Turner Gill has his chance at Kansas now. I like Turner and hope he does well. It will not be a zero sum game for me. If he does well, that does not mean that Auburn made a mistake in hiring Chizik.
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I don’t pay attention to Barkley. However, his opinion may resonate with some of our potential recruits. So we should be aware of that. The best thing we can do now is win. A lot of sins, real or imagined, are forgiven if you win.

Charles is Charles and he is going to say what he thinks. I also don’t think he is bashing Chizik or commenting on the quality of the job that he has done as much as he is still thinking AU could have made a bigger splash with Gill’s hire…..and as far as media attention he is right. Would Gill turned out to be a better coach? We will never know because you can’t equate any future success or failure that he has at KU with what he would have or could have done at AU. They are two completely different programs with completely different surroundings and situations. Chizik has arguably been the least media grabbing HC at a powerhouse program in the country and what media he has had has been mostly because he was the most shocking hire not because of the dynamic pot stirring that other coaches (cough…Kiffen) have done. Had we hired Gill we would have had an enormous amount of media attention for hiring the up’n coming minority hire and that would have benefitted AU if for no other reason than for name recognition. Will Chizik end up being a great AU coach? Who knows, but I believe he is off to a fantastic start in that direction. Am I saying that AU made the wrong choice? That’s a loaded question. I mean if Chizik ends up being what we hope he is….you have to say no. If he ends up being an Oregeron or Zook (meaning he recruits great but can’t elevate the program otherwise) then the answer is no. To early to say but one thing I can say is that Chizik is my coach until he proves he can’t do the job and to say otherwise is crying over spilled milk.

… into some weird state of sand trapped Gill high zen. is it possible he is getting ready to tee off the same hole #1… and is confused what year it is?… maybe missed the whole 2009 AU football season altogether?…

… i am (crossing fingers) hoping that most (especially prospective recruits) are only mildly entertained by him… and won’t take anything he is saying serious. this is crazy.

but he was on the round table with del greco this morning and said that Scarbinsky took it out of context and misquoted him on a few items, specifically the headline of the article. Also, I believe he donated $500,000 to the new Bball arena.

I don’t think there was anything racist going on during the hiring of Chizik. The problem with Turner Gill is that you would be taking a coach who had a nice year or two at Buffalo and then placing him at a high profile school at the most dominate conference in the country. That is setting him up for failure, and if he had to be fired then the same jackasses who believe the south is a racist backwards place would be calling Auburn racist for firing him. Its a lose lose, frankly.

I strongly believe the vast majority of college football fans could give two shits about the color of the skin of their coach, they just want to win. The problem is that you have so many coordinators and position coaches that are black and believe they should be given a head coaching job based on their skin color and not their accomplishments. Why should someone, black or white, be expected to jump straight from being a coordinator to over seeing a major college football program? Why cant you accept the smaller jobs and work your way up? that is why so many have failed, they bite off more than they can chew.

I think it is a totally ridiculous argument. We give you guys shit about Chizik, but frankly he did much better this year than I thought, and he has handled things very well. I don’t think Turner would have done as good a job.

My problem is K Scar’s timing of the article. we all know recruiting is heating up to a boiling point now. Scarbinski is a Alabama fan in wolf’s clothing! He’s biased, and not even close to the best writer in this state.
It’s disappointing that someone with media credentials will misuse their position for their enjoyment.

As far as comparing coaches, it was a no brainier to bring Chizik back to Auburn. He had ties to many High school coaches where Auburn recruits the hardest. Namely, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. I frankly could give two pickled damns what color his skin is. Chizik was the best choice of the two.

WAR EAGLE!

“Nowadays it’s OK to call anything racist in this country — even when it’s not … but, you can’t call an act of terror — ‘terrorism’ — in this country, even when it is.”

It’s the PC world we live in folks.

It’s Barkley’s world. It’s Scarb’s world. It’s the MSM’s world. It’s the Pop-culture’s world.

Live with it folks … or, beat back Political Correctness where ever it lives. Oh, my bad, that’s not PC.