Posts Tagged ‘auburn coaching search’

It’s Time to Make an Auburn New Year’s Resolution

By Posted on: December 31st, 2012 in Baseball, Basketball, Football, Other Sports 14 Comments »
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They say confession is good for the soul. So here today, I am publically confessing that I am an addict. That’s right I am addicted to following every bit of news I can get on the Auburn Tigers. Now at first glance that wouldn’t seem to qualify me as an addict; not at least until Continue Story…

Hurry Up and Wait

By Posted on: December 7th, 2012 in Featured Article, Football 71 Comments »
Gus Malzahn will lead Auburn into a new football era.

Tom has Jerry, Batman has the Joker, Charles Barkley has his golf swing, and now Nick Saban has Gus Malzahn. For the first time in many months, Auburn fans had reason to rejoice earlier this week when Gus Malzahn was introduced as Auburn’s new head football coach. The hire does not come without criticism. Some Continue Story…

Auburn Coaching Update

By Posted on: December 4th, 2012 in Football 18 Comments »

Rumors are flying like crazy today as Auburn’s coaching search comes to its conclusion. Speaking to reporters this afternoon, Auburn president Jay Gogue said an announcement would come in the next 24 hours, possibly even today.At the start of the day, Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart was the hot name, with some sources saying the Continue Story…

A Big Name Coach Doesn’t Guarantee Success

By Posted on: December 4th, 2012 in Football 37 Comments »
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Letdown. That’s the word trending across message boards and Twitter accounts in relation to the Auburn coaching search. With Jimbo Fisher, Bob Stoops, Jim Mora Jr. and other big name coaches seemingly bowing out of the Auburn search, fans are flooding social media sites expressing their disappointment in what they perceive as a lack of Continue Story…

The Calm Before the Storm

By Posted on: December 3rd, 2012 in Football 65 Comments »
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Call it the calm before the storm. After a week of rumors and flight tracking, all has gone quiet on the Auburn coaching front, which means a decision is likely close at hand. With the regular season over, Auburn is expected to move fast now. They’ll have to be quick, Arkansas and Tennessee have made Continue Story…

Let’s Re-look Auburn’s Coaching Short List… Shall We?

By Posted on: December 2nd, 2012 in Football 11 Comments »

As you know Auburn is currently looking for its next coach as Chizik and his family decides to use their windfall from Jay Jacobs’s clearly questionable business savvy. Who might it be?I thought it would be nice to re-list the names and see how the candidates have fared so far or to describe who they Continue Story…

Could a Dark Horse Win Auburn Coaching Prize?

By Posted on: November 30th, 2012 in Football 52 Comments »
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Could  Bo Pelini be changing address from Lincoln, Nebraska to Auburn, Alabama in 2013? With all eyes in the South as well as in South Bend, Indiana fixed on tomorrow’s SEC Championship game, the Auburn Coaching Search Committee is moving forward. An announcement should be forthcoming by this time next week, maybe even by Tuesday Continue Story…

Shadow Days – Auburn’s Post-Chizik Era Begins

By Posted on: November 30th, 2012 in Featured Article, Football 28 Comments »
It is imperative for Auburn to make a homerun hire.

“Did you know that you could be wrong and swear you’re right?” – John Mayer, Shadow DaysJohn Mayer’s track, Shadow Days, bears no similarity to Auburn athletics, but this opening lyric lines up perfectly with where Auburn’s football program now finds itself. Gene Chizik banked an enormous amount of trust when he led Auburn to Continue Story…