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re: Freeze fired
Posted on 11/2/25 at 1:53 pm to bamatide07
Posted on 11/2/25 at 1:53 pm to bamatide07
They could hire Clark Lea. He has a win vs. Alabama on his resume, which is at the top of Auburn’s list of desired qualifications. Brian Kelly also has this.
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Posted on 11/2/25 at 1:58 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Leave Nashville for Auburn ? LMAO
Posted on 11/2/25 at 2:25 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Isn’t he a Vandy alum?
Posted on 11/2/25 at 2:32 pm to hwyman108
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They’ve screwed over and undermined every coach they have hired for the last 20yrs if the coach didn’t bend the knee to them.
They should never have fired Malzahn and I was extremely relieved when they did. Malzahn brought them to a BCSNCG loss, one SECCG win, and one SECCG loss. Malzahn managed to go 3-5 against Saban, which is a great run in the Iron Bowl by Auburn's historical standards and was a historic run against Saban by any standard.
That was an absolute golden age for Auburn if we view it from a realistic perspective. But their people are totally out of touch with reality, as if they actually think the 7 retrospective national titles they've claimed this offseason are real and they actually are the fifth most successful team in college football history. It's fine for a random fan to be that delusional, but the people in charge need to understand that Auburn has the eighth best all-time winning percentage in the SEC. Eighth place is where they actually fit in this conference, and they need to adjust expectations accordingly.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 5:48 am to TheNameIsDalton
At some point, looking at assistant coaches makes sense.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 6:20 am to CrimsonCrusade
The arms race is making it more likely that coaches will be fired sooner than later. If by year 3 you are not showing significant improvement than the bag men may be pulling the trigger.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 6:37 am to TheNameIsDalton
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Going to be fun to watch it all play out. Good luck competing with UF, Penn St, LSU, and then the schools in their tier.
That could work to their advantage. Let the big dogs fight over the overpriced, big name retreads. Go for the hungry, diamond in the rough lesser name. Besides, the buyout is cheaper once the boosters inevitably torpedo this guy, too.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 6:56 am to remaster916
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Fisher would be such a Auburn hire.
If you assume the people actually making the hire are control freaks in their 70s it makes sense:
-NC (from two schools ago)
-elite OC (back in the 2000s)
-major college experience (paid him $50M to go away)
-easily controllable by the boosters
It’s like drafting the washed up former #1 fantasy football RB two years too late because you didn’t do any research before the season.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 6:59 am to CrimsonCrusade
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They should never have fired Malzahn and I was extremely relieved when they did. Malzahn brought them to a BCSNCG loss, one SECCG win, and one SECCG loss. Malzahn managed to go 3-5 against Saban, which is a great run in the Iron Bowl by Auburn's historical standards and was a historic run against Saban by any standard.
Whether it was due to laziness or he was trying to force a buyout Malzahn had to go.
He’d stopped recruiting OL completely.
He was bringing in sub average drop back passers and refused to run his base offense.
Their talent across the board had collapsed relative to the elite teams.
That was a dead program and the roster he left Harsin set them back 2+ years.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 7:09 am to Roll Tide Ravens
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They could hire Clark Lea.
Based on the Brian Kelly part, I'm guessing this is a tongue in cheek post, but just watch - someone's going to try to hire him.
He was 9-27 in three seasons and probably 1 season away from getting fired before he got Pavia and more importantly Jerry Kill. If someone does hire him, they better make damned sure keeping Jerry Kill on his staff is a condition of employment.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 7:27 am to mrbroker
quote:If they stop hiring mediocrity. It's been a coaching carousel for years, same talent moved from school to school -- it might start exhibiting downward pressure on coaching salaries, with the NIL taking such a prominent hold.
The arms race is making it more likely that coaches will be fired sooner than later. If by year 3 you are not showing significant improvement than the bag men may be pulling the trigger.
We'll see when some of the new contracts are signed. I doubt they will be for the size and term like BK or Jimbo saw before.
I wouldn't doubt that is part of why we are seeing unprecedented number fired, in season. Up until now, life has been great for Jimmy Sexton, and I doubt we'll see him collecting unemployment, but huge coaching salaries may be stifled for now.
Posted on 11/3/25 at 7:59 am to captainFid
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I wouldn't doubt that is part of why we are seeing unprecedented number fired, in season. Up until now, life has been great for Jimmy Sexton, and I doubt we'll see him collecting unemployment, but huge coaching salaries may be stifled for now.
One can hope, however, Sexton also controls the assistants as well, so let’s say you want to hire a “hungry, up and coming coach” and surround him with good assistants and increase NIl for the players, well, you better be prepared to pay through the nose for assistants.
Posted on 11/4/25 at 2:26 pm to bamatide07
It's going to be jimbo. He beat alabama one time.
Posted on 11/4/25 at 3:14 pm to captainFid
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huge coaching salaries may be stifled for now.
Curt Cignetti signed an 8 year $93 million fully guaranteed (unless fired for cause) contract three weeks ago.
He’s in season 4 as an FBS head coach and season 2 at a P4 program.
I don’t think stupid level contracts are going anywhere.
This post was edited on 11/4/25 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 11/4/25 at 3:19 pm to tide06
quote:That all sounds right. I swear, he is the laziest coach I've ever seen. He'd only gameplan for like 3-4 games a season tops at Auburn. The opener, LSU, Bama, Georgia.
Whether it was due to laziness or he was trying to force a buyout Malzahn had to go.
He’d stopped recruiting OL completely.
He was bringing in sub average drop back passers and refused to run his base offense.
Their talent across the board had collapsed relative to the elite teams.
That was a dead program and the roster he left Harsin set them back 2+ years.
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