re: OC is in da house

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only four active coaches with Nattys under their belt

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And next year there will be 5 with Mack Brown and Les Miles back in the saddle, but Gus isn't on that list. I gave him credit for being a part of 2010, but like it or not, only Chizik gets the epitaph on that one. Gus can put his name out there with an asterisk when he's on the recruiting trail, but he wasn't the head coach. I mention this only because you did. This really doesn't have a lot of bearing on my arguments.

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UGA...not sure they have won any more than we have lately

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No one being honest would say that we are close to being even with UGA (or Bama) on the recruiting trail, with position coaches, with player development, or with advancing our football team as a brand. I get that Bama and UGA are the "state" schools and that historically gives them an automatic leg-up. But the same isn't true in South Carolina, Texas, or Ohio. Why does it have to continue to be true here?

The ingredients to championships are one of two things: (1) lighting in a bottle (à la Cam Newton) or (2) commitment. Number 1, you've got much less control of. Number 2, you can affect. And what I see on the part of a lot of Auburn University decision makers is lack of commitment to do the hard things. If you see you are going down a path that isn't producing the results you want, pivot. Turn around. Quit bitching about your condition and change it.

Bama wins championships because they want it more than we do and are committed to getting it done. Yes, a huge portion of their fanbase is insufferable. Yes, they have advantages that we won't ever have. And yes, they have probably been cheating since before I was born. But they also do very legitimate things to put them in positions for success. No, Auburn will probably never match the historical success of Bama, but I do not understand why we don't try. I do not understand why we aim low. I do not understand why we don't collapse, punching those guys every single year on every single front. If we do that, consistently, we will have a handful of championships over the next 15-20 years.

Gus may do better in 2019 than he did this year. But if you look at his overall body of work and where we are at as program in 2018, I do not think Gus is the winning solution for the long term. "Get a Natty or Move On" is EXACTLY what head coaches interviewing for a job need to know Auburn expects. Weed the weak ones out before the interview. That's how we should roll.

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who is acting this way?

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You are right. That part I should of edited out. I started that post off saying it was from a post on another site.

And y'all know how they are at AuFamily.

There were people in there seriously acting like we had hired a home run coach.

So yeah, apologies for that... I totally should of edited that part out for this site

I'm not going to sit here and claim he is the next coming but there are reasons to believe he could be an excellent hire. One Mark Richt wanted him to be his OC/QB coach and 2 Norvell has in his brief time at Memphis done a really good job eyeing coaches as evidenced by how many of his hires have moved up the ladder to a P5 level job. His last OC is up for the Broyles award.

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there are reasons to believe he could be an excellent hire

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Sure there is a chance he could be a homerun hire. But I just pointed out facts.

He was a high school coach for 13 years. As a camp manager, Freshman coach, and he made it as far as OC in the high school ranks.

He was an offensive grad assistant for 2 years who worked with TEs at Arizona State.

He was an offensive grad assistant working with TEs for a year in Memphis.

He spent one year as TE coach and QB coach at Memphis

He spent 1 year as a non play calling OC/QB coach at Memphis.

He has a grand total of 2 years as on on the field coach.

Since when did Auburn become a place that coaches go to and get on the job training?

I mean one can always find a silver lining... So yeah we hire an "up and comer" that no one has ever heard of... Meanwhile Bama and UT are interviewing REAL coaches as for their OC position... Coaches that Gus couldn't even get to talk to him. Bobby Bentley turned us down. The RB coach at South Carolina turned down the job to be our OC... THAT says everything that needs said about the state of the program.

It's oversimplifying the situation to say Bentley turned down the OC here to remain the Rb coach at S Carolina but I'll conceed that factual you are correct. We are only hiring Dillingham to coach QBs. Based on the regression by Stidham and non development of Willis I'd say at the minimum can't do worse than Lindsey.

How does 28 yr old have 13 yrs HS experience? + 5 more yrs of experience

He's been coaching since 10? Sounds pretty bad arse. Love your facts. We have a homer un prodigy hire. Football genius