re: Is everyone overreacting?

Ultimately I agree with this Rocky. Maybe I just wanted to hear it stated in a way other than "Fire Jay", "Frick Gus", and "we're going 6-6."

I still think we can win our next 3 games, and that is what I will be rooting/hoping for. But if that does happen, we might just set our self up for another year of Gus.

This team is a 10-11 win team. Let's see what Gus does with them. I am against looking for a new HC with Jay still in as AD. There are plenty of reasons that have nothing to do with football for him to be fired.

I hung in there with Gus because I think it's dumb to keep firing and the man recruits well or is smart enough to hire those who can. However, look at some of the players showing frustration in interviews. That's no bueno.

I mean honestly, he finishes out the season. I think a new AD is inevitable. And then, you would think the AD would be in charge of determining the HC status.

I really hoped Gus would grow into the job, but it seems he is incapable of it.

Still hope we win the rest of our games. But it looks very grim.

Jacobs cant hire winners,'covered up the softball scandal.

Gus can't win without Cam or Nick and miracle last second plays.

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I completely expect to get a lot of downvotes, but I think everyone is overreacting just a little bit.

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It has become a trend. Gus struggles to beat teams with equal/greater talent. I was hoping that would change. It hasn't. He has all of the talent he needs this season. Same crap, different year.

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Eh, I can appreciate where you're coming from. I think a lot of fans are mad because we really really really wanted Gus to work out. But the way in which he hasn't worked out and the way he wen't from the 2013 coach that seemed to just have massive play calling balls to "run 17 straight on first down to protect the 9 point lead at the half" is so strange and confusing that it almost amounts to betrayal and I think a lot of us are enraged because we can't figure out WHY or HOW that change in him happened.


That downward trend since 2013 has been going on for so long now, and given the resources he had coming into this season, the fact that it's continuing even into the middle of 2017 is what has caused all of us to give up and write him off.

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This x1000

I'm right there with you

As I said in another thread...

...so it begins. The great posibarnering of this week.

Emotions have cooled down. You’ve gone back to work. Drank a glass of lemonade and had sex with your wife. Had a few hot meals. Your belly is full and you’re getting a full 8 hours of sleep at night.

Maybe it’s not so bad. Maybe it was a bad half. I mean, it’s not every game that we’ve blown it in the 2nd half. Yeah, it’s happened in every game against our main rivals and in every game played on a national stage. But maybe that’s bad luck.

We might be winning only 8 games a year, but we’re kinda close to winning a lot more. I mean, those 1st half performances are pretty damn good...sometimes.

Stidham’s still green and young. KJ can’t do it all by himself. Need some receivers to step up. Maybe they will against Georgia.

It’s not so bad.




It’s not so bad.

You need to go take a look at Jacobs body of work since he has been at Auburn. AU has a losing record in ALL SPORTS against SEC competition over the last 10 years. TEN MOTHER FREAKING YEARS. We have a list of failed and paid off coaches who were bad hires, and various scandals with the NCAA and now FBI. The one constant is Jay Motherfricking Jacobs. I am seeing very little return on investment by the donors and Alumni who contribute to AU. Without the miracle that was Cam Newton, and 2013, we'd be Mississippi State. We need a new Athletic department leader. Then we probably need a new football coach, because I think Gus has run out of ideas. Jacobs does NOT need to be involved in any more coaching hires at Auburn. Ever.

It’s over unless he wins 9 games. Fool me once, OK. But fool me 5 times. He has to win out till Bama. It is that simple.