re: What I’m hearing (coaching search)

That's one way to phrase it ig.

Napier and Harsin have me cold on coaches like Sumrall and his defense is not good this year and you can point to all the talent he lost between seasons but he didnt replace it and thats on him. Could it be a bad year? Sure.

And it feels like we know the ceiling with Drink and it's not high enough. He'd have more talent here but if you dont want Franklin bc he couldn't get Penn St over the hump and win the big one then I dont see why you'd really want Drink.

Plenty of coaches fail at their first job. That's not what really scares me about DJ. He's young enough he easily could've learned plenty since then. And you hear all the shite about the toxic work environment at Maryland and you look at him here and how much the players like him and it feels like he's grown as a coach.

But idk man, maybe we do need a blood transfusion like Jake Crain says. Maybe we should invite a roster flip. I'm not convinced but I understand the logic.

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Either way, we go, our future is brighter today than it was this time last week.

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Well said

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I want a hungry coach who is motivated to prove himself. That's Durk for me.

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So, was he hungry at Maryland?

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I don't want to rebuild this roster when we have at least 2 generational talents on offense

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Short term issue in the day of NIL & transfer portal.

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Either way, we go, our future is brighter today than it was this time last week.

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I would like a coach that would keep the future bright in Dec 2028, not back here firing up the coaching search threads while half of the board gets to say "told you so." A couple of players getting 12 more games or so, doesn't seem weighty enough to tip the scales for me.

I'd rather fail with a young guy taking his first shot, than a retread that has failed elsewhere. Some are convinced that past failure is an aberration and they'd magically succeed at AU.

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. I think im going durk over Sumrall and Drink tho.


Two consistent winners passed over for a guy whose one head job was a complete disaster in every way?

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I can see the argument for Sumrall as his HC record is solid. But to call Golesh a "consistent winner" is a stretch. His record by year is as follows:
2023: 7-6 (4-4)
2024: 7-6 (4-4)
2025 so far: 7-2 (4-1)

Hell yeah. Regardless of if I should be or not, I'm attached to these players. And djs post-game speech gave me goosebumps. And I think about what next year would feel like if dj is hired, only a handful of guys transfer out. Ashton's journey. Cam with a full year of a dude who's gonna feed him. A new o-line coach. The monster of a defense we would have. Its real easy to get caught up in those vibes. But doesnt that feel like mf Disneyland.

Everything's not gonna go right.

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Its real easy to get caught up in those vibes. But doesnt that feel like mf Disneyland

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NOPE, not again next year. Its too early to get me to fall for that. I may have fell for it the past 5 losing seasons, but I at least made it until spring without getting excited about the Auburn fall heart ache

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Hell yeah. Regardless of if I should be or not, I'm attached to these players. And djs post-game speech gave me goosebumps. And I think about what next year would feel like if dj is hired, only a handful of guys transfer out. Ashton's journey. Cam with a full year of a dude who's gonna feed him. A new o-line coach. The monster of a defense we would have. Its real easy to get caught up in those vibes. But doesnt that feel like mf Disneyland.

Everything's not gonna go right.

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You are attached to a bunch of "talent" that still hasn't produced even one winning season, and barely any winning football period. The current roster's high-mark is what? Beating A&M in Elko's first season - a game in which we blew a huge lead, and won because of a dropped pass by A&M in overtime (ie: they lost the game, we didn't even win it)?

These takes are wild to me. Even if you lose talent to the portal, who cares? These guys don't even know how to play winning football, and there is zero guarantee that a HC with a career losing record (Durkin) will change that. You can take their NIL money and find similar talent who doesn't know how to win on any number of other teams. I'm sure that FSU and Clemson have players with talent who are losing games just like our guys are.

Most of the talent that you are attached to is off to the NFL after next season anyway, even if they do stay. So lets hire Durkin which will lock him here for ~3 seasons minimum (you can't fire him before that due to optics) so that we can retain guys who will be gone after 2026 anyway??

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Short term issue in the day of NIL & transfer portal.

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The Auburn OL and QB rooms have entered the chat.

We clown on Hugh for saying it but we are close. The difference in saying it now and hugh saying it was we had the literal worst coaching in the P4. All time bad coaching. It was never the players or needing to strain a little harder like Hugh said. A coach away. Even with this roster. Thinking the "loser mentality" can't be coached out of 19 and 20 year olds feels a little foolish to me.

There is less room for patience in today's game. That just is what it is but thats a good point bc if DJ does get the job the leash is gonna be very short. And I'd bet his buyout is gonna look a lot different than the last few. Which hughs aint even that bad fr.

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the 5th consecutive losing season.

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And remember, if we do beat Bama, we still have to win the bowl game to avoid a 5th consecutive losing season.

I believe that will be the first time in the entire history of our program we’ve had 5 losing seasons in a row. As a kid who grew up in the 70s and first knew Auburn football in the Barfield years, it blows my mind that we’re going through a worse period now than we were then.