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re: Did Gus do THAT great of a job?
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:02 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:02 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:02 pm to WDE24
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:03 pm to skrangeo
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Can't believe we missed a bowl again
Can't believe we missed a bowl again
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:03 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:03 pm to skrangeo
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Auburn has had top 10 recruiting classes the last 4 years. He had some great talent to work with. And he was a few plays away from losing 3-4 games this season.
Coincidentally Texas A&M is a few plays from being 10-2 this season, but instead they are a lowly 8-4 bottom feeder.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:04 pm to dbt_Geaux_Tigers_196
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:05 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
Let's see if we can get another 500 page coaches thread.Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:06 pm to dbt_Geaux_Tigers_196
There has been one or two trying hard to make that happen over on the CC's board...
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:21 pm to skrangeo
quote:Where was that talent last season?
Auburn has had top 10 recruiting classes the last 4 years. He had some great talent to work with
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:22 pm to skrangeo
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Auburn has had top 10 recruiting classes the last 4 years. He had some great talent to work with. And he was a few plays away from losing 3-4 games this season.
If you're asking if what he did was take a talentless team in utter disrepair, rebuild it in the offseason and then go on to a magical season with a title game ahead then the answer is no.
The players, the system, damn near everything but the coach was in place at Auburn for Gus to make Auburn a winning team this year. Where he excelled is in taking them to 12-1 when Auburn could've easily been an 10-2, 9-3, or 8-4 team instead.
When he arrived Auburn definitely had the talent for 10-2 so where I see Gus excelling the most is in giving them 2 more wins with only 1 loss. That is a good coach. Any coach who accounts for 1 or more extra wins that the talent alone wouldn't account for is a good one. And Gus is responsible for those extra wins.
Last season, Chizik actually minused out the talent under him and the blame for the 3-9 (0-8 SEC) record is squarely on him rather than the players.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:28 pm to skrangeo
No, it's really easy to get players who went 0-8 last year to believe they're actually a national championship caliber team. You just give an enthusiastic pep talk and voila, back on track.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:30 pm to Prof
quote:Not the QB and not the system. He only got his QB a few weeks before the first game.
The players, the system, damn near everything but the coach was in place at Auburn
The entire staff was replaced and the team ran a different defense and offense from 2012.
quote:Obviously he had the talent to go at least 12-1, but no one was saying that this past summer. Hell, AU fans were being mocked for predicting 8 wins.
When he arrived Auburn definitely had the talent for 10-2
Anyway, to say Gus was only worth 2 wins seams like selling him a good bit short.
This post was edited on 12/15/13 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:33 pm to skrangeo
He is in the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:34 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
quote:That's probably in my top10 ways to go out
Hope he O.D.'s on waffles
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:45 pm to skrangeo
People are forgetting Auburn was 3 plays away from 8-4. Someone needs to find out who Gus sold his soul to, to have this MIRACULOUS LUCK.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:47 pm to Prof
Those top 10 recruiting classes are so overblown. There was so much attrition and flat out busts in those classes it's not even funny.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:52 pm to remaster916
quote:If you read the OP, it's actually in there
People are forgetting Auburn was 3 plays away from 8-4.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:55 pm to The Nino
It's also stupid and incorrect. Auburn still wouldn't have lost the Iron Bowl, won the MSU game on a GW but uneventful drive, and beat TAMU straight up. Only "miracle" was UGA.
But, people are dumb.
But, people are dumb.
Posted on 12/15/13 at 4:56 pm to remaster916
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People are forgetting Auburn was 3 plays away from 8-4. Someone needs to find out who Gus sold his soul to, to have this MIRACULOUS LUCK.
People are forgetting that: 1) the Chris Davis return was just as much strategy as luck; and 2) had he not returned it for a touchdown the game was going into overtime.
The last play of the Georgia game? Sure, absolute luck. But not the rest of them.
This post was edited on 12/15/13 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 12/15/13 at 5:02 pm to skrangeo
These threads make me happy
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