Jimbo?
Muschamp?
Butch?
Spurrier?
Johnson?
Gill?
Hoke?!
Dooley?!?
Garner?!?!
Nix?!?!?
Graham?!?!?!
Come on, Jay Jacobs, do the right thing and hire Turner Gill. Auburn needs to rock the college football world and send a message. Quit doing everything in your power NOT to hire him with these token interviews to Pat Nix and Rodney Garner. If recruiting is one of your main concerns, then hire Gill. He will be able to keep the majority of the committed players in the fold. Not to mention increase Auburn's footprint to Texas, the midwest and the northeast. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that he'll put people on his staff who are familiar with the southeast. But take a look at Buffalo's roster and you'll see there are a lot of kids from Florida and Texas on it. He recruited them to Buffalo!!!!! The coldest place ever. You think he can't get good kids to come to Auburn?
I don't see anyone else beating down Garner, Nix, Graham, Hoke or Dooley's door to hire them as their head coach. Jimbo isn't leaving FSU and Muschamp will leave to go back to Texas in 5 years. Spurrier is past his prime and will he have the patience to turn around AU's roster before he wants to retire? He is 65 years old after all. Paul Johnson and Butch Davis aren't leaving their cushy ACC jobs. And you say you want a head coach with SEC experience, Todd Graham doesn't have any.
Hire the best candidate. Hire Turner Gill.
Not to mention the added good publicity Auburn will receive nationwide. People will be talking about Auburn and this hire for the next couple of months. Pushing Alabama to the backburner. National media love Turner Gill and hate Nick Saban, give them added fuel to their fire. Get Tom Osborne in your corner. All of these things will just be a bonus added on top of getting the best coach available. If you don't, Jay Jacobs, someone else will and that football program will be the better for it.
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My Christmas wish is that Tubs gets his job back. Oh, that can't happen. Can Jay Jacobs be fired and then Tommy could have his job?
You laid out some good arguments. Maybe someone who has power realize that.
http://auburn.scout.com/a.z?s=6&p=2&c=820060
Check out my blog article on CFN. I have also emailed it to Jacobs and Gogue in response to the generic form letter they sent me when I first expressed my support for Turner Gill.
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