re: Who would Auburn fans trade Chizik for?

From a coaching standpoint (recruiting, running the program, on field decisions and coaching), there are three coaches I'd take over Chizik in Saban, Miles, and Petrino(combining his offense with our willingness to spend big money on a good DC and I think he'd be huge at Auburn). That being said, I wouldn't want Saban or Petrino as our head coaches just because they are just to big of jackasses for me. Very good coaches, but I would not want them associated with my school.

Miles on the other hand is a slightly better version of Chiz as a CEO type coach to me and is pretty much awesome, and Richt I see pretty much as even with Chiz. Everyone else is worse than Chizik in recruiting and running the program, except perhaps Spurrier, but he's really past his prime.

To be honest how Chizik is perceived will really be determined by these next couple coaching hires on OC and DC. If they work out he'll be a stud coach, if not he could flame out and be our version of Zook.