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re: Gus left on private plane for family emergency.
Posted on 10/16/21 at 6:38 pm to LanierSpots
Posted on 10/16/21 at 6:38 pm to LanierSpots
quote:I think you are being sensitive. Fans have been chewing coaches asses for years and Gus is no different. Hell, Chizik got it worse than anyone
In my years as a Auburn guy I have not seen Auburn fans act like they have with him. It’s more like what Georgia fans have done over the years. It’s really pathetic
quote:If running a squeaky clean program is your goal, Gus is your man. If winning championships and consistent results on the field, he isnt.
He absolutely had flaws but brought most of us, the best memories as a Auburn fan that we ever had. Without the old typical “Auburn” issues. Clean program.
quote:We get it. You love Gus and hate the rest of us dont.
I will be pulling fir him as I do all the X Auburn coaches and players.
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Posted on 10/16/21 at 6:41 pm to ChexMix
I don’t get bothered by the Gus bashing over his coaching myself. That happens a lot and I don’t even pay attention to it anymore. I don’t like the bashing of his character. He doesn’t deserve that type of bashing.
Posted on 10/16/21 at 6:45 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
quote:Please direct me to this character bashing. I havent seen it.
I don’t like the bashing of his character.
Posted on 10/16/21 at 6:52 pm to MTurbo
I hope everyone is OK.
Gus knows football games are won and lost but family is what is really important.
Gus knows football games are won and lost but family is what is really important.
Posted on 10/16/21 at 7:54 pm to ChexMix
It doesn’t happen often anymore but it did happen plenty Chex.
Posted on 10/16/21 at 8:36 pm to MTurbo
I am glad the reports are she is in stable condition.
Birmingham has top notch facilities.
Birmingham has top notch facilities.
Posted on 10/16/21 at 8:36 pm to higgs_boson
Good to hear
Posted on 10/17/21 at 5:02 am to ChexMix
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If running a squeaky clean program is your goal, Gus is your man. If winning championships and consistent results on the field, he isnt.
His offense won you the only championship you’ve ever experienced and if not for 2 plays by a bad defense, he would have brought you another. At the peak of the SEC At a place that Has not sniffed a championship in 50 years.. So please keep your ignorant remarks to a minimum
Posted on 10/19/21 at 10:50 am to MTurbo
So, the family emergency was Gus's daughter having a baby?
Posted on 10/19/21 at 10:59 am to jvilletiger25
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So, the family emergency was Gus's daughter having a baby?
Gus' daughter already had the baby. There apparently were complications days after the birth. His daughter had to be readmitted.
This post was edited on 10/19/21 at 11:05 am
Posted on 10/19/21 at 11:21 am to LanierSpots
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a place that Has not sniffed a championship in 50 years..
No need to go hyperbole. We had missed out on like 4-5 by razor thin margins between 57 and 10.
That said, I could not be more happy Gus isn't our head coach anymore but he is responsible for some amazing moments and he definitely seems like a good guy so I see no reason to constantly bring him up in a negative light.
Posted on 10/19/21 at 12:29 pm to LanierSpots
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At the peak of the SEC At a place that Has not sniffed a championship in 50 years..
That’s just incorrect.
Posted on 10/19/21 at 1:03 pm to RandySavage
quote:I've said this before. Gus had/has a philosophy to be simple on offense so you could be full speed coming out of fall camp at every position. We have a guy now in Harsin (and Bobo) who don't share that same philosophy. So unless you're really advanced for a football player or dynamically athletic, you're going to watch for a season or two for alignment, assignment and techique. That's it. Its just two different approaches. IMO, at UCF and their conference, I think Gus' approach can be very successful. I'm suprised by their lack of success so far, but maybe if nothing else its an example for why Travis Williams wasn't retained? UCF is 119 in total defense, and they didn't lose alot. Plus they picked up one-sack Bryant, who's an NFL All-Pro in his own mind.
No need to go hyperbole. We had missed out on like 4-5 by razor thin margins between 57 and 10.
That said, I could not be more happy Gus isn't our head coach anymore but he is responsible for some amazing moments and he definitely seems like a good guy so I see no reason to constantly bring him up in a negative light.
Stick the needle in my arm for the new staff at AU.
Posted on 10/19/21 at 1:09 pm to RandySavage
quote:I couldn't agree more. At the end of the day, all you can ask out of the players is that they play hard for the coaching staff. Under Gus I thought we always did. There may be other factors that limit program upside but playing hard for Gus and staff was never one of them IMO.
No need to go hyperbole. We had missed out on like 4-5 by razor thin margins between 57 and 10.
That said, I could not be more happy Gus isn't our head coach anymore but he is responsible for some amazing moments and he definitely seems like a good guy so I see no reason to constantly bring him up in a negative light.
Posted on 10/19/21 at 1:14 pm to alpinetiger
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I think Gus' approach can be very successful
I think the game has passed him by and he won't adjust, or can't adjust. The games evolves much faster than it used to. I don't expect him to have a lot of success going forward. That would have been us if we had stuck with him.
Posted on 10/19/21 at 1:23 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
quote:the ONLY time i remember his character being questioned is when he burned that RBs redshirt year and then never played him. He got hell for that one and justifiably so
It doesn’t happen often anymore but it did happen plenty Chex.
Posted on 10/19/21 at 1:36 pm to wareaglepete
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I think the game has passed him by and he won't adjust, or can't adjust. The games evolves much faster than it used to. I don't expect him to have a lot of success going forward. That would have been us if we had stuck with him.
It has absolutely passed him by. There is absolutely nothing interesting or novel about his offense anymore. He's still trying the same flawed principles that DC's already figured out ~3+ years ago. The team he took over even played "faster" on offense under Heupel (the one gimmick that Malzahn relied upon is now done better and more effectively by about a dozen+ other offensive minds) so I'm not sure what his draw is going to be at UCF.
The results we're seeing is exactly what I expected. UCF's defense was horrible last season and the idea that Travis Williams & David Gibbs were going to fix that was a joke from the start. They are as horrible defensively as I expected. And there is no Kevin Steele or 5-star DL talent to save him now. So you're seeing a team that is really bad defensively playing behind Malzahn's flawed and outdated offense that has been broken for a while now.
The cherry on top was his actually good inherited QB going down with an injury. He had a bit of wiggle-room in terms of inheriting someone else's already developed QB as he's benefitting from so many times in the past before, but that luck turned on him.
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