th, 2012
2:21 pm
I can totally see Auburn being desperate enough to hire Petrino; if anything the Hawgs epic collapse has further cemented his rep as an offensive genius. That being said although Petrino will trumpet his new found love of Jesus and do all the right things that play well in church known as southern football, he will still be one of biggest sacks of excrement to ever walk the sidelines and Auburn will find the same karmic reward that awaits all teams who make a deal with him.
Logan Walker
October 10th, 2012
2:21 pm
Keep Chizik! Their suckiness brings great joy to my life.
Stinger 2
October 10th, 2012
2:22 pm
This blog is already turning to a bash CMR event when its about Auburn. Pitiful bunch of disloyal UGA anti-fans.
Fred Sanford Stadium
October 10th, 2012
2:23 pm
LHarding Dawg to Auburn with his hero CMR, Taggart to UGA!
Hollywould
October 10th, 2012
2:24 pm
You have to have a QB to win. Frazier was signed to run Malzhan’s offense. They signed Pike because of the changing offensive system but he was an idiot. Van Gorder trying to implement his cover2 will not work if you don’t have the corners who can play bump and run. A bad fit at the moment but will be ok next year.
cattledawg
October 10th, 2012
2:25 pm
I think Richt would like living on the plains.
collegeballfan
October 10th, 2012
2:25 pm
If the Auburn staff gets canned, someone tell VanGorder that Georgia Tech is looking for a DC.
Fred Sanford Stadium
October 10th, 2012
2:26 pm
I believe Frazier is eerily Jordan Jefferson-like.
Hollywould
October 10th, 2012
2:26 pm
As far as PetrinoAU nor anyone in the SEC would ever sign him. Lowder no longer captains the ship.
rollin' in the deep
October 10th, 2012
2:28 pm
Would CMR keep Trooper? Guy can recruit.
Instead of a plane
October 10th, 2012
2:30 pm
AU President and AD should take Harleys with a couple of bimbos to woo him to the plains.
bad brad
October 10th, 2012
2:30 pm
How’s that “all-in” philosophy working for you now, Auburn fans?
Mike S.
October 10th, 2012
2:31 pm
Its hard to say. What I look at is the fact I see no playmaking ability on the team. We talk a lot on AJC about Tech not having play makers. Well, Auburn looks no better, yet they have been recruiting in the top 10 since Chizik got there. You should at least see the athletic ability on the field, but its not happening even against lower competition. Spurrier used to joke about UGA doing nothing with recruits. Well, that applies to Auburn right now.
Another big deal is the defense. Auburn is used to playing good defense from the Tuberville years. They havent played a lick of defense since Chizik got there. If Fairley couldnt get to the QB, it was going for a big gain. Van Gorder’s unit doesnt look any better so far.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
2:34 pm
The “Auburn Family” …….. LOL
spent their 50 years of life savings buying ball players to assemble a National Championship team.
Oh well “Auburn Family” …..LOL
I guess its back to work at the Auburn Mobile Home Plant
It should take you another 50 to 60 years to save that money under your seat cushions and trailors to buy another National Championship team
bullwinkle
October 10th, 2012
2:34 pm
As an Auburn guy I think you are right on about the weirdness of the championship season. A stranger cast of characters has rarely been assembled. Personally I will always be prouder of the Jason Campbell team – he was a class act and we had built a tremendous team around him (Chizik was the DC, btw). That said, the BCS year was a heckuva a bolt of lightning and the comebacks against UGA and especially Bama were all-timers. Auburn earned the trophy, period. As for what to do now: I think Ole Miss and Vandy are must-wins for Chizik and would be for most big-program coaches in the same boat, SEC or not.
Mike S.
October 10th, 2012
2:34 pm
Under no circumstances should Auburn hire Bobby Petrino. I realize the SEC fans like to treat CFB like its the NFL, but there’s no reason to sell out your principles to hand Petrino another big stage for his screw ups. Petrino needs to do time cleaning his rep up in Lexington or a smaller school.
cattledawg
October 10th, 2012
2:38 pm
Ive become such a BITTER Bulldawg and Braves fan. Everyear I buy into this being “The Year”.. Then its the same movie over and over. Alas, the dawgs will rally and beat a bunch of cupcakes and next year will be the YEAR. Sorry if Im off point or that Im not a true fan like others.
John
October 10th, 2012
2:39 pm
If today’s mindset had been in effect in the SEC 40 years ago, Shug Jordan would have been fired at Auburn somewhere between 1966 and 1968, Bear Bryant wouldn’t have lasted past the 1970 season at Alabama, and Vince Dooley, Ray Graves, Charlie McClendon, Johnny Vaught and Doug Dickey all would have had short careers as head coaches. As an Auburn alumnus and longtime season ticket holder, I had no problem with Terry Bowden’s departure because he essentially gave up on his team. Tommy Tuberville should still be the head coach at Auburn and he would be had he not had a momentary lapse in judgement and hired Tony Franklin. I like Gene Chizik but I have no idea why he hired Scott Loeffler or why he keeps Trooper Taylor on the staff. Schools have to become rational and quit firing coaches every time somebody sneezes.
Big Crimson 75
October 10th, 2012
2:47 pm
Hiring Petrino would be an epic disaster.
HE CAN’T BEAT SABAN.
It’s somewhat important for little brother.
Archibald Hole Broke
October 10th, 2012
2:52 pm
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of Wareagles, uh Tigers, uh Plainsmen, uh Cheaters.
Gott a love karma!
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
2:52 pm
“Auburn Family” are we All in ?????
Auburn Family lets be all in with our money so we can buy another Championship Team
Checks can be made out to the Cam Newton Champions Fund
Archibald Hole Broke
October 10th, 2012
2:56 pm
Pay To The Order Of “All In Family Trailer Park Repair”
Geno Cheese Stick
October 10th, 2012
2:57 pm
Can’t we all just get along and be “family” once again?
Gary
October 10th, 2012
2:58 pm
The buy out is too high. Gene stays.
rollin' in the deep
October 10th, 2012
2:59 pm
Trooper for head coach!
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
2:59 pm
I say keep him, getting easier and easier to win in Auburn.
Is it coincidence that Lowder loses his bank, loses his board title at Auburn and the decline of the football program. I guess the ownership has changed hands.
Old Dawg
October 10th, 2012
3:00 pm
I love college football, but it is becoming more difficult to participate in this madness. If folks want to follow pro football, there’s the NFL, CFL and AFL (arena).
Schools dump the majority of their admission requirements to enable their programs to become great, then wonder why their current/former players, who didn’t earn quality degrees, are on the police blotter.
I’m not naive, just sick of the sewer college football (athletics) currently resides. Guess it’s time to spend time doing something else of Saturdays. After 58 years, I don’t want to be associated with D-I.
Yea, Sewanee’s right!
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
3:02 pm
Come on “Auburn Family’
Lets be “All In” now
Donations to the Cam Newton Champions Fund go straight to buying quality players who can win you a Championship
Lets be “All In” and show our support for our cheating institution
Theres no other way to become a champion at Auburn
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
3:03 pm
Petrino is going to Kentucky, and there is 7 million available to buy out the Cheese but it will only take 3 million to get him to stay quiet and leave.
Gary
October 10th, 2012
3:03 pm
Sorry Bullwinkle, But Newton shouldn’t have set foot on a football field after beign arrested for possession of stoeln goods at Florida, three counts of academic chaeting at Florida, and then the Cecil Newton 180k Mississippi St debacle. Auburn did not ‘earn’ anything. By your standard, Georgia should have kept all the players they dismissed and shortened the suspensions of the players who stayed and it would be OK. If Newton is not on the filed you loose 5 games in 2010. Again, he should not have been admitted into school after his history at Florida. Same can be said for that punk QB at LSU.
North Georgia Dawg
October 10th, 2012
3:04 pm
As far from elite as UGA is right now, I would rather be in our position than Auburn’s. Cam Newton was an unbelievable talent, but without him and a few guys on Auburn who got in trouble who were talented, this Auburn coaching staff has failed to put good players on the field. Great quarterbacks make a coach look better.
north georgia fan
October 10th, 2012
3:04 pm
At Auburn? You better believe it, they are probably flying in candidates right now.
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
3:05 pm
If Chizik is forced out and Trooper stays then Everyone should see how important the payments were made.
TheTruth
October 10th, 2012
3:08 pm
I guess this is the best way to subver the attention away from the annual crash and burn over in Athens and saint mark.
Pretty pathetic attempt. Chizik isn’t going anywhere. If Bradley or any of these so-called “sportswriters” did ANY amount of research before writing whatever comes out of their backsides, he would have noted that the buyout for Chizik is 7.5 million. He would have noted that despite a horrific record this year AU has another (third straight) top 10 ‘cruitin class coming in.
But let’s not let facts get in the way of a good ol’ “Hey look over there!!” hit piece.
2010 National Champs!!! Kiss the ring Bradley and all the rest of you leghumpers!!
Oh and one more little side note….you trying to suggest dooley woulda won ANYTHING without the one kid who did it all of THuga…I think his name was Walker? And you point to Cam Newton like you never hear of herschel or the one title he brought you single handedly.
What a bunch of morons!!
Big Crimson 75
October 10th, 2012
3:08 pm
Aubie never should have let Tuberville go.
They did, they hired Chizik over Turner Gil(right choice,btw).
Firing Chisik is a mistake.
Who, other than Petrino, takes the job knowing a National Title & SEC Title plus 3 Bowl wins in your first 3 years isn’t good enough?
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
3:09 pm
North Ga Dawg
They have signed some great talent, but arrest, suspensions and academics has caused a third of them to never see the field, the other two thirds are not getting coached very well and VanGorder will haul tail as soon as the season is over.
dick whiskey
October 10th, 2012
3:13 pm
sans hershel dooley was just a good coach certainly not great,and chiziks record without scam and fairley speaks for itself mediocre
Jacket Detective
October 10th, 2012
3:13 pm
Misery loves company.
I think Tech has a better chance of righting the ship through having rid ourselves of the cancer by way of an operation called firing.
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
3:13 pm
Sounds like the “Truth” is All In and has his feelings hurt.
By the way, Auburn has signed some Top 10 classes but take away non admissions, arrest, suspensions, dismissals and those Top 10 classes resemble more of a top 40 type class.
JRW7
October 10th, 2012
3:15 pm
I’m a DAWG, I don’t have time to worry about AUBURN, we have enough trouble at UGA with CMR! Seems to me that most DAWG fans are real happy with 10 wins per year beating below average teams. FIRE them both!!!
Jacket Detective
October 10th, 2012
3:16 pm
Off topic but Maryland has hired a heck of a D coordinator named Stewart.
Failing program immediately turned around.
And look what the two new coordinators are doing for the Falcons.
Great job Mike to hire them.
JB
October 10th, 2012
3:16 pm
Petrino healed, rested, relaxed, driving only 4 wheels and ready. Got to be in the back of All diehards minds on the Plains. They have lusted after him for a while, and me thinks with the attraction to that Campus by the talent within 150 miles of that Campus, He could win there quick, big and often. And the Sleeze factor down there means little. We all scratch our heads why the Russian got hired at a pedigree SEC power with like 4 wins at a no name ,I think we all know why. The Auburn Mafia, now out of business I’m told( thus the record) wanted him bad. He was family.
Big Crimson 75
October 10th, 2012
3:17 pm
Is Van Gorder ever gonna shave that 70s porn stasche?
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
3:17 pm
Look at the empty seats on the background of the photo at the top.
Empty seats means slow cleats and money getting beat.
Jacket Detective
October 10th, 2012
3:18 pm
Dawg fans.
U missed your chance to rid yourselves of CMR by beating Tech in 2009.
Hey maybe we are losing intentionally so you’ll never be free of mediocre CMR.
Hollywould
October 10th, 2012
3:20 pm
Still all in the family/ at least we don’t egg and roll our qb’s house or come on these blogs demanding that Richt be fired because every year the delusional leg humpers think they are the best. War Eagle!
Jacket Detective
October 10th, 2012
3:22 pm
U folks are a riot.
Keep the comedy coming.
What just happened here?
October 10th, 2012
3:22 pm
Russell Wilson is starting in the NFL – and thriving I might add – we had him on campus and somehow he slipped away – word on the street was he didn’t feel like he was a good fit for the offense Auburn wanted to run – hmmmmm – smh – WHEN YOU HAVE RUSSELL WILSON ON THE HOOK, YOU SCRAP WHATEVER OFFENSE YOU HAVE AND DESIGN AN OFFENSE AROUND HIS SKILLS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD – Cam saved Chizik on the first go ’round – Russell could have saved him on the 2nd
JB
October 10th, 2012
3:23 pm
Van Gordor the only well paid guy I know who didn’t get hurt in the housing bubble. He rents everywhere he goes.
LHarding Dawg
October 10th, 2012
3:24 pm
“The Truth” wouldn’t know the truth if it was tattooed on his azz.
