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re: What I’m hearing (coaching search)
Posted on 11/21/25 at 11:53 pm to Blizzard of Chizz
Posted on 11/21/25 at 11:53 pm to Blizzard of Chizz
You're living in some bizarre world of corporate org charts.
95% of the head coaches in America would love to have Buster Faulkner served up to them (if this is the case, but it is not - any ability to get someone like Buster Faulkner just makes the job that much more attractive).
No coach with an opportunity for an OC is going to turn him down. period.
95% of the head coaches in America would love to have Buster Faulkner served up to them (if this is the case, but it is not - any ability to get someone like Buster Faulkner just makes the job that much more attractive).
No coach with an opportunity for an OC is going to turn him down. period.
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Posted on 11/21/25 at 11:55 pm to Poker Dough
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LSU gets Kiffin
In that case, maybe Old Piss will hire Sumrall
Posted on 11/22/25 at 12:26 am to pdfield34
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You're living in some bizarre world of corporate org charts.
The excuses being made for this program are wild... Why are we even hiring this man? Why are we even conducting a search at this point? What is his role? Just run the team out of the athletic dept, because your front runner apparently has zero input in coordinator hires on either side of the ball. Are we hiring Sumrall to fetch coffee and doughnuts while Durkin and Buster work out the game plan each week? It does make me wonder if Freeze spent most of his time at the golf course for this very reason.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 12:40 am to pdfield34
I remember the last time AU hired a Head Football Coach who was a former SEC player, coached as an SEC assistant coach, and then moved on to be Head Football Coach at two lesser college football schools.
Past experience is not a future guarantee, but I remember that very well.
Past experience is not a future guarantee, but I remember that very well.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 12:53 am to kung fu kenny
Sorry, I missed your reply to me.
around 24:30 into the video.
around 24:30 into the video.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 12:55 am to Blizzard of Chizz
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The excuses being made for this program are wild... Why are we even hiring this man? Why are we even conducting a search at this point? What is his role? Just run the team out of the athletic dept, because your front runner apparently has zero input in coordinator hires on either side of the ball. Are we hiring Sumrall to fetch coffee and doughnuts while Durkin and Buster work out the game plan each week? It does make me wonder if Freeze spent most of his time at the golf course for this very reason.
Its pretty hilarious when you think about it. Many of them are outwardly asking for the type of program that people make fun of Auburn for being.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 1:15 am to tilco
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Its pretty hilarious when you think about it. Many of them are outwardly asking for the type of program that people make fun of Auburn for being.
I knew I smelled a rat. This entire coaching search has been puzzling me for a while now, but I couldn't put my finger on it. My only question now is did the Faulkner story get leaked as a trial balloon or did someone leak it to blow up this sham coaching search?
Posted on 11/22/25 at 5:34 am to LRB1967
Then we get Durkin
Posted on 11/22/25 at 6:06 am to jangalang
Heck if I was looking at the head coaching job, coming from a lower division, and the school could serve me up one of the hottest OC in the country, Id be all for it. Forget this territorial "my guys" nonsense its a business.
And what is this nonsense with the OC and DC running their departments where Sumrall fetches donuts. Ya want him stickin his nose in at gametime calling plays???
A head coaches role is now a CEO, an overused but true phrase. Meetings with boosters, individual dinners etc with BIG boosters, booster clubs, all the HS visits with coaches. Recruiting visits, recruiting receptions on visits to campus, recruiting meetings on who to recruit, NIL budget meetings on recruits, summer recruiting camps. Roster "what ifs" regarding portal and you guessed it....recruiting. Meetings with the school, meetings with the AD. Meetings with various staffs, what are we up to, well over a hundred now.
Hate to tell you fellas this but the fella running the beer distribution company in your town.....he aint driving a truck anymore. Its why Saban left, when you spend so much time on the aforementioned and little on actual coaching, the thrill is gone for many purists.
And what is this nonsense with the OC and DC running their departments where Sumrall fetches donuts. Ya want him stickin his nose in at gametime calling plays???
A head coaches role is now a CEO, an overused but true phrase. Meetings with boosters, individual dinners etc with BIG boosters, booster clubs, all the HS visits with coaches. Recruiting visits, recruiting receptions on visits to campus, recruiting meetings on who to recruit, NIL budget meetings on recruits, summer recruiting camps. Roster "what ifs" regarding portal and you guessed it....recruiting. Meetings with the school, meetings with the AD. Meetings with various staffs, what are we up to, well over a hundred now.
Hate to tell you fellas this but the fella running the beer distribution company in your town.....he aint driving a truck anymore. Its why Saban left, when you spend so much time on the aforementioned and little on actual coaching, the thrill is gone for many purists.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 6:13 am to LRB1967
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Maybe Auburn's PTB would like to have Sumrall but are afraid that he will bring his staff from Tulane. That suggests that they believe he needs a staff of higher caliber in order to be successful at Auburn.
