MaxCohen216

Well, I guess I'm as inept as Harsin. I thought bye week was this week. I've been doing too much night fishing to remain coherent.

I'm surprised that a move hasn't already been made at the beginning of bye week. Anyone with a brain in their head knows that Brian Harsin is going to be fired this year. Many firings logically occur at the beginning of bye week in college football. I'm tired of this. We are all tired of this. But it's Bye Week Tuesday and Harsin is still wearing an AU shirt. I'm bummed.

Yeah, he should be playing baseball. He's a good athlete, but not an SEC QB. And Holden should be given a chance at QB. We have nothing to lose. Nothing.

Yes. Please, no Urban. No Urban. Sleeze Freeze before Urban. And I don't even like Sleeze Freeze.

I'm warming to Deion too. Slowly but surely. I don't know much about Luke Fickel. He might be the next Nick Saban, but I'm afraid the AU PTB won't have much patience with an up-and-comer. Won't give him a chance to work the farm before posting record crops.

I'm open to Prime. I'd just have to see the results at the D1 level to fully get on board. It's always a gamble to hire a coach with no D1-level experience. He doesn't even have any experience as a D1 coordinator. But hey, Pat Dye was sort of a gamble in his day I guess...

Yes, that's a concern. Prime Time has proven to be a great influence and recruiter. But what has he proven as a head coach? Not much. My main concern is that he's too much of a "player's coach", and can't be truly mean and unrelenting in driving players to reach their full potential, like Saban and Smart can. Saban and Smart will throw players out of a speeding car and think nothing of it if they don't perform well. They are no friend to an under-performing player. That's the kind of coach we need if we want to compete for championships. On the other hand, Gus Malzahn was a friend to our players and provided them a shoulder to cry on...

Good post. Thank you. But no. The PTB at AU will stand for nothing less than a total rebuild than can compete for SEC championships within two years. That's our reality, whether we like it or not (I like it). Only two desired coaches can fill that bill: Prime Time or Lane Brain Kiffin. That's our reality. IMHO. But your post was very interesting.

Golf, I was a student at AU from 1981-1985. Did I see you on the football field for any of those games?

Yeah, I remember a time when Georgia DREADED playing us, instead of getting excited about playing us.

Serious comment: my fear is that if Harsin is canned mid-season, then his "Boise Coaches" might leave with him, leaving behind a skeleton-crew coaching staff. Tongue-in-cheek comment: If Harsin gets canned mid-season, there is only one coach to consider as the interim: Ed Orgeron. For all his shortcomings as a head coach, he has been a good interim coach at multiple schools. When he was fired from LSU, I said they should make him the interim coach until they could find another to replace him.

I feel much the same as you. I'm not sure if an AU deal with Kirby would have been made had the initial AU rejection not occurred, but maybe it would have. I've heard conflicting accounts. In any event, I wish we had gotten him. Georgia has their head coaching question answered for the next 15 years.

Just now hearing about this...seems like he didn't learn his lesson.

Of the 3 coaches I mentioned, he's the only one who has done well at D1 coaching, QB development, and recruiting. The knock on Kiffin is recruiting. I agree it's debatable whether or not Freeze deserves a chance at Auburn. I had no idea until a few minutes ago that he has shown questionable character at Liberty, although I don't know the extent.

1. Freeze 2. Kiffin 3. Sanders We need a proven D1 coach, QB developer, and recruiter. IMHO, of all the above, Freeze is #1. Unfortunately, character-wise, he also seems to be #2. Pun intended. But at some point, everybody deserves a second chance. I say we give Freeze his second chance. I think he would make the most of it.

Dish also had this same dispute with Fox Sports last fall. I didn't even get to see the World Series because of it. I'm done with Dish.

1. Lane Kiffin or Hugh Freeze 2. Prime Time 3. Monken

Sad to hear this for him, and for us.

Anybody bus Gus and Bryan. I remember seeing a very young and viral Coach Pat Dye sitting with us students in the cafeteria in 1982 telling us how AU football was gonna become relevant again and once again beat Alabama. He was very personal, available, and very convincing. And then he delivered. Whoever is our next coach needs to deliver in the same way. RIP Coach Pat Dye. PS: I coached his grandson in t-ball in Huntsville, AL.

Sanders might relish in the thought of going up against Saban and Smart, and besting them. Sanders is a competitor, so he might welcome the opportunity to lead AU and challenge UA and UGA.

To me, it seems that today's game is seeing a return to the prototypical drop-back passing QB.

I think Robbie and his run-first approach would have worked great with Bo Jackson and Lionel James when I was a student at AU, but the game has changed. And Bo Jackson is not in our current backfield. Tank ain't no Bo. Not even close. Today, we need a handoff QB who can pass all over the field. We don't have that.

Sub-light speed, IMHO.

It's not both alive and dead. A cat is not a sub-atomic particle and therefore is not subject to assuming simultaneous yet contradictory states. Electrons can roam between states, but cats cannot. That cat is either alive or dead. Not both.

Speaking of Jimmies and Joes, the best Jimmy (or Joe) in the history of AU football was one Mr. Jim Fyffe, who was the voice of AU football when I was a student there. RIP Jim Fyffe. I most remember him saying this (paraphrasing): "If you don't like the way I call games and get emotional, then don't listen".