Durkin had been given a second chance by Kiffen. He took advantage of that. Hugh is just hiring a qualified guy to run his defense.
Liberty University gave Hugh a second chance . He took advantage of that. Auburn hired a qualified candidate who had success in the SEC.
neither HuGh or Auburn are doing some mythical redemption, second chance schtick as much as some of you wanna make it about your faith.
it is simply about winning football games any way possible.
The official New Era is wait until next year and all these recruits come in and will continue to be that way until/if they actually get developed for the random great season. Also known as Auburn football how it has always been!
I feel like Hugh is at a point where he was one of the better carriage/wagon makers and the car was developed. He needs to decide to keep making wagons or adapt and start making cars.
Brown could be the guy but jumping to some of the conclusions that I am seeing after seeing only 9 pass attempts is really alarming. He faced a basic defense of back ups the last 7 minutes of a blow out bowl game where the other team was making sure every guy on the roster that suited up got some snaps. It is great that he played well, it really is but I personally have not seen remotely close to enough to anoint him the something more than he did well in clean up duty. How quickly some forget Jeremy Johnson.
His qb coach from Liberty is on staff, not sure Bo Wallace was ever coached up By anyone. He just got more comfortable in that type of offense.
I actually just looked up if he had ever been a qb coach because so many Auburn fans make claims of him being a qb developer when Hugh himself says he doesn’t work on fundamentals with qbs and doesn’t know that stuff. Maybe it is the Gus factor of thinking Hugh micromanages every aspect of practice like Gus did.
I am not bashing on Hugh, but what high school quarterbacks has Hugh developed?
Has he even been at a school long enough to prove he develops QBs?
Or is it that he is just good at developing his offense around the talent he gets at qb? Which is a great ability if not equal or better ability to have.
Transfer Cam Newton, transfer Nick Marshall, transfer Jarrett Stidham. 3 best QBs at Auburn over the last 15 years. If you can bring in a better player you do it, I can't, well, I can, believe people are debating this with you.