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SDS: Gus Malzahn Hottest Seat in the SEC
Posted on 1/31/18 at 7:51 am
Posted on 1/31/18 at 7:51 am
The writer was on the opening drive this morning and says Gus will be at Auburn for two years. Al Del Greco basically agreed with him in that if Auburn cannot beat Bama or UGA on the road next year, Gus would need another SEC championship type of year the following year to keep his job. How do we give a 49 million dollar contract to the coach with the hottest seat in SEC football?
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Posted on 1/31/18 at 7:51 am to jangalang
Do me a favor and unlink the article so it doesn’t get clicks
Posted on 1/31/18 at 7:56 am to jangalang
Off season clickbait.
Posted on 1/31/18 at 7:59 am to TheSandman
Al Del Greco is about as respectable of an Auburn man as there is and he had no issue with it. Sack up.
Posted on 1/31/18 at 8:00 am to jangalang
Posted on 1/31/18 at 8:03 am to jangalang
We would have to have a monumental collapse similar to Chizik for him to be fired in two years.
Posted on 1/31/18 at 8:06 am to jangalang
Dumb article/dumb writer, but at the same time it has a vein of truth to it. I don't think that losing to Bama/UGA in 2018 = having to win the SEC or get fired in 2019. The way I look at it is that Gus's seat may only be warm, but the rest of the SEC coaches' seats will be cool/cold.
Saban and Kirby won't feel any heat at Bama/UGA.
Tennessee, Florida, Miss St., Arky, and aTm all have new coaches, so they won't feel any heat after only the first year on the job.
Luke just got the interim tag pulled at Ole Miss, and they are in the NCAA dog house, so he will have a couple of more years to get things straightened out.
Muschamp seems to have things moving upward at USC, so he won't feel a ton of heat unless they just collapse in the next couple of years. Vandy and Kentucky don't care that much about football, so the pressure is never there on their coaches.
That leaves Mizzou, who I really don't know about, Yaw Yaw, and Gus. I would think that Yaw Yaw might be under more pressure at LSU, but with Canada leaving, he might get a little leeway.
TL;DR version. Gus's seat may be the hottest in the SEC, but only because his is 75 degrees and everyone else is below 60 - not that Gus is at 150.
Saban and Kirby won't feel any heat at Bama/UGA.
Tennessee, Florida, Miss St., Arky, and aTm all have new coaches, so they won't feel any heat after only the first year on the job.
Luke just got the interim tag pulled at Ole Miss, and they are in the NCAA dog house, so he will have a couple of more years to get things straightened out.
Muschamp seems to have things moving upward at USC, so he won't feel a ton of heat unless they just collapse in the next couple of years. Vandy and Kentucky don't care that much about football, so the pressure is never there on their coaches.
That leaves Mizzou, who I really don't know about, Yaw Yaw, and Gus. I would think that Yaw Yaw might be under more pressure at LSU, but with Canada leaving, he might get a little leeway.
TL;DR version. Gus's seat may be the hottest in the SEC, but only because his is 75 degrees and everyone else is below 60 - not that Gus is at 150.
Posted on 1/31/18 at 8:10 am to jangalang
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How do we give a 49 million dollar contract to the coach with the hottest seat in SEC football?
Cause he deserved it, and he’s not
Posted on 1/31/18 at 8:13 am to jangalang
clickbait works 'cause people click it. congrats?
Posted on 1/31/18 at 8:19 am to jangalang
No way his seat is hotter then Orgeron. He has never been a popular hire. He just made about as bad an OC hire as you can make. They have the DC on a long-term contract at $2MM a year. They have his replacement already there. He has no room for error.
Posted on 1/31/18 at 8:23 am to AA7
I think the driving point is that Gus won at UGA and that saved his job but has gone 3-2 since that win. So did Gus ever have that turning point that we thought he had?
Also, Gus’s job security is based on beating UGA and Bama. Those two teams are goliaths so it’s really an unfair standard for Gus to be expected to beat those two teams regularly when I can’t think of any coach in America that can. The main thing is staying competitive with them.
Still, unfortunately we offered the contract to put the instability rumors at rest and it obviously didn’t.
Also, Gus’s job security is based on beating UGA and Bama. Those two teams are goliaths so it’s really an unfair standard for Gus to be expected to beat those two teams regularly when I can’t think of any coach in America that can. The main thing is staying competitive with them.
Still, unfortunately we offered the contract to put the instability rumors at rest and it obviously didn’t.
Posted on 1/31/18 at 8:29 am to jangalang
We will win one of those games next year.
Posted on 1/31/18 at 8:36 am to golfntiger32
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We will win one of those games next year.
What’s Gus’s record in those venues?
I see a lot of arguments attacking the writer and the source. I have zero interest in either and I’m not going to offer any resistance to it. However there are valid points that y’all are willingly dismissing.
I wish I could live in that type of fantasy land.
Posted on 1/31/18 at 8:37 am to jangalang
Gus isn't going anywhere unless he goes 0'fer next year
Posted on 1/31/18 at 8:37 am to jangalang
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Al Del Greco is about as respectable of an Auburn man as there is and he had no issue with it. Sack up.
It doesn't rustle jimmies because it's not practical. Gus has recruited some incredible talent and we're guaranteed 7 wins and a bowl game with him at minimum.
And I don't know how fair it is to expect a sweeping of Alabama and UGA anymore. I can't remember both of them being so loaded at the same time like they are right now. Gus and auburn should lobby us to play the DSOR earlier in the season to avoid having to play both back to back.
Posted on 1/31/18 at 8:56 am to Rhino5
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Gus has recruited some incredible talent and we're guaranteed 7 wins and a bowl game with him at minimum.
You and I both know our fanbase wants more than this and the fringe portion of the base is the loudest.
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And I don't know how fair it is to expect a sweeping of Alabama and UGA anymore.
It’s not fair at all, but the demand of success against those rivals are the cards that Gus was dealt and accepted once he signed his hefty contract.
Posted on 1/31/18 at 9:20 am to compscitiger
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clickbait works 'cause people click it. congrats?
So if you heard it on the radio and didn’t have to click on anything, would it then more appropriately be called a cognitive dissonance trigger?
This post was edited on 1/31/18 at 9:23 am
Posted on 1/31/18 at 9:38 am to jangalang
most idiotic thing I've read this offseason, so far. Might be tough to top that one.
Posted on 1/31/18 at 10:16 am to WareagleKK
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most idiotic thing I've read this offseason
Well it’s out there and it basically defeats the purpose of the long term contract and nega recruiters pick up on that. You know if Dabo will try to negative recruit Urban Meyer’s age
that they will have a hay day with something like this.
Posted on 1/31/18 at 10:31 am to jangalang
Yawn.
Every year our coach is either "about to leave" or "about to be fired".
Wash rinse repeat.
Every year our coach is either "about to leave" or "about to be fired".
Wash rinse repeat.
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