re: DC Ellis Johnson is out at Auburn....

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we have CMR and Bobo is the greatest OC in college football

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Don't feel like getting into the CMR debate but I don't think we'd go out and get a coordinator that would do much more for us than Bobo has. Look through the numbers we put up with the injuries to RBs and WRs and suspension of Gurley and the OL problems we've had for years. He has the occasional boneheaded call (which is not unique to him) and admittedly it came at an awful time vs USCe this year. Would be interesting to see how many of his 'awful calls' were actually run/pass options or plays changed at the line that he chose not to throw his QB under the bus for (like the INT in OT vs Tech this year).

I get that Bobo did a pretty poor job his first several years on the job and never seemed to stick with what was working. But the fact is that he has grown up on the job (whether or not we should hire coordinators to learn on the job with their first coordinator job is a reasonable debate) and is not the reason we end up with the disappointing seasons that we do.

And that doesn't even touch his work in recruiting.