With all of the "We want rid of Gus" talk from the Fambly that I've seen on here, on tv, and heard on the radio- Auburn fans, Assume the fambly all pitches in and comes up with the 32+/- million. Who do you realistically want( or think you could get)?

horse hockey... Gus just needs more time.

The money is not the big problem.
It's who decides the target coach, and whether
that coach would consider Auburn as an option.
Who wants to go work in the cuckoo's nest, that
is Auburn?

Buy a lot of sweater vests with 38 mil.

Ole Gus is in the best position ever...LOL

We hate you! Take this 16 million and get out of here

C'mon, Gus is on the news saying he is tweaking the offense with confidence in Stidham and the OC play calling.

16??

I think it’s 31.5

Gus is the one calling the offensive plays, of course he has confidence in the play caller.

He gone IMO.

For what we pay and the talent we have...we should have some good candidates.

Just none really available

49-25 in 6 seasons how much more time does he need. Oh wait new contract last years was for 7 more years, that should be enough time to turn things around.

I believe it's something like 16 mil. ,immediately and
16 mil. over 4 years.

FIFY
Who? I’ve yet to hear any AU fan throw out a potential coach... just that “we’ll have good candidates”.

Y’alls search committee last time had some good candidates but y’all poor little aubies we’re stuck fantasizing about Gus....then after a decent year thought it was a good idea to extend an already lengthy contract.

Not only is there gus’ buyout, I’m betting there is something for the assistants. Then turn around and spend another 35 million on another coaching staff.... best thing AU can do is post that jumbo screen for sale, may recoup some of the 40or so million it cost put up. I heard recently that jordan hare and the football facilities are about middle of the row in sec west and middle of row in sec period. Gonna have to spend money soon to keep up in athletic facilities. These big time boosters are gonna be tired of stroking checks soon. IMO

Gus ain’t going nowhere for a while. You guys really think Auburn is going to pony up 50-60 mil to buy him out and buy out some other unknown coach from his contract and pay his salary on top of that?

Nah.


Jay Jacobs bent y’all over good and didn’t use any lube.

Mike leach. Come on down to the south. WASU sucks anyway

Definitely would be better than the same ole crappy press conferences about “just gotta get better “

Auburn has no problem with the money. (Fact)
This stuff is nutso, though.
Millions are hundreds, now, to some folks.

If they want him gone they'll get the money.

No matter how it ends up, this will be a financial disaster for Auburn. Dumb people make dumb decisions.

Financial disaster? How?

Very costly, stupid decision? Yes

Gus was a stupid decision in the first place.

Considering the other choice, Malzahn was dam sure a mistake.

Because, at this point, they would have been better off to take 32 million and wipe their asses with it?

Who was the other "real" choice?

Yep. Could have had Kirby Smart.... can you imagine the battles between him and Saban year in and out.

It's been mentioned on here many times.

I'm sure Bo Jackson and Pat Dye will pick a winner!!!

At the time there were several names, Are you referring to Kirby?

Just have yella fella cut a check and send Gus back to Springdale HS where he belongs. We'll worry about who to get after the bus rolls outta town.

Yes,

They would have hired him too but he told Jacobs he was going to stay at Alabama until after the season because it wasn’t right to not finish what he started. Jacobs didn’t like it and went another direction.


https://auburn.247sports.com/Article/Why-Kirby-Smart-was-not-hired-as-Auburns-head-coach-110246938/


Y’all should have listened to Dye.

The search committee was Sullivan, Bo, and McWhorter.
Can't take it any farther. Obviously their pick didn't get the
job.

Thank you baby jesus for Aubie hiring gus for 30yrs....Sad thing is Gus is the best coach they will ever have and fits well in their quest to continue their longstanding mediocrity... Woe-Eagle...

Yes, as was Cheezit before him.

At least Cheezit put AU back on the map with a title

Ernie I was listening to sports talk radio today and an Auburn insider said that the 16 million up front wasn’t a problem. And like you said the rest would be spread out over 4 years. But all of this is negotiable depending on how bad Malzahn would want to leave if Auburn has fallen out of love with him. Could be less.

He also said that half of the board and other influential wealthy boosters was totally against the new contract but the president and athletic director was played by Jimmy Sexton and fell for the he’s going to Arkansas or else hype.

I’d take Chris Peterson also

I like Peterson but I don't think he will want to leave the Pacific northwest.

Why would Gus negotiate his buyout that is due to him from Auburn?

