re: Annual ADAG leaving thread

I have a sauce that Greene is going to interview for the Ark St AD next week

Anybody see that ADAG interviewed for the Michigan State job? If the main rift comes from ADAG bucking the wishes of powerful Auburn boosters by hiring Harsin and not Steele (gross,) then can you blame ADAG for wanting to leave. Anybody on the board that wanted mediocre HC candidate Steele should resign.

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It will be a dang shame if politics forces him out. Auburn needs to be saved from itself if Steele was the push. It just pisses me off thinking about that

Greene is looking for a way out. He’s very inexperienced and the powers that be know he’s in over his head. Plus he’s been authoritarian about the “budget” and it just doesn’t work that way in big time athletics. That’s the rub for a lot of folks especially the coaches.

He seems like a very good dude. Seems to be good for the athletes but this ain’t Buffalo.

The writing is on the wall and he realizes it and is trying to find another job.

This is a mutual process at this point and has been for several months now. He is basically being pushed out, but it is going to be graceful. Months ago I had the impression that the power boosters were being power-hungry like usual, but Alan Greene really botched this job and has fricked up a lot and alienated a lot of coaches in a multitude of sports. He apparently stopped coming into his office a while ago (I have no idea if this has since been reversed).

When he was hired he really seemed to have the personality and people skills that had people believing in him. The past year or so has been an absolute mess apparently with the budgeting stuff.

Regardless, he deserves so much praise for pulling rank and making the Bryan Harsin hire. He absolutely went over a lot of people's heads (no, that rumor was NOT false) and he found an absolute killer of a HC.

I personally think there is more politics at play here than just uncertainty of the new Auburn President unless we are talking about Greene realizing he may not have an ally against bruised egos on our board. Controversy aside Greene is fiscally responsible, a great representative of our university, and a person already familiar with the coaches already on board. Budgets issues aside Greene has 3 solid head coaches in our big 3.

I agree. I think it goes deeper.

But hasn't AG been applying for jobs since he got to Auburn?

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and he found an absolute killer of a HC.

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It’s early. We’ll see. I’m hopeful but you never know

He ultimately set the women’s bball program behind. Seems like people like the swimming hire. He extended Butch and Bruce and kinda helped smooth over a rocky relationship between Leath and Bruce. He helped focus attention on fundraising for the FOF and got that process started.

The tight budget wasn’t popular, obviously. I don’t really know what to make about the work from home stuff. Covid was weird, we don’t know if there’s circumstances there that makes that make sense — assuming that’s true to begin with.

More than anything, he’s an AD that’s built to work with a powerful and involved president. And that’s not what Gogue is about. I’m kinda surprised he’s not willing to evolve and become that sort of executive but I suppose every man knows their limits.

At least two of those interviews were post Gus firing. All of them have occurred after Gus drama in some way. I always got the impression that ADAG was seeking status jobs but I think the interviews are becoming more frequent.

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He pretty much pissed off or alienated most of the coach's at Auburn. This isn't about a new President, in the sense that had he been doing the right things, his job would be secure regardless. But the timing of the new President coming in makes a transition easy.

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I like your posts and I like Corch but I don’t agree with the “this isn’t Buffalo” sentiment. A lot of the policies that ADAG enacted prior to Covid regarding culling fat may have been net beneficial to Auburn during the pandemic. The budgets seem harsh but we are at least getting a FOF and we knew Gus wasn’t going to make it much longer. Laughably we almost ate that buyout just to hire Steele. Old wine, new wine skin.