AUN Wishes CGC the Best!

[DKW 86 6,947]

Wish CGC would have stayed but We wish him well.

He is a great coach and a fine guy. Maybe he will keep a HC interview open for us in the future.

[EXPLAYER14 0]

Good luck CGC! Beat OU!

[Texan4Auburn 1,626]

Yup, Good luck coach and Beat OU! Hope your dream of being a head coach comes true.

[SKCAUB 0]

Yup...good luck coach...you wuz a goodun!

[stoic-one 1,495]

Good luck CGC, thanks for all you have done for AU......

[AUHansel 0]

i still don't understand why he left. i'm glad for what he did for us while he was here but I think his reasons are not that great. he already was offered a job in the nfl this season. tuberville has had assitants go on to be head coaches so i don't think that ctt or auburn is holding him back just because we're not in the national spotlight as much as texas. i just hope that some of our recruits don't leave because of this. that would really tick me off.

[WAR EAGLE!!! 0]

Personally...I wish that Chizic fells miserably at Texas. I hate the freaking Big 12 and it is no wonder that we can't get in a Championship game when even our Defensive Coordinator would rather coach over there. Screw him and the bias of the Big 12. If this doesn't show you there is a bias...nothing will...

Hey Chizic...I hope OU hangs 70 on you next year, Brown gets fired...and you have to find a job at freaking North Texas!!!!!

....and I am not a negative person...

[chuck 0]

I have to admit, I'm somewhere less negative then WAR EAGLE, but a lot less positive then the rest on this thread.

Why does Chizik leave AU for a co-defensive coordinator job? The ONLY reason I can see is that he feels the talent on the field for UT next year defensively is superiour to AU - and therefore, the better results will nab him a HC job after this year. Regardless, I feel that is a bit of a snub at us. If that's the reason, Chizik is directly responsible for the talent at Auburn . .

I don't know .. losing a coach to the NFL is understandable, if not a good accomplishment. Losing him to another college team makes you wonder why.

[TitanTiger 18,218]

I sort of take it as a slap in our face as well. I'm grateful for what he did here, but leaving to go to Texas to be a co-DC, even if it adds Asst. HC to his title doesn't wash to me. Maybe I'm too sensitive.

[kingfish 59]

I see his departure as moving to a lesser conference with the possibility of getting a head coaching job in that conference in the near future ... they could are definitely in need of some good head coaches! I think he views this as the shortest route to obtaining his goal.

[Texan4Auburn 1,626]

I don't really take it as a slap in the face. Tuberville made the same type of move in his career, going to Texas aTm from Miami (when he had Sapp and Ray Lewis there). They have probably talked about this type of move on more than one occasion.

If Texas beats OU next year, Chizik will get tons of credit, and that credit will probably lead him to a head coaching position that he has been chasing for the last two years.

[nanatiger 3]

Can't believe it! I'm away from my computer for a few hours and we lose our DC! Oh well, I trust CTT to find a great replacement. As for CGC's reasons for accepting the Tex. job, only he and his family know for sure, but didn't I read somewhere that his wife is from Texas and has family there? Good luck, Coach! Maybe our Tigers will get the chance to match up with your Longhorns in the future. WAR EAGLE!

[AUloggerhead 1,862]

I'm going to wish Gene Chizik well and thank him for what he's given to AU. We all have known he wasn't going to be at AU forever. The defensive success he's generated at UCF and at AU has been hard to ignore. If he can add the same type success in the Big XII, his resume will be as complete as he can get it. He has aspirations of being a HC and I think he'll be a good one when he gets his chance. I don't begrudge him a thing. He's what, 33 or 34? The time to strike is now. If he replicates the defensive success at UT that he's had at AU .... whoa. He'll get a top notch HC job immediately. Good luck, Gene and thanks for the memories.