Exactly, Auburn is fishing from a bigger pond and it could be very beneficial. No one is saying the coordinators report to Cohen for fricks sake. More like, you are trying to chose what knife to go into battle with and Auburn says how about this here gun, would that help.
Let the coordinators scheme. Let the head coach set the culture. I went to Auburn from the transition of Barfield to Dye. That set a culture Id like to see. Just fundamentally sound football or you dont see the field. You are supposed to make the block, you are supposed to run every pass pattern like your life depended on it.....you are getting paid to do it.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 6:27 am to trinidadtiger
Last time I felt like Auburn forced an OC on a coach was Tony Franklin.
Didn't go well, to say the least.
Didn't go well, to say the least.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 6:33 am to GoCrazyAuburn
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These are insane numbers
I agree. I remember when I thought Saban making like 4m a year was outrageous. I wish it were Auburn. We could pay most of it up front if weren't paying all our HCs to GTFO
Posted on 11/22/25 at 7:30 am to FahQGump
I laughed at the time for uat being so desperate because they had sucked for over a decade. But here we are. Life comes at you fast. Hopefully, the PTB are feeling that same desperation right now, and we all get blindsided when Corch Irvin Meyers is announced.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 7:54 am to Poker Dough
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Then we get Durkin
Why do Auburn fans make Durkin into some kinda DC superhero? Like his defense has been the best ever? I don't understand.
FYI, Will Muschamp says Durkin is "our guy."
Posted on 11/22/25 at 8:43 am to trinidadtiger
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Maybe Auburn's PTB would like to have Sumrall but are afraid that he will bring his staff from Tulane. That suggests that they believe he needs a staff of higher caliber in order to be successful at Auburn.
Oh man, you guys really need to listen to what you're saying. Ya'll really think hiring a head coach with training wheels is going to lead to big time success in the SEC?
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No one is saying the coordinators report to Cohen for fricks sake. More like, you are trying to chose what knife to go into battle with and Auburn says how about this here gun, would that help.
might want to take off the orange and blue glasses. Who else are they reporting to if the HC has no say in their hiring? The story yesterday didn't claim Faulkner was being suggested or that Sumrall was looking for a Faulkner like OC to run the offense.. It said and I quote "There’s an ACC offensive coordinator that all the head-coach candidates agreed to.”
That's your window into who is actually running the program.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 8:59 am to 88TIger
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they could hire the new OC
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This would help or might help get more good offense players before Sumrall is officially announced.
Tulane offense is pretty bad and I don’t see studs lining up to play for Neal Brown. Thankfully we buy players now
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:13 am to trinidadtiger
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Let the head coach set the culture.
Assuming that a decent head coach is hired. Most of the names being floated are very concerning.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:13 am to beatbammer
quote:i dont
I remember the last time AU hired a Head Football Coach who was a former SEC player, coached as an SEC assistant coach, and then moved on to be Head Football Coach at two lesser college football schools.
whom are you thinking of? because i cant think of any AU HC who meets all three of those conditions
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:14 am to slacker130
Anyone who thinks Sumrall could be be 'forced' to do anything, hasn't paid much attention to the man. He is not a Beta. He's a fricking gangster.
His name is hot, as frick, right now. He could simply tell Cohen to frick off. Gathering from interviews, and articles, I've watched, and read, he would, without a second thought.
The guy was practically grown in a fricking lab to coach Auburn football.
He's probably going to be successful somewhere. I'd be shocked if he wasn't. I want somewhere to be Auburn.
People can say they don't want him for other reasons; some of those concerns are legitimate.. But, don't think, for a second, he doesn't have any leverage, nobody else wants him, or, he's a pussy that can be pushed around, because it just isn't so.
His name is hot, as frick, right now. He could simply tell Cohen to frick off. Gathering from interviews, and articles, I've watched, and read, he would, without a second thought.
The guy was practically grown in a fricking lab to coach Auburn football.
He's probably going to be successful somewhere. I'd be shocked if he wasn't. I want somewhere to be Auburn.
People can say they don't want him for other reasons; some of those concerns are legitimate.. But, don't think, for a second, he doesn't have any leverage, nobody else wants him, or, he's a pussy that can be pushed around, because it just isn't so.
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:14 am to Blizzard of Chizz
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The story yesterday didn't claim Faulkner was being suggested or that Sumrall was looking for a Faulkner like OC to run the offense.. It said and I quote "There’s an ACC offensive coordinator that all the head-coach candidates agreed to.”
To be fair, you're taking the report as gospel, you’re also taking the end result and assuming it was not a negotiation and they were just told this is who you’d hire. It’s easily just as likely that there were a number of candidates considered there as well after talking to the HC candidates, and he is one that every HC agreed with. Very possible we have been told said OC would come if asked, proposed that on the HC candidates, and they all said they’d be good with hiring him.
That is a very common part of head coaching interviews, discussing potential staff.
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