Would Gus come home?

hi auburn lurkers

Man I've supported every coach on hire; even John L initially, but if we were to hire Gus I'm out.

By the time Bert's buyout makes firing him doable Gus will have lost his fire and will take the job for a huge salary and 4-5 years of coasting and half-assing it in Fayetteville.

I'm fine with Bert packing and being gone by tomorrow.

I still don't want Gus. Can't we dream a little bigger than that? He was doing so badly at the beginning of the season that he had to stop calling plays. Did you see any of those games? I did and it was like he'd lost his mind.

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He finds players that fit his system.

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Like Jeremy Johnson? Maybe he's better than Bert but he's not worthy of adoration IMO.

I see that as more of a positive at this point. He was willing to make changes quickly and turned the season around.

I'm results oriented. I can't help but notice that Gus has had success everywhere he's been. High school, OC at Arkansas, OC at Tulsa, OC at Auburn, HC at stAte, HC at Auburn. Everywhere he's gone has seen immediate success. You can't attribute all of that to luck or Cam.

I dint know how the decision was made. A lot of it was probably just a result of playing good defenses early in the year anyway.

I'm just interested in hearing an explanation for all the Gus hate...

I realize it is easy to blame the coach...and that's what he gets paid 4M a year for.

However...I think the real issue is pretty obvious...recruiting. And yes...that's his job also, but we've also got to admit that we've never been able to consistently land the types of classes that many other teams in the SEC are able to land. Reasons for that are well discussed and in my view can all be fixed (OU gets kids to go to Norman OK for God's sake).

Until we decide to take more focus on recruiting at least somewhere in the stratosphere of Bama, LSU, Auburn, TN, GA, FL, A&M and now (at least lately) Ole MIss...then we're going to keep being a 7-8 win team with the occaisional 9-10 possible no matter who coaches us.

Petrino had the WR corp to dream of and did win...but remember...he still got jackhammered by Bama and LSU....I think it was 41-17 LSU when we were ranked 3rd in the nation with a lot to play for....go figure.

I also think that Bielema's classes have outranked Petrion and Nutt's on average...but (if that's correct...and I didn't look it up) not by any meaningful amount. Regardless of who's recruiting we seem to be between low 20s and low 40s class ranking. Guess what...that's where we're finishing in rankings at the end of most years also.

We prolly gotta get a lot better at cheating.

Melt day three

No but if schools like Baylor, tcu, and Ole miss can start recruiting high 4 star talent dammit so can we! Yes briles started winming with shite talent ( which is also a sign that it is possible to find diamonds in the rough) but by the end he was getting quality athletes tk come to baylor. fricking baylor! When he left people were chasing his recruits so if someone can do that there I know it can be done here. Don't use the copout tgat we don't produce as a state. There's plenty of talent around us. We're right next to Texas Louisiana tennesee and missippi. I bet close to 1/3 to half of the ESPN 300 comes from those states