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Posted on 11/17/25 at 8:49 am to wareaglepete
Posted on 11/17/25 at 8:49 am to wareaglepete
Am I the only one that has Drink third on the list behind Sumrall and DJ. Just too many Arkie HS, Hugh Freeze, Brian Harsin, Arkie State connections for me. Also first three years at Mizzou would get him fired today. 5-5, 5-7-6-7
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Posted on 11/17/25 at 8:56 am to jangalang
Is Eric Morris in any way related to Chad Morris? Because, that would be an absolute non-starter. Automatic ejection.
Posted on 11/17/25 at 8:56 am to allin2010
Personally, I have Dillingham first. But it would seem that’s not likely.
Posted on 11/17/25 at 9:00 am to NewYrkTiger
Auburn sucks. We will never make a hire that doesn't result in a collective "who?"
Posted on 11/17/25 at 9:02 am to allin2010
In his defense, Odem was possibly the worst recruiter in the SEC the past decade.
Posted on 11/17/25 at 9:08 am to wareaglepete
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Is it Charles Alan Head….Bessemer?
He’s from Elba
Posted on 11/17/25 at 9:29 am to jvilletiger25
WEP’s Top 5 Coaching Candidates - Monday 11/17/2025:
***SPECIAL AMERICAN EDITION***
1. Brian Newberry
2. John Sumrall
3. Eric Morris
4. Blake Harrell
5. Aleksey Golesh
***SPECIAL AMERICAN EDITION***
1. Brian Newberry
2. John Sumrall
3. Eric Morris
4. Blake Harrell
5. Aleksey Golesh
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Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:21 am to Sigma
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Drinkwitz checks a lot of boxes.
Drinkwitz would be an absolute disaster of a hire. Here are all the reasons why Drinkwitz is absolutely not the right man for the job:
1. It took overtime for his team to beat Auburn this year. How can we fire a coach for bad performance but then turn around a hire a coach from a team that barely beat us with that coach?? Auburn outgained Missouri in offensive yardage that night.
2. We have two additional common opponents so far this season: We both played Vandy in Nashville. We both played A&M (us on the road, them at home). Auburn lost to those teams by a combined 13 points (one was in OT). Mizzou lost to those two by a combined 28 points. In terms of Offensive yardage, Auburn had an average of 370 ypg against those two opponents… Mizzou had just 330 ypg. Advantage Auburn in offensive yardage, points scored, and net point differential.
Drinkwitz is in Year 6 and his team is not really any better than an Auburn team that has fired a coach in Year 3. How the hell could he even be on our list???
I’ll keep going…
3. Drinkwitz is 4-16 against ranked teams while at Mizzou (using Final season AP rankings for all past seasons and current poll for this year). Three of those 4 wins were concentrated in one season (2023) and the other was against a 5-loss South Carolina team than finished #23 in 2022.
He is just 2-15 against ranked teams from the SEC… the wins coming against the aforementioned 5-loss South Carolina team and also a win over 9-4 Tennessee back in 2023. That’s its.
He’s lost 5 straight games against ranked opponents by an average of 13.8 points. His last win over a ranked team was back in the 2023 season.
For the love of God, please Auburn do not hire this fraud as our next coach. I’d rather re-hire Gene Chizik.
Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:25 am to allin2010
WHY ARE WE GOING AFTER DRINK OVER LANE
LANE HAS A LOWER SALARY AS IT IS WTF AND HIS DAUGHTER IS ABOUT TO GRADUATE OM WHICH IS THE ONLY REASON HE SAID NO BEFORE
LANE HAS A LOWER SALARY AS IT IS WTF AND HIS DAUGHTER IS ABOUT TO GRADUATE OM WHICH IS THE ONLY REASON HE SAID NO BEFORE
Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:26 am to metafour
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What the hell are you talking about? He gave up play-calling a long time ago
Eli was in fact the play caller for 20, 21, 22.
Any CEO should ensure that at least what he hangs his hat on is at least performing.
That is key, like you could every imagine Kirby's or Saban's defense dropping off.
We have lived this drop off at Auburn.
Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:31 am to kung fu kenny
Interesting fact. Charles Kelly has won half as many conference titles as as Lane. Would you pay 15M for Charles?
Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:32 am to kung fu kenny
When you fire 3 coaches since 2020, you don’t have a shot at a guy like Kiffin.
As I’ve been saying, each new firing creates a worse group of potential candidates.
You can either hire an up-and-comer like Sumrall who will have a 50/50 shot of being great or being a disaster or you hire a guy with a name but who knows he’s a fraud like Drinkwitz who’s going to cost you way more money.
Those are our “best” options this time and one is quite frankly a horrible option.
As I’ve been saying, each new firing creates a worse group of potential candidates.
You can either hire an up-and-comer like Sumrall who will have a 50/50 shot of being great or being a disaster or you hire a guy with a name but who knows he’s a fraud like Drinkwitz who’s going to cost you way more money.