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
3:25 pm
Hollywould
Yeah in Auburn they just home invade you why waste time with egging and TPing a house.
Jacket Detective
October 10th, 2012
3:25 pm
@JB.
Smart man.
JB
October 10th, 2012
3:26 pm
I think he gets another year. Dooley won’t. Richt is a lifer. He’ll be the only coach in UGA history other than Dooley to replace the shingles on his house in Athens. We’re stuck.
Jacket Detective
October 10th, 2012
3:27 pm
This is the funniest Bradley’s blog has been in a good while.
Yall keep the insults coming, ya hear.
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
3:27 pm
Big Crimson 75
Those recruits moms love that 70’s looking mustache
Big Crimson 75
October 10th, 2012
3:28 pm
Ummmmmmmmmmmm…
Russell Wilson is the one of the worst rated QBs in the NFL.
His QB rating is 33.9%. That’s below Matt Cassel!!
He has a top 3 Defense, a top 3 RB & the replacement refs to thank for Seattle hanging on at .500!
Go Jackets
October 10th, 2012
3:28 pm
Would love for Aubumm to take Fish Fry off our hands.
JB
October 10th, 2012
3:28 pm
I think the Russian thought Van Gordor would be a bigger help than he has been, although I know nothing about their roster.
Long-time Dawg
October 10th, 2012
3:28 pm
He won that title because the school bought him the players. Buy him some more or show him the door.
Long-time Dawg
October 10th, 2012
3:29 pm
And btw, CMR is a blue-light special right now.
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
3:30 pm
The dog track in shorter is not generating enough money as the bingo casino did to support the players lifestyle at auburn. I guess a sack is worth only a free trifecta quick pick these days.
Big Crimson 75
October 10th, 2012
3:31 pm
Fact is, Whiskey ponied up the coin for Wilson.
Yes, they do it in the Big 10 also.
LakeDawg
October 10th, 2012
3:31 pm
AU made a mistake firing Tuberville. You never know for sure, but Chizdick seemed a bad hire at the time. If he had been hired at UGA, he could relax and be guaranteed 7-8 years, no matter how he did.
JB
October 10th, 2012
3:32 pm
I don’t think the school was involved with the cash…….Lowder guy and the Victory Land Dog track guy are the suspects
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
3:34 pm
Pat Dye was either drunk or drinking while on Finebaum yesterday, the rambling monologue was embarrassing for the Auburn Family.
JB
October 10th, 2012
3:34 pm
Where did the phrase ” The Auburn Way” come from???
Tony Not Tiger
October 10th, 2012
3:34 pm
Auburn might be more attractive to better coaches if it weren’t in that black hole of nowhere of a burg. GOSH that place is forlorn. Plus, they can’t settle on a mascot: War Eagle? Tigers?? Plainsmen??? Well, what is it? It’s 2012, already, and they can’t settle it. And that “loveliest village” thing they always talk about, that line is from a poem about a village in Scotland or Ireland named Auburn, not in a Godforsaken place that like east central Alabama! The Tide owns our state and rightly so. Auburn needs to re-hire Bowden, he at least knows what he’s getting into.
Big Crimson 75
October 10th, 2012
3:34 pm
Go Jackets
October 10th, 2012
3:28 pm
Would love for Aubumm to take Fish Fry off our hands.
——–
According to GTbob, Aubie had the Brinks truck backed up on North Ave to sign Johnson before Chisik.
Of course, the Sain World understood that was a battle between Chisik & Gil.
Shug
October 10th, 2012
3:36 pm
Before Auburn becomes respectable again, it must atone for its sins.
JB
October 10th, 2012
3:38 pm
They will give him another year and by that time Petrino will have saved his marriage and rebuilt an orphanage and his PR will be fine. I’d almost bet the house on it.
Hollywould
October 10th, 2012
3:39 pm
Under/ invasion had nothing to do with a football game. Classy leghumpers doing their thing but believe what u want. Most leghumpers are so in denial they do it anyway.
JB
October 10th, 2012
3:41 pm
Tubbs going to Arkansas I bet.
Delbert D.
October 10th, 2012
3:42 pm
There all a bunch of looosers. I’ll say it again, looosers! They deserve to looose. What is the blog about? I better go back and read it.
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
3:43 pm
Hollywould,
You are right it was done by criminal elements of the drug infested pay for play, grade changing Auburn Football program. The inmates running the prison.
rogue wave
October 10th, 2012
3:43 pm
The most rogue program in America folks.
pb
October 10th, 2012
3:44 pm
Hey Under the Bleachers,
Got to remember Pat Dye is pretty old, and he had some serious health issues a few years ago. Maybe has mental lapses because of it, so give the guy a break…
RTR22
October 10th, 2012
3:45 pm
Hire Troopa, the biggest clown on the sidelines……
John
October 10th, 2012
3:46 pm
There are plenty of non Division I college football programs in Georgia to go watch on Saturdays. Clark Atlanta, Morehouse, Point, Shorter, Valdosta State, West Georgia, Fort Valley State and LaGrange all play every week and Mercer and Reinhardt come on board next year. It’s a whole lot cheaper, no scandals involved, and a lot of fun.
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
3:46 pm
Just wait to the week of the UGA/Auburn game and repost/update the stats and records, and the Auburn fans will be long gone.
65 ship players and not on probation.
October 10th, 2012
3:47 pm
Getting beat by an average of 41-10 against your last 5 top 10 teams get you and nice pay raise.
Big Crimson 75
October 10th, 2012
3:49 pm
Sorry Ruby, you’re not welcome back.
We’ve got another Foster on board, Robert.
He’s better anyway & no extra mouths to feed.
PMC
October 10th, 2012
3:50 pm
It’s interesting that a coach that managed to build a team good enough to win the first national championship at a school in 50 something years could be ushered out 2 years later as unfit, when in an adjacent state in the same league a coach that had been there for over a decade without ever even playing for a national title seemingly has nothing to worry about.
Paul in NH
October 10th, 2012
3:50 pm
How the heck do you replace Ted Roof as DC and have your defense get worse?
Hollywould
October 10th, 2012
3:52 pm
Under/ some fans will be gone, not me. I support them all the way unlike your demented fan base. And once agian for the 1000th time show some proof on paying somebody. You can’t/almost 4 time for your meds.
Mark Bradley
October 10th, 2012
3:52 pm
Would not have thought it possible, Paul. But I can’t believe a team with Roof as DC won a championship.
Big Crimson 75
October 10th, 2012
3:54 pm
Paul in NH
October 10th, 2012
3:50 pm
How the heck do you replace Ted Roof as DC and have your defense get worse?
——-
That’s easy — Brian Van Gorder
LakeDawg
October 10th, 2012
3:55 pm
There are plenty of non Division I college football programs in Georgia to go watch on Saturdays. Clark Atlanta, Morehouse, Point, Shorter, Valdosta State, West Georgia, Fort Valley State and LaGrange all play every week and Mercer and Reinhardt come on board next year. It’s a whole lot cheaper, no scandals involved, and a lot of fun.
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I’ve gotten back into HS ball. Very refreshing. Pure sport. HS teams are pretty good now. They do everything the colleges do. Spread, etc. Plus you will still see the Wishbone, WingT, etc.
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
3:55 pm
Mike P is that You?
2_dawgs
October 10th, 2012
3:57 pm
Let’s hope “JB” is wrong.
Nativebird
October 10th, 2012
4:00 pm
Wow. One of your all-time best interesting, unbiased, balanced, well-reasoned approach to a legitimate question in major college football. Now if you could only approach GT and their over-rated coach the same way.
Knute Rockney
October 10th, 2012
4:00 pm
Fire D’Bum
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
4:03 pm
Hollywould,
HBO did it and SI the same, I will take them over a known lying preacher.
Big Crimson 75
October 10th, 2012
4:03 pm
The former Auburn coach Pat Dye, who seldom makes a lick of sense, recently claimed he wouldn’t trade Chizik “for 10 Sabans.
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Who’s Pat Dye’s Nanny now?
Someone needs to be properly taking care of this poor man.
Mister Clean
October 10th, 2012
4:03 pm
Van Gorder has become an albatross. Since Georgia, he has been a program killer.
Hollywould
October 10th, 2012
4:05 pm
Under/ last time/ if it was proven what happened? Nothing as usual. I am out/ posting with you is making me want meds.
SuperB
October 10th, 2012
4:07 pm
If Auburn fires Chizik, can the Dawgs get Van Gorder back?
Saban
October 10th, 2012
4:09 pm
Offer me 5,000,000 per year and I’m there. I’ll fix all your problems, until I get a higher offer….
Tiger
October 10th, 2012
4:11 pm
3 undefeateded seasons in the last 20yrs. more than anyone else. they’ll be back. enjoy it while you got it miseable leghumpers.
Seriously?
October 10th, 2012
4:12 pm
Who cares? Auburn and Georgia are both mid-tier SEC teams at best. Doesn’t matter who their coaches are. Mediocrity is mediocrity.
Jacket Detective
October 10th, 2012
4:14 pm
Richt’s record vs GT has saved him.
I think we are losing on purpose to prevent Uga hiring a NC calibre coach and having us really jealous.
U can’t beat Spurrier.
So nothing to get jealous of.
Under The Bleachers
October 10th, 2012
4:15 pm
Hollywould
Your panties are in a bunch and your program is a loser and losing.
Those are Facts.
Jacket Detective
October 10th, 2012
4:19 pm
Where have all the dawg trolls gone?
Long time passes.
Where have all the dawg trolls gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the dawg trolls gone?
Squashed by Spurrier, every one.
When will they fire Mark Richt?
When will fire their reverend and return to the top?
(just trying to help)
Jacket Detective
October 10th, 2012
4:26 pm
I left out they.
I’m so inspired by all the insults flying I thought I would channel Pete Seger and join in.
dagnabit
October 10th, 2012
4:27 pm
I’m just “wiped out” that these georgia fans are so ready to desert the Richt train.
Seriously?
October 10th, 2012
4:29 pm
Meh. Can’t return to a place you’ve never been.
Eric
October 10th, 2012
4:31 pm
At least we aren’t Georgia (Haven’t won a title since 1980)
Seriously?
October 10th, 2012
4:34 pm
1957 – Cheated
2010 – Cheated
AppleCEO
October 10th, 2012
4:37 pm
New OC, new DC, new QB and offensive players recruited to play in a spread offense. Chizik gets a pass this season. If they do not have a very good team next year, he is gone. I hear Big Bird might be available! War Eagle!!!!
TN Dawg
October 10th, 2012
4:39 pm
Mark, excellent point. No one seems be able to explain how a team can go from barely winning to immediate National Champs back to mediocre immediately after.
Has that happen to another other Nat’l Championship team so quickly? Seems like all other Champs have at least 3 good years consecutively.
AppleCEO
October 10th, 2012
4:52 pm
AU was not “barely winning” the decade leading up to the title run. Undefeated three times since ‘93. How many programs can say that???
Frustrated, Inc.
October 10th, 2012
5:02 pm
I am always amazed at the amount of stupidity on these ajc forums. What a pack of losers. Led by the head loser, Mark Bradley. Mark, you suck and you know it. How you are still employed amazes me. And to the tool who mentions that AU can’t settle on a mascot…WTH?! You then talk about bammer. Uhhhh, they are the crimson tide and they have an elephant mascot. stupid rube.
PR
October 10th, 2012
5:04 pm
Thanks for the help Jacket Detective. I think the better question would be.. when is GT going to send Paul Johnson packing with Al Groh?
UGA is 5-1 this season. Mark Richt is 10/11 against GT. Not defending Richt, but wondering why a Jacket fan who’s team lost by 20+ to MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE a few weeks ago is even commenting on Richt. Just trying to help…
Wait… nevermind. I hope Paul Johnson stays at GT for another 25 years.
eddy
October 10th, 2012
5:04 pm
Chizik is getting what he deserved. Ol’ Cam is coming back to haunt him. When you lie down with dogs, you get fleas. Cam was a triple threat..liar, cheater and a thief (see UF history)but Ol’ Gene was with him all the way. Cam’s father is supposed to be a preacher….wonder what he preaches…..”get yo’ money befo’ someone else do”" What a joke and now Chizik, the joke is on you. PS—-wonder what the fat boy recruit and his Mama with the Auburn tatoos are thinking now. Nope Clorox won’t get the tatoos off.
azdawg
October 10th, 2012
5:13 pm
One thing AU proved to the college football world is if you have at least one very dominent player on Offense and one on defense sourrounded by a fairly gpood supporting cast, get a few breaks, you can win the NC in one season.
Yes, Chizik is on thin ice at AU. I can see AU biting the bullet and hire Bobby Petrino, put him on a short leash, one eff up and he’s gone, just to put W’s on the board. Petrino can do it the scuzz bag that he is. He knows how to make an offense go. Kids will want to play for him and if Bobby puts the W’s on the board all will be forgotten reference his doing it on the back of a bike. The AD will become a hero having the genius to hire Petrino and give the coach a 2d chance. The PR dept will make sure of a positive spin along w/a media that will eat it up. Its all about winning and keeping the $$ rolling into the athletic dept. If not AU, there will be other AD’s willing to sacrifice their rep to ressurect their football program. But not the dawgs, they’d rather lose w/CMR.
