The Real Malzhan Story

First and foremost… his stock was dwindling. Depreciation was huge after the NC game and first game of the season against UTAH STATE. It continued to degrade as the season progressed.

I also think that his wife cost him a lot of credibility whether it was earned or not. You don’t open your mouth against what your husband does to earn a living. She had several statements that made we wince and I think I have pretty much seen it all in that regard. Boards can be a very non-sympathetic group – they really do care what is said.

If the depreciation was the kindling… the actions of his wife was the match….

Then add to the pile that there was not a lot of jobs out there that he wanted. And the ones he did… I think money situation was the ultimate issue. I think he wanted what they offered at Vandy… and when he didn’t get it… he panicked.

Add to that… the glamor story that Chizik and he are best of buddies….

I no longer care about Gus Malzahn’s departure. He can’t leave fast enough. I want to know about the “new” guy…. anyway.

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Yes we won last night, but nothing changed from the weeks preceding last night to make me think that “Gus just got to do it his way again”. What happened is the moribund Clint Moseley got hurt and Barret Trotter came out and didn’t play like an escapee from a mental ward.
We are a mediocre team that played another mediocre team that made a ton of mistakes in the kicking game that gave us momentum to burn and a belief that we could win….that’s it. Yes Gus dialed up some nice plays. The Statue of Liberty…the pass from to Blake after the onside recovery…. But be honest with yourself….that offense last night wouldn’t have beaten anyone of consequence,and certainly not a top level SEC defense.

If Gus had stayed we would still have the same issues, we have forgotten about for one day. We don’t have an established playmaker at QB, he’ll we don’t have a QB at all in my opinion….we don’t have receiving threat outside of Emory Blake….our line still can’t get you 3 yards on third and short….and if Dyer isn’t on the team next year, we don’t have anyone to run the ball 25 times a game. We have a ton of weapons on this team that Gus was never able to incorporate into the offense, either because he couldn’t coach them up to do the job (receivers), couldn’t get them to play tough(the line, Onterrio) or they were just head cases (the QB’s). Regardless of where you fall on the issue with Gus, you have to admit he failed to make the offense productive with the majority of the difference makers on the team. Whether Chizik asked him to “tone it down” or not is irrelevant, pace was not an issue. ….getting a first down was. We RARELY put together a meaningful drive after the Clemson game, where pace would have been a factor….we simply did not have the QB play to sustain drives the second half of the season. That Gus was unable to get performance from Trotter/Moseley/Frazier was why the offense failed, not because Chizik wanted to slow things down. What will fix our offense is getting guys to open holes in the line, getting a QB that can go through his progressions without panicking, and getting some WRs to step up and become reliable. That will fix any offense you want to run.

Corey Grant will shine! Everything i’ve heard about him has been good

I said this a long long time ago. Phillip Marshall has also been saying it since Clemson. I’ve said this over and over again-Do you think that was the same offense that put up over 40 points on Mississippi State? Go ahead and bury your heads in the sand folks, but the truth is there. I can’t see how you don’t see it. I just don’t understand it. Unless you’re blind and downright dumb or just being too freaking stubborn, there was a different offense that started playing in the second half of Clemson.

Look, I’m not even saying that I disagree necessarily with Chizik’s decision. I’m just saying that it’s there. I don’t need information from a source to know it happened. All I have to do is look at football and study to know the immediate shift in philosophy.

Guys, don’t you think that both Chizik and Gus can have class? Damn, Colonel you especially just WILL NOT give any credit to Coach Malzahn and it down right makes me want to puke brother. The man is a good coach get over it. Chizik is also a good coach. Gene’s overall responsibility is to the program. Gus is supposed to work towards maximum offensive production. This season, the team just did not have the depth to run his offense properly and Gus’s main weakness was that he could not adapt. No, Gus is not good at adapting. But, his schemes when left alone are as good as anybody in the country.

to compensate for weaknesses on both sides of the ball. I don’t see Chiz being all control freakish with Malzahn OR Roof…there’s just only so much that you can do with a weak offensive line……

What I found interesting is that Chiz kept saying that Kiehl Frazier was understanding the offense better, but I didn’t really see anything different out of Frazier (granted he wasn’t calling his own plays)-but he did seem more secure with the ball and didn’t throw any ill-advised balls.

I wish Malzahn the best! He’s a great coach; Arky St is lucky!!