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re: SEC Coaches on the Hot Seat
Posted on 7/8/19 at 1:24 pm to higgs_boson
Posted on 7/8/19 at 1:24 pm to higgs_boson
quote:This.
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.
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.
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Posted on 7/8/19 at 3:21 pm to FearlessFreep
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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.
Right. Its why I said I thought the relationship between Gus and the fans might (or has already) become too toxic for him to stay there. Its not that the fans don't want him to succeed, its that they are starting to lose faith he will.
This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a bad Auburn team this year. The schedule doesn't exactly roll out favorably for them though. A good Auburn team could have a fairly blah record and if you have one loss to a meh team like Arkansas or Ole Miss...
It is looking more and more like what happened at the end of Nutt's run at Arkansas. Nutt went 18-8 his final two seasons and won the West the year before he left. At a certain point the fans lose faith that a given coach can get it done even if he recently had a pretty good amount of success.
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