Good Stuff
October 10th, 2012
5:14 pm
Need to get off the wallet.
Good Stuff
October 10th, 2012
5:15 pm
I am talking Cam Newton type money…
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
5:27 pm
Chizik doesn’t really want to coach. He wants to be a barber. That’s why he wears a barber shirt. He looks like Floyd Lawson.
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
5:38 pm
Auburn has a HC that looks like a barber, a DC that looks like a porn star, an OC that looks like he just got off the short bus and a wide receiver coach that doesn’t know the bill goes to the front. And you wonder why the program is a dumpster fire?
Turkey Neck
October 10th, 2012
5:43 pm
Still fear that Georgia will kick my tail next month but I love the support from Jacket Detective. Keep it up, JD – just might save my team this year.
GeneO
October 10th, 2012
5:43 pm
with cam newton—gene was 14-0!!
without cam—he can’t coach a lick. Time for gene to go!
Turkey Neck
October 10th, 2012
5:48 pm
I love the GT fans! Thanks a lot and keep those checks coming in. Shoot, maybe we can fill the entire stadium up this year. Very good hot dogs by the way – think I might have another 8 or 9. Mmmmmmmm…burp.
Pitbull
October 10th, 2012
5:48 pm
Look at what happened when Auburn fired Tuberville.
Look at what happened when Tennessee fired Fulmer.
Look at what happened when Ole Miss fired Nutt.
Look at what happened when Clemson fired Ford.
Look at what is happening at Tech since they fired Gailey.
Dumb people do not learn from their mistakes.
Average people do learn from their mistakes.
Smart people learn from other people’s mistakes.
We have a great coach at UGA that has won 111 games in 11 & 1/2 years and beat Tech 10 out of 11 times.
Other schools would love to have him. The spoiled children fans of UGA need to get behind Coach Richt or find another school to be a “fan” of. We don’t need them.
And I still can’t decide if the Richt haters are really Tech students and fans posing as UGA fans trying to get rid of him because they can’t beat him. But that is their level of character so it may be the case.
Bobby L.
October 10th, 2012
5:50 pm
I can’t afford ‘em any more. I bought ‘em everything and then I get pushed off the board after losing the bank. You’d almost think I was valued just for my money!
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
5:53 pm
If Chizik continues to lose then yes, he will be fired. With that said, AU won’t stand for mediocrity.
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
5:53 pm
“Look at what happened when Auburn fired Tuberville.”
They won a championship.
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
5:54 pm
I’ve heard rumors that Auburn will go after Kirby Smart.
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
5:55 pm
“AU made a mistake firing Tuberville.”
Yeah, it was such a mistake that Auburn won a national championship.
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
5:56 pm
You know who hasn’t won a national championship?
UGA
Mike
October 10th, 2012
5:59 pm
I feel dumber reading this thread, not the article Mr. Bradley.
Jacket Detective
October 10th, 2012
5:59 pm
@Pitbull.
I went to the Uga blog to say something mean during your latest loss to Steve but all the dawg fans beat me to it.
No most of the hate coming Richt’s way is Uga fans thinking he is not earning all those many millions.
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
October 10th, 2012
5:59 pm
know your facts
1-AU didn’t fire Tommy. After the Bama beatdown of AU 2008 the woodcutter called Houston Nutt and offerred the job which in fact voided Tommy’s contract. Tommy made them pay him in full and he left town with 6 million and only 1 lose to Nick. Tommy made the right business call in 2008.
2-VanGorder booted out one of Dye’s old assistant coaches from his staff meeting two weeks ago.Brian will not be at auburn in 2013.
3-The old coach,the banker,and the woodcutter still run auburn and do doubt that. The president at auburn and the bot understand their place.
fan
October 10th, 2012
5:59 pm
YOu couldn’t run that warden off!
Jacket Detective
October 10th, 2012
6:01 pm
@Pitbull.
I went to the Dawg blog to say something mean during your latest loss to Steve but all the dawg fans had already beat me to it.
Stinger 2
October 10th, 2012
6:02 pm
Why do people keep bringing up Bobby Petrino? No major college program will be hiring him in the near future. He will have to start over with a FCS school and stay out of trouble for at least 2 or 3 years.
USMC
October 10th, 2012
6:11 pm
“Why do people keep bringing up Bobby Petrino? No major college program will be hiring him in the near future. He will have to start over with a FCS school and stay out of trouble for at least 2 or 3 years.”–Stinger2
–not intended to be a factual statement
Buddy,
College Football is a BUSINE$$, and Bobby Petrino is one of THE top college coaches in America. He will end up at an SEC school (Auburn, Tenn, KY, etc) and coaching next fall. Watch.
(I am by no means a Bobby Petrino fan)
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
6:12 pm
“He will end up at an SEC school (Auburn, Tenn, KY, etc) and coaching next fall. Watch.”
You have absolutely nothing to back that up with.
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
6:13 pm
“Why do people keep bringing up Bobby Petrino?”
Same reason they said Auburn would get probation. They’re stupid people.
BamaNation
October 10th, 2012
6:14 pm
Horribly biased, terribly written. Think you need to stop drinking the koolaid and find some credible sources.
rollin' in the deep
October 10th, 2012
6:14 pm
hey Pitbull, just be quiet…ok
rollin' in the deep
October 10th, 2012
6:16 pm
The reason for this article was to get people off of the fire Richt campaign…no one really cares about Auburn…
DeepDarkTruth
October 10th, 2012
6:20 pm
@Pitbull
“Other schools would love to have him. The spoiled children fans of UGA need to get behind Coach Richt or find another school to be a “fan” of.”
Prove it. Fire this staff and every one of them will be unemployed. Nobody wants those rejects. That’s why they’re in Athens.
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
6:28 pm
“The former Auburn coach Pat Dye, who seldom makes a lick of sense”
Blame UGA for that since he graduated from that school.
BamaDan
October 10th, 2012
6:28 pm
Karma truly is a bitch. The barn bought and paid for that 2010 NC, and now they are paying the piper. Why has God forsaken Gene? 2010 was a “God Thing,” right? I really hope they keep Gene, he’s such a fine christian man…cough, cough. He just needs more time.
Roll Tide
Whiskey Breath
October 10th, 2012
6:29 pm
Brad, you do realize Chizik has some unheard of buyout?
Shouldn’t you be explaining why GA backfired on your prediction?
Remember, you did the homer thing before the season.
I know you guys don’t eat crow, but how the hell are we supposed
to respect your opinion?
are you kidding me......
October 10th, 2012
6:33 pm
I was embarrassed for Auburn when Cam Newton was runnin all over the field and the announcers were talking about his past…how do you teach your children morals and values and then cheer on someone like Cam???…what goes around, comes around, Chizik!
Chizik Watch | Track 'Em Tigers
October 10th, 2012
6:35 pm
[...] Two Years After a BCS Title, Could Auburn’s Chizik Get Fired? [...]
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
6:36 pm
“The barn bought and paid for that 2010 NC, and now they are paying the piper.”
The stooopid, it burns!!!!
“I was embarrassed for Auburn when Cam Newton was runnin all over the field ”
Yeah, that national championship was such an embarrassment.
Petrino and Auburn!
October 10th, 2012
6:36 pm
I hope they hire him. Can you imagine mom’s and dad’s sending their little girls to au? I think you would see a huge increase in enrollment from Pink Pony want to be’s…
BamaDan
October 10th, 2012
6:42 pm
Truth hurts, HUH????? Why is the barn perpetually young? What happened to all those wonderful top ten classes signed by Gene? He’s been there four years…why the drop off? Trooper’s out there spending money like crazy…see Rueben Foster, but he’s bringing in thugs who either can’t get in school, flunk out, or end up in jail. You didn’t need to be hit by the NCAA, you have put yourselves on probation, and I’m laughing all the way to November. Going to be an epic beatdown in Bryant-Denny. Please keep Gene!
Cockfan
October 10th, 2012
6:42 pm
How Uga recruits feel about the thrashing sat night in Columbia. Should be the next article!
rollin' in the deep
October 10th, 2012
6:49 pm
Not a fan of either program, but I can see Bama putting 60+ on the barn this season…at least I hope they do…
TideTrucker
October 10th, 2012
6:54 pm
Hey all you barners, please oh please keep Chizik. And remember to tell all of us how you are better than everyone just because you are Auburn. Not because of accomplishments on the field or in the classroom, but just because you are Auburn. And by the way how many of you were “all in” in the 4th qtr against Ark when the mass exodus had began and Jordan Hare was empty.
Woofy One
October 10th, 2012
6:59 pm
The turning over of coaches for losing a few games is dumb. A 3 year slump maybe,
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
7:00 pm
I still love it when Cam said: I love “The University of Auburn”. He wasn’t there long enough to even know the name of the school. PATHETIC!
And I misss watching Trooper Taylor running on the field and high fiving Nick Fairley after a dirty hit. Trooper said he wears his hat backwards because it is a tribute to his Dad who asked him to do that as a memorial to him. It has been confirmed that Trooper wore his hat backward prior to his Dad’s demise. Why would Trooper do that? It is a sad commentary and I feel sorry for Trooper.
Can you remove a giant tatoo on your bicep? What is going on with the “all in family” in Auburn? Sammie Coates says the team does not have a leader and Chizik says that is one mans opinion. Tom Lugenbill says there is no leadership from the coaches or players and Auburn will not win a Conference game. This is a Dumpster Fire.
Trooper for Head Coach…NOW! Rember what he did at Oklahoma State? He mentored Dez Bryant…nuff said
bamaguy
October 10th, 2012
7:00 pm
UGA and the AJC should be seriously concerned about what is happening (or not happening) in Athens, Georgia. I guess Auburn’s current season provides some distraction.
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
7:04 pm
“Why is the barn perpetually young? What happened to all those wonderful top ten classes signed by Gene? He’s been there four years…why the drop off?”
I love it how you can’t even back up your own comment. Come on, explain how/when AU will go on probation.
“Trooper’s out there spending money like crazy…see Rueben Foster”
Ah yes, more lies without anything to back it up.
“You didn’t need to be hit by the NCAA, you have put yourselves on probation, and I’m laughing all the way to November.”
Bammer just got off probation. You gals were on it how long? 12-14 years? HAHAHAHAHA
JB
October 10th, 2012
7:05 pm
OKIE Dawg @5:38….funniest post I’ve read on the AJC… Good stuff
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
7:05 pm
“UGA and the AJC should be seriously concerned about what is happening (or not happening) in Athens, Georgia.”
The entire state of GA athletics. Braves, Hawks, GT, UGA…. ALL losers.
JB
October 10th, 2012
7:09 pm
Bamaguy. Richt will go 11-1, 10-2 at the worst. Problems are in Mizzou, Nashville,Knoxville, Wherever Ole Miss is, AU………Those are problems
Dawg Tired
October 10th, 2012
7:10 pm
Chizek MAY save his job by beating UGA this year. If Auburn losses to a Georgia team best known for slow fat out of shape linemen who are either out-quicked or simply run over by the opposing team’s players, then he ought to be fired.
Jay
October 10th, 2012
7:14 pm
Bring back one of the Tommy’s
SEC Fact Finder
October 10th, 2012
7:27 pm
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
6:13 pm
“Why do people keep bringing up Bobby Petrino?”
Same reason they said Auburn would get probation. They’re stupid people
Huh,
I avoid posting on these blogs because of the amount of trash talk an unsubstantiated rumors that get floated. As some on here know I work multiple games throughout the conference in two sports, and several weeks ago I worked a Kentucky game. I have several very close friends at Kentucky and I can say without a doubt that Petrino IS on their list, along with several other candidates. That does not mean he will be hired, but people have to understand the money some in the Wildcat Foundation are willing to spend. That along with the Pitino deal at Louisville, some want to give payback to their in state rivals and hire their former coach.
Hope you all have a great Saturday and good luck to you and your teams. Go SEC!
Delusional Tiger
October 10th, 2012
7:32 pm
We can’t fire Gene Chizik. He’s a good man, and he won a National Championship for Auburn.
Besides, who could we hire to replace him? Huh? It’s not like Head Coaches grow on trees, ya know.
DawgNole
October 10th, 2012
7:36 pm
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
5:56 pm
You know who hasn’t won a national championship?
UGA
______________________
Another lie from HUH????
Why am I not surprised?
78dawg
October 10th, 2012
7:41 pm
Auburn had to slack off their pay-for-play and now can’t beat anyone. Bye.
Dawg catcher
October 10th, 2012
7:44 pm
Georgia hasn’t won a national championship in over 30 years and they are making fun of a school that has. It’s a bunch or sour grapes. Even Tenn has one in the BCS era.
