Auburn and Syracuse

[GatewaySnayke]

It has definitely become an issue of race.

Mark Schlabach said that two SEC coaches told him Auburn wouldn't hire him because of his wife.

[clevername]

I'm an Auburn grad. The fanbase is not pleased. He won't compete with Saban for recruits. He's completely unproven as a head coach...he better hit a home run on his off. coordinator hire. He hasn't officially been announced yet and he's already on the hot seat.

Most of us wanted Turner Gill.

The politics behind the Auburn football must be a mess. The secret Petrino meetings, firing Tuberville with his outstanding record, and then a hire that reeks of someone in power other than the AD making the call. You would have to think there would be several coaches available that would want to make the jump to the SEC. Did they even talk to Brian Kelly at Cincinnati?

it goes back further than that. We were upset while I was there when the boosters got Terry Bowden fired after going 47-17-1. The student paper got in hot water due to some editorials they wrote about the most prominent of boosters behind it all: Bobby Lowder.

It's a mess and we don't have a university president that can do anything about it. Too much money and power in the hands of the boosters on the board of trustees and a pawn as an AD.

It may actually reach a boiling point, especially if/when Chizik loses a bunch and Gill goes somewhere and is successful. There are not a lot of happy folks around here right now. We're embarrassed.