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Cliff Ellis goes to the dance
Posted on 3/9/14 at 10:25 pm
Posted on 3/9/14 at 10:25 pm
Coastal Carolina is in, remind me why we fired him? Fourth different team he will have coached in the tourney
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Posted on 3/9/14 at 10:34 pm to AU66
He got us put on probation.
Glad he made it. He is a good coach.
Glad he made it. He is a good coach.
Posted on 3/9/14 at 10:38 pm to AU66
frick....... 
Posted on 3/9/14 at 10:45 pm to MrAUTigers
Well this isn't Auburn football, unless he committed a felony, i don't care.. My god, he got us a #1 seed.
Posted on 3/9/14 at 10:50 pm to AU66
Glad you aren't our AD. Any coach that gets a team put on probation doesn't deserve a job at that University.
Posted on 3/9/14 at 10:54 pm to MrAUTigers
And who here wouldn't take Bruce Pearl in a heartbeat? Don't know the specifics of what Ellis did but we have been on a self imposed probation ever since.
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Posted on 3/9/14 at 10:56 pm to AU66
Any coach that gets a team put on probation doesn't deserve a job at that University.
Posted on 3/9/14 at 11:01 pm to MrAUTigers
Not to be argumentative, just miss being more than a one sport school, and i'm pretty sure Shug Jordan got AU put on probation also and was retained.
Posted on 3/9/14 at 11:03 pm to AU66
If you get put on probation in basketball, you did something pretty serious. Basketball is the shadiest recruiting scene in all college sports and they almost never hand out probations. I wish we had Cliff Ellis' production but he had to go
Posted on 3/10/14 at 12:20 am to MrAUTigers
quote:Nick Saban?
Glad you aren't our AD. Any coach that gets a team put on probation doesn't deserve a job at that University.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 1:22 am to AU66
similar thread on USA forums asking why he's at coastal carolina and didn't get an offer to come back after auburn fired him 
he's a hot commodity these days it seems
he's a hot commodity these days it seems
Posted on 3/10/14 at 8:10 am to MrAUTigers
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He got us put on probation.
it wasnt all about the probation. I dont think they had even ruled at the time. It was also about how complacent he had become. Although nothing became of it, Lebo stepped in and did much more off the court stuff than ellis had done in his previous several years. it was almost like a tuberville situation
Posted on 3/10/14 at 8:58 am to AU66
quote:AD in transition, new president cleaning up a mess and trying to change the culture in the athletic department, impending probation, coming off a really bad season.
remind me why we fired him?
At the time it didn't seem like a bad move. In hindsight, they weren't able to get anyone better to accept the job and had to settle.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 9:10 am to WDE24
CC is the 4th program cliff has taken to the NCAAT... clemson, auburn, USA are the others. say what you want, but the man worked minor miracles at auburn and didn't get the credit he deserved (i include myself in that as well).
Posted on 3/10/14 at 9:38 am to AU66
I'd take him back in a hearbeat...I don't care what he did. I'll take Cliff Ellis at 70 over Tony Barbee currently.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 10:51 am to plazadweller
As I recall it was just a tiny, small probation. Let's bring him back (if we don't get BP.)
Posted on 3/10/14 at 12:22 pm to bird35
The interim president Richarson, fired the best basketball coach and one of the best baseball coaches because they had one bad season. Almost killed Auburn athletics.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:32 pm to AU66
I'm okay with cheating in basketball.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:35 pm to diddydirtyAubie
if you ain`t cheating, you ain`t trying
Posted on 3/10/14 at 7:02 pm to diddydirtyAubie
I agree, but I've heard he was really close to fricking us across the board. I was fairly young when we were in good in 1999-2000 but I remember watching us play in the tournament in 2003. Damnit I long for the day we make it back.
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