Those are our “best” options this time and one is quite frankly a horrible option.
Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:34 am to AUTiger789
AuTiger789 proving once again that he has no idea wtf he is talking about 
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.Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:37 am to pdfield34
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Eli was in fact the play caller for 20, 21, 22.
Any CEO should ensure that at least what he hangs his hat on is at least performing.
That is key, like you could every imagine Kirby's or Saban's defense dropping off.
We have lived this drop off at Auburn.
You aren't thinking.
Why would I care that he is a bad play-caller? He would have infinite resources to hire a great OC at Auburn. More resources than he has at Missouri. And he isn't meddling with the OC either, so its not like there would be any reservation for a great OC to come here.
What stupid point are you even trying to argue? Are you saying that you want a HC who is also the playcaller?
Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:39 am to metafour
Yeah, Drink would be far from a disaster so can we stop with the dramatics?? He would not be exciting but he wouldn’t be a disaster. Hue freeze and Bryan Harsin were disasters. He would not be that.
However paying Drink $10+ million per year sounds ridiculous given his lack or accomplishments.
Sit back and think about the morons in charge and what they’ve done in the past. We have done much worse than Drink in the past and we could do far worse than Drink this cycle, too.
Just relax.
However paying Drink $10+ million per year sounds ridiculous given his lack or accomplishments.
Sit back and think about the morons in charge and what they’ve done in the past. We have done much worse than Drink in the past and we could do far worse than Drink this cycle, too.
Just relax.
Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:41 am to AUCE05
Drink is the best "proven" coach with SEC experience we could reasonably hire. He hasn't won many/most of his big games. You have to remember it's Mizzou. They were an annual joke of a team before him.
If Lane will come, we should certainly grab him, but I doubt he does.if Lanning will come, we should grab him. If Kirby will come, we should grab him. Realistically they wont.
There's not another coach in the SEC who's had any amount of success that will leave their team and come to Auburn. The money a winning coach will make over a losing coach for these teams is miniscule compared to the extra million or two they have to pay. Leaving means they have to start over for essentially the same pay.
Once a coach makes it in the SEC, they either gwt locked in for life or immediately get scopped up by the top teams and if they have succes in the top of the SEC, they get locked in for life by the top of the SEC.
Ole Miss & Mizzou aren't the top of the SEC, but I'm assuming Ole miss is more willing to pay what it takes.
If we have to have SEC experience, drink is our only option.
Else we gotta go risk it on an up and comer and hope they find success in the SEC
If Lane will come, we should certainly grab him, but I doubt he does.if Lanning will come, we should grab him. If Kirby will come, we should grab him. Realistically they wont.
There's not another coach in the SEC who's had any amount of success that will leave their team and come to Auburn. The money a winning coach will make over a losing coach for these teams is miniscule compared to the extra million or two they have to pay. Leaving means they have to start over for essentially the same pay.
Once a coach makes it in the SEC, they either gwt locked in for life or immediately get scopped up by the top teams and if they have succes in the top of the SEC, they get locked in for life by the top of the SEC.
Ole Miss & Mizzou aren't the top of the SEC, but I'm assuming Ole miss is more willing to pay what it takes.
If we have to have SEC experience, drink is our only option.
Else we gotta go risk it on an up and comer and hope they find success in the SEC
Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:43 am to metafour
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AuTiger789 proving once again that he has no idea wtf he is talking about
Oh really. You saying Drink isn’t 4-16 against ranked teams while at Mizzou? You saying he’s not 2-15 against ranked SEC teams?
What ranked teams has he beaten this year? Or last year?
Enlighten us, clown.
Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:51 am to AUTiger789
Drink may be the only name hire we can get at, but I'm weary of offensive minded coaches... especially out of the Malzahn tree. If that's who we hire, it's likely an improvement over Freeze (which was an idiotic hire from the start) but I suspect it has the same sort of upside as hiring Franklin... and the same ceiling.
Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:52 am to FlyDownTheField
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Drink is the best "proven" coach with SEC experience we could reasonably hire.
What exactly has he proven? That he’s a great recruiter? That he can win championships? That he can win big games? What has he exactly proven other than that he’s been gifted the easiest schedule in the SEC since landing in CoMo.
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You have to remember it's Mizzou. They were an annual joke of a team before him.
They played for the SEC Title in 2013 and 2014.
Gary Pinkel was 10-36 against ranked opponents (.235). Drinkwitz is 4-16 (.200). Nothing Drinkwitz has done is an improvement over what Mizzou had already accomplished since joining the SEC.
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There's not another coach in the SEC who's had any amount of success that will leave their team and come to Auburn.
That is the sad state of where we are, yes. But paying $10 million+ for a coach like Drinkwitz isn’t the answer.
Posted on 11/17/25 at 10:59 am to AUTiger789
I agree, not worth that kind of money. Kiffin is worth that and more. These other candidates should be grateful to 6 or 7.
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