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re: Idiot Auburn firing Gus malzaun
Posted on 6/20/26 at 11:30 am to JamalMurry27
Posted on 6/20/26 at 11:30 am to JamalMurry27
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Where does the Gus firing rank amongst the sec’s worst firings? Vols were a door mat for a long time after fulmer was canned.
Yea fulmer and gus were killing it. I wish yall still had Mike Shula also.
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Posted on 6/20/26 at 12:13 pm to JamalMurry27
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Where does the Gus firing rank amongst the sec’s worst firings? Vols were a door mat for a long time after fulmer was canned.
Fulmer wasn’t a bad firing, the coaches who came after him were just bad hires. Fulmer had two losing seasons in his last four years, made multiple poor staff hires, and signed recruiting classes ranked outside the top 25 in two of his final three seasons. He lost at least three games in each of his last seven seasons, compared to just three such seasons in his first nine. Tennessee hadn’t won an SEC title in a decade and hadn’t been to a BCS bowl in nine years. His dismissal was more than deserved.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 1:03 pm to Bigbens42
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The worst thing about moving on from Gus is we had no idea what we were supposed to do next.
Nobody does, as a whole. Georgia was lucky because Kirby Smart played at Georgia, so he came here, but how many top coaches are willing to leave their current team?
Today, teams have to get lucky by hiring a hot, young coach that actually pans out, and they rarely do.
In the past few years some of the hottest young coaching prospects have been:
Scott Frost
Tom Herman
Charlie Strong
Major Applewhite
Will Muschamp
Kliff Kingsbury
Crap...even Bill Belichick had a spectacular flame out. Finding a great head coach is tough. Auburn is not alone in struggling to find a home run hire.
Even Alabama took a huge step down with Kalen DeBoer. Granted, he could still come through big in the next year or two, but at the moment he is a good but not great hire.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 1:10 pm to DawgsLife
Yeah but I’m pretty sure potato man from Boise was “settling” lol.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 1:18 pm to Bigbens42
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Yeah but I’m pretty sure potato man from Boise was “settling” lol.
In fairness I thought he was going to be a good hire. There are so many things that go into a successful coach. Culture fit, ability to juggle politics, finances and team chemistry and a whole lot of luck. 
Schools these days sometimes over think things.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 1:22 pm to DawgsLife
For what it’s worth I’m happy with Golesh so far. Brought some energy to the program and is recruiting well.
Only thing left is to see if he can do the most important thing; win.
This post was edited on 6/20/26 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 6/20/26 at 1:50 pm to FAT SEXY
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They have only hired worse coaches since
This isn't true.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 2:19 pm to JamalMurry27
Gus needed to go at that point. Harsin being a bad hire doesn't change that.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 2:21 pm to Bigbens42
Harsin was a bad hire especially so soon after another "laid back" PNW guy had just flamed out at UF. I really thought Freeze would have Auburn consistently winning 8-9 regular season games though.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 2:24 pm to GoGators1995
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Harsin was a bad hire especially so soon after another "laid back" PNW guy had just flamed out at UF. I really thought Freeze would have Auburn consistently winning 8-9 regular season games though.
I absolutely despised the Freeze hire for moral reasons and have the post history to prove it, but even I’m shocked at how *bad* we were under him.
Eh. frick his affinity fraud arse.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 2:45 pm to Bigbens42
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Only thing left is to see if he can do the most important thing; win.
First year you would like for him to break even. Second year improve by a couple of games, then improve on that each year going forward. The SEC is just a tough place to start. I get that he was a head coach before, but this is the first where he has really been in a meat grinder in a big time program.
South Florida is a start, but I'm sure has a much smaller budget, less pressure from donors, and what many people don't think about...big time programs typically have very ambitious assistant coaches that a head coach has to deal with. Add to that doing it in the SEC. It's just a different animal. Patience will be key. I'm sure he will have some growing pains.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 2:54 pm to Bigbens42
quote:i despised it for football reasons, the moral reasons just made it worse
I absolutely despised the Freeze hire for moral reasons
he showed us exactly who he was over his last few years at Liberty, he got lucky during the COVID season but was decidedly mediocre the rest of his time there, i knew the SEC was going to bend him over and make him like it
Posted on 6/20/26 at 3:38 pm to DawgsLife
I think the thing that hurt Harsin the most was internal sabotage from within the athletic department and from boosters. The faction that wanted a different coach began actively working against him as soon as he was announced. Auburn has a long history of boosters meddling. From Lowder to Rane to Harbert, Auburn boosters feel they run the athletic department.
The same thing happened after Bear retired and after Stallings was pushed out by a dumbass athletic director. As an Alabama fan I know it does not work.
The same thing happened after Bear retired and after Stallings was pushed out by a dumbass athletic director. As an Alabama fan I know it does not work.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 3:44 pm to captdalton
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I think the thing that hurt Harsin the most was internal sabotage from within the athletic department and from boosters. The faction that wanted a different coach began actively working against him as soon as he was announced.
I do agree with this. Legit or not, some began the narrative of him and the woman he brought with him from Boise. (I can't remember her name) Hopefully he learned from that. I mean, he can bring anyone he wants with him, but when a married man brings an attractive, singe woman it raises eyebrows.
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The same thing happened after Bear retired and after Stallings was pushed out by a dumbass athletic director.
I didn't know that. Interesting.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 3:49 pm to FearlessFreep
Here you go sir. I have included some of the bolder examples of Auburn fans singing Cohen’s praises. What was even more amazing were the number of threads predicting greatness from Freeze and doom for the rest of the SEC. And of course multiple threads from chexmix/auburntigers/bigalgolesh gloating about Auburn’s amazing recruiting hauls. Back in the winter of 22 the vocal Auburn fans here were in love with John Cohen and Hugh Freeze.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 3:53 pm to DawgsLife
Meanwhile Cignetti flew under everyone's radar for years before Indiana rolled the dice on him.
Posted on 6/20/26 at 4:02 pm to VooDude
You're exactly right. Auburn will continue going downhill since they fired him
Posted on 6/20/26 at 4:54 pm to captdalton
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I think the thing that hurt Harsin the most was internal sabotage from within the athletic department and from boosters. The faction that wanted a different coach began actively working against him as soon as he was announced. Auburn has a long history of boosters meddling. From Lowder to Rane to Harbert, Auburn boosters feel they run the athletic department.
The same thing happened after Bear retired and after Stallings was pushed out by a dumbass athletic director. As an Alabama fan I know it does not work.
It was worse than that. He wouldn’t fricking recruit.
I was all for giving him another year when we let him go, then the local high school coaches started talking about how he never darkened their doors and it clicked.
This post was edited on 6/20/26 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 6/20/26 at 4:59 pm to RT58
quote:I think you mean stuck in neutral. Because Auburn has been very consistent over the past half decade. Just waiting on a signal caller that can actually play Qb.
You're exactly right. Auburn will continue going downhill since they fired him
Downhill is being a championship producing program, then declining to only being a competitive one that never quite gets there and only loses in historically embarrassing fashion on a national stage. Over and over again.
This post was edited on 6/20/26 at 5:00 pm
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