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Posted on 10/25/25 at 1:48 pm to 88TIger
Posted on 10/25/25 at 1:48 pm to 88TIger
It doesn't matter what any of us want. None of us gets to pick the next hire. My concern is that if we settle for who we can get, we will be in the same situation 3 years from now just with a different head coach.
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Posted on 10/25/25 at 1:50 pm to LRB1967
I hope whomever we get that they will do right by Auburn.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 1:53 pm to 88TIger
I hope so too. I just worry that we will wind up with another Harsin.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 3:40 pm to metafour
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Urban Meyer had ZERO SEC experience and had come off HC-ing two G5 programs. Let me guess: his ~3 seasons as a WR coach at Notre Dame are why he succeeded LOL?
Urban Meyer was hired by Lou Holtz and at Utah he was competing for a national championship with the top QB in the country (and Urban hung his hat on offense).
You really can't do any better. No brainer. Not comparable to Kentucky, Troy, and Tulane.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:18 pm to pdfield34
All I k is if DJ was the D Coordinator at UGA we’d be salivating to get him. He has the best D in the league and studs/talent all over that side of the ball
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:32 pm to attalla
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All I k is if DJ was the D Coordinator at UGA we’d be salivating to get him
Not even remotely the case if Georgia has DJ Durkin and the same situation. Durkin has already been a head coach and failed at it.
He went 10-15 during his time as head coach, and left under a major scandal with his players walking out on him. There is a reason he's been a top DC at both A&M and Auburn and you haven't heard a sniff about him being a head coach somewhere.
Durkin is a great DC, and if we can somehow have him stay on as DC with a new coach I'd be happy about it. But he doesn't remotely belong as our head coach, and most definitely doesn't need to follow up Freeze and his scandal plagued past.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:36 pm to auyushu
I dont care about the sentimentalist media-driven scandal. I see how our players react positively to him. Open your eyes.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:36 pm to auyushu
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Not even remotely the case if Georgia has DJ Durkin and the same situation. Durkin has already been a head coach and failed at it. He went 10-15 during his time as head coach, and left under a major scandal with his players walking out on him
Seriously. People that would even consider Durkin for HC need their heads examined. Cohen would have to double down on the PR firm he got when Freeze was hired.
And forget the baggage, he has already proven he sucks as a HC.
This post was edited on 10/25/25 at 4:39 pm
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:38 pm to jvilletiger25
Durkin made football players run sprints. Oh no!!
Pat Dye made our players practice after an A Day game
Pat Dye made our players practice after an A Day game
This post was edited on 10/25/25 at 4:39 pm
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:40 pm to jangalang
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Pat Dye made our players practice after an A Day game
But Dye didn’t suck as a HC like Durkin though
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:40 pm to LRB1967
What concerns me most is the fact that former coaches on Freezes staff said that he holds the most disorganized practices that are soft (with very little live play)
I can believe it because Freeze is always talking about how he wants to avoid practice injuries, so these sources line up with Freezes own statements.
Also people who watch practices say that the offensive side of the ball has weak/soft practices while Durkin's guys are over there on the other field going hard. Journalists and current players have both said this.
I can believe it because Freeze is always talking about how he wants to avoid practice injuries, so these sources line up with Freezes own statements.
Also people who watch practices say that the offensive side of the ball has weak/soft practices while Durkin's guys are over there on the other field going hard. Journalists and current players have both said this.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:42 pm to jvilletiger25
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But Dye didn’t suck as a HC like Durkin though
10-15 at a shite footall school is not as bad as Lea's record at Vandy his first three years
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:44 pm to jangalang
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I see how our players react positively to him. Open your eyes
Even without the scandal in his third season that got him fired, he sucked as a head coach. He had a losing record both years in an average Big Ten. And got worse from his first to his second year going from 6-7 to 4-8. They were the second worst team in the Big Ten his second season.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:44 pm to jangalang
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Pat Dye made our players practice after an A Day game
Also don't forget that Dye had a player collapse and die at practice of heat stroke.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:45 pm to jangalang
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10-15 at a shite footall school is not as bad as Lea's record at Vandy his first three years
Hey, they hired a 5-19 coach from a shite football school before. Sounds like par the course. Why not? Let’s do it! I love firing up the coaching search thread every couple of years!
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:46 pm to jvilletiger25
People said the same shite about Kevin Steele's record and he wouldve been more stabilizing than Harsin.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:51 pm to jangalang
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People said the same shite about Kevin Steele's record and he wouldve been more stabilizing than Harsin.
So you've gone from want to win games to wanting a stabilizing coach Jang? You are a serious weathervane, spinning all around.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:51 pm to jangalang
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Durkin made football players run sprints. Oh no!!
This is a bad take. There has been ~35 years of sports medicine advancement since Pat Dye last coached.
What Durkin and the S&C coach were doing was incredibly foolish, and it got a kid killed. Football players are bigger than they ever were back when the "old school" training philosophies were set. You can not run these idiotic military style "run until you puke" programs with 300+, 330+ pound players in the sweltering heat as some stupid attempted form of building toughness.
The kid that died was 6'4 325 pounds and they had him running 10-sets of 110 yard sprints. Why the frick does your ~330 pound lineman need to be sprinting 110 yards? He completed 7 or 8 reps and began laboring, then he started complaining about cramping, and a witness said that a coach told other players to "drag his arse across the field" and forced him to continue.
The kid dying was a microcosm of the bigger problem which was that there was a toxic environment present, with multiple other players coming forth with complaints. They were using intimidation, belittling, and threats of punishment. If I remember correctly, one of the events involved an injured player being forced to compete in tug-of-war against all of the DB's. Just stupid-arse shite that has no place in a professional athletics environment.
This post was edited on 10/25/25 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 10/25/25 at 5:16 pm to metafour
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The kid that died was 6'4 325 pounds and they had him running 10-sets of 110 yard sprints. Why the frick does your ~330 pound lineman need to be sprinting 110 yards?
It is my understanding these conditioning tests were traditional and required right when football players showed up to camp.
Coaches riding loafers isn't anything new.
Posted on 10/25/25 at 5:17 pm to auyushu
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So you've gone from want to win games to wanting a stabilizing coach Jang?
Stabilizing implies winning more than Harsin.
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