re: Fire Golesh - it’s time

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Top 20 overall but bottom half in the SEC.

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Tell me how much more #4 or #5 spends - that is the real question. "bottom half" is just catchy phrasing. Obviously Texas and A&M will spend more to eternity. we'll see how much longer LSU spends.

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the guys calling the real shots.

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We hired an up and comer, just like FLA did. Difference is, we brought in a whole bunch of G5 coaches and G5 players. Our OC is a no name. Our OL coach is a joke.

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But this doesn't explain everything. Oklahoma State did the exact same thing and they are 3-1 and they beat Oregon. They hired North Texas' coach and he brought all of his North Texas players. So far their offense is scoring just like it was at North Texas. So this strategy is currently working elsewhere. Yes, Ok State is in the Big 12 and not the SEC, but its still a big jump up in competition.

Furthermore, over the last two years most of you couldn't stop talking about how Freeze should have brought in the New Mexico State group of offensive coaches + Pavia + the TE from their G5 roster. Vanderbilt did that, and it worked. So you can't pick and choose based off of hindsight when you think its good to bring in G5 players and coaches, and when its not. Last season most of you didn't want to give any credit whatsoever to Clarke Lea for Vandy's success, it was all the New Mexico State coaches on offense and their G5 QB (Pavia). But now we suck because we have a bunch of G5 coaches on offense?

Unfortunately, its all a coin-flip with regards to who will work at this level, and who wont. Auburn has been in a death spiral where nothing seems to be working. Right now, the biggest miss to me is simply Byrum Brown. You can't do anything on offense with a QB who is turning it over ~3 times a game. He has no consistency whatsoever from play to play, and I can't fathom how you call plays around that. The OL is below-average so that obviously doesn't help either, but at the end of the day your supposed difference maker at QB who knows the system has looked bad.

And that has really been Golesh's biggest blunder in hindsight: he should have evaluated better without bias and let Brown go elsewhere based off of the flaws in his game not translating well to the SEC. But the reality is that most offensive coaches are going to stick with their guy who they have had big success with, and now Golesh is in a really bad spot where his guy is making a shite-ton of money and he likely can't fathom the idea of actually trying to see if T'ia can do any better.