This is gonna be tough, and I might actually shed tears from the excruciating pain, but I am gonna give you my honest, unbiased, opinion.

You are changing from the spread to a pro style offense. You are going to have a year, possibly 2 even, where you are going to suck floppy donkey dick because of personnel limitations alone. Not to mention the team learning a new offense at the same time that the assistant coaches are learning how to COACH this new offense. This is the problem Tony Franklin had. He was not able to bring his own people so he had to spend as much time coaching the coaches as he was coaching and teaching the new offense.

The defense isn't terrible at this point in the season. The score from the Ole Miss game is a bit misleading. That game was in question with only a few minuets to go and it got out of hand because Auburn was having to try to play catchup and made some mistakes that Ole Miss capitalized on. The defense is improving under BVG. I have seen major improvements in the level of play since the beginning of the season, especially where tackling is concerned.

Now don't take me as saying that Gene Chizik is a good coach, because I really dont think he is. But he is good at hiring staff, or he has been in the past at least. I think the best thing Auburn could do right now is get rid of some offensive assistants that are bringing the team down in 2 ways.

1. they do not know this offense
2. they are bringing bad press and bad juju in general to the team. (aka trooper and luper and their questionable recruiting tactics)

You get some assistants in there that can coach this pro style system and you may have a better team this year. Does that mean that Loeffler (sp) is the right OC for yall? Not necessarily, I'm still not sold on his ability just because we have not been able to see what he can do with the right pieces in place with the right positional coaches to coach them, but I do think that going back to a pro style offense is better for the team as a whole because it not only is more successful than the spread, but it also helps your defense instead of hurt it like the spread has been proven time and time again to do more often than not.

Now that I have said all that....

frick CHEEZEDICK!!! KEEP HIM AND TROOPER FOREVER!!!!!!!
RAAWWWWLLLLL TIIIIIIDE!!!!!!!!!