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re: John Cohen Needs to Go
Posted on 3/30/26 at 7:04 am to jangalang
Posted on 3/30/26 at 7:04 am to jangalang
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You could turn in mod duty and then play in traffic instead.
We are about to get swept by our rival in one of our better sports left but Gocrazy is more interested in the behavior of the fanbase. Must be entertaining from way up there
Get a life and stop being so emotional about sports. You sound ridiculous.
This post was edited on 3/30/26 at 7:07 am
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Posted on 3/30/26 at 7:45 am to i am dan
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Get a life and stop being so emotional about sports. You sound ridiculous.
This could be posted at the top of every sports forum on the internet and it would be valid. We put the fan in fanatic
Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:43 am to i am dan
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Get a life and stop being so emotional about sports. You sound ridiculous.
frick that
You lost your privilege to say shite while posting online. Keep shilling for some lukewarm slow-man like GCA which of whom is as mediocre and questionable in his decision making as anybody.
Go join your pal fanbase watching in the middle of the game since you like that too, ya freak.
This post was edited on 3/30/26 at 9:05 am
Posted on 3/30/26 at 10:04 am to jangalang
I cannot tell if you are melting or being sarcastic.
For that, well done.
For that, well done.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 10:39 am to CorchJay
I'll say I only want them to let Cohen go if they are committed to getting a real pro in there. Top of their game in the AD game. If not, screw it, leave him be.
I was a little hard on Cohen, but I just don't think he is that good. Coming of the disaster that was the last AD, we really needed to get someone really good to turn things back around. We didn't do that. We got a just ok former baseball coach and that was a huge mistake.
There is just this air of losing hanging over Auburn sports right now. Even when something goes right, we end everytime trying to kick that football and Lucy pulls it. Final Four last year. Then Bruce screws us and here we are, NIT kings! Baseball top ranked and looking good. Here we go and get swept. By damn bama of all teams. Football is what it is. I have high hopes for Golesh but I am at the point now that I'll believe it when I see it.
I was a little hard on Cohen, but I just don't think he is that good. Coming of the disaster that was the last AD, we really needed to get someone really good to turn things back around. We didn't do that. We got a just ok former baseball coach and that was a huge mistake.
There is just this air of losing hanging over Auburn sports right now. Even when something goes right, we end everytime trying to kick that football and Lucy pulls it. Final Four last year. Then Bruce screws us and here we are, NIT kings! Baseball top ranked and looking good. Here we go and get swept. By damn bama of all teams. Football is what it is. I have high hopes for Golesh but I am at the point now that I'll believe it when I see it.
This post was edited on 3/30/26 at 10:42 am
Posted on 3/30/26 at 10:52 am to wareaglepete
Hiring and firing are the key metric to an AD....
--Freeze, I still blame Cohen....
--Golesh (Screwed up the search and made Auburn settle for our second choice). May work out, but it will not be due to Cohen.
--Steven Pearl (Had no real choice), why did Bruce leave and what did Cohen do to stop it. This is the real story.
-- Women's Bball coach, certainly not a HR hire. Hired the weakest of three candidates.
--Freeze, I still blame Cohen....
--Golesh (Screwed up the search and made Auburn settle for our second choice). May work out, but it will not be due to Cohen.
--Steven Pearl (Had no real choice), why did Bruce leave and what did Cohen do to stop it. This is the real story.
-- Women's Bball coach, certainly not a HR hire. Hired the weakest of three candidates.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 12:36 pm to allin2010
Cohen will be judged by the Golesh hire. The SP situation is fricked in so many ways but other than making SP interim and tanking recruiting he really didn't have much of a choice 42 days before tip off. With Freeze he semi gets a pass because he had just been hired and wasn't the main force behind that decision
Posted on 3/30/26 at 3:50 pm to marshallcotiger
Gus for AD!