Beast from the East
October 10th, 2012
7:45 pm
I still cannot understand why they hired him in the first place. Same with Dooley at UT. Why would you a hire a coach with a losing record from an inferior program?
Cam, Fairley and the gang won that NC. Chizik just happened to be there when all the stars aligned. His record without Cam speaks for itself.
Bill
October 10th, 2012
7:48 pm
Since both Georgia’s rise under Herschel and Auburn’s ascent with Cameron refer to events without historical “precedent”, did our wordsmith Mr. Bradley misspeak when he talks of Auburn’s rise being one without an antecedent, which only means it won’t happen again in the future? Or am I confused?
Flat Tire on I95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
7:50 pm
Yes he should be fired and also Paul Johnson!
SEC Fact Finder
October 10th, 2012
7:51 pm
Beast from the East
October 10th, 2012
7:45 pm
I still cannot understand why they hired him in the first place. Same with Dooley at UT. Why would you a hire a coach with a losing record from an inferior program?
Cam, Fairley and the gang won that NC. Chizik just happened to be there when all the stars aligned. His record without Cam speaks for itself.
Beast, I cannot answer the Auburn question, but word out in Knoxville was they hired Dooley for the same reason Alabama hired Shula. Both were dealing with NCAA issues from their previous coaches and they wanted to make sure name recognition would help them in their damage control with the investigators to show they were serious about correcting issues that were front in center. I will add they both had planned on winning with these hires, but as we all know they both have done good jobs of restoring responsiblity in both programs and started them to get back on the right footing with their programs.
DawgNole
October 10th, 2012
7:54 pm
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
5:27 pm
Chizik doesn’t really want to coach. He wants to be a barber. That’s why he wears a barber shirt. He looks like Floyd Lawson.
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
5:38 pm
Auburn has a HC that looks like a barber, a DC that looks like a porn star, an OC that looks like he just got off the short bus and a wide receiver coach that doesn’t know the bill goes to the front. And you wonder why the program is a dumpster fire?
JB
October 10th, 2012
7:05 pm
OKIE Dawg @5:38….funniest post I’ve read on the AJC… Good stuff
______________________
Agreed. OkieDawg has earned his blogging stripes tonight.
muleshoe
October 10th, 2012
7:56 pm
If Tennessee will be patient, I think Dooley can get the job done…You have to give him 5 years, same with Chizik. Now, if after 12 years he hasn’t sniffed a national title, well, ask Georgia for guidance. They have experience it that area.
DawgNole
October 10th, 2012
8:01 pm
Bill
October 10th, 2012
7:48 pm
Since both Georgia’s rise under Herschel and Auburn’s ascent with Cameron refer to events without historical “precedent”, did our wordsmith Mr. Bradley misspeak when he talks of Auburn’s rise being one without an antecedent, which only means it won’t happen again in the future? Or am I confused?
________________
You’re both confused.
doggit
October 10th, 2012
8:03 pm
I’m so glad I moved one state northeast, that still touches MY home state but not Alabama.
Dirty Dawg
October 10th, 2012
8:03 pm
The thing is first you’ve got to find somebody that’ll go along with the pay-for-play thing. Obviously Patrino’s a candidate, but even Auburn might have a problem with hiring the a-hole while he’s still wearing that neck brace.
Delusional Tiger
October 10th, 2012
8:17 pm
Bobby Petrino will coach again. He’s not the first man to commit adultery. Nor is he the first football coach to do it. You guys act like you’re all a bunch of sweetie-pie angels when you’re posting on this blog. Bet you wouldn’t want to have the news media sticking their nose in everything most of you do from day to day. You might not sound quite so self righteous then.
wrecked again
October 10th, 2012
8:21 pm
would take cheese stick instead PJ any day.
Delusional Tiger
October 10th, 2012
8:25 pm
@wrecked again
I’ll go along with that. At least he’s been around big time football programs. PJ is a fish fry joke.
Chuck UGA
October 10th, 2012
8:39 pm
Chizik? What about Mark Richt? Will Georgia fire Richt after he loses to Florida and possibly even Auburn? Maybe he wins both, but very, very unlikely.
Titanium
October 10th, 2012
8:41 pm
This message is provided by Tide Fans for Jim Chizik. “Save Jim Chizik!”
Titanium
October 10th, 2012
8:43 pm
Does any one do The Shacket more justice?
Stephen A. Dawg. At least AU has a ring! What does UGA have ?.....a tarnished reputation for $ 30 million.
October 10th, 2012
8:47 pm
Even though they may have paid for it (and are still paying for it) AU has a BCS ring for the thousand of dollars they paid Cecil Newton. UGA has paid Mark Richt nearly $30 million dollars and counting and are still ringless. So Auburn should eat Chizik’s $ 7 million dollar buyout and still come out of a losing situation far better and cheaper than wasteful UGA, who pays their coach millions for cheap wins and blowout losses against ranked opponents !!
Radney
October 10th, 2012
8:48 pm
No
ethics at all if a man is fired after winning a NC. He didn’t stop learning how to coach all of a sudden.
OldSchool
October 10th, 2012
8:54 pm
This win at all cost attitude has to stop. The SEC is a pressure cooker because of the unrealistic expectations of its fans. If Nick Saban goes 6-6 or 7-5 in the next season because of bad luck and injuries should he be fired? Les Miles was almost fired for winning games too close. He won a freaking National Championship. SEC fans are ignorant rednecks. The loudest fans are the ones that never attended college or probably never graduated high school. Georgia QB Aaron Murray’s house is trashed because he lost a football game. Christ almighty! Murray is great young man and has already graduated! Even GT thinks they are high and mighty. Fire Coach Johnson they say. He is the best coach that GT has had since Bobby Ross and Ross was the only good coach they had since Bobby Dodd in the 60’s. Cam Newton or no Cam Newton, Gene Chizik coached Auburn to a National Championship team. He should at least be able to coach for 3 more years, yeah 3 more years. When I was at UGA in the 70’s Dooley went 5-6 in 77, 7-5 in 78 and 6-5 in 79. Maybe we should have fired him? Wait, we won it all in 1980. Yes we had Herschel, but we went 11-1 in 1983 after Herschel was long gone. Morale to the story, stick with the coach. Chizik will right the ship. However, I hope GT fires coach Paul Johnson because that boy can coach. I would not be surprise if his undersized and slow players beat my Dawgs at the end of the year.
bamaguy
October 10th, 2012
8:58 pm
Auburn is falling into the abyss, as are the Carolina Panthers. That karma thing kinda works out.
Best money can buy
October 10th, 2012
9:10 pm
Auburn and Alabama have always had the best players can buy starting with Bear Bryant. Look at how the Tide got Satan Lyin Saban!
Buzz 2011
October 10th, 2012
9:25 pm
He could be fired.. If he is fired, maybe UGA could pick him up.
The Dawgs need a real coach and one that won a NC could be big.
JB
October 10th, 2012
9:25 pm
Is this a new format?????? It stinks
Jeff and the Camaros
October 10th, 2012
9:46 pm
Oh gosh–Bobby Petrino! Why did he have to bring that up!!!
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
10:00 pm
The Georgia legistlators have approved the purchase of a new zoo. It has been purchased and agreed to. The State of Georgia will be constructing a game fence around the State of Alabama in the coming months. Please do not feed the animals.
TIM BUCK
October 10th, 2012
10:24 pm
That championship win for the Barn will cost them 4 yrs of loneliness.
Kiss
October 10th, 2012
10:30 pm
Auburn needs a transfer from Florida that was recruited by UGA as a TE even though he was a QB in HS. Then he needs to steal something and get kicked off the team. After that the recruit’s father/pastor needs to shop him to the highest bidder amongst the SEC (not the Security and Exchange Commission but the professional collegiate football association). Some folks call it the “Special Educational Conference” or the “South Eastern Conference”!
HA! Sorry, I have to really LAUGH MY ARSE OFF! You goober’s do not really take your academics serious but “foozball is king”. Perfectly good space and oxygen taken up by much less worthly creatures. Hopefully you idiots will realize this and take matters in your own hands. It’s a FMJ
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
10:31 pm
“Another lie from HUH????”
UGA hasn’t won a championship since 1980. That’s a looooooooooooooooooooooooong time.
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
10:31 pm
“That championship win for the Barn will cost them 4 yrs of loneliness.”
That’s a lot shorter than 32 years.
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
10:33 pm
“You goober’s do not really take your academics serious but “foozball is king”.”
Unless you went to Harvard, Stanford, MIT or Northwestern, STHU.
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
10:34 pm
“Cam, Fairley and the gang won that NC. Chizik just happened to be there when all the stars aligned.”
Yeah, he just recruited those players. Nope, Chizik had nothing to do with the championship.
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
10:35 pm
“I have several very close friends at Kentucky and I can say without a doubt that Petrino IS on their list, ”
Are your “close friends” on the athletic board?
Nope.
Lord Saban
October 10th, 2012
10:36 pm
Dawg fans making fun of Auburn? I’ll say one thing about the Aubies. At least they have a bcs title and could have had a 2nd one in 04. That’s a lot more than the dawgs who haven’t won a national title in 32 years can say.
Paul in NH
October 10th, 2012
10:37 pm
Beast
Nice link. Who knew UK has a football team?
Lord Saban
October 10th, 2012
10:42 pm
Beast,
Damn. That was funny. Who is Joker Phillips anyhow?
Auburn for Petrino
October 10th, 2012
10:49 pm
That’s funny that you mention Auburn hiring Petrino. I work with an Auburn football Alum and I pick at him all the time about Auburn needing to hire Petrino. He says it will never happen. Yeah right, if they lose enough Petrino will be called.
SGT CHRIS
October 10th, 2012
10:51 pm
I could have sworn Malzahn won that title, seeing how he took Auburns offense with him when he left lol!!!
SEC Fact Finder
October 10th, 2012
11:03 pm
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
10:35 pm
“I have several very close friends at Kentucky and I can say without a doubt that Petrino IS on their list, ”
Are your “close friends” on the athletic board?
Nope.
=====
See this is what I am talking about, you have to argue, dispute and copy and paste without arguement, Mike P.
Yes, one is on the Board of Trustees Athletic Committee. Look up the name Shoop. But of course you will never take an answer and live with it. Done with trash like you. Copy and paste that!
Tech Engineer
October 10th, 2012
11:19 pm
War Eagle!!!!
TimeT
October 10th, 2012
11:34 pm
without cam and fairly, auburn wins 6 games in 2010 and chizik would be fired by now. He’ll be out of a job next year if they lose big again.
lol
October 10th, 2012
11:35 pm
can’t not wait until we fire big softy richt.
14 Titles
October 10th, 2012
11:39 pm
Nick wins his titles the right way—2 out of the last 3 years and another one this year! auburn—they have to pay players $200,000 to get some cheap title. RTR—title #15 on the way!!!
Mora less Petrino
October 11th, 2012
2:27 am
Auburn’s quick decline was predictable. Since Mora has taken his act to UCLA, Petrino would be perfect for Auburn! No doubt he would have a long tenure on the Plains, look at his track record. He would certainly demand an unlimited texting plan in his contract. Hide the women and give wide berth when Big Bobby hits the Lee County line straddling that slightly damaged Hog. AU + DA, a perfect match!
Dawgdays
October 11th, 2012
4:08 am
If Mike Bozo is such a valuable asset at UGA than surely he would be a top canidate for the head coaching vacancy at Aurburn when it happens…Nevermind Bozo has never even been considered for a Div III coaching job.
John Smith
October 11th, 2012
5:47 am
All you barners are delusional. As for you Georgia Bulldogs I can’t say much better. You all have the most talented players on your roster besides maybe Bama and LSU. Richt is way to nice of a guy and let’s his players run all over him. Also the state of Georgia is only behind California, Florida, and Texas in terms of top recruits. I mean come on wake up and quit the wishful thinking. Richt should have at least one title. He is a wonderful man but a pathetic excuse for a coach. Well Georgia it could be worse though just be thankful you aren’t what the cow college has become.
Hooty Goot
October 11th, 2012
5:51 am
Bobby Johnson would be great for Auburn. He would have been a winner at Vandy if he’d had anything to work with. Go UGA
Buzz2011
October 11th, 2012
6:24 am
Run Chizik to Georgia. Dawgs could use a decent coach!!!!
Buckeye
October 11th, 2012
6:38 am
He’s a one hit wonder that rode a “student athlete” who attended Auburn for one semester. Joke.
Delusional Tiger
October 11th, 2012
6:50 am
Auburn is The Ohio State of the SEC.
Desperate & Dirty…
GT
October 11th, 2012
6:55 am
It is strange to me that both coordinators are gone from that national championship team. Roof, by the way is putting out one of his greatest coaching performances of his life at Penn State. I haven’t looked over to the Arkansas State this year, but that Sunbelt Conference may be the greatest triple A conference in the history of college football. I wonder why all that coaching talent left Auburn, for places not so glamorous. There is a story there.
