re: Who do we fire to make a statement?

If Golesh decides to move on from Durkin, I’m appealing to the NCAA to get Jeremy Pruitt’s show cause cut by two years and bring him in as DC. They already made an exception to let him be an analyst at Jax St. Warts and all or whatever, we’d have one of the best DC around.

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Jeremy Pruitt

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Too much Updyke in him

I just think paying a DC $6M a yr now is not a winning formula…. You can get comparable play calling/scheme and spend that money on personnel.

I didn't realize we were paying him that much. That's about what we paid he who shall not be named to frick things up after Gus left

I say fire Cohen first. After that I would do anything to bring back Redmond and oust Warsaw. That was the coach’s biggest mistake when hired.
As for coaching changes, it’s critical that we bring in a great ‘27 recruiting class so I hesitate firing staff until class is signed. But I would definitely like to see some staff changes. Not thrilled with our OC but Golesh seems to be very loyal to his USF staff. OL coach seems to recruit well but blew the portal evals. DL coach is not developing players. DBs are bad but we let our great ones leave. Hate Durkin’s schemes so wouldn’t mind a new DC

I’m not sure that our portal evaluations were as much of the problem as our slot values. I’m really disappointed our staff thought they could come into the SEC or any P4 really with a bargain basement oline.

As for who we fire, Gordon has to go. I wouldn’t be surprised if Durkin is “hired” away.

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I know he has his issues on 3rd downs

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I agree with everything you said except this part. Auburn is 3rd in the conference in 3rd down conversion rate on defense at 34%.

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His salary is $2.7M, which is still a crazy large sum

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Yeah, he's tied for the 4th highest paid DC in the country. And during his time here he's had the 43rd, 28th and currently 69th ranked scoring defenses. That's not remotely worth top 5 DC pay, even in his best year.

And for those defending his results due to talent, he's been responsible for recruiting the talent we currently have. If we don't have talent, it's in a large amount due to him. Hell, the entire reason many people were fired up to keep him was he was supposed to allow us to keep our good talent on the roster.

For me the biggest issue is how schemes make no damn sense from situational standpoint. We have absolutely sucked in zone coverage the entire time he has been here, yet he constantly pulls his 3rd and long 3 man rush zone bullshite over and over, failing miserably 90% of the time.

Beyond that we get absolutely lit up by any good passing offense we face due to his schemes, and that includes last year when we had more talent. Baylor, Vandy, and Bama basically passed on us at will last year, and obviously people are doing whatever they want against us this year.

And not to go all jville, but Durkin is absolutely terrible when it matters most. If a team has the ball at the end of the game, I think all of us are expecting to lose or give up scores. He gave up game winning drives at the end of the Mizzou, Bama, Vandy, and Oklahoma games last year. In 24 he immediately let Arky score a TD after we had a drive to cut it to 17-14 in the 4th quarter, choked away the lead in the 4th against Mizzou, and almost choked away the A&M game.

This year he immediately let Baylor drive down the field after we took the lead, luckily Winters made an amazing tackle. Against Vandy he tried his best to let them control the entire second half, luckily our offense was able to run out the clock with a couple first downs at the end. If Stockton doesn't run into own o-line and fumble I have zero doubt we lose that game.

Durkin isn't a terrible DC overall, but his schemes are sketch, he can't cover the middle of the field, and he chokes when it matters most. And he's vastly overpaid.

Offensive Line, anyone that had anything to do with it's development or recruitment

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