Remember, the same thing is going to happen to Borges -- probably as early as next year if he does his magic with Cox/Booker. This is not necessarily a bad thing. When a football program reaches the point where all the main assistants are getting job offers, that's a sign of progress -- hard as it may seem at the moment. We need CTT to follow up this recent success with another good hire. Color me cautiously optimistic. WDE

[mcgufcm 3,875]

he's coached in texas before i believe. i'm with chuck on this one. i'm not totally pissed off, and i don't want texas to lose to chokelahoma next year b/c that means i have to listen to bob "can't win a big game" stoops at the end of the year run up the score and talk about how ou deserves another title shot.

at the same time, i feel a little jilted. i guess i know what bama felt like when francis took the a&m job. it was a lateral move (which is kinda funny that bama has fallen that far) for both guys. i don't know what the move really got chizik, and it kinda flies in the face of the "family" sentiment that we've had for the last year+. i really didn't think he'd break up the beattles unless it was for the nfl or a head coaching job. who knew that gene had a little yoko in him?

[tiger88 934]

I am grateful for the fine job he did here. What happens to him from here on out, I really don't give a rats ass. It's a dog eat dog world out there and I don't have time to think of him anymore. My only question is, who's our next dc? Seems like a bit of a slap, yes.

This seems like a risky move to me. Their defense last year was very weak at times, and half the braintrust is still there for gc to work with.

[Ryan Sanders 123]

Well... I hope he does well, but I know there are better DC out there... that can do better at defending the pass, even without the top CB in the country.

[StatTiger 3,086]

Well... I hope he does well, but I know there are better DC out there... that can do better at defending the pass, even without the top CB in the country.

139596[/snapback]

One of the few complaints I had with his pass defense was the lack of interceptions. Here is the average number of pass attempts allowed per interception over the past 36 years:

Avg- Year

10.45- 1970

10.94- 1969

11.77- 1972

12.86- 1974

13.79- 1978

14.32- 1987

15.44- 1985

15.57- 1971

15.63- 1980

15.68- 1994

16.41- 1996

16.42- 1998

16.64- 1986

16.75- 1973

16.88- 1992

17.29- 1982

17.55- 1977

18.33- 1979

18.44- 1988

18.86- 1991

20.24- 2002

21.46- 1981

23.20- 2001

23.47- 1993

23.50- 2004

24.61- 1999

25.27- 1989

25.94- 2000

26.17- 1976

26.55- 1984

27.73- 1983

31.46- 1997

32.91- 2003

34.89- 1990

49.71- 1995

50.33- 1975

[WAR EAGLE!!! 0]

You guys all make good points and I understand the logic...but as far as Chizic is concerned...he can kiss my orange and blue ass!!!!!

[LegalEagle 22]

Any chance he ran because we were gonna hang a multi-year contract on him?

[mcgufcm 3,875]

i would love to play him next year. it could be the year of beatin' down old coordinators! we already get a go at one of my personal least favorite guys maybe ever: noel mazzone. he's back at ole miss, and i still hate the pornstache. then we could romp the little 12 champs and prove that we still have the better end of the coordinator stick (honestly, does anyone think chizik did a BETTER job than borges this year? it really felt like an "it's time we paid attention to a guy who's had three straight top ten defenses" award more than a pick for this season. hell, anyone think even gorgeous borges compares to norm chow? shouldn't that award just stay in his office until SOMEONE finally gives him a head coaching job? enough). that would be a sweet (sugar sweet?) way to end the season.

[mattd 3]

After reading all of his comments, I take it as a slap in the face....he's going somewhere for "more exposure than Auburn"..."hotbed of college football"..I know you want to make a good impression, but don't piss on the place you just left!

Plus doing it 2 wks before siging day...doesn't help...I think he forgot that he has been interviewed for 4 jobs and didn't get them!! I don't think you can blame that on AU

[TxWarEagle 3]

I am trying hard to figure what is so wrong about saying that Texas is a hotbed of football, and that he'll get more exposure at Texas than at Auburn. Neither are jabs at Auburn. I guess you'd rather have him say "Now that I have experienced big time football, I think its time to tone things down a bit. Thats why I am here at UT"

Its really a no-loss situation for him. IF they beat Oklahoma, it will be because of HIS defense, not Mack Brown's. Should they lose to Ok, everyone can still blame 'ol Mack.

[texaubie 0]

Maybe Chizik just wants a new rival that will challenge him because beating Bama every year has become boring for him.

[Auburn85 415]

Apparently that's why Mike Stoops left for Arizona

[TigerinBham 1]

WAR EAGLE!!! I AM WITH YOU ON THIS ONE!