I can't help but think we played a part in this. BlazeUp Bill!
OT: Gang, we have entered everyone's favorite part of being a boog - coaching fire/hire rumor mill
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This has to just eat up Bear Bryant’s son (who is a boy).
You are such an effing moron. fvck you and your hopes and expectations. AU has decided to put themselves on probation and payed multimillions to make it happen.
Good work by all involved, including us
The winner: Malzahn heads safely toward the 2019 season
ByPHILLIP MARSHALL 3 hours ago
AUBURN, Alabama – After a week of uncertainty, negotiations and recriminations, Auburn head football coach Gus Malzahn has emerged as the apparent winner.
Malzahn told his assistants at a Sunday morning staff meeting he was not going anywhere. Other sources confirmed that president Steven Leath and trustee Raymond Harbert, who represented Leath in negotiations with Malzahn, will move forward with Malzahn.
Thus ended one of the more tumultuous weeks in recent Auburn athletics history.
After a 7-5 season ended last Saturday with a 52-21 loss at Alabama, Malzahn was taking heavy criticism. Leath and Harbert wanted Malzahn to accept a reduction in his buyout going forward and restrictions on paying assistant coaches. What Malzahn agreed or didn’t agree to is not certain.
Leath and Harbert withstood pressure from numerous corners and stood by their man.
With a game remaining against Purdue in the Music City Bowl, Malzahn is 52-27 overall and 28-20 in the SEC through six seasons. This season started out with high expectations and ended in disappointment. After a 30-24 loss to Tennessee, the calls for change grew loud.
After Auburn bounced back with a 31-16 win at Ole Miss, athletics director Allen Greene said that Malzahn would be Auburn’s coach in 2019. In an interview with AuburnUndercover, Leath said he supported Greene’s statement
After back-to-back losses at Georgia and Alabama to end the season, anger over the seven-year, $49 million contract with 75 percent that Leath, with Harbert’s support, gave Malzahn last December boiled over. Fans and donors were complained and complained loudly.
But now the deal is done.
Malzahn won an SEC championship and took Auburn to the BCS Championship Game in 2013, his first season as head coach. In 2017, he led the Tigers to the West Division championship and wins over Alabama and Georgia when they were ranked No. 1 nationally.
Since signing his new contract, Malzahn is 7-7 overall and 4-7 against power-five teams and Central Florida.
ByPHILLIP MARSHALL 3 hours ago
AUBURN, Alabama – After a week of uncertainty, negotiations and recriminations, Auburn head football coach Gus Malzahn has emerged as the apparent winner.
Malzahn told his assistants at a Sunday morning staff meeting he was not going anywhere. Other sources confirmed that president Steven Leath and trustee Raymond Harbert, who represented Leath in negotiations with Malzahn, will move forward with Malzahn.
Thus ended one of the more tumultuous weeks in recent Auburn athletics history.
After a 7-5 season ended last Saturday with a 52-21 loss at Alabama, Malzahn was taking heavy criticism. Leath and Harbert wanted Malzahn to accept a reduction in his buyout going forward and restrictions on paying assistant coaches. What Malzahn agreed or didn’t agree to is not certain.
Leath and Harbert withstood pressure from numerous corners and stood by their man.
With a game remaining against Purdue in the Music City Bowl, Malzahn is 52-27 overall and 28-20 in the SEC through six seasons. This season started out with high expectations and ended in disappointment. After a 30-24 loss to Tennessee, the calls for change grew loud.
After Auburn bounced back with a 31-16 win at Ole Miss, athletics director Allen Greene said that Malzahn would be Auburn’s coach in 2019. In an interview with AuburnUndercover, Leath said he supported Greene’s statement
After back-to-back losses at Georgia and Alabama to end the season, anger over the seven-year, $49 million contract with 75 percent that Leath, with Harbert’s support, gave Malzahn last December boiled over. Fans and donors were complained and complained loudly.
But now the deal is done.
Malzahn won an SEC championship and took Auburn to the BCS Championship Game in 2013, his first season as head coach. In 2017, he led the Tigers to the West Division championship and wins over Alabama and Georgia when they were ranked No. 1 nationally.
