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The two football coaches he hired haven't been homerun hires? One won the first national championship AU has had in 50 years, plus an SEC championship. The second won an SEC champiponship and played in the NC game in his first year. If that ain't home run, WTH could possibly be?

About the "Bring in an outsider" idea, here's a quote for y'all: "If they think an Auburn Man can't do the job they should shut the damn place down."~~~Coach Shug Jordan, upon being told that the main obstacle to him getting the AU head coaching job in 1951 was that he was an Auburn man.

Is JJ perfect? No. Here's a clue...no other AD is either.

So you're willing to give Jacobs credit for the success but less credit for the failures? Jacobs should also be given credit for hiring coaches that had the worst seasons in football and basketball history at Auburn. Jacobs has been making questionable hires since he's been the AD. On top of that he's been giving ridiculous buyouts and contracts that seem to end up having to be paid because the coach is let go.

You can point to other schools having buyouts too but those other schools aren't having to actually pay out all those buyouts at the rate we do because they don't get rid of as many coaches as we have under Jay Jacobs. Iowa had a ridiculous buyout for Kirk Ferentz but still haven't gotten rid of him. They haven't been getting rid of their other big sports coaches like we have. Iowa's basketball coach Fran McCafferty has been at Iowa 5 years and will likely be there for several more years because he's having success.

It's not as if it's just one coach that Jacobs hired that didn't work out. He's had several that didn't work out and most of those coaches had big buyouts and big pay for poor performances/results. That's the point that so many seem to dismiss or not want to believe.

So, you want to be more like Iowa...

Chizik is the only football coach he's hired that he had to get rid of (and he won a NC that might just mean something...)

Basketball was in bad shape before he took over. He now has the best coach we could have possibly hired. Is that not improvement? It seems every sport outside of swimming and baseball have improved under his tenure....and in swimming it was impossible to improve over the best college coach in the sports history....so that really just leaves baseballl. Now he just more than doubled our apparel contract. What does the guy have to do to earn some respect from his own freaking fan base??? You'd think he was a bammer the way people talk about him.

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"You can point to other schools having buyouts too but those other schools aren't having to actually pay out all those buyouts at the rate we do"

Just curious '91...have you actually researched this subject, checked Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Michigan, Notre Dame and many others?

And check this: Urban Meyer, the coach of the 2015 National Championship college football team, would get the largest payout at $34 million on the admittedly small chance he were to be fired this year. That payout goes down for every year he sticks with the team. If he were to be fired in 2017, he would only get $27 million under the contract.

And of course the buy-out king of all time is Charlie Weiss who got $14M from ND and another $6M from Kansas for not coaching.

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So, you want to be more like Iowa...

Chizik is the only football coach he's hired that he had to get rid of (and he won a NC that might just mean something...)

Basketball was in bad shape before he took over. He now has the best coach we could have possibly hired. Is that not improvement? It seems every sport outside of swimming and baseball have improved under his tenure....and in swimming it was impossible to improve over the best college coach in the sports history....so that really just leaves baseballl. Now he just more than doubled our apparel contract. What does the guy have to do to earn some respect from his own freaking fan base??? You'd think he was a bammer the way people talk about him.

Oviously we're already like Iowa, they gave Kirk Ferentz a big buyout. It's a part of big time college football according to people that defend Jay Jacobs.

How about we stop hiring coaches and giving them so much money and big buyouts on top of that, and then getting rid of them? We've had multiple coaches in the big sports at Auburn and had to buyout those contracts at a higher rate than most other schools.

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"You can point to other schools having buyouts too but those other schools aren't having to actually pay out all those buyouts at the rate we do"

Just curious '91...have you actually researched this subject, checked Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Michigan, Notre Dame and many others?

And check this: Urban Meyer, the coach of the 2015 National Championship college football team, would get the largest payout at $34 million on the admittedly small chance he were to be fired this year. That payout goes down for every year he sticks with the team. If he were to be fired in 2017, he would only get $27 million under the contract.

And of course the buy-out king of all time is Charlie Weiss who got $14M from ND and another $6M from Kansas for not coaching.

Why did you edit my quote? You didn't quote the entire sentence.

Auburn shouldn't be outpacing other schools in buyouts. Tennessee and Michigan are probably the only two schools that come close or maybe even exceed us in having the high buyout rate that we do.

Texas had a longtime basketball coach that Tennessee hired, Rick Barnes. Texas paid Rick Barnes a $1.75 million buyout . Auburn paid Tony Barbee a $2.4375 million buyout. Texas also has a longtime baseball coach, Auggie Garrido.

Florida had a longtime basketball coach Billy Donovan, and has a longtime baseball coach, Kevin O'Sullivan. Notre Dame seems to have settled on a football coach, Brian Kelly. They also have a longtime basketball coach Mike Brey.

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So, you want to be more like Iowa...

Chizik is the only football coach he's hired that he had to get rid of (and he won a NC that might just mean something...)

Basketball was in bad shape before he took over. He now has the best coach we could have possibly hired. Is that not improvement? It seems every sport outside of swimming and baseball have improved under his tenure....and in swimming it was impossible to improve over the best college coach in the sports history....so that really just leaves baseballl. Now he just more than doubled our apparel contract. What does the guy have to do to earn some respect from his own freaking fan base??? You'd think he was a bammer the way people talk about him.

Didn't he hire Lebo and Barbee? And he fired Ellis... So he got two hires in before he decided to go after Pearl (which was a no brainer)...similar with women's basketball (trending towards the same)..as for swimming there were other coaches out there that could have produced better results our recruiting has dropped off, granted replacing Marsh would be tough...so he hired chizik but not Gus...as for baseball he had three hires that haven't worked out? or maybe he pulled the trigger early on Renfroe but that doesn't matter now...so to be honest he has only one good hire and that would be Pearl but that hasn't produced yet (I am not saying it won't, but just hasn't yet)....I will also hand him the Clinard hire (unless of course he didn't handle that one either)...he can't get credit for Williams as he has been coaching for around 20 years...we will have to see how the Luellen hire works out...

