Who are the "responsible parties" that made the decision to keep Gus and ponied up the money for his extension? We all know it wasn't Jacobs, so which of the GOBN doubled down on this shit show?
OT: Who Pushed To Keep Gus?
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Someone posted the main booster’s name on the bunker right after the LSU game. I think his first name was Herbert?
It wasn't Rane. We talked about it back in Dec at a party.
We need the next Lowder to come forward in a big way to cockslap these idiots who value morals and shit over winning football games
Better yet, let's cockslap these idiots who value anything over Bruce cutting down nets.
Hopefully a harsh lesson learned for these rich rednecks. Direct your considerable monies towards BRUCE.
Imma guess several of them will wish they'd have just bought a ship or something in another 6-12 games.
Harbert’s not a football guy. That said, he gave Leath the go ahead on it.
Problem now is I don’t see Harbert allowing Gus to be fired until the buyout is more palatable for him. Sadly, I’d say we’re looking at another 4 years regardless of what happens.....that is unless somebody else steps up to the plate, which I doubt would happen.... Harberts wealthy, there’s no doubt. But he ain’t into throwing away money.
I've just totally lost interest in bitching about it because he's not going away for at least 3-4 years. So I'm personally not rooting for 3-4 years of terrible football just so I can make a point to a bunch of tronzos on a message board. So might as well hope for the best
Not a football guy maybe in the sense that he has no connections in the football world outside of giving to one school, and is likely more interested in keeping things stable given the massive power vacuum that we had.
If you had a Lowder-like character in the lead booster power position you'd have likely had a longer period of thinking and possibly a "have fun in Fayettnam" answer.
All that said, I don't understand how people expected Leath to handle this. In his eyes this was a wildly successful coach, and losing the AD and football coach in your first year on the job likely wasn't a great prospect.
I don't think Leath has the football acumen to understand Gus like we do, which is why a Lowder-type booster would have been useful.
We knew that if Auburn was gonna keep Gus, there was going to be an extension and a raise. I think the blowback was 7 years 49 mill after beating your rivals once in the last 3 years.
A 3 year extension and a sizable increase would have been acceptable IMO, but Leath and Auburn got bootyblasted on this contract.
You're not counting the fact (at least what we presume) was an Arkansas offer that at a minimum was 90% of that whole contract value.
If your goal is to keep your coach and prevent this apocalypse then you're not keeping him for less than half of that offer.
I am on the record as thinking we missed an opportunity most schools don't get. To let their coach walk and possibly get paid a little bit of buyout from it.
I think some of it was just a pride thing too. Not sure the school/AD wanted to look like a bunch of chumps by losing their coach to an inferior program right before the SECC game/potential playoff. Obviously went to shit, but can you imagine the fan/media reaction if Gus had bolted and AU lost in ATL? The narrative would’ve been totally different
For sure, the job of the president should include knowing the pulse of the fanbase. One week prior to giving Gus the huge new deal, the fans had just stormed the field.
Not really sure that you can let your coach walk after that kind of finish to the season. Not to mention not wanting to lose your coach before the conference championship and potential playoff appearance.
It was just a perfect storm of blech for anyone that wanted Malzahn gone.
I think the 7 years is what most fans have the biggest complaint on. I think if it would have been a 4-5 year deal most fans would have been good with that.
I don’t think anybody wants 3/4 bad years of football. If we fire him after 3 seasons, he will have earned 20.4 million on this deal and we’ll owe him 21 million more to leave. After 4 he’ll have earned 27.4 and we’ll owe him 15.75 to leave. I’m never gonna stop bitching about that idiotic contract. Dude lost too many games the last four years for that kind of deal.
Leath got bent over by Jimmy Sexton with our most important boosters' approval. Tells you everything you could ever want to know about the Auburn "leadership".
After washing out in Arkansas after 4 years of 0 talent procurement, I think most AU fans would understand. True strategic leadership plays the long game, not making reactionary and emotional decisions.
Who's rooting for terrible football? Good gods I'd love some non-terrible football.
I tried to make the case last year that one of the biggest problems in college sports is how poorly equipped management at schools are in dealing with people like Jimmy Sexton.
They know the guys are coming with their hands out and job offers from elsewhere, and they still get caught with their pants down and giving them everything they wanted.
He didn’t give money to do it. He gave Leath the okay to do it, saying he’d pony up at some point if needed. That was basically giving Leath the only okay he needed.
Of course he has donated to the AD and specifically for football projects, but he’s not paying gus’s Salary now or anything. (I’m probably confusing things by saying too much.)
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