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So Auburn agrees to let the AD pay Gus 21 million not to coach, just to swoop in with a MAC coach who’s spent the vast majority of his life in Wisconsin? Doesn’t pass the smell test.
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As someone pointed out earlier....LL got 15 kids to leave Florida and come to.....Buffalo.
Less than zero percent chance.
Auburn can't because LLs already locked up!
And yet his team is crushing the others. LL is not my first choice, but he seems to know how to coach and get guys that fit. Recruiting to Buffalo can't be an easy task either.
chiefini
- Rockford, Illinois
NY Giants vs. Cleveland Browns Week 15 game flexed to Sunday Night Football. BB couldn’t be in Champaign for a presser then go coach his team at 7:15 on Sunday, could he? Also, he’s got to be under contract for two more games, too, so he can’t just quit during the season to take another job, right??? Would there be a buyout? How does that work?
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mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
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BOOM! Feed my ego.
Beyonce is more likely to become the next Auburn head coach.
(Auburn didn't pay the $21 million...boosters did)
If it's BB, my guess is the announcement would be Tuesday, the normal day off for the NFL.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
A couple things to remember
1. Auburn is completely insane
2. Auburn is completely insane
3. When you're paying a $21 million buyout, it's the boosters who are running the show. Even at a place that cares about winning as much as Auburn, it's still an access game. I am sure there is a very rich guy/guys who are close with Steele and like him a lot, and they are calling the shots.
4. SEC schools look at their staffs as collections of assets, not as a close-knit unit. Steele is a terrific DC, and Malzahn was regarded as a control freak that didn't delegate well. What they're thinking is that they can build on what's working and use their resources to find the best hired gun OC available. And if that sounds silly, that's exactly how they won the title when that hired gun OC was Malzahn himself.
The SEC has a genuinely different way of looking at these things. I don't know if they're right, their advantages seem to me to flow more from their willingness to spend bigger and their proximity to more talent, but it is a different perspective.
And that perspective has no interest in bringing in a MAC coach who wants to bring his D3 staff along and build a culture through developing high school kids.
TMC999
- Not Iowa
Can you imagine firing someone with Malzahn’s record? It’s like an alternative universe...
Fickell or malzahn please!
TMC999
- Not Iowa
Hiring a coach where recruiting to Champaign is an upgrade? How often can you say that? It’s like we’re making it easy on him.
Also, remember that Auburn measures itself against one program....Alabama. For every single candidate, the first question out of collective Booster Nation is going to be, can he beat Nick Saban and Alabama? I doubt LL would even get to question #2 as a potential candidate.
Hearing that LL is pretty much done. Will coach the MAC Championship Game, should be an announcement not too long after, maybe as early as Sunday. Still some loose ends.
Nobody cares what people in Wisconsin call themselves or it or whatever
Yeah, I know how it works. Just funny Steele being pushed to the front as the D hasnt been great and his record at Baylor.
Mac championship is tomorrow night
Yes but likely won't be completely done by Saturday. LL still focused on the game, understandably so.
TMC999
- Not Iowa
We don’t seek their counsel on anything...
My comment saying it’s funny Steele is the leading candidate was just that. Auburn pays 21mil to fire Gus yet push for the DC who sucked at Baylor and was part of Gus staff who couldn’t meet expectations.
Is this going to be like the night we all watched Shaka Smart coach VCU in the NCAA Tournament, I believe against Indiana, when we thought he was about to take over for Bruce Weber? If memory serves he even wore an orange tie with a blue shirt or something that certainly meant he was coming to C-U. Of course we ended up with John Groce, and it doesn't seem quite as exciting watching Lance Leipold tomorrow as it did Shaka a few years ago.
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