re: Per PM this will all be over soon

His Article from yesterday is now free content..

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PMARSHONAU: Time for urgent action

...It all started last December when president Steven Leath decided it would be a grand idea to give Malzahn a seven-year, $49 million contract and guarantee 75 percent of it. Since that day, Auburn has gone 7-7 overall and 4-7 against power-five teams and Central Florida. What a mess. And I’m not sure anyone in a position of leadership knows how to fix it.......

Auburn administrators have only two reasonable choices after a tumultuous and disappointing regular season: Make a change in head coaches or get fully behind the coach they have. Anything else will doom the football program to mediocrity or worse......

If Malzahn truly wants to be Auburn’s coach for the future, he needs to take a look at himself, too. And it needs to be a hard look.

According to multiple sources, Malzahn has gone further than ever in controlling everything on offense. Position coaches don’t decide who they recruit. Malzahn does. They don’t decide who starts. Malzahn does. They don’t decide who plays at what points in the game. Malzahn does. They don’t decide what they need to work on in practice. Malzahn does. And for much of this season, Malzahn has called plays, whether they came out of his mouth or out of offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey’s mouth.......

No head coach is an expert on every position. That’s why all of them – well, almost all of them – lean on assistant coaches who are experts. It’s too much for one man to do it all successfully.