PM wrote a similar story about the roller coaster that is Auburn Football.

started in Dye's 10th year (1990) after having won 3 SEC championships in a row, after playing Bama in JH in 89 for the first time, the Tigers were 6-0-1 and ranked No. 4 in the nation, Florida drilled us in Spurriors first year. (48-7). Then Eric Ramsey (5-6, 5-5-1)

Bowden - started great, but resigned his last year after going 1-5 (Coward)

Tubs: Tuberville, who never really got over Jetgate, resigned., Scared of Saban

Chiz and now Gus

Conclusion from Article:
Five coaches. Five very different yet similar scenarios. Can Malzahn reverse the slide and write a happy ending to his Auburn story when others couldn’t?

That’s the question that will dominate Auburn football in the weeks and months to come.

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Posted by Aubie Spr96

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Posted on 11/17/15 at 8:35 am to allin2010

I just want us to be competitive every year. 9-10 wins a year with close, hard fought losses. We aren't getting that now.

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Posted by FearlessFreep

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Posted on 11/17/15 at 8:53 am to allin2010

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Five coaches. Five very different yet similar scenarios.

The most remarkable part: all five of those HCs - every single one of them - had a year in which Auburn received first place votes in the AP polls at the end of the regular season.

Dye: 1983
Bowden: 1993
Tubs: 2004
Chiz: 2010
Gustav: 2013

Offhand I can't think of a single program who can make that claim over the past 32 seasons. And as bad as things have been at times, we've finished with losing records only five years during that stretch as well ('92, '98, '99, '08, '12).

I grew tired of Tubs because he seemed to settle into what appeared to me as a smug complacency, and his tendency to blame external factors for almost every defeat. But I'm coming to realize that his career (save for '08 when he appeared to give up) pretty much epitomizes AU's maximum level of gridiron competiveness: good-but-not-great almost every season, with occasional breakouts to the upside.

I could probably learn to live with that again. I just wish we could do it without paying our staff more than anyone else in the history of college football.