Since signing his new contract, Malzahn is 7-7 overall and 4-7 against power-five teams and Central Florida.
Unfortunate but for the best as we transition to a basketball school. Makes Bruce that much more important.
I bet my 2017 SECW Co-champs tee that Gus didn’t agree to any reduction in buyout whatsoever.
PM stated this yesterday and someone said when brought up on rivals, that JGT confirmed it (but I didn't see that or look for it)
So you believe the details have been released? I believe there is an agreement in principal but nothing has been written out because several things Gus is promising have yet to materialize. Not saying that they won’t materialize but that they haven’t as of this moment in time.
I’m guessing the only thing he’s accepting is lack of full control and autonomy. I can’t think of any legitimate reason for him to accept a reduced buyout bc he knows that he’s gonna get fired next year if he sucks it up regardless what the amount is. Sexton called their bluff imo
I think he really might be that dumb, but I agree I would just make them pay me the 32 Million.
I personally think a lot of the stuff that was said that Gus agreed to will be incorrect and it will really be more that Gus restructured his buyout (same end $ amount just a difference in how it would be paid to him if we fire him).
But he told the staff that he would be coming back for 2019 (after rumor of not telling them anything for the week prior while the rumors were high). Whether than means it is done, I don't know, but unless he takes another job, I just don't see how we fire him at this point. It would have already been done.
JMO
Tend to agree but JABA says they fire him at the worst possible time and when there is nothing in the news cycle to divert away from it.
Wouldn't care, would just be glad he was gone.
Disagree here. Firing him, meaning they are looking at the big picture and understanding that Gus shouldn't be a part of it, at ANY time would be anti-JABA
I can agree unless it is to hire an even less competent stooge though please Lord do not let that person exist.
Damn.
Has any coach besides arguably Herb Hand left Gus for a better gig?
Cool. Kodi promotion incoming. JABA
Well if we don’t get Freeze, which we won’t, gonna be some total bum.
No need to waste this hire on a real OC or QB coach. They won't be allowed to do the job or help out Gus in any way. Hire some young, solid recruiter...or maybe a special teams guy who is really good. Just let Gus have the offense. He's gonna screw with it anyway. Hell the AD should just announce that they aren't going to hire an OC and that Gus is going to be the HC/OC and it's his offense. Put it all on that man.
I want Gus to hire Jeremy Johnson as new OC. Since performance is irrelevant, maximum bunker rustlage/hilarity should be the primary hiring criterion.
The man is willing to take a job at Kansas to get away from Gus. Kansas.
KANSAS
Before you go throwing shade at Kansas, you ever been there this time of year?
Yeah, me neither. I'm sure it sucks as bad as their hut hut program.
Perhaps the man has taken a liking to working amongst basketball royalty.
He’s in it for the #rockchalk hoops tix.
Hell, I didn't realize we were playing Purdue. I might actually watch the game now and root for Brohm's Boilermakers.
Fugg you Gus.
Supposedly there is no many for a big time OC hire and Gus won't be allowed to hire Freeze because of high dollar multi-year implications.
Letting die on the vine. Too slowly, but at least I know what the outcome of next season will be.
Letting die on the vine. Too slowly, but at least I know what the outcome of next season will be.
Oh interdesting:
I see no way that this would happen App St had made too much of a name for itself.
I see no way that this would happen App St had made too much of a name for itself.
As with any coach under Gus, I'll give them a pass until they fail elsewhere.
I sort of hope he can go tell App State to go get him some yards, and don't fumble or you'll never play again and do well at it. Makes Gus looks more like a putz if his assistants do well without him...not that its gonna happen much.
I think we end up with someone like Tee Martin. A guy that can recruit because Gus is going to be the one calling the plays.
AGGL and 07 are both saying Gus to Tech may have some legit legs.
AGGL called Steele to AU before his name was first mentioned by anyone in the media as even being a candidate.
I am trying not to get my hopes up. Once we announce an OC, I'll know Gus is not going anywhere
AGGL called Steele to AU before his name was first mentioned by anyone in the media as even being a candidate.
I am trying not to get my hopes up. Once we announce an OC, I'll know Gus is not going anywhere
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