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How the Auburn coaching change impacts Georgia football

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How the Auburn coaching change impacts Georgia football

Welcome to Good Day, UGA, your one-stop shop for Georgia football news and takes. Check us out every weekday morning for everything you need to know about Georgia football, recruiting, basketball and more. How the Auburn opening impacts Georgia football In a year where many thought we wouldn't see much coaching

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ShoottheHooch

Freeze would be a nice compliment to Pearl at the Barn. The NCAA could set up an office on the Plains.

Dawg01

Land on his feet? I love Kirby, but it just tells you that they live in a different world.

He made $21MM the last three years and they are about to pay him another $21.5MM to leave.

Yes, I would say he will land on his feet.

MontanaDawg

" In June, Auburn estimated that the pandemic had cost the university $27 million. (That number has assuredly grown since then.) As a result, the school said it was imposing “cost-saving measures” for the 2020-21 academic year that included an elimination of annual merit pay increases and deferring projects. But remember: tough times never touch the football program at places like Auburn.

Auburn fired a coach with a better record in a tougher conference (.661 overall, .591 in the Southeastern Conference, with one SEC title and two SEC West titles) at similarly exorbitant expense. The total buyout figure for Gus Malzahn is $21.45 million, with more than $10 million of that payable within 30 days. It’s likely that Auburn then will have to turn around and spend millions more to buy out its next coach, and then additional millions on actually paying that new coach and its staff.

Because Malzahn, who never had a losing record at the school, had the temerity to go 6-4 in a 10-game SEC schedule. Four teams in the SEC have a better record than 6-4: Alabama (10-0), Texas A&M (7-1), Florida (8-2) and Georgia (7-2). Over Malzahn’s eight seasons, Auburn has the fourth-best record in the SEC, behind only Alabama, Georgia and LSU. The Tigers also join those three as the only teams to win the league title in the past eight seasons. Malzahn’s record against Saban was at 3-5 (though that was the best of any current SEC coach against the boss of the SEC.)

That’s pretty good. But not good enough at a school that has a case of TDS: Tide Derangement Syndrome "

-Pat Forde, Sports Illustrated

Texas did the opposite, and instead of spending $24 million to buyout Tom Herman's contract in a financially impacted pandemic year, they opted to keep him on as head coach.

reddawg1

Let's all pray that GUz makes it through the winter. I understand getting fired is humiliating(and a blow to the ego) in any circumstance but when the average person who knows the circumstances reads this, it's laughable.

reddawg1

Can't have top10 recruiting every year and not deliver in this day and age. You have to coach them up. Say what you want to about Saban but he get's the best out of his players more than anyone else, save for Dabo maybe. Just look at all the 1st rounders Saban puts in the League year-in and year-out. At least 3-5 more going in the next draft.

Supposedly we have done as well as BAMA the past few years in recruiting, but it doesn't show on the field, at least not yet. Hope for CKS's sake it will or else he will be just another GUS or CMR.

And we will have squandered an awesome array of talent.

Tripp

Josh Heupel would be my first offer, then maybe James Franklin or Kyle Whittingham.

I would say PJ Fleck from Minnesota but he just signed a 7 year extension last year.

UGA66

All SEC colleges cannot win. If the new Auburn hire continually beats UGA or if Florida does, you will find Smart in this position at some point in the future.....vicious cycle. It may take some time. So, we hire and fire until we get that perfect winning "coach"....just like they did with Muschamp....he attained god-like status at SC early on. Malzahn, the same scenario. Now both have buyouts we peasants can only dream about. Who needs to coach after receiving $21.45 million as a FAILURE! Ridiculous. IMO.

GardenDawg

Coach speak?