Just when we thought there was no way a program could top what Arkansas has been able to accomplish in such a short time, along came Auburn. The dumpster fire that has consumed the Razorbacks football program moved on to new ground on Saturday. It takes a hell of team to lose to Arkansas right now. A team would have to have a putrid QB, a terrible O-line, lack of a running game, pitiful defense, commit a ton of dumb penalties and have the most overrated national title winning coach is history. Add all that up and you have the Auburn Tigers.
Gene Chizik was a below average coach when he was hired from Iowa St. I still remember the "5 and 19" chants by the Auburn faithful as he was stepping off the plane his first day on the job. But Chizik was able to land prized recruit Cam Newton as his QB, and with the guidance of Offensive Coordinator Gus Malzahn the Tigers won the BCS Championship. All was well in Auburn for that one season. Apart from the botched NCAA investigation of improper benefits given to Newton things couldn't have been better. Then Newton decides to take his talents, and a pay cut, to the NFL and Malzahn leaves for a head coaching job. All of the sudden Chizik's coaching abilities, or lack there of, are shining through. You can try to make the argument that you can't blame all this on Chizik but it would be a terrible argument. What have they done post Newton/Malzahn to convince people other wise? They have still put together a couple of good recruiting classes but that just makes your argument look like a Kiehl Frazier pass. Auburn has talent. Next. They don't have a bunch of experienced starters. Neither does Alabama, how's that working out for Saban? Good coaches win a national title and build off it. Good coaches can lose coordinators and assistants and never miss a step. Average coaches can shell out a couple hundred thousand bucks to a couple elite players and coordinators and win a title. When they move on, winning packs it's bags and moves on with them and all that is left is a championship banner and a sorry excuse for a football team.
Auburn fans say that it was worth it. I'm not so sure.
If Arkansas's football program is a dumpster fire (and it is) then Auburn is a landfill burning bright at the bottom of the SEC.
And it ain't gonna get any better
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