Bobby Petrino doesn’t need to be at Auburn, the board of trustees down there is going to get some coach in trouble, and Auburn is the last place Bobby Petrino needs to be, for both parties sake. I picture Petrino at Tennessee after this year. Dooley cleans the place up but the alumni there are restless, they don’t want a clean program they want what everybody else has in the SEC. Auburn should hire Dykes the guy that took Dooley’s place at La. Tech. Tech is undefeated this year and playing a big boy schedule. They play Texas A&M this weekend. If they beat them and I think they will, Auburn should get the plane out and go visit.
BobDawg
October 11th, 2012
6:57 am
Chizik does look stylish on the sidelines….. Does that count??? Turned up collar look… hair in place….
Delusional Tiger
October 11th, 2012
6:58 am
GT
October 11th, 2012
6:55 am
“It is strange to me that both coordinators are gone from that national championship team.”
Guess they didn’t like working for Pat Dye?
Ray Donnan
October 11th, 2012
7:02 am
If UGA had better fans we’d win. But what can one expect out of such fair-weathered fans? Fire the fans now and replace them with K-State fans.
Scott Brantley
October 11th, 2012
7:04 am
Chizik is charismatic and a good salesman when it comes to recruiting. However, I don’t think he is a very good coach. Hope he stays, though. RTR!!!
hit a single
October 11th, 2012
7:49 am
If he gets fired he will blame Tuberville.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
7:57 am
“without cam and fairly, auburn wins 6 games in 2010 and chizik would be fired by now.”
Dyer, Mcalleb, Fannin, Lutz, Adams, Blake, Ziemba……
You left those guys off.
G'Vegas Dawg
October 11th, 2012
7:58 am
Auburn = cest pool of the NCAA
JP
October 11th, 2012
8:02 am
Bo Pelini, current coach at Nebraska takes over at Auburn either next season or the following season, book it.
Paddy
October 11th, 2012
8:15 am
Petrino’s next job will be somewhere like Wyoming, Idaho St or Ga State. Don’t believe the the SEC will touch him!
GaryDinNC
October 11th, 2012
8:23 am
y’all should seriously consider Bo Jackson. He could rally the team and galvanize your fans and alums.
Auburn is 1-4, about to be 1-5
October 11th, 2012
8:24 am
THAT ^^^ is a losing program HUH????
UGA 5-1, will finish 10-2 or 11-1
THAT ^^^ is a winning program
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
8:26 am
“UGA 5-1, will finish 10-2 or 11-1″
THAT UGA won’t win a national championship….for the 33rd year in a row.
Sucks to be you.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
8:26 am
UGA = Chicago Cubs of the SEC.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
8:28 am
HAHAHAH!!!!!! UGAG fans trash talking a program that won a national championship two years ago! PRICELESS! UGA hasn’t beaten a top ranked team in years.
Here’s how ESPN ranks SEC coaches vs. winning teams.
Auburn’s Gene Chizik (since 2009): 11-7 (.611)
Alabama’s Nick Saban (since 2007): 14-9 (.609)
LSU’s Les Miles (since 2005): 21-14 (.600)
Georgia’s Mark Richt (since 2001): 18-27 (.400)
THAT^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ IS TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
8:31 am
Auburn fans/grads have to put up with Bama fans, who after 12 years of probation are back acting like a bunch of inbred retards. But, at least they have a winning program. UGA fans trash talk EVERY program in the NCAA. WHY??? Because they’re jealous and petty fans.
The Hammer
October 11th, 2012
8:34 am
If the BCS Championship Game were an actual football game, instead of what amounts to an exhibition of “football plays”, strung between TV timeouts, the Ducks would have definitely beat Auburn that year. Instead, it came down to a low-scoring match-up, with the winner being decided by who had the ball when the clock ran out. Sure, Auburn had a great team, but they weren’t “the best”; however, they were certainly the luckiest. Even luckier than “The Hat” and LSU typically have been (and their luck seems to be running out).
richie
October 11th, 2012
8:34 am
they will figure it out.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
8:39 am
“he Ducks would have definitely beat Auburn that year.”
That may be the dumbest comment yet.
“Auburn had a great team, but they weren’t “the best”; however, they were certainly the luckiest. ”
More anger and jealousy from another mutt fan. I’ve never seen a team go 14-0 and LUCK OUT to get there.
Typical UGA fan
October 11th, 2012
8:40 am
EVERYONE ELSE CHEATS! UGA IS THE BESTEST EVER CUZ THEY WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1980! HERSHELL IS THE BESTEST EVER. AUBURN SUCKS. ALABAMA SUCKS. UF SUCKS AND THEY ALL CHEAT.
SEC Bama Fan
October 11th, 2012
8:41 am
Keep him or fire him. It will not matter until Saban is gone from Alabama. Who is going to take the job as long as Saban is at Alabama?
James
October 11th, 2012
8:48 am
I’m not even an Auburn fan, but the beginning of this article ticks me off: “so far as can be discerned,” Auburn didn’t cheat in recruiting Cam Newton. SO FAR AS CAN BE DISCERNED, did Ga. cheat in recruiting Herschel? did Tennessee and Ole Miss cheat in getting the Manning boys? does Mark Bradley plagiarize the work of others? Cut it out with the cheap-shot innuendo and let it go: they won a national championship. Two years ago. Get over it.
Typical UGA fan
October 11th, 2012
8:51 am
“Auburn = cest pool ”
What’s a “cest pool?” UGA fans can’t even correctly spell their own insults.
Jack P
October 11th, 2012
8:52 am
Oh yes! He’s done as soon as the season ends.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
8:52 am
“Auburn = cest pool”
If you’re going to trash talk another school at least use spell check.
MC
October 11th, 2012
9:00 am
Urban Myer got out of Utah post Alex Smith. Damn near died of Post Tebow Syndrome. Now along comes Braxton Miller. Gene Chizik has never won anything pre nor post Cam Newton. Makes you wonder if these guys are really what they’re built up to be. Minus Tebow even Myer looked average. My bet on the Chizik thing however is that he can kiss hi butt goodbye. Contrast these 2 with Steve Spurrier and Nick Saban. Those 2 can win with any QB.
WarEagle
October 11th, 2012
9:03 am
I laugh at the Georgia Fans that bash AU for winning a National Title within the last 30 years…lol….I laugh at them because we have had multiple undefeated seasons since then; cheated out of the title back in 04…and they still talk trash. Face it UGA, you guys are a 2nd tier team and always will be a 2nd tier team in regard to the top level of competition. We have proven ourselves. The difference between an AU and UGA is that AU doesn’t whine and cry about a dismal season. You guys got destroyed by USC and have cried and complained ever since…lol…We are preparing to make things better for next season. Growing Pains…The Georgia BoohooDawgs….WAREAGLE BABY!!!!!!
Rufus
October 11th, 2012
9:04 am
I don’t see Petrino ever getting back into the SEC.
Tommy
October 11th, 2012
9:07 am
Auburn could hire “Big Bird” and then they would have the ” War Eagle and Big Bird”!
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
9:08 am
“Contrast these 2 with Steve Spurrier and Nick Saban. Those 2 can win with any QB.”
Spurrier can win with any QB? Got anything to back that up with?
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
9:08 am
“Gene Chizik has never won anything pre nor post Cam Newton. ”
Chizik has been on three undefeated teams at two different school.
Two years after a BCS title, could Auburn’s Chizik get fired? | Y'all Sports
October 11th, 2012
9:10 am
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Columbus Dawg
October 11th, 2012
9:15 am
I’m waiting am waiting on the article entitled”After 12 years with NO BCS Title, and embarrassing the Bulldog Nation every time he faces a decent team, will Mark Richt be fired”?
DogBreath
October 11th, 2012
9:16 am
the dogs will beat auburn like a rented mule, beat fla and finish 11-1, and head to the Sugar Bowl! auburn–will not even win 4 games. Dogs–win out!
Chi Town
October 11th, 2012
9:17 am
Lot of empty seats behind the Chiz in that picture.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
9:17 am
“the dogs will beat auburn like a rented mule, beat fla and finish 11-1, and head to the Sugar Bowl! auburn–will not even win 4 games.”
And UGA will, for the 33rd straight year, not win a national championship.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
9:18 am
“Lot of empty seats behind the Chiz in that picture.
Lot of empty space in UGA’s trophy case.
Ben
October 11th, 2012
9:27 am
Kind of nuts that as good as the Alabama and LSU programs are, as good as plenty of other schools are, one guy, Cam Newton, was able to join an already decent team, and absolutely destroy the rest of the country.
MC
October 11th, 2012
9:28 am
Yeah HUH!! Just go back through his history at UF…even USC. Won an ACC title at DUKE. You should change your name to DUH!!! Spurrier’s had teams he couldn’t even decide who the QB should be. Benched them on a whim and just kept rollin. Now HUH!!! or DUH!! Explain Saban. Never has had an elite QB. Cam the Scam gift wrapped Chizik’s title.
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
9:32 am
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
10:31 pm
“Another lie from HUH????”
UGA hasn’t won a championship since 1980. That’s a looooooooooooooooooooooooong time.
________________________
You’ve added “since 1980″ to your previous lying comment. Think that changes it just a little? Dumbazz. And still a liar.
Gene's Chizek
October 11th, 2012
9:34 am
Fire me and I will spill my guts to the NCAA; how is that Barner Nation?
NCAA FAN#1
October 11th, 2012
9:35 am
UGA should make a move for Kirby Smart!! He can recruit his az off and he’s young, firey with a no BS approach!!! Hell… it’s time to stop housing kids with enternal problems at UGA! We can win with good kids who come from good solid foundations!
BW
October 11th, 2012
9:36 am
It seems to me that the way they handled Turbeville, there is an integrity issue at AU. That would be a concern for any candidate if the HC position were to become vacant. Of course if that is the case, then Petrino is the man!
ckgator
October 11th, 2012
9:40 am
The question was never… “did Auburn offer to pay Cam?”
The question was – did his father’s documented and acknowledged auctioning of Cam to the highest bidder render Cam Newton ineligible?
The NCAA said “no,” and justified it by claiming there was no evidence suggesting his direct knowledge of the pending transaction. Thus, Auburn was allowed to field a player who was used as collateral for a $180,000 payout in his second collegiate recruiting cycle. While other players’ were / are penalized at other programs for far less.
I’m glad Florida got rid of him. National title aside, he hangs above the Auburn program like a used adult diaper in a trophy case.
Lance
October 11th, 2012
9:41 am
Scam Newton was the greatest one year free-agent hire in the history of college football. Now that the NFL has taken a year to adjust to him and Carolina’s offense, he’s been exposed.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
9:50 am
MC
Spurrier has the same amount of national titles as Chizik. ONE.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
9:50 am
“You’ve added “since 1980″ to your previous lying comment. Think that changes it just a little? Dumbazz. And still a liar.”
You might be the dumbest person on this blog. What did I lie about?
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
9:52 am
“I’m glad Florida got rid of him. National title aside, he hangs above the Auburn program like a used adult diaper in a trophy case.”
Ah yes, Florida. The school that has more players arrested than any other program over the last 20 years.
ckgator
October 11th, 2012
9:53 am
DawgNole –
Tough week, eh?
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
9:53 am
BW
How many head coaches college football are former Auburn coaches/assistant coaches?
Answer: A lot.
get bobby!
October 11th, 2012
9:54 am
when the heat dies down, auburn needs to get bobby lowder to hire petrino—he’ll work for $2-3 mil right now and he can win big at auburn.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
9:54 am
“Explain Saban. Never has had an elite QB.”
Saban is a fantastic recruiter and coach. Better than Spurrier by far. Nope, never had an elite QB but then again, that wasn’t the argument was it.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
9:55 am
If it wasn’t for Auburn, UGA would not have a 1980 national championship. SEE: Vince Dooley.
MC
October 11th, 2012
9:56 am
HUH!!! There you go again. DUH!!!…..Compare the winning percentages of the 2. You gotta be the dumbest poster here today. You got some kind of man love thing going with the Cheeezit?
MC
October 11th, 2012
9:58 am
Can anybody her take a guy seriously that can’t see the difference in the Cheeze and SOS.
$200,000 CAM!
October 11th, 2012
9:58 am
Auburn boosters paid off cam, he was on campus a few months, they got their title, and cam probably never even went to class! Buy a title for $200,000–lowder knows his stuff!! eagles pay good.
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
9:59 am
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
9:50 am
“You’ve added “since 1980″ to your previous lying comment. Think that changes it just a little? Dumbazz. And still a liar.”
You might be the dumbest person on this blog. What did I lie about?
_________________
What did you lie about? No chance of me being the dumbest after that stupid question. For you and all the rest to see once again, I’ve posted your lying comment below. Liar.
HUH?????
October 10th, 2012
5:56 pm
You know who hasn’t won a national championship?
