This, everyone, is the Auburn job in a nutshell: on the day Gene Chizik was hired, he was booed at the airport by fans.
On the day he was fired, he was only two years removed from winning a national championship.
If Auburn cares about winning football games above all else, it will hire Bobby Petrino. (AP Photo)
Step up, potential suitors. The hardest job in America is now open for business.
Bring your thick skin and strong back—and a plan to compete with the best coach and best organization in college football that has sucked the life out of the state of Alabama.
In times like these, when the reality of failure is front and center, it’s useless to lament on why it happened but instead focus on how it can get better. How can Auburn, which proved two years ago it can compete with big brother Alabama and win it all, get back to playing among the SEC elite?
It will, more than anything, take, a daring, dynamic hire.
You want to send a message to the high school recruits in the South? You want to show Alabama and Nick Saban that—forget about pretenses—you’re in it to win football games?
Hire Bobby Petrino.
He’s not a choirboy. He has baggage and he has a dark history and he’s liable to again go off and do something to embarrass himself or a university.
You know what else he is? A winner.
You know what else he does? Wins without NCAA issues.
When you really dig down to what matters most in this day and age, it’s winning and winning without cheating. All the other stuff—graduating players, molding young men; what coaches should do—can be overlooked if you win.
It’s not right, but you better believe it’s reality.
Hiring Petrino means Auburn gets one of the game’s best offensive minds, and without a doubt, the best play caller on any level of football. The Tigers also get a surly and combative leader for the most important program at the university.
It gets a man who, in previous jobs, has proven he can be an insufferable tyrant. He doesn’t really like people; he’s driven to the point of obsessive behavior in order to reach the only goal that matters.
Gee, who does that sound like? Imitation, everyone, is the sincerest form of flattery.
Auburn needs someone who knows the SEC; who knows what it takes to recruit in the meatgrinder of a league. More than anything, Auburn needs someone who can make Nick Saban and Alabama work harder at winning.
It needs a coach who isn’t afraid of the hardest job in America.
Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs issued an open letter to fans on the school’s website, stating benchmarks by which the next coach will be hired.
“Those benchmarks,” Jacobs wrote, “are a track record as a proven winner, a commitment to playing within the rules and student-athlete academic success.”
Nowhere in there did it say choirboy.
Be bold, Auburn.
On the day he was fired, he was only two years removed from winning a national championship.
If Auburn cares about winning football games above all else, it will hire Bobby Petrino. (AP Photo)Bring your thick skin and strong back—and a plan to compete with the best coach and best organization in college football that has sucked the life out of the state of Alabama.
In times like these, when the reality of failure is front and center, it’s useless to lament on why it happened but instead focus on how it can get better. How can Auburn, which proved two years ago it can compete with big brother Alabama and win it all, get back to playing among the SEC elite?
It will, more than anything, take, a daring, dynamic hire.
You want to send a message to the high school recruits in the South? You want to show Alabama and Nick Saban that—forget about pretenses—you’re in it to win football games?
Hire Bobby Petrino.
He’s not a choirboy. He has baggage and he has a dark history and he’s liable to again go off and do something to embarrass himself or a university.
You know what else he is? A winner.
You know what else he does? Wins without NCAA issues.
When you really dig down to what matters most in this day and age, it’s winning and winning without cheating. All the other stuff—graduating players, molding young men; what coaches should do—can be overlooked if you win.
It’s not right, but you better believe it’s reality.
Hiring Petrino means Auburn gets one of the game’s best offensive minds, and without a doubt, the best play caller on any level of football. The Tigers also get a surly and combative leader for the most important program at the university.
It gets a man who, in previous jobs, has proven he can be an insufferable tyrant. He doesn’t really like people; he’s driven to the point of obsessive behavior in order to reach the only goal that matters.
Gee, who does that sound like? Imitation, everyone, is the sincerest form of flattery.
Auburn needs someone who knows the SEC; who knows what it takes to recruit in the meatgrinder of a league. More than anything, Auburn needs someone who can make Nick Saban and Alabama work harder at winning.
It needs a coach who isn’t afraid of the hardest job in America.
Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs issued an open letter to fans on the school’s website, stating benchmarks by which the next coach will be hired.
“Those benchmarks,” Jacobs wrote, “are a track record as a proven winner, a commitment to playing within the rules and student-athlete academic success.”
Nowhere in there did it say choirboy.
Be bold, Auburn.
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