I am so tired of everyone talking bad about Gene Chizik. Turner Gill has a decent resume, but to say that he is by far the best, is STUPID! Charles Barkley, Shut up....no one cares about your opinion. Go talk to Rev. Al Sharpton and get with him about it.
Turner Gill
1989- Graduate Assistant at Nebraska
1990-91 1 year each at North Texas and Southern Methodist (UNT & SMU)
1992-2003, 2004- Nebraska QB's Coach, WR's Coach
2005- Green Bay Packers Player Developement, assistant WR and Offensive Coach
2006- Present- Buffalo Head Coach, 06- 2-10, 07- 5-7, 08- 7-5 MAC Conference Title
Turner Gill has worked a number of positions. Nebraska was good during his tenure and he did help grow QB Eric Crouch into a Heisman candidate, but does that system translate any further than.......no where Nebraska. I like the Green Bay Packer thing, which would help him understand players coming into the pros and how to train College athletes into pros. Buffalo, they were one of the worst teams in FBS.........okay. But when you play in the MAC, that is totally different. You have Ball State who is the Jugernaut in that Division.......oooowwwww scary! He did build every season and make the team better but 7-5 doesn't mean your ready for the big time. I am sure Turner Gill will make a Great Head Coach at a Big Program, I just think he needs to prove himself next year. He should land a top job.
Gene Chizik
1988-89- Graduate Assistant for Clemson
90-91 Defensive Ends Coach for Middle Tenn. State
92-95, 96-97 Linebackers Coach at Stephen F. Austin, Defensive Coord.
98-01 Defensive Coord. & Secondary Coach for UCF
02-04 Defensive Coord. & Secondary Coach for Auburn
05-06 Co-Defensive Coord. & Assistant Head Coach & Linebackers Coach
07-08 Head Coach Iowa State
08 Hired as Auburn Head Coach
The only thing I can say about Auburn is that the Defense was already stout, it was the offense that needed help. Gene Chizik Clearly has a great resume as well. The determining factor was probably that he had been very successful at Auburn already. Everywhere he has been, Chizik has made the Defenses better. He has 3 Jim Thorpe Award winners under his watch ( Carlos Rogers, Aaron Ross, Michael Huff). Which all were first round picks in the NFL, along with CB Tarrell Brown 5th rounder, CB Cedric Griffin 2nd rounder FS Michael Griffin. His Head Coaching Tenure hasn't been that great. But really look at it. Iowa State is in the Big 12. It's not the MAC. You are going to have a Bad record trying to restore a Decent program in the Toughest Conference in FBS. Chizik has coached at the highest levels. He Dominated the SEC and stopped the BEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM EVER!!!!!!!!!! The 2005 USC team that could beat NFL Teams! To me, that is not too shabby. There is no way you can say that the MAC is better than the Big 12 or SEC. So, if the Auburn Community is comfortable with a Coach that made Auburn into a Stellar Defense......Let the man do his thing!
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Chizik was great Defensive Coordinator but his time as a head coach was a disaster. He inherited a 4-8 team and then they went 3-9 to 2-10 without a win over a BCS conference team. What ever "plan" Chizik had to turn around the program, it was only clear to him and the Auburn hiring committee.
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Barkley has really helped out his AU Tigers. Not only has he branded them as "stupid" but he also called them "racist". Thanks Charles. Roll Tide......
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The 2005 Trojans the best ever? LOL! The team that could beat pro teams? LOL! But they couldn't beat UT?
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That was Sarcasm....
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ESPN sure thought so every week leading up to that game ESPN passed out the verbal BJ's to thr USC team.
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I don't think either Chizik or Gill were better than what Auburn had with Tuberville. Chizik has been a disaster as a HC and Gill doesn't have the resume. Let's look at why Gill was being touted at all and just so we're comparing apples to apples, let's compare Gill to Brady Hoke. Both took bottom feeders in the same league to the top of the MAC and neither have prior Auburn or SEC experience. So why then was Hoke not considered? If you promote a coach simply because of the color of his skin, odds are you will fail in both your goals. . .your football team will not be good and the failure and firing of a black coach will not help the cause. But then I guess we American's select our president this same way, don't we? We take inexperienced first term senators and whisk them into the White House because we want to check-the-box in some eagerness to reach a racial milestone. People celebrate. There is dancing in the streets, but people are scared to disagree or criticize out of fear that their motives go no deeper than the color of the skin and the next thing you know. There is no oversight, no one questions anything. Next thing you know, 9/11 or something of that magnitude happens again. You don't fix racial problem with reverse racism. You don't fix racial problem by picking people just because they are black. Take race out of the equation, that is the very definition of the elimination of racism. Look at the resumes and look at the results and make your selection. To do anything but that, does a disservice to the individual and to the people counting on them. God help us all.
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