It's not like he would settle for 20 million and say to hell with the rest. Once he get's his 16 million up-front, I bet he'd be fine receiving the other 16mil over 4 years. Him and Jimmy done took Auburn back behind the shed one good time, Auburn oughta not go back for round 2 of negotiations.

Petersen wouldn't leave Washington for Auburn. IMO

This board will explode if AU were too hire Lane Kiffin after all theshit talked by the barners on here.

Leroy, that's about what I heard. I do have a hard time with Jacobs
playing much of a role in that decision. It's amazing that it went as
far as it did. (Some things haven't come to light yet and probably
never will) Most of Kirby's family were Auburn people.

Barners will take him with a smile. He'd be a heck of a hire too and would probably come to Auburn on the cheap- even if it was just so he had an easy path to phuck with Saban.

This ^^ he would be a great fit imo

32 million buyout! Hahahahahahahaha!! Y'all are stuck with him for a generation.

Helll naw. I'd keep Gus if our only other choice was that scumbag.

So... I'm trying to understand this...

Auburn pays out 16 million and then another 16 million over the next 4 years to Gus to get him to leave. Probably more than that including the staff. Then pretty much the same family of people (Minus Jay Jacobs) gets to pick someone else and sign them to probably an equally lucrative contract for several years. Is that right?

What if this next guy turns out to be a 7-5 or 8-4 per year guy too?

I think the problem for Auburn, and almost every established, aspiring college football program in the nation for that matter, is the benchmark that Nick Saban has set. That benchmark for a program is playing for the National Championship every year. That benchmark for aspiring coaches is 10 million a year. Every established school thinks they should be on the same level as Alabama and is looking for a Nick Saban type coach to get them there, and every coach (And their agent) who thinks they're as good as Nick Saban is thinking that they deserve Nick Saban money.

People need to grasp reality and understand that Alabama has caught lightening in a bottle with the combination of the tradition, name recognition and resources of a college like Alabama, a college leadership group and boosters and alumni that were willing to turn the reins of a multi-million dollar program basically over to one man and one man with the football knowledge, recruiting, talent evaluation, vision and incredible work ethic of a guy like Nick Saban.

The rest of college football needs to understand that this kind of thing only happens to a major college football program once in a lifetime. Well... Actually for Alabama it has happened twice in my lifetime with Paul Bryant and Nick Saban but that's beside the point. Auburn has had Shug Jordan and Pat Dye and quite frankly that about the best it's ever going to get at Auburn and the Auburn family needs to face those facts and quit throwing money up a wild hogs ass. Auburn needs to be Auburn and realize that they are never going to be Alabama. Sure beat Alabama every few years, roll Toomer's Corner, play for the SEC Championship and or maybe the National Championship once and a while and be happy with that.

What Irish said.

Lots of good points, Irish.
The thing most of us want, is a
consistent team and coach that doesn't
let every team we play scare hell out
of us or beat us, when they are heavy
underdogs. After that, we will think about
Saban.
---Gotta go throw that Spook and hope
I don't drown---
Think about us retired folks while you
lunchbuckets slave away. Lol

I was told that Jay Jacobs didn’t have anything to do with the Malzahn extension. If that’s the case, why do Auburn fans think that the same search committee can hire a better candidate?

From what I understand it was the president and the new athletic director. The president only being at AU for two years and a brand new AD didn’t want to deal with hiring a new coach. It was the easiest route to sign Malzahn to a extension.

Who or what is coaching at Auburn or any other public institutions doesn’t matter to me. It has gotten past the point of ridiculous what these coaches, athletic directors and sports agents are being paid. And all these cost of doing business is passed down to us. The common alumni and fans that support them.

Irish, you said it brother. Even Charles Barkley said that Auburn would never be Alabama. Usually there's only room in a state for one top dog, and in this one it's Alabama! I really don't see him going anywhere this year, and guys think about it, who wants to have to compete with Nick Saban everyday of the year for recruits? They can stay where there at, and get paid nicely and go 8-4 or 7-5. Auburn, is not a top ten job.

