Auburn fans be honest- should have kept Gus shouldn’t you?

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LSU Fan

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Awkward

You’ve hit your topic limit.

When Gus was our coach, while he may not have been able to give us the best seasons we were hoping for, he was able to bring in top ten recruiting classes year after year.

That all changed this year. Even if Gus would have stayed, our recruiting class would have been no better than 15 in the nation. It’s clear that whatever edge he had in recruiting was gone. Recruits simply saw our mediocre results and none of the elite recruits wanted to play for Gus any longer.

The view that Gus is a high school coach who can’t adapt to the modern football age is pretty much what he will be known for. The future would have been bleak had we not fired him.

It was time for a change. Harsin brings a new energy and confidence that we haven’t seen in the Plains in many years. Most Auburn fans are excited about this.

Would you keep a coach that had this record against Big Six on the road: 1-14 ?

Nah

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got turned down by Clemsons DC, ULL’s head coach and a slew of other qualified candidates

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gullible frick

Please keep Ed o forever

Meanwhile, Alabama fans sitting around smoking a pipe, reading Gone With The Wind, and enjoying Christmas with the family while knowing Saban has everything under control at the Capstone!

Oh...to be us!!! Roll Tide!!!!!!

I’ve been over Gus for several years now. He killed my interest in AU football in ways I never thought possible. I haven’t posted over here or the Auburn board in god knows how long. I may have watched a combined half of football all season. So yeah, it was long past time for Gus to go.

Auburn went out and hired the head coach with the 3rd highest active winning percentage, I'm just happy Auburn won't suffer like LSU will the next few years. Orgeron is Chizik 2.0.

The Auburn job is somewhat of a catch-22...

One one hand, you have a destination job at an elite program with TONS of resources and cash... On the other hand and this is HUGE, any coach who accepts that job would have to deal with recruiting and going head to head with Nick Saban every year... The GOAT CFB who coaches as arguably the GOAT CFB(top 2-3 at worst), showing NO signs of slowing down as evidenced by MONSTER and I MEAN monster recruiting classes and is churning out NFL taken left and right... Now for the frightening part, there's no signs of any of this slowing down... Last year Saban had a "down year' by going 11-2(which is almost laughable when you think about it) and the only time he took an arse kicking was the first half of the LSU game... Then the first of this year, recruiting wasn't looking all that great and as usual like clockwork, you hear the same ole "the decline is real", Saban's recruiting is slipping, and the infamous RTWFU...

Fast forward to 12/26... Saban pulls in a an absolutely SICK recruiting class with 7 re recruits rated 5 star and tons of 3&4 star talent... )(It would seem that of the talk from the media and others poured gasoline on a man who already already has an inmate fire to be the best). On top of that he goes undefeated, wins the SEC in devastating fashion and is on the verge of winning his 7th national title..

All that to say, I just don't see any elite coach willing to walk into that... Firing Gus was a BIG BIG mistake... He is the only coach in our conference shown to be able to beat Saban in a consistent basis... Some of those were kinda fluky and none were blowouts but somehow he's been able to pull it off...

Elite coaches like Urban Meyer, Dabo Swinney, Nick Saban and even the VERY good ones like Dan Mullen, Lane Kiffin, Jimbo Fisher are very few and far between... I also think that while Gus was a good coach and innovative, he like Les Miles either didn't have the ability and/or the willingness to adapt... That's one of the reasons why Saban is so dominant... Which when you think about it is incredible... He is willing to adapt.. He's been willing to change his recruiting and 'on the field' tactics to win... He's willing to bring in coaches that others were willing to give a chance and tell the media to frick off.. Those strategic gambles have paid huge dividends and made some people, who doubted him,look like fools...

The man is almost like a damn football cyborg/savant... So yeah, it's gonna be VERY difficult for them to find a coach willing to become Saban's annual rival in arguably the historically fiercest rivalry in CFB.. On top of that, you have a rabid fanbase and administration who lives and breathes beating Alabama... That is NOT an ideal situation to walk into... It's potentially career suicide...

I understand their rationale,and this was probably driven by idiot boosters, but firing Gus was a big mistake and will set then back a few years..