Neuheisel says Briles to Auburn
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Petrino & UL are showing a glowing example of how winning at all cost is all that matters in CFB
Auburn and maybe LSU will be very interesting stories to watch this off season. I've been saying for over a year now that Tom Herman will be the next head coach at LSU but Auburn may come calling first.
I don't see any reason for a program like Auburn to take on a coach with as much negativity attached to him as Art Briles...it makes no sense. Auburn is one of the top 20 jobs in college football.
I don't see any reason for a program like Auburn to take on a coach with as much negativity attached to him as Art Briles...it makes no sense. Auburn is one of the top 20 jobs in college football.
Auburn would never hire a scandal-ridden coach.
Pre Bruce Pearl Auburn basketball might have beeen one of the worst Power 5 programs in the country That's a tiny bit different than Auburn football.
I'd hire him in a new York minute. Im ready to get off of t
Auburn has little brother syndrome with Alabama to the extreme. Such a syndrome leads to drastic actions. Cheating, firing coaches left and right, it is what they do because they hate living in Bama's shadow. That job has no security whatsoever. However, if you are loved you become one of the Auburn family and that is a close knit family. They absolutely would hire Briles.
It works the other way as well. It doesn't sit well with Bama nation if you lose to Auburn too much. It doesn't matter how successful you are other wise.
It works the other way as well. It doesn't sit well with Bama nation if you lose to Auburn too much. It doesn't matter how successful you are other wise.
The conversation at Auburn about Petrino isn't probably as fever pitched as it is here - after all, he's not in their own backyard, right in their face like he is here with us. But my guess is the Auburn faithful are also well aware, just like UK fans, that Petrino wanted an interview with them about the opening when Chizik was run off, and the AD there wouldn't even talk to him. And here we are, a few short years later. Auburn might be the most dysfunctional football saga place in the whole world (just ahead of LSU on the crazy scale). While the whining and carrying on here about passing on Petrino will get a little attention but in the end won't be noticed much, down there it's a different story altogether. Whomever that AD was, if he's still there, he knows by now that passing on Petrino for Malzahn was the ultimate form of stupidity and betrayal, and further such will result in he and his family spending remaining days in Siberia. Point: whereas Barnhart's passing on BP won't necessarily cause any different reaction this time around re Briles, down there, they likely have already interviewed Briles 4 times. heh.
Because the end of the day, as long as they win, the boosters will send in the cash. If Briles is as good as advertised, Auburn wins games.
We have a lot of sensitive fans here that are living in a glass house.
When you really think about it, how much negativity did the UofL program take when hiring Petrino. Maybe a couple of days of sports center and a day of Sunday conversation. It was just mentioned maybe one short time in his first couple of