UGA
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
9:59 am
“HUH!!! There you go again. DUH!!!…..Compare the winning percentages of the 2. You gotta be the dumbest poster here today. You got some kind of man love thing going with the Cheeezit?”
What’s hilarious about your asinine post is the fact that you called me a liar and yet you can’t even say what I lied about. You’re not a smart person.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:00 am
“You know who hasn’t won a national championship?”
Yep, it’s been years since UGA won a championship and my point TOTALLY went over your head, ma’am. I’m so sorry you were not blessed with common sense.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:01 am
“Auburn boosters paid off cam, he was on campus a few months, they got their title, and cam probably never even went to class! Buy a title for $200,000–lowder knows his stuff!! eagles pay good.”
Obviously an Obama supporter. Repeat a lie over and over again and hope the masses believe it.
ckgator
October 11th, 2012
10:01 am
Donnan -
I’m curious. Do you use Windex to clean your glass house or just vinegar and water? I also hear newspaper works well.
http://blogs.ajc.com/jeff-schultz-blog/2010/09/03/no-excuses-georgias-arrests-fall-on-mark-richt/
TBone
October 11th, 2012
10:03 am
Auburn sold their collective souls to the devil for their national title via Cam. Most programs get a major bounce for a few years after winning a title. I just don’t think Auburn football is the head of the class after their national title. Look at Bama! Go Dawgs!
DC
October 11th, 2012
10:06 am
I have no clue why people think we should have kept Tubs…UGA fans should just stick to what they know best..coming close to being elite and UGA football…
Tubs was losing the recruiting battle with our friends to the West…a change had to be made b/c tubs didn’t see bama as a threat (dominating several years in a row would do that)…then saban came in…the “tide” shifted..Chiz is a great hire for a short stink..I see him coaching at AU maybe 1-2 more seasons…HE HIRED THOSE COACHES…he kept the crew in tact and even with all the allegations everyone was still a family and supported each other all the way to the BCS..
Mark, this blog is horrible…you take cheap shots just to get blog hits up…UGA lost to USCe…how about you stick to that…
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:08 am
ckgator
October 11th, 2012
9:53 am
DawgNole –
Tough week, eh?
_____________________
You got that right. Only the Falcons saved it from being a total disaster.
DC
October 11th, 2012
10:09 am
test
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:12 am
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:00 am
“You know who hasn’t won a national championship?”
Yep, it’s been years since UGA won a championship and my point TOTALLY went over your head, ma’am. I’m so sorry you were not blessed with common sense.
_______________________
You didn’t say “it’s been years” in your original lying comment. Now that you’ve been nailed–again–you’re piling on the lies by trying to distort. And your 9:59 comment directed to me cites a comment I didn’t even make. Better quit while you’re behind. Liar.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:12 am
“Auburn sold their collective souls to the devil for their national title via Cam.”
The stooooopid, it burns!!!!!!
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:13 am
“You didn’t say “it’s been years” in your original lying comment. Now that you’ve been nailed–again–you’re piling on the lies by trying to distort. And your 9:59 comment directed to me cites a comment I didn’t even make. Better quit while you’re behind. Liar.”
Perhaps you should actually read my posts, ma’am. Then again, you’re not a smart person to begin with.
ckgator
October 11th, 2012
10:14 am
DawgNole – yes they did! I was at the Braves game to boot. Awful.
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:22 am
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:13 am
“You didn’t say “it’s been years” in your original lying comment. Now that you’ve been nailed–again–you’re piling on the lies by trying to distort. And your 9:59 comment directed to me cites a comment I didn’t even make. Better quit while you’re behind. Liar.”
Perhaps you should actually read my posts, ma’am. Then again, you’re not a smart person to begin with.
____________________
Your first lying post, made at 5:56 p.m. Oct 10, is there for you and the rest of the blog to see. So all of us are smart enough to know you’re a liar. Your subsequent posts indicate that you’re also ignorant, self-absorbed, and in denial. Proud of yourself?
Under The Bleachers
October 11th, 2012
10:22 am
Some of the issues that have occurred under the watchful eye of Gene Chizik and his staff:
Cam Newton- The entire saga….The NCAA even declared him ineligible for a short short period of time.
Eric Smith beats up fellow student, Eric Smith fails drug test, Eric Smith continues to play, Eric Smith late blatant hit during the BCSCG, Eric Smith beats up girlfriend.
Academic Fraud charges in the Urban Studies program involving 17 football players.
Nick Fairley- Transcripts changed upon signing with Auburn, NCAA clearing house does not clear Fairley, goes to JC, returns to play for one season at Auburn, post playing reports out of Auburn say he never attended classes and should have been ruled ineliglible for bowl game.
Reese Dismukes- Alcohol Suspension
4 players charges with Robbery, 1 convicted, 3 awaiting trials
Mike Dyer several issues with drugs, driving without license.
Mike Dyer supplies gun for Robbery.
Mike Dyer during trial states that synthetic marijuana was rampantly used by Auburn Football players.
Mike Dyer kicked off team.
This is only a small number of issues that have occurred during Chizik’s time in Auburn.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:23 am
“Your first lying post, made at 5:56 p.m. Oct 10, is there for you and the rest of the blog to see. So all of us are smart enough to know you’re a liar. Your subsequent posts indicate that you’re also ignorant, self-absorbed, and in denial. Proud of yourself?”
You’re still struggling aren’t you.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:25 am
“This is only a small number of issues that have occurred during Chizik’s time in Auburn.”
12 players were arrested in one season under CMR.
Several players from the “dream team” were kicked out of school by CMR.
AJ Green was suspended for violating NCAA rules.
UGA’s athletic director was caught having sex while drunk in a car.
UGA has a major problem with their football program.
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:25 am
ckgator
October 11th, 2012
10:14 am
DawgNole – yes they did! I was at the Braves game to boot. Awful.
______________________
Hope you didn’t get hit with any trash. Had a bad feeling when the Braves lost like they did that we might be in for a rough weekend.
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:26 am
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:23 am
“Your first lying post, made at 5:56 p.m. Oct 10, is there for you and the rest of the blog to see. So all of us are smart enough to know you’re a liar. Your subsequent posts indicate that you’re also ignorant, self-absorbed, and in denial. Proud of yourself?”
You’re still struggling aren’t you.
____________________
And you’re still lying.
Under The Bleachers
October 11th, 2012
10:29 am
DawgNole
The guys posting under Huh….is the same guy who comes on here anytime an article is posted about Auburn. He changes his handle, cuts and paste everyones comments, has no original comments except to lie about your comments, and proclaim how innocent and great Auburn is once people note how scummy he is. If he had a brain he would post his own comments and let them stand for itsself. He spends more time on the Auburn reports than anyone and apparently does not have a real job unless it is delivering pizza or something, maybe chinese food. Watch and see he will take your comments, and my comments and paste them. I think the guy must be mentally challenged or something.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:33 am
“And you’re still lying.”
No ma’am, I am not lying but keep on trying. Maybe one day you’ll hit on something that’s actually true.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:35 am
Under The Bleachers
What’s hilarious about your comment is the fact that you throw out childish insults, THEN pretend to be high and mighty.
Oh, and please prove your claim about me. Come on, ma’am. Prove it.
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:35 am
Under The Bleachers
October 11th, 2012
10:29 am
DawgNole
The guys posting under Huh….is the same guy who comes on here anytime an article is posted about Auburn. He changes his handle, cuts and paste everyones comments, has no original comments except to lie about your comments, and proclaim how innocent and great Auburn is once people note how scummy he is. If he had a brain he would post his own comments and let them stand for itsself. He spends more time on the Auburn reports than anyone and apparently does not have a real job unless it is delivering pizza or something, maybe chinese food. Watch and see he will take your comments, and my comments and paste them. I think the guy must be mentally challenged or something.
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That’s a pretty accurate description. Thanks for the heads-up.
Didn’t know his past history, but it quickly became obvious from his posts on this blog that he’s a liar and distorter–and craves attention. Shouldn’t feed him, I guess, but couldn’t let slide his lie about UGA never having won a championship.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:38 am
“The guys posting under Huh….is the same guy who comes on here anytime an article is posted about Auburn. ”
So?
“He changes his handle”
Prove it.
“has no original comments except to lie about your comments, and proclaim how innocent and great Auburn is once people note how scummy he is.”
I had no idea this thread was about “original comments.” I never lied about anyones comment. When did I proclaim Auburn was innocent? OH YES, the NCAA did.
“If he had a brain he would post his own comments and let them stand for itsself. ”
I did and that’s what led you here, ma’am.
“He spends more time on the Auburn reports than anyone and apparently does not have a real job unless it is delivering pizza or something, maybe chinese food.”
Then again, there aren’t many Auburn reports, are there? Nope. Pizza delivery? Nah, I have a degree.
“Watch and see he will take your comments, and my comments and paste them. I think the guy must be mentally challenged or something.”
99% of people who blog here do the same thing, troglodyte.
Under The Bleachers
October 11th, 2012
10:38 am
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:35 am
Under The Bleachers
What’s hilarious about your comment is the fact that you throw out childish insults, THEN pretend to be high and mighty.
Oh, and please prove your claim about me. Come on, ma’am. Prove it.
Hey DawgNole….
I think I found his cryptonite.
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:38 am
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:33 am
“And you’re still lying.”
No ma’am, I am not lying but keep on trying. Maybe one day you’ll hit on something that’s actually true.
_____________________
Just look at your 5:56 p.m. post, liar. How many times do I need to show it? And that’s actually true.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:39 am
“Didn’t know his past history, but it quickly became obvious from his posts on this blog that he’s a liar and distorter–and craves attention. Shouldn’t feed him, I guess, but couldn’t let slide his lie about UGA never having won a championship.”
You really aren’t smart are you.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:40 am
Under The Bleachers = DawgNole
Your comments gave you away.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:41 am
“Just look at your 5:56 p.m. post, liar. How many times do I need to show it? And that’s actually true.’
You obviously need to take a remedial english course.
Cyclone5
October 11th, 2012
10:41 am
Those of us from Iowa State were so damn relieved when he left. He is an absolute egotistical joke.
Remember this: When he left, he got the players together and talked for about 2 minutes, and walked out of room. Complete fake.
You got your national championship, Auburn. But, I’d take the ethics we’ve had in our program any day over that joke of a coach.
And, it’s not going to get better.
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:42 am
Under The Bleachers
October 11th, 2012
10:38 am
Hey DawgNole….
I think I found his cryptonite.
___________________
I think you’re right.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:42 am
“But, I’d take the ethics we’ve had in our program any day over that joke of a coach.”
Iowa State. The Ole Miss of the Big whatever it is now.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:43 am
@DawgNole
What sucks worse? Knowing that FSU is overrated or knowing UGA is overrated? Either way they both suck at football.
1980!!!!!!!!
October 11th, 2012
10:45 am
The one thing I can not figure out about this blog is why UGA fans are making comments about a team that has nothing to do with the state of GA. UGA was totally and utterly embarrassed on national tv for the second straight year yet their fans make nasty comments about a school that has nothing to do with GA.
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:46 am
Cyclone5
October 11th, 2012
10:41 am
Those of us from Iowa State were so damn relieved when he left. He is an absolute egotistical joke.
Remember this: When he left, he got the players together and talked for about 2 minutes, and walked out of room. Complete fake.
You got your national championship, Auburn. But, I’d take the ethics we’ve had in our program any day over that joke of a coach.
And, it’s not going to get better.
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Wasn’t he 5-19 with your team? I recall it being quite an eye-opener when Auburn hired him with that record. Easy to see why your Cyclones were happy to let him go.
1980!!!!!!!!
October 11th, 2012
10:46 am
Why are UGA fans making nasty comments about Auburn? It makes no sense to me because UGA has its own share of problems. The main one being that UGA can not beat a top ranked team.
Under The Bleachers
October 11th, 2012
10:47 am
Don’t try to rationalize Auburn center Reese Dismukes getting arrested – and suspended – a week before the opener against Clemson as an isolated example of boys being boys.
It’s not.
It’s time to take a hard look at the accumulation of issues involving current, former and future Auburn players this calendar year alone and ask a hard question that everyone from the school president to the athletics director to the head coach himself should be asking.
What kind of football program is Gene Chizik running?
Is it a program whose coaches take too many chances on talent at the expense of character in recruiting to try to keep up with their very successful rivals?
Is it a program whose players keep seeing their teammates get suspended and dismissed for their actions but, for some reason, don’t seem to get the message?
Is it a program, not quite two years removed from a national championship, with serious cracks in its foundation?
Dismukes got arrested at 2:03 a.m. Saturday on a charge of public intoxication. That’s far from a felony, but it’s a problem on a number of levels.
He’s a returning starter. He’s 19 years old, which means, if he’s guilty of that charge, he’s also guilty of underage drinking, perhaps not for the first time. And his arrest is just the latest example of an Auburn football player embarrassing himself, his teammates, his coaches and his program.