I dont understand all the hysteria. Last year Gus was the toast of the town when he beat Georgia and Alabama, he obviously was doing something right. Now the Auburn fan base is in total melt down trying to figure out a way out. I wonder what the mentality would be if he slips up and beats Georgia and/or Alabama again? Dont laugh, Georgia isn’t what they were last year and Bama has shown weakness in the last 2 weeks. (I didnt think there was any way the barn could beat bama last year) Dont get me wrong, Ive never been a fan of Gus, always laughed at his style, booger picking ex. but you have to admit Gus has done a decent job. He is 130 miles from Tuscaloosa. As Irish says above, like it or not, Bama is currently the standard for college football. The booger picker has done a decent job in recruiting and W-L record considering he directly competes with Bama day in, day out. The Law of Averages says everyone will have bad times, I dont think Gus will ever be a coach that competes year in year out for a NC, but how many of those coaches are out there?

If lighting strikes at the end of the year and Gus does pull off a miracle, you guys will be eating crow yet again. Burbank will be back posting the score daily for 365 days, the lynch mob will will fade until next year. The sun will come up and life will go on.

As an Auburn fan, I can honestly say I don’t expect to beat Alabama or Georgia every year. I don’t expect to have a 10 win season every year or win the SEC every year. However, I do expect to see a team improve over the course of the season. I do expect to see the coaching staff giving the team a game plan that can win. I also expect the coaches to make changes when the situation calls for it. That’s not happening (and arguably hasn’t been happening for some time) with the guy in charge. At the game last weekend I saw a lot of players on the sideline with the “aw hell, here we go again” look on their face when Stidham threw a pick on a trick play, which there was no reason for them to even call said play. I haven’t liked our coach since we fired Tubs. The offensive game plan has been figured out and the coaches have no backup plan. The defense has gotten progressively worse as the season has gone on. It boils down to poor coaching. I fully expect us to go 5-7 at this point. The players have quit on this guy, and so have many of the fans. Time to part ways, even though it’s gonna hurt and cost a ton of money.

what did Pat Dye say? something like it'd take 200 years for Auburn to have the kind of tradition Alabama has?? LOL

i wish they would hire Lane Kiffin; we'd thump his skinny white ass harder than we did when he was at Tennessee

$32 million? From where?

I remember when Saban was "supposedly" shopping Texas, and folks made it sound like they could "outpay" Bama. They paid $100 million/10 years for Jimbo, which is astronomical. I think $32 million is a pretty big obstacle for getting Gus out.

You mean when they had to block two field goals to win the game? That was the closest game Alabama had that entire year.

The folks with the money approved the contract. If they want to get rid of the bum, they can write a check. IIRC Jimmy Rane has a net worth over 600 million. 32 million is only 5% of that.

Saddle up, yella fella.

Kiffin still lost the game, did he not? go ahead & hire him - like i said, i'd personally love it

Auburn needs to get away from the Saban assistants IMO - their track record sucks against Alabama

^ this....

And I tend to agree with this little gem posted here a few years ago: (originally posted by Dustin)

Jimmy Sexton ought to be in jail for getting them to agree to a $32M buyout, expecially with the terms of it. It is almost criminal!

That man must have incriminating pictures of a BUNCH of folks.

Its not Jimmy Sexton that should be in jail, he did exactly what he is paid to do. The one who should be fired and jailed is the AU president. He is the one that brokered the deal and the university will have to pay for him being involved with something he has no business negotiating. Leave athletic decisions to the people you pay to make those decisions. Although Jacobs was on his way out, wait for the new AD to handle it. If Gus had bolted for Arky, its just part of the business. It would have saved AU a ton of money, frustration and support it he had.

I was being facetious. Jimmy Sexton is basically the "Nick Saban of Sports Agents".

Jimmy Sexton should be in the Hall of Fame for Agents...

Saban needs to rest Tua for the Iron Bowl again this year and let Gus get another big win. It worked out so well last year...

Do you really think it matters Eddie?

Eddie.........

You can pretty much lay the contract at the feet of Mr. Leath.

Auburn is gonna whoop hell outta Alabama.

This is my guess on how things go. Auburn keeps Malzahn this year and puts him on an extremely hot seat for next year. Gus improves his record next year with an 8 or 9 win season. Auburn faithful falls into the "he's got things going in the right direction" trap and gives him a third year in which he goes 6-6.

It’s not just the 32 million for Gus. Well mainly it is. But correct me if I’m wrong. You also have all the assistant coaches contracts, etc to deal with. Now you are well over 32m to get rid of the entire staff.

What's 32 million to the James Andrews of the world. They gots plenty of money. Chump change and they'll buy it out by year end.

I have a feeling Auburn will be looking for a new DC next year. Kevin Steele see's the writing on the wall and will be proactive shopping around for another gig. Why anyone would think Auburn would be better next year? Stidham, can't wait to get the hell outta there, they have no running backs, the defensive front is losing several guys.

