re: A Letter from Dr Gogue

Damn son

The fact he all but calls out people goes to show he was pretty pissed off about the rumors. Rumors fly at every school during every search but almost never does a president address them. This is just not done. What it tells me is that Gouge believes the rumors were coming from some of the candidates themselves (he says as much) and he is mad they didn't hold up their end of the secrecy bargain.

Napier is a young guy who I think has a big head. He doesn't uphold coaching etiquette to keep this stuff quiet. Brent Venables, by all accounts, didn't talk. He has been around this game long enough he knows the rules.

So it looks like Napier was leaking the fact he was a candidate to pad his resume and put his name out there in the limelight. Same goes for Clark. "See we turned down AU, we are that HOT guys. Only USC, Ohio State, Bama and Texas are worthy of our services." The reality is neither were offered. Clark was pretty much begging and was ignored. Napier was in the mix, but it didn't get to the point of an offer. I hope other schools are aware of their antics when they decide to consider either of them.

Bottom line: No one but Greene, Gouge, and the names on that committee knew shite. And it is looking more and more like none of them did any talking during this. I think I can prove that statement by using mere logic. If they were talking, we'd have known about Harsin earlier.

And I think the committee leaked it to Pete Thamel (of all people) as a "frick you" to Auburn's beat writers. It was a nice touch.

That is incredible.

Bill Clark fricked himself hard. Everyone needs to cancel pay sites and quit listening to goons like jboy. They would rather make money than help Auburn.

Most Auburn people knew the rumors were lies. Now. Will the media cover his letter....No. Cowards. Anyone paying a fee to read a bunch of lying rumor mongers is pretty dumb anyway. Greene nailed it as expected. Time for new beat writers. Fire em all. Everything they wrote during the search was negative.

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I guess this board isn’t representative of most Auburn people then

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We are a rare breed. Capable of melting yet remaining somewhat level headed at the same time.

I love that this place isn’t a rah rah echo chamber.....but it’s also not a complete nega echo chamber. We all tend to move freely between the two achieving perfect message board balance.

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Bill Clark fricked himself hard.

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He even did an interview with a local station in Bham saying he turned us down because he couldnt have control. Think he really makes himself look bad begging for an interview then saying he turned us down. I am glad we didnt hire him

SDS article

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There were a couple of us trying to tell y’all this.

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Don’t tell me that I remained calm and called the hire 12 hours before it happened

What does backdoored mean? Seems it was done through the front door and Greene likely already has this guy on the main board

I'm glad he put this out. You can't have situations like what happened this week and just not say anything. That only emboldens the people he is calling out to keep doing their little song and dance. The way this went down, I'm kind of disappointed Dr. Gogue didn't just come on out and call them out by name. That would have been awesome. But I guess he is a little more classy and less petty than I would be in that situation.

Although, everyone in the outside looking in at us is, of course, calling this damage control, spin, revisionist history, etc. So that right there just lets me know that the damage is already done. I really hope the people this message was so.ed at (pay site "journalists" or "insiders") get the message loud and clear and knock it off with the wild, unfounded speculation and rumors. Not just during a coaching search, but regarding players transferring. Or squabbles between guys on staff. If that happens, go talk to people and get it confirmed before putting it out. Don't just go scour Twitter and regurgitate whatever BS you stumble across. That isn't reporting.