Jay Jacobs trying to save his own skin

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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Beating New Mexico State was nice, especially for the players that have suffered through this horror show of a football season, but the only game that really matters at Auburn now is happening off the field.

It’s probably too late for head coach Gene Chizik to save his job, but there’s a movement under way behind the scenes to keep Jay Jacobs as athletics director.

That movement includes some well-known and powerful Auburn people. One of them is former trustee Earlon McWhorter.

“I consider Jay a friend,” McWhorter wrote me in an email, “but as always, my real concern is Auburn and what is best for Auburn, and I strongly feel keeping Jay Jacobs gives us the best chance to get through some difficult times.”

There are other Auburn supporters who feel just as strongly that firing Chizik but keeping the man that hired him won’t solve the problems that exist but will make it harder to hire the kind of strong, no-nonsense, get-out-of-my-way head coach that Auburn needs.

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@scottgriffinsz: Bobby Petrino at local Bham hotel on Halloween reportedly meeting with AU personnel. Conclude what you will.

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Mack Brown

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