Auburn program falling apart before the 2012 football season

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The column outlines how players weren't going to class and quit coming to mandatory workouts. Chizik tried to implement an 11 p.m. weekday curfew, hiring a private security firm to check on players, even those who lived off campus, and the players grew to resent that in a hurry.

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Older players living off-campus came to resent the measure because a representative of the security firm was supposed to see them enter their apartments before the curfew or knock and make sure they were in their rooms.

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The adviser said the player wasn’t going to class, wasn’t doing his classwork, wasn’t making much of an effort at all in the classroom. Chizik’s response: He told the adviser he didn’t believe him. That player started the Mississippi State game and struggled terribly, never showed much development on the field and eventually lost his starting job.

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