How long does Chizik last?

[heitclone]

Without a damn good season next year his seat will be very hot IMO. Maybe not enough to end it then.

With Bama winning the NC again his seat is already hot, with that said as the coach at Auburn beating Alabama is almost as good as winning a BCS game. Tubberville got the axe because of the combonation of losing to Saban and Saban winning/contending for BCS games and championships. I'd say Chizzer has at the most 2 more chances to beat Bama, if he doesn't get that done, he's done.

 

[Knownothing]

Auburn people are nuts. We would give a coach a lifetime contract if we won the National Title. They win the NC and go crazy because the recruiting classes are not up to snuff.
I would say his recruiting classes at Iowa State were pretty much the same. I think someone posted the ISU recruiting classes when Chizik was at Iowa State and a lot of players are just gone or never made it.

 

[PabloDiablo]

I'm hoping the combined loss of Dyer and Malzahn is enough to put them into a permanent tailspin.

Malzahn leaving for Sun Belt gig will irreparably screw Chiz at AU. Something fishy about a guy leaving a 1 mil OC gig to make 600k at Arky State . Also turned down Vandy at somewhere around 3 mil a year. Weird.

3 more years and then he will be Arkansas State coach.

Yeah, as DC under Malzahn!

 

[Acylum]

Sometimes I lay awake at night wondering how he won a NC. Other times I wonder if that's the worst thing he could've done for his longevity at Auburn.

 

[ISpyCy]

The day Cheez**** is fired is the day that ISU can proclaim they got the better end of that debachle.

Clock is ticking.....

 

[fwiw]

How priceless would it be to hear him trot out the 'firmly entrenched' phrase again??? Please oh please oh please oh please...

 

[HawkFanISUalum]

Chizik's contract buy-out numbers: Auburn's Gene Chizik has $10 million buyout in his contract for 2011 football season | al.com

 

[terryk]

3 more years and then he will be Arkansas State coach.

Arkansas State dc, he lost a recruit to the squaks today. Not good

 

[Cyclone27inQC]

He spent 90 seconds talking to the ISU players about his departure then ran out of town....90 seconds sounds just about right for his firing !

 

[CrossCyed]

He's not our coach anymore. Let's stop worrying about what the **** he's doing at Auburn and worry about ourselves.

 

[Clones85']

He's not our coach anymore. Let's stop worrying about what the **** he's doing at Auburn and worry about ourselves.

Why do we need to worry about either? Does it help?

This is a message board and last I checked Gene Chizik was a coach at ISU. People will ALWAYS talk about him and see what he's doing. Same as people will follow the careers of McCarney, Eustachy, and Floyd. Doesn't mean anybody is worried about it

 

[Cyclonefan89]

if we are right about him being the wrong coach for auburn, then that means charles barkley is right too. oh god

 

[Clones85']

if we are right about him being the wrong coach for auburn, then that means charles barkley is right too. oh god

No because Charles said Gill should be hired and we saw how much he sucked

 

[mikem]

This is soooo funny...Some Iowa State fans continue to prove how small time we are....Thanks for that..

People sit here and rip away on a coach that took a top 20 job. Sure he was a **** about it. But if kids talked the way to my children the way the Chizik's kids were talked to in school, I would get the **** out of here too...

The saddest, and MOST PATHETIC, part, is many of these same "fans" still worship at the alter of a guy that embodied the very mindset that JP. CPR. FH, BF, CJL, KJ, CI, and whoever else coaches here, is working to eradicate...A guy that went from the longest tenured coach in a BCS conference to a position coach, and begged for jobs for three years before ol' hayden, who spent 20 years openly hating Iowa State and doing everything in his power to bury the athletic department, helped him get the North Texas job.

No wonder this fanbase gets mocked repeatedly. You can't make this up...

 

[Frak]

This is soooo funny...Some Iowa State fans continue to prove how small time we are....Thanks for that..

People sit here and rip away on a coach that took a top 20 job. Sure he was a **** about it. But if kids talked the way to my children the way the Chizik's kids were talked to in school, I would get the **** out of here too...

The saddest, and MOST PATHETIC, part, is many of these same "fans" still worship at the alter of a guy that embodied the very mindset that JP. CPR. FH, BF, CJL, KJ, CI, and whoever else coaches here, is working to eradicate...A guy that went from the longest tenured coach in a BCS conference to a position coach, and begged for jobs for three years before ol' hayden, who spent 20 years openly hating Iowa State and doing everything in his power to bury the athletic department, helped him get the North Texas job.

No wonder this fanbase gets mocked repeatedly. You can't make this up...

Yeah, some fans are still a little bitter about Chizik. But I don't know that it is cause to draw conclusions on the fanbase. Honestly, I think that he did some decent things at ISU. He brought in KO, LJ, Benton, Rump not to mention Hammer, Reeves, Money, Darks, Burris, Maggitt, Klein, Broomfield, Lenz. Not a bad group of recruits. I still think that he would have done OK if he would have hired decent coordinators the second time around. That said, the best thing that he did at ISU was leave, because we're in a much better place now than we would have been if he had turned Auburn down.

As for Mac, I think that he did a great job bringing ISU from terrible to average. The problem was that that was where he topped out. A change needed to be made and it was.

 

[mikem]

Yeah, some fans are still a little bitter about Chizik. But I don't know that it is cause to draw conclusions on the fanbase. Honestly, I think that he did some decent things at ISU. He brought in KO, LJ, Benton, Rump not to mention Hammer, Reeves, Money, Darks, Burris, Maggitt, Klein, Broomfield, Lenz. Not a bad group of recruits. I still think that he would have done OK if he would have hired decent coordinators the second time around. That said, the best thing that he did at ISU was leave, because we're in a much better place now than we would have been if he had turned Auburn down.

As for Mac, I think that he did a great job bringing ISU from terrible to average. The problem was that that was where he topped out. A change needed to be made and it was.

Actually, it was more the efforts of Gene Smith...But, that led to BVD after he spent a bunch of money that we didn't have, and, well, you know the rest....

I am just trying to keep the conversation lively, of course, but it is funny that mac is absolutely the embodiment of "super bowl" ********...Till his last breath as coach, he stuck with that theme. "Glad we could make the iowa game a rivalry again, Jon"

Now the funny part is that when hawk fans say these things to us, soooo many on here get all offended, and upset. They look for every possible slight coming from the hawk fans to be upset about.

BUT then they turn right around and have AA's sponser game watches for North Texas...That is exactly what JP has been fighting for the time that he has been here.

But, at least he understands it. Now we have a pretty small time mindset of course. But he does understand that all he really has to do or say something against the hawks. The idiots come out, and go all tavern on here, and then the horribly offended cough up more money to the AD.

But the folks that angrily deride the hawks, then can't help themselves, because they personalize the coach. There were, and still are, people that were bigger fans of mac than they were of Iowa State. How many times did you hear six years ago, we could never do better than mac...OR, my personal favorite, he was a "victim of his own success..."

You hear our AD, and coaches talk about changing the culture, this is what they mean...