re: SEC Coaches on the Hot Seat

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I am not a Gus hater, I want him to succeed, but I am very skeptical. I would think he is probably the coach under the hot seat the most. Everyone talks about the buyout, but it would like be negotiated and paid by boosters in any event.

ESPN would no doubt say firing him is jumping the gun, but that is their standard narrative.

Again, I hope we have a good season so it is a moot point.

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This.

Gustav's meltdown against LSU in '17 and the back-to-back losses against MSU and UTee have pretty much trashed my confidence that he can compete at the highest level in the SEC, regardless of what his ridiculous contract may indicate.

That said, I want him to prove me wrong, and he appears to have the tools to put together a solid team this year. It's a shame the schedule is not set up for a highly successful season.

I'm sure Moorhead isn't really on the hotseat, and probably won't be no matter how poorly his team fares this season. However, it should be noted that, unless his recent contract extension changed the terms, it will cost his university some $26 million less to get rid of him at the end of the 2019 than it will for AU to fire Malzahn.