So long story short ...he raises prices by quite a bit and has only hired two coaches with promising potential Pearl & Luellen and will give him Meyer (even though Meyer reached out to the ADs office and told them of his interest [again no brainer])...but yet makes at least 1 mil a year for that....but never got docked for the bad hires...So pardon those of us who don't see how he is justified for soaking up that much salary compared to the job he has done....oh and most of the issues with tickets and being moved about every year or other issues that people on this board have with the AD's office could have been fixed years ago but again they tend to hire Good Ole Boys in their club who although may have good intentions don't have a clue at times how to solve problems...there are many things that they can do to make the experiences that much better but they could care less and also don't return emails to questions etc...so pardon some of us again who think that they are overpaid for what little that they do...

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Two things...

The concert is not "faith affiliated" it is simply tied to the Chicken Salad Chick Foundation, which supports a nimber of causes. Some people are just looking for things to B about.

Also, Golloway couldn't just accept the foring and move on. He has to think about his next move. This gives him an opportunity to hopefully "scare AU into some type of settlement and also allows him to point bavk to the fact that he didn't agree with the firing and he fought it. Te hope is this gives him something to tell his next potential employer more than just, "yeah, I had a misstep at Auburn"

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Didn't he hire Lebo and Barbee? And he fired Ellis...

I suppose one out of three ain't TOO bad. He hired Barbee. No on the others you mention.

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I seem to remember that JJ did hire Lebo.

Lebo was hired April 8, 2004. Jacobs was named AD on December 22, 2004. Not that it matters to you since you never read anything here.

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Didn't he hire Lebo and Barbee? And he fired Ellis...

I suppose one out of three ain't TOO bad. He hired Barbee. No on the others you mention.

Nooe. He did all those things. He also killed JFK, poisoned Elvis, dropped the bombs on Japan, was the inside man on 9-11 and created Justin Bieber

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How do you firing the baseball coach was for cause if Jacobs will not talk about it? I've been told Sonny has hired a lawyer and their going after for firing him cause he said he didn't do anything wrong to cause JJ to fire him.

Maybe he's not talking publicly because we know there is a lawsuit coming? He would be stupid to be blabbing in public.

If JJ made a mistake here it was probably not looking further into what a flaming douche bag golloway was before hiring him. Not really an AU kinda guy.

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I think a lot of AU fans would love to have Al back as our OC/QB coach.

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I think Jay really loves Auburn and has done a great job of upgrading the sports facilities and the various game day experiences. He is a man of strong Christian faith which I like. AU is doing well in many of the minor sports especially in softball. Basketball looks to be on a rise, especially if Reed and Purifoy play this year.

However, football has been a roller coaster the past 7 years, basketball has been poor in 11 of the past 12 years as far as the win/loss, baseball bad for except for only 2 seasons out of the past 11 years and his first hire for the women's BB will probably be gone after this next season.

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Jay Jacobs is a good guy. That has nothing to do with his competency or lack thereof for holding the position as the AU AD. He was not qualified for the job when he was hired. He has done some good things of course, but AU should expect much better.

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Really long article summed up in a sentence. Sometimes there are extra tickets right before a game that sometimes get sold in bulk to guys that are willing to buy 20 or more tickets on short notice and the ticket office didn't email every donor and wait to see if others wanted them. Typical agenda based reporting looking to stir the pot so they can get readers at Auburns expense. Shocker the wall st journal would be involved. No reason for a NY paper to be so interested in every detail of AU other than bammer infiltration. Notice not one real source on the record with anything of substance. Shocker. When will people stop giving credence to the WSJ? They are a constant AU hit piece and not worthy of reading ever.

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Really long article summed up in a sentence. Sometimes there are extra tickets right before a game that sometimes get sold in bulk to guys that are willing to buy 20 or more tickets on short notice and the ticket office didn't email every donor and wait to see if others wanted them. Typical agenda based reporting looking to stir the pot so they can get readers at Auburns expense. Shocker the wall st journal would be involved. No reason for a NY paper to be so interested in every detail of AU other than bammer infiltration. Notice not one real source on the record with anything of substance. Shocker. When will people stop giving credence to the WSJ? They are a constant AU hit piece and not worthy of reading ever.

Bottom line...follow the money. Happens at all major institutions.

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Really long article summed up in a sentence. Sometimes there are extra tickets right before a game that sometimes get sold in bulk to guys that are willing to buy 20 or more tickets on short notice and the ticket office didn't email every donor and wait to see if others wanted them. Typical agenda based reporting looking to stir the pot so they can get readers at Auburns expense. Shocker the wall st journal would be involved. No reason for a NY paper to be so interested in every detail of AU other than bammer infiltration. Notice not one real source on the record with anything of substance. Shocker. When will people stop giving credence to the WSJ? They are a constant AU hit piece and not worthy of reading ever.

Bottom line...follow the money. Happens at all major institutions.

Everything under the 10th row along the sidelines is damaged goods. If you look at the corner nosebleeds, there are empty seats for lesser games. I think the school (and every program) fudges the whole "sold out" thing. I think they probably have a way to list them online on sites like stubhub to dump them, or they have a network of alumni who they work with to do it. Nobody can use 20 tickets with obstructed views on short notice. Not even a boy scout troop could fill those seats quickly. I have heard of charities that seat people with needs, or veterans. But even those groups get tickets weeks in advance.

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