re: Hate to defend Auburn, but sportswriters are so disingenuous

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I keep seeing articles where they talk about Malzahn won 2/3 of his games like Auburn is making a mistake getting rid of him.

The dude was a dead man walking. Had not sniffed a division title since 2017, recruiting was awful, gets beaten by UGA and LSU every year and only got lucky against Bama once in a while. Why wouldn't they get rid of him?

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If they had someone better lined up, then fine, make the change. But change for change's sake is a dangerous proposition. Look at Texas firing Mack Brown. It's pretty hard to argue that they would have been any worse off keeping Mack than running him off in the thought that just about anyone would be better.

Gus appeared to have reached a plateau, and might have been staring at a downward spiral, but that plateau that he was on wasn't a terrible place to be given the current landscape, at least for the short term, and with no sound plan to make a change for the better.