re: Auburn Fans Question regarding Gene Chizik

Chiz seems to have kind of mailed it in after 2010. It appeared that Gus getting so much of the credit really bothered him so he changed the offensive system and that didn't work out. We didn't recruit high character guys and team discipline suffered. He let off on discipline for a while through 2011 in sort of championship afterglow and clamped down too hard (Curfews, etc) after some bad incidents. The players weren't used to it and rebelled. Thus we had the horror of 2012. I remember sitting in the stands at the 2012 Texas A&M game when Manzell was obviously being told to just go and run around to try and not run up the score but only a couple of guys on our defense were still trying, so he couldn't stop scoring. That's why Gus fired everybody, even though some of them were good assistant coaches. He needed a cultural restart.