at this point, you wonder if the guy is afraid of the SEC unless he can coach at LSU
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at this point, you wonder if the guy is afraid of the SEC unless he can coach at LSU
I can understand turning down Auburn. For all Gus's faults as a coach, sane fans would look at his record at Auburn and say it was closer to justify getting a building named after you than getting you fired.
It's ballsy, but if he is hearing things about Orgeron and thinks that job will come up in a year or two, that's still to me the sweetest gig in the SEC, even better than Bama. And he'd be walking into the job already having connections all over Louisiana. He could consistently have a top ten team without leaving the state of Louisiana, and have a national championship team just recruiting regionally.
Napier will end up in Oxford when the dust settles this off-season. Auburn wanted to keep the defensive staff intact, and it was a deal breaker for Napier. Lane Train is quietly loading at the station, and headed to the plains.
He values full control above all other items, even historic prestige. Ole Miss will give him what he wants, including a ridiculous budget for staff salaries. Auburn has a leadership vacuum, and Napier found it hard to know who is in charge.
to recap: lane to auburn, napier to ole miss.
Auburn has multiple problems right now:
1) They just fired a coach with a very high win percentage in the middle of a pandemic. And they did it about 4 weeks into the season and everyone knew it.
2) They have one of the most meddling and power hungry influential alumni bases in the country. They probably aren't worse than Texas, but they are right behind them. Too many rich cooks in the kitchen and the attempted coup by Steele and some of those rich alumni highlighted that even more.
3) They are competing every single year with a Saban-led Bama team that's put together one of the best decades in the history of college football, Georgia who continually will compete for the SEC East, LSU, and Texas A&M. And if you don't routinely beat them you get fired like Malzahn did.
Auburn is a high expectations job that routinely competes against similar or higher expectations jobs. You are in state with Saban, and the coach that just got fired beat him 3 out of 8 times, which no one else has managed to do. And you are constantly battling Bama, Florida, Georgia, and LSU for recruits and are the least resource out of those 5 programs. Auburn isn't a great job right now. Saban has devalued its potential for success. That's not an idea situation right now.
Bert Stare... The Return
https://media1.tenor.com/images/8d06...itemid=4822649
Lane wants to beat Saban more than anything else and his Twitter antics would piss off Bama and Saban. I could see auburn fans wanting that.
Kirby didn't take the AU job because he wanted full control of the program and they told him no. They do have some who like to meddle over there.
BERT IS BACK
It's evident that Napier
1) Is scared to coach in the SEC
or
2) Is waiting for a blue blood job like LSU, which he won't get without another stop first.
Just a weird situation all the way around.
Nothing wrong with being selective, but I don?t think he will make a jump from UL Lafayette all the way to a top blue blood. He seems to be happy enough there for now so it?s possible he is just waiting for the right spot. He won?t be at Ole
Miss if he turned down Auburn, that wouldn?t make sense
I would love to know who Bert really is. C34 perhaps? Yancy? An owner of this site?
Let me say this. Yes I'm still hearing Kiffin to AU it's not dead yet. But I can tell you with 100% confidence if that happens Napier will not be in Oxford. You can book that one.
I don't know why he can't jump from ULL to a blue blood. Is being successful at ULL really less impressive than being successful at Houston? Obviously not a guarantee that it will happen, but if he shows sustained success with no drop off for four or five years, I think he will be a credible candidate. His challenge will be that Orgeron might get fired before people view his track record as long enough, and LSU would be the blue blood that makes the most sense for him.
I have a feeling Auburn wants Freeze as their first choice but that same feeling tells me Sankey will not allow it. I wonder if Auburn would to the Coach O/Pittman route. Outside of Freeze I?m not sure who they hire. I just hope it?s not Kiffin I want him to stay at Ole Miss so that they don?t actually hire someone that would be a legit threat
This is Bert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV84...alexanderpage4
All these SEC jobs he is turning down, I call bullshit. He is spinning every time he gets turned down.
Kiffin will end up in Auburn. Not saying Napier won't end up in Oxford BUT he's been linked to MSU, USCe and now Auburn. You don't "turn down" all three of those to take Ole Miss. and you sure as hell don't do that if you "value total control".
My guess is Matt Luke comes back and they slim it as he learned soooo much from Kirby.