re: And he is gone

If Gus Malzahn is calling plays and has full control over the offense, then good, he needs to find some new blood at offensive coordinator (that isn't a puppet named Rhett Lashlee) that isn't a "yes man" with nothing more to add schematically. If he can't get the job done then, he needs to be fired. We hired him to be the offensive guru and to lead the team. I'm willing to give him more time considering what he did with Auburn's offense in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

If Rhett Lashlee is calling plays and has a huge say so in the offense, Gus Malzahn should resign immediately. We didn't hire him to delegate his offense to a kid (he's a kid in the college football landscape), we hired him to continue to play calls and have full control of the offense.

There have been conflicting reports as to who calls plays. I don't know who does it. However, they aren't getting the job done. And that's not good for either party. Someone would have a hard time convincing me that Rhett Lashlee is key to the success of Auburn football.

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Am I the only one that doesn't care that much?

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Dameyune is a good recruiter

We've had the recruits, we cannot develop talent to save our dicks

I would love to bring in some actual coaches

I never said much because AU people love DC, but he sucks as a position coach. If he wasn't our former QB, all of you would have wanted him fired this year.

Don't set yourself up for anymore disappointment.

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Why don't you post our SEC record?

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Ive come to expect the worst. Gus will hire Burns thinking it will make everything right because he's from Auburn and doesn't have enough experience to do his own thing.

AUBURN | Some breakups feel like a relief for both parties.

This one is going to hurt for a while.

Dameyune Craig left for LSU on Sunday, consummating a period of flirtation with the Bayou Bengals that extended more than week. Some might argue the overturnes extended for two months, though LSU wasn't involved nearly that long. Craig spoke with Georgia long before LSU arrived on the scene earlier this month because he'd grown increasingly disillusioned with the Auburn operation and how he fit into that operation.

It's a bad look, of course. Craig is a beloved former player; a Mobile kid whose tough-as-nails attitude embodied the 1997 Auburn team that fought its way to the Southeastern Conference championship game. He played hard. He talked tough. And he is, by any measure, a success story.

Which makes his departure all the more difficult for Auburn people to fathom.

The truth is that Craig needed to leave. There was no pressure on him to leave, at least no pressure originating from inside the Athletic Complex, but he's an upwardly mobile coach who aspires to run his own program. At Auburn, Gus Malzahn and Rhett Lashlee administrate the offense on game days and Rodney Garner, himself a former Auburn player who has risen through the coaching ranks, oversees a recruiting enterprise that's as consistent as it is effective.

There was no room for Craig to advance.

So he accepted what amounts to a lateral move to LSU, where he will coach wide receivers. He also will have an opportunity to become the Bayou Bengals' recruiting coordinator, which may provide at least some semblance of advancement.

With that said, adding "recruiting coordinator" to his resume wasn't what drove Craig from the Plains.

It was more about a young coach coming of age, of assembling experiences gleaned from time spent at Auburn and Florida State and South Alabama and Tuskegee and the Miami Dolphins. He's learned a lot. He's becoming self-aware. He has a sharp understanding of how he feels a football program should be run, an understanding he has earned through hard work and diligence, and that vision began to deviate from Malzahn's vision.

That philosophical chasm drove Craig away from his alma mater.

Craig voiced his opinions, of course, but felt like his suggestions weren't put into action often enough. While he stood behind his ideas, Craig also knew that the Auburn program operates at Malzahn's behest and the hierarchy wasn't going to change anytime soon.

When your heart no longer is in your work, it's time to find new work. And that's what Craig did.

This is a difficult loss for Auburn. Anyone who attempts to dilute that fact is lying to you or lying to themselves or both. Craig is an outstanding recruiter with strong ties to Mobile, south Florida, all along the Gulf Coast. He knows the coaches. He knows the schools, the programs, the teachers, the guidance counselors. That knowledge paired with remarkable showmanship makes Craig a hit inside almost every home he visits and with every kid he meets along the way.

Auburn cannot replace Craig's recruiting ability with a single hire. Nobody else can do what he does at the level he does it. The upside for Auburn? Malzahn's decision to hire Herb Hand and Travis Williams and Wesley McGriff during the past six weeks has given the Tigers some intriguing, new options along the recruiting trail.

This current assemblage of assistant coaches, as a group, is more than good enough to keep Auburn recruiting at a Top-10 level.

There will be talk about Lashlee and how his presence played a role in Craig's decision to leave. Yes, the two coaches aren't close friends. Yes, some observers believed the two offensive coaches no longer could co-exist in any meaningful way. With that said, Craig didn't leave Auburn because of Lashlee. Latent frustration led to an emotional disengagement that required a change of scenery.

The relationship was doomed. It's been doomed.

Craig surely feels energized today. He found a clear path away from Auburn that led him to another successful program. It's the reset he so badly needed.

Still, a wound has been created that won't soon heal.

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Seems he wanted out really bad.

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If we turn it around at AU DCraig gets no credit/upward mobility
If we crash and burn DCraig starts over in a worse spot.


At LSU he potentially could move up and if they crash and burn he wouldn't be to blame anyways

Gus isn't going anywhere at least for one year. And if Auburn lets Jay Jacobs hire another football coach they have to be the biggest fools in the country. Jacobs needs to go first. We need someone component in that position. I hope Gus turns it around, but I know he lost a lot of support from the base today when DC left.

don't care Auburn University Football is bigger than a WR coach.