re: What is your honest opinion of what happened with Chizik?

Short answer, totally ignoring the off-the-field stuff:

With his reputation as a DC, we should have NEVER been as bad on defense as we were over the last two seasons of his tenure.

Averaged >6 yards allowed per offensive snap vs FBS teams in 2011-12. And that's with the back-to-back anomalies against SCarolina and Florida in '11.

In our 5 losses in 2011, we averaged allowing 6.8 yards per play. We 'improved' to 'only' 6.48 yards per play in our 9 losses the following year, but a lot of that had to do with our two biggest rivals taking pity on us in the second half of our games.

I don't care what was happening with team discipline/curfews/favoritism/etc. No Auburn defense should ever be that bad.