re: SEC Coaches on the Hot Seat

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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.

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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.