Posted on 3/30/26 at 8:06 pm to jangalang
Posted on 3/30/26 at 9:03 pm to allin2010
quote:would like to hear more about this if possible
Screwed up the search and made Auburn settle for our second choice
i remember Sumrall was pretty much a done deal, right up until it suddenly wasn’t
i like him, and i think he’ll do fine at UF, but i wanted Golesh all along
Posted on 3/30/26 at 9:53 pm to FearlessFreep
From what I recall, what threw the wrench in it was Cohen and Sumrall had agreed in principle to hire Durkin as DC. Sumrall thought he’d still get an opportunity to finalize things with Durkin and possibly interview another candidate or two. Cohen went ahead a d offered the new contract to Durkin and he signed. That pissed Sumrall off and he backed out. From Cohen’s perspective, we were running out of time and Sumrall had already gone past the deadline we had tentatively agreed to on making an announcement.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 10:06 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
That was refuted.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 10:09 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
The only metric I have is that for the first time in a long time it feels like Auburn Athletics across the board are all floundering or failing. That just doesn’t seem like a coincidence, rather something is wrong in the Athletic Department.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 10:15 pm to jangalang
2012-2013 was pretty craptacular across the board.
Posted on 3/30/26 at 10:16 pm to AUCE05
Was it? I know some parts of that narrative aren’t 100% true but I’ve also heard enough that I think the truth is probably at least closer to that narrative than not.
This post was edited on 3/30/26 at 10:33 pm
Posted on 3/30/26 at 10:29 pm to SingleMalt1973
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The only metric I have is that for the first time in a long time it feels like Auburn Athletics across the board are all floundering or failing. That just doesn’t seem like a coincidence, rather something is wrong in the Athletic Department.
Depends on how you want to define floundering and failing. As I’ve said, premature to be making such claims about baseball. Two bad series and in reality was just the final game against Texas that was truly bad. So, really we’ve had 4 truly bad games. We are a very strong team this year.
Basketball was a rebuilding year to begin with and the most optimistic projects had us somewhere like a mid seed in the tournament going into the season. Monumental collapse to end the year but we also did ourselves no favors with the schedule we put together for the broader picture. We struck out on players and the team just didn’t mesh well. I don’t think that it’s the right time to call that some type of systemic problem in the AD when you have a new coach and new team after a pretty historic 3 year stretch for Bball. If our money people aren’t going to spend top tier money on bball recruiting year in and year out, we will have to live with the results sometimes when the player evaluations just miss. We will see what Pearl can do next season, but if he fails again and can’t right the ship, will be very interesting to see what happens to the department.
Football is what it is. I have a lot of hope in Golesh but at this point it needs to be proven on the field, so we will see.
I believe last year we finished ahead of Alabama in all sports ranking for the first time in a decade. While I know the big 3 sports drive all perception and having a mediocre year in basketball really hurt things coupled with the frustrations that have been the Freeze era, but I think the top to bottom really has been on a pretty good run. ‘23/‘24 and ‘24/‘25 have been two of the strongest back to back years athletically as a whole as we’ve had in a very long time. Again though, if the big 3 disappoint, ultimately nothing else really matters. However I just go back to my point I’ve made previously that I think the AD gets way to much credit for those types of performances or failings, when the fanbase likes the head coach.
This post was edited on 3/30/26 at 10:35 pm
Posted on 3/31/26 at 5:33 am to GoCrazyAuburn
The melt over Cohen may be too early. How is our AD dept in revenue, fundraising and facilities? That’s probably the biggest thing they do.
Coaches - BP made that decision. Butch (who he didn’t hire but supports strongly) may be our greatest coach in the last 25 years, and Golesh is TBD. He definitely hired Freeze, which was a disaster, but most football people thought that was the correct hire. He at least didn’t let the Freeze drag on another yr!
Coaches - BP made that decision. Butch (who he didn’t hire but supports strongly) may be our greatest coach in the last 25 years, and Golesh is TBD. He definitely hired Freeze, which was a disaster, but most football people thought that was the correct hire. He at least didn’t let the Freeze drag on another yr!
Posted on 3/31/26 at 6:59 am to GoCrazyAuburn
quote:AKA fighting off Mississippi State from being the worst in the whole conference since 2020.
Football is what it is
Why do you say the shite that you do.
This post was edited on 3/31/26 at 7:04 am
Posted on 3/31/26 at 7:55 am to jangalang
The entire athletics program is an expensive garbage heap…
Posted on 3/31/26 at 9:28 am to Luke
i am of the opinion that Cohen was given the AD gig mainly with the understanding that he was willing to hire Freezus
in fact i had a brief glimmer of hope that his history at MSU would prevent that disaster from happening, but alas
in fact i had a brief glimmer of hope that his history at MSU would prevent that disaster from happening, but alas
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