It’s not good enough anymore to argue that other schools also recruited the Auburn players that have gotten into trouble. The fact is, these players are getting into trouble while at Auburn, or in one case, on the way there, and it’s happening in numbers too big to ignore. Consider the rest of the lengthening and troubling rap sheet from this year alone:
Starting tailback Mike Dyer, after getting suspended for the Chick-fil-a Bowl for an undisclosed violation of team rules, leaves the program for Arkansas State. He’s later dismissed from that program after a traffic stop in which the arresting officer says he found marijuana and a gun in the car.
Former wide receiver Antonio Goodwin is convicted on a charge of armed robbery and sentenced to 15 years in jail. Three other former players – Mike McNeil, Shaun Kitchens and Dakota Mosley – await trial on charges stemming from that same March, 2011, home invasion.
At Goodwin’s trial, Dyer testifies that the gun used in the robbery was his. Dyer also testifies that, during his two years at Auburn, he “consistently” smoked synthetic marijuana. Another player, DeAngelo Benton, testifies that he has smoked synthetic marijuana while at Auburn.
True freshman quarterback Zeke Pike is arrested on a charge of public intoxication and sent home by Chizik, with no timetable set for a return. Pike decides to transfer to Louisville to play tight end.
Six people are shot, three fatally, at a party just off campus. One of the wounded, Eric Mack, is a current Auburn player. Two of the deceased, Ed Christian and Ladarious Phillips, are former Auburn players. At the preliminary hearing, a witness testifies that the trouble started with a verbal disagreement between the alleged killer, Desmonte Leonard, and Benton, who allegedly pointed at Leonard and said, “That boy is going to die tonight.”
Benton, a senior wide receiver, is later suspended indefinitely for an undisclosed violation of a team rule.
Sophomore defensive back Jonathan Rose is sent home and given his release from the football team for undisclosed reasons, though his Leeds High School coach says the reasons have “nothing to do with grades or anything that deals with the police.” Rose transfers to Nebraska.
True freshman tailback Jovon Robinson starts fall camp, then is sidelined when the Memphis City Schools say that a high school guidance counselor altered his transcript. The NCAA deems Robinson a non-qualifier, which forces him to leave Auburn. The NCAA interviews a former high school coach of Robinson’s, as well as his 7-on-7 team coach.
Auburn five-star defensive line commitment Dee Liner gets arrested twice in 10 days in July, once for an altercation with a police officer that had pulled over his mother and the second time for criminal trespassing for jumping a fence at a public pool. In August, Liner is suspended indefinitely by his Muscle Shoals High School team after walking out of practice.
Put it all together, and all the trouble is a disturbing trend.
It’s one thing to lose five games on either side of a national championship season, with another handful of defeats a distinct possibility this season. It’s far more suspect in a head coach’s fourth year on the job to lose player after player to suspension or dismissal.
The disciplinary actions taken by Chizik suggest that the program isn’t out of control. The repeated need for disciplinary action raises the possibility that the program is headed in that direction.
From Kevin Scarbinsky
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:47 am
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:43 am
@DawgNole
What sucks worse? Knowing that FSU is overrated or knowing UGA is overrated? Either way they both suck at football.
___________________
Both suck about the same.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:48 am
@DawgNole
Yes, that powerhouse Iowa State. The one school that everyone forgets even exists in the Big ??. I’ve noticed that you have major pen!s envy of Auburn football. Too bad both FSU and UGA sucks and both schools haven’t been relevant in college football in quite some time.
WOOF WOOF
Under The Bleachers
October 11th, 2012
10:49 am
That Iowa St program is playing pretty good football now, while Auburn has players admitting they have quit on the coaches at Auburn.
Everyone around the league wants Auburn to keep Chizik, it makes those games easier to win.
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:49 am
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
10:41 am
“Just look at your 5:56 p.m. post, liar. How many times do I need to show it? And that’s actually true.’
You obviously need to take a remedial english course.
______________________
And you’re obviously a liar.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:50 am
“Both suck about the same.”
Yes they do and I keep wondering why you are on a blog about Auburn football when both of your schools were embarrassed. Let Auburn worry about their coaching problems and you worry about beating teams on your schedule.
Mmmkay?
Under The Bleachers
October 11th, 2012
10:50 am
Dawg Nole, I think he is now posting under the Donnan banner now…see what I was saying….mental.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:51 am
“That Iowa St program is playing pretty good football now”
Yes, they’ve won _______ and beaten _______________. Answers: Nothing and no one.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:52 am
@Under The Bleachers
Please provide evidence.
Thanks
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:53 am
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:48 am
@DawgNole
Yes, that powerhouse Iowa State. The one school that everyone forgets even exists in the Big ??. I’ve noticed that you have major pen!s envy of Auburn football. Too bad both FSU and UGA sucks and both schools haven’t been relevant in college football in quite some time.
______________________
ISU is playing better now that they’ve rid themselves of Chizik’s influence. No envy of Auburn football here. They’ve weasled out of contracts with FSU twice–and have lost 5 of their past 6 to UGA. What’s to envy?
Phil from Athens
October 11th, 2012
10:53 am
To all dawg fans:
Please, for the love of GOD, stop embarrassing UGA by trolling on an Auburn blog. You are not proving anything except that you are ignorant. Please stop.
Do
October 11th, 2012
10:53 am
Enter your comments here
Under The Bleachers
October 11th, 2012
10:53 am
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:52 am
@Under The Bleachers
Please provide evidence.
Thanks
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
You just did! Thanks.
By the way, Iowa St has won more games this season than Auburn has!
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
10:54 am
Under The Bleachers
October 11th, 2012
10:50 am
Dawg Nole, I think he is now posting under the Donnan banner now…see what I was saying….mental.
__________________
I no longer think you’re right. I know you are.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:54 am
@DawgNole
Is Iowa State ranked?
Nuff said.
Under The Bleachers
October 11th, 2012
10:55 am
Do
October 11th, 2012
10:53 am
Enter your comments here
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Caught him changing his handle…back to Huh?/?
Dawgs suck
October 11th, 2012
10:57 am
What do the Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates and UGA football have in common?
They haven’t won a championship in decades.
Remember folks, UGA’s last championship came when Jimmy Carter were in office.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:58 am
“Caught him changing his handle…back to Huh?/?”
“Do”
Yeah, because Do and Huh are both spelled the same.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:58 am
Hey look, another top rated recruit is leaving the state of GA and heading to an Alabama school.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
10:59 am
HAHAHAHAHAHA
South Carolina lands 4-star DT who tried to commit to UGA
barner
October 11th, 2012
11:00 am
barners—second class school, furious at looking up to Alabama, the elite school in the state, that is getting ready to win their 3rd BCS title in 4 years!!! RTR!! barners will end up 4-8–another failed season. Get out the checkbook and buy another cam!
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
11:01 am
OUCH
“Ex-UGA football recruit picks N.C. State after flirting again with Bulldogs”
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
11:01 am
bammers – been on probation for 12 years.
GB's Hamburgers
October 11th, 2012
11:03 am
This couldn’t be happening to a more deserving guy. I still remember the thuggery in the Auburn game a few years ago. I think that beating has affected Aaron Murray ever since. Chizik cheered the cheap shots on. UGA has stability but it’s at a level that’s upper mid-level in the SEC. No matter how good we recruit, that’s where we’ll always end up. We will have to have a new coach to go higher or be satisfied with our perpetual mediocrity.
Green Bay would like their logo back
October 11th, 2012
11:04 am
When will UGA come up with their own logo?
Under The Bleachers
October 11th, 2012
11:15 am
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/08/what_kind_of_football_program.html
From Kevin Scarbinsky who writes for an Auburn Alumni run paper
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
11:20 am
Dawgs suck
October 11th, 2012
10:57 am
Remember folks, UGA’s last championship came when Jimmy Carter were in office.
_____________________
“Jimmy Carter WERE in office”? Are you sure he WERE?
That skillfully written piece of prose tells us enough about you that we know to scroll past any of your future posts.
Mike Shula
October 11th, 2012
11:22 am
Mark, Terry Bowden never coached in an SEC champ game.
Techster
October 11th, 2012
11:27 am
Tee hee hee. Don’t know about Auburn, but I am still chuckling about that whipping the Cocks laid on the dogs.
auburn grad
October 11th, 2012
11:33 am
I wish Terry Bowden would return. The overbearing Board of Trustees, Bobby Lowder in particular, forced him out.
He had more class than Pat Dye, Tommy Tuberville, or Gene Chizik plus he’s a winner.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
11:55 am
“I wish Terry Bowden would return. ”
Yeah, because he’s doing so well now.
No
October 11th, 2012
11:56 am
Thanks for pointing out that there was never any proof that Cam got paid.
Our defense will be (is) improving. Offense is horrendously bad- I blame Loeffler mostly. No QB, lost our best RB, lost a 5 star QB recruit, young O-line. New scheme. Add in a tough schedule. Bad.
Ought to make Frazier a tight end. Run the ball. Screen pass, play action, draw plays.
Don’t forget, Bamma sucked for many years, dogs have had down times also.
Petrino will NOT be back.
Just hope Barkley stays out of the discussion.
"ALL IN"
October 11th, 2012
12:12 pm
Stoled Dabos “All In” Phrase which now has resulted to two straight losses to Clempson. Auburn is a Clempson with out a lake.
Auburn is 1-4, about to be 1-5
October 11th, 2012
12:20 pm
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
8:26 am
“UGA 5-1, will finish 10-2 or 11-1″
THAT UGA won’t win a national championship….for the 33rd year in a row.
Sucks to be you.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Auburn is 1-4 and about to be 1-5. Will finish with a losing record. You respond with comments about UGA. You must be a Obama supporter.
Sucks to be in denial like you are
ATLWarEagle
October 11th, 2012
12:49 pm
I’m as disappointed with this season as any other Auburn fan is, but I hope Auburn doesn’t fire Chizik. Starting over is not the answer, at least for now. As an alumni and season ticketholder, I still believe CGC will do well for us. As part of a major transition, he has a new OC and DC, and some of the players (quarterback and some other playmakers) we have currently are not a good fit for the change in football philosophy, so this team, at best, looks like a work-in-progress. As was said earlier, Kiel Frazier was recruited by Malzahn to run that style of offense. While a young kid like Frazier is not to blame for all of this team’s woes, he also has not learned well enough the new pro-style offense, and as of last Saturday, was taken out for quarterback #2. I’m still not sure Chizik made good hires with his coordinators (jury is still out, especially on offense), but he has recruited extremely well, and this young team should get better. Next year’s team should show marked improvement and could be the decisive year for Chizik et al.
War Eagle!
Levin
October 11th, 2012
12:49 pm
Auburn will NOT hire Petrino. This will NOT happen. It could have happened before the Arkansas mess but not now. This other talk is just trash talk and pure crap that you writers use to get your article done quickly so you can play on the internet for the rest of the day!
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
12:49 pm
“Auburn is 1-4 and about to be 1-5. Will finish with a losing record. You respond with comments about UGA. You must be a Obama supporter.”
Yes, Auburn will finish with a losing record. I never argued that with anyone. Since I’ve never voted Democrat in my life, I’m not sure where you get that I am an Obama supporter.
“Sucks to be in denial like you are”
Not sure what that is supposed to mean. What am I in denial about?
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
12:50 pm
“Auburn is a Clempson with out a lake.”
Auburn University was founded before Clemson. Try again.
Chili Dogg
October 11th, 2012
12:51 pm
Aubarn is still 2nd-tier and will always be at best. What big-name coach would want to go there?
Cyclone5
October 11th, 2012
12:51 pm
Those posting about Iowa State strictly from a W/L perspective are the one’s who deserve Chizik.
Levin
October 11th, 2012
12:54 pm
“I think that beating has affected Aaron Murray ever since. Chizik cheered the cheap shots on.” This was said above….Why dont you UGA people listen to one of your own? Buck B said of that game “he flat our whipped us, if Nick Fairley played for UGA we would call him a superstar” Get over it,,,,,you guys have some great winning seasons with Richt, but you would trade them all for one Championship.
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
12:56 pm
ATLWarEagle
October 11th, 2012
12:49 pm
I’m as disappointed with this season as any other Auburn fan is, but I hope Auburn doesn’t fire Chizik. Starting over is not the answer, at least for now. As an alumni and season ticketholder, I still believe CGC will do well for us. As part of a major transition, he has a new OC and DC, and some of the players (quarterback and some other playmakers) we have currently are not a good fit for the change in football philosophy, so this team, at best, looks like a work-in-progress. As was said earlier, Kiel Frazier was recruited by Malzahn to run that style of offense. While a young kid like Frazier is not to blame for all of this team’s woes, he also has not learned well enough the new pro-style offense, and as of last Saturday, was taken out for quarterback #2. I’m still not sure Chizik made good hires with his coordinators (jury is still out, especially on offense), but he has recruited extremely well, and this young team should get better. Next year’s team should show marked improvement and could be the decisive year for Chizik et al.