Easy to say when you aren't the one shelling out the 32 mil. Don't forget about the new hires potential buyout and salary too.

exactly! & that's why --

Good stuff Irish.

I'll add that even Alabama had trouble trying to be "Alabama" after Bear Bryant. Trying to recreate that dominance, "Always in the National Championship contention", SEC leading team was hard to duplicate. Under Bryant Alabama was year in and year out a powerhouse, even in down years. After Bryant left...Years of mediocrity, then successes, then mediocrity again....some really good coaches and some really bad coaches. The 30 year span from Bear's last Championship to Saban's first Championship @ Alabama (1979-2009) included only 1 Nat'l Championship in 1992 by Gene Stallings along with 2 co-SEC championships (shared) by Bryant & Curry and 2 outright SEC championships (Stallings & Dubose) in that same 30 year span. 30 years of sub-par performance by "Alabama" standards. Which proves Irish's point. 1 Nat'l title and 4 SEC championships, rabid fan base, still relevant even after 30 years of ups and downs---puts Alabama on a different level than the vast majority of other programs. I'm an Ole Miss fan as y'all know. If we would have had 1 Nat'l Title and 4 SEC championships from 1979-2009 I'd be happy about it---most programs would be. I'd love to recreate at Ole Miss what Johnny Vaught was able to do back in the day: Nat'l titles and SEC championships and able to go head to head with the big dogs and win regularly. Again, that proves Irish's point again. If it were not for Bear Bryant, Alabama would not be what they are today. Nick Saban stepped into a perfect situation: $ and tradition and passion at Alabama matched with his personal coaching and recruiting and passion to excel.

I'm not a big fan of the really prideful, brazen, obnoxious, mean/hateful Bertha-better-than-you Alabama fans that think they had something to do with the successes in football. I'm not a fan of any team's fans that act like that. All teams have them too. But what can't be argued about is the football tradition past and present that Alabama has. Other schools can become as storied in tradition but it will take major success over 50+ years and hiring/replacing multiple championship winning coaches to match that success.

Y'all are missing the point.Sure,nobody would pass on the chance at a 10-win season coach,but this goes way deeper than that.Auburn fans are fed-up with the embarrassment that is Gus Malzahn.It's not all about wins and losses.The man is a quirky nut,that doesn't come anywhere close to even resembling anyone's idea of a major-college football coach.He doesn't look the part,act the part,or even speak the part.I've always dismissed the high-school offense comparison,because any variation
of offensive ideology is hard to categorize when parts of it are utilized at every level.But the man fits the high-school coach mold to a "t".They say a team will take on it's head coach's persona,and I believe there's some truth to that.So many times we've looked soft and clueless,and you look over to the sideline,only to see Gus,looking like he couldn't figure out how to fight his way out of a wet paper bag.He just doesn't fit the mold.And it's one thing to employ your "typical" college football coach while weathering some tough seasons,but when you look like you were thinking "out of the box" when you made your last hire,and it all turns south,the whole fanbase tends to look like quirky nuts...

Well...if the shoe fits......

I honestly believe Tuberville was the best coach Auburn has had in a while, and he kind of fit the program. It's a shame he got run off or whatever happened. I think he could have had long term success down there.

I hope you’re kidding. There’s probably only a few families in the state with $32 million cash lying around. That’s a massive amount of money to give away for nothing in return.

Bought myself a new shirt

Gus ain't going nowhere. Buckle up and enjoy the ride!

No way anything will happen. This song is pretty fitting
https://youtu.be/5iDPw_qjhtM

Naw, tuberville coached during a time that the SEC sucked and he struggled to be consistent. Now if I had to choose any coach to coach just one game and win it he would probably be my choice

So you don't think he was a better coach than Cheesestick or Malzfunction?

I read somewhere that auburn claimed to have the $ 32,000,000 lined up, problem is that amount isn't enough. You have to pay off the assistants also, then they have to pay about that much for another coach and staff. Plus they don't have a new PROVEN coach that I know of that would take the job. I think they are stuck with Gus for at least another year.

Yes better than malzahn, bout the same as cheezeit

Dantonio

Whoever at Auburn who signed that contract is a friggin idiot. What the hell were they thinking. A $32 million mistake!

President Leath should have been fired when the terms
of the contract were released. If he isn't gone before the
1st of the year, the board of trustees needs to come up with the
money to pay the school back. No guts, go screw up
some other school