_______________________
An objective, measured, and calmly delivered post–and thus a valid post. A shame your school, and mine, also have fans like HUH?????, who come on here and poison the discussion thread for the rest of us.
Rebel Rebellion
October 11th, 2012
1:00 pm
I heard Houston Nutt was looking for a job. Wanna go to back-to-back Cotton Bowls?
fred
October 11th, 2012
1:04 pm
I would not want the current folks in charge making any such coaching decisions. We are such a dysfunctional “family” with Lauder or other equivalents having the power and essentially letting Pat Dye be the AD. Jacobs is just a puppet and they want puppet coaches as well. Tuberville got tired of dealing with the situation and left and I can’t blame him. The coaching search for Chizk was a circus and no one could believe we hired him. I initially thought he did a good job putting together a staff but that is quickly unraveling. It is getting hard to be a fan and have faith that it will improve.
I agree with the earlier post who was more proud of the ‘04 team than the one that actually won in ‘10.
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
1:12 pm
“Aubarn is still 2nd-tier and will always be at best.”
Second tier teams talk big and can’t win national championships. SEE: UGA
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
1:13 pm
“A shame your school, and mine, also have fans like HUH?????, who come on here and poison the discussion thread for the rest of us.”
Poor baby. Can’t handle the constant beat downs you receive from me so you cry to someone else about it.
Auburn is 1-4, about to be 1-5
October 11th, 2012
1:27 pm
chizik will not get fired after this year. He will be forced to look hard at his staff and I would not be surprised to see changes although the OC and DC are brand new right? He changed from the spread to pro set and deserves a chance to recruit to that offense. He really doesn’t have a QB built for that on campus.
Adopted AU Fan
October 11th, 2012
1:28 pm
I’d hate to see Chizik go for two reasons (1) I actually like the guy and (2) it would be really expensive. Still, the question before Auburn is not what has Chiz done for us lately but the trajectory of the program. Everyone knew 2011 would be a down year, and I think a lot were not expecting much from 2012. But 2012 is turning out to be much worse than anyone could have imagined (or hoped for you ‘Bama fans). If you don’t believe he can turn the corner and SOON, why stay on the train?
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
1:44 pm
“He really doesn’t have a QB built for that on campus.”
Wallace and Mosely are. Auburn has a 4 star QB coming in next year.
AUin ATL
October 11th, 2012
1:52 pm
UGA fans crack me up…Lets see, just the facts:
Since SEC Champ Game is in place:
AU 2 SEC wins, UGA, 2 SEC wins
AU 4 SEC champ games, UGA, 3
Head to head since then, about even. UGA lately better record.
AU 1 NC UGA 0.
AU 3 undefeated seasons, UGA 0
AU is the Clemson?
Clemson is a decent yet over hyped year after year with an in NC in the early 80s and a conf title every now and then, And UGA, is…well pretty identical.
drew
October 11th, 2012
1:58 pm
I agree…it’s Karma for the AU football program. I lived in Auburn when Tuberville “resigned” with no pressure from the university. Uh huh….right! Auburn football has no sense of morality or common sense for that matter. It’s 100% about winning – long gone are the days of ‘ just do your best son’. Very, very sad.
Tony The Tiger
October 11th, 2012
1:58 pm
Gene does have a few things to list on his resume but what has he done for us lately? And by the way, I never liked that yankee name.
DawgNole
October 11th, 2012
2:06 pm
HUH?????
October 11th, 2012
1:13 pm
“A shame your school, and mine, also have fans like HUH?????, who come on here and poison the discussion thread for the rest of us.”
Poor baby. Can’t handle the constant beat downs you receive from me so you cry to someone else about it.
_____________________
No crying. No beatdowns either. I see you’re still on here telling lies. Plenty of those in your posts.
Jay T.
October 11th, 2012
2:41 pm
I think Pat Dye always makes a helluva lot more sense than Mark Bradley.
Hamad Meander
October 11th, 2012
3:07 pm
Auburn is re-building now – look at their recruiting class coming in. They will be competitive again soon. All SEC teams go through this at one time or another. Having said that, Auburn would have never won a National Championship without Cam Newton and Nick Fairley and a complete melt down by Alabama.
Ed
October 11th, 2012
3:17 pm
Good point about Dooley. He went 10-1 (won SEC) 8-1-2 (won SEC), 11-1, 10-2 (won SEC), and 10-1-1 in years without Herschel, ranging from 1966 to 1983. His last two seasons were 9-3, kept from back-to-back SEC titles only by Pat Dye’s best Auburn teams.
The guy could coach a little bit, as Spurrier acknowledged not long ago on Sirius Ch. 91.
There’s nothing in Chizik’s record to suggest that he can coach a team to great heights that doesn’t include a rare dominant defensive player (Fairley) and a once-in-a-generation offensive star (Newton). Nothing against the guy, but his one great year has also been his only GOOD year.
Ed
October 11th, 2012
3:18 pm
Oh, and Dooley’s 1978 “Wonderdogs” team went 9-2-1 when everyone expected us to be awful. Like I said, the guy could coach a bit. And did so in an era when D-1 teams played similar competition week in and week out. No cupcakes outside of weak conference foes like Vandy.
Doug
October 11th, 2012
4:01 pm
How soon we forget that we turned down by Jimbo Fisher and Will Muschamp during the last search. They were both merely coordinators at the time. We settled (too soon, maybe) on Chizik. It would seem that being the Auburn coach is not as desirable as we think and we are not as likely to make a splash hire as we would like.
drsoul
October 11th, 2012
5:43 pm
Auburn went a long time with the womanizing of Bowden and Dye…. why would Petrino be such a downgrade for them????
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
5:52 pm
“How soon we forget that we turned down by Jimbo Fisher and Will Muschamp during the last search.”
And neither of those two coaches has a national championship and it will be a while before either of them plays for one. FSU can’t seem to beat crappy teams like NCState and Muschamp will have his hands full in the SEC.
Doug
October 11th, 2012
6:07 pm
“And neither of those two coaches has a national championship and it will be a while before either of them plays for one. FSU can’t seem to beat crappy teams like NCState and Muschamp will have his hands full in the SEC”
And yet they still both turned us down. I’m not saying they would have been better, but that most coaches aren’t interested in the job. Mike Leach wanted the job, but AU wouldn’t return the call. That would have been even worse than what we have.
If they do fire Chizik, they better have a top notch guy lined up beforehand.
Mark Richt
October 11th, 2012
6:56 pm
Please keep Chizik. He is one of the few coaches I can still beat on a regular basis.
Dave Cutler
October 11th, 2012
7:09 pm
Chizk is just a product of a really bad hire in Scott Leoffler. That dude is over his head. He had really good hires in Malzahn and Van Gorder, but missed the boat with Leoffler. You guys have no clue. If Chizik would have hired a better offensive coordinator Auburn would be undefeated right now. The talent is there. We just have no offensive identity. Here, in week 5, I have no idea what kind of offense we are suppose to be. Frazier cannot run a pro, never has. If Auburn had a better offensive identity we would have beat Clemson and the whole year would have been different. The kids just don’t care at the moment. I say Chizik stays, keeps Van Gorder, hires new offensive coordinator, and you people will have to eat your words.
And Bradley, shut your hole about Auburn. Everyone knows you dislike them. Auburn has gone undefeated 3 times in the past 19 years. Guess what? No team in American has done that. Don’t act like Cam’s year was just some fluke. Auburn has been a top SEC program the past 30 years. Since the early 80’s, Auburn has had 6 SEC titles, 3 undefeated season,s two heismans, a fantastic bowl record, and a winning head to head records against every team in the conference except Florida. Go play with yourself. If we let Chizik go, you can bet we will aim high this time. How about Tressel or Carroll? Tresell is there and Carroll is doing nothing with the Seahawks.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
8:15 pm
Doug
Who cares if they turned Auburn down. No Chizik, no national title. It’s pretty simple really. Chizik recruited Cam, Dyer, Fairly etc. If Jumbo or Muschamp come to Auburn in 2009 they’d be looking at about the same record as Chizik did. We can play guessing games all day but that won’t change the fact that Auburn HAS a national championship under Gene Chizik.
Deal with it, live with it and move on.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
8:16 pm
Doug,
BTW, what has Jimbo Fisher done since he’s been at FSU?
Answer: Nothing.
What has Muschamp done? Not much but UF is having a good year so far. Still, no championship.
DONNAN OF A NEW ERA
October 11th, 2012
8:17 pm
Doug,
Here you go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC4P4F-F8-k
You’re welcome.
billydawg
October 11th, 2012
8:48 pm
what was his record at iowa state?
nobodyyouknow
October 11th, 2012
9:00 pm
Could he be fired? Are you kidding me? Football fans are the most impatent people in the WORLD. No matter how many SEC conf. he won. No matter how many national championships he won, with the fans its”what have you done for us lately”? Like the last 2 seasons. But they make the big bucks and it comes with the job.
Phil
October 11th, 2012
9:00 pm
Chizik won a National Championship in a short amount of time while Richt is no closer now than he was 10 years ago. If anybody deserves the axe, it’s Richt! Chizik deserves a little more time. Richt is out of time!
buck
October 12th, 2012
12:58 am
Thanks a bunch for picking up my trash and taking it to the landfill: not to mention paying the dumping fee.
Sincerely,
Iowa State
Petrino!
October 12th, 2012
1:35 am
Get rid of chizik next year and hire petrino. by then, the heat will die down. He can recruit QBs and win big at auburn—time to make the move!!
Wade Todd 2001
October 12th, 2012
10:36 am
Gene Chizik is Larry Coker. Period. It’s that simple.
Consider this….. WITH the best player college football has ever seen or known, Chizik was able to beat Nick Saban by only a single point.
I rest my case.
tony
October 12th, 2012
11:35 am
Gene Chizik’s record(5-19) prior to accepting the job @Auburn speaks for itself. Cam Newton made him look like a coach who had success for many years.
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October 12th, 2012
11:53 am
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Cobb Dawg
October 12th, 2012
12:30 pm
Old Dawg, I couldn’t agree more. College football is no more. Basketball’s the same. Just minor leagues for the NFL and NBA to most players. They have no loyalty to their schools, don’t contribute after they leave. They’re hired guns and we sit in the stands and cheer for them, probably caring about the outcomes much more than they do. Cam Newton was paid. So are most of the other high-profile players. When wealthy men have a real interest in something, and it stokes their egos, they’ll throw money at it……..lots. It’s only getting worse. Kids from single-parent (moms of course) homes with horrible grades taking classroom seats away from actual scholars is sickening. I know student with 4.0 GPA’s who struggle to get into UGA while others with 2.5’s are welcomed with open arms because they can run fast, jump high, or stand 7 ft tall with a 3 ft wingspan and put a ball into a 10ft goal…..duh! I think most fans will get tired of the system before long and college athletics will be forced to be performed by real college student-athletes.
Atlanta AU Grad
October 12th, 2012
9:51 pm
Good job Mark in taking the attention off the REAL story in the Atlanta area. Richt loses ” another” big game! 10, 11, 12? years of same ole, same ole??? I would trade this year in a minute for the 2010 Championship run. Our trip to Glendale and pictures / memories will forever be there for many an AU fan / supporter. Something that UGA as long as Richt is there will NEVER have the opportunity to experience. And this year the Gator Chomp starts back…..
Give it a rest on Auburn. 33 players from 2010 were seniors /. left early for pros. Took a hard hit last year and this year but will be back in the top portion of SEC next year ans youngsters groow up and then on regular basis again in 2014+. My bet is that AU will win ANOHTER NC before UGA gets a a sniff of won….
War Eagle Every Day!
Defense wins Championships
October 12th, 2012
10:58 pm
Yes Chisik can be fired. He has a title with an asterisk. Auburn bought and paid for that trophy. Chisik cant win without buying it.
Scott85
October 13th, 2012
4:49 pm
All I can say is mike Shula. Things have a way of coming in cycles. One thing I am sure of is that, unlike bama fans, auburn fans will not throw a brick through chizik’s window. WDE
Zach Mettenburger
October 14th, 2012
12:22 am
Hey I just did what Aaron Murray has never done, beat a top ranked team and Beat South Carolina…. Miss me yet bulldog fans?
Un, ah,um, AU LOST
October 14th, 2012
1:35 pm
OLE MISS STOMPED AU. AU will defeat Vandy.
Chizk leaves AU after the U of Alabama debacle.
I love it, because AU deserves this fate.Trash school in a trash area and in a trash state.
Archer3694
October 14th, 2012
6:45 pm
Why would people even want bobby petrino ! Bottom line AU has an open checkbook , if you want to win a national championship you have to have that caliber of coach so why not go after chip Kelly or another big name coach !! after all , if you wanna play with the big boys then you better have somebody who can wear big boy pants !!!!
MoreSo
October 14th, 2012
10:03 pm
auburn–1 fluke title from buying players. without cam, au loses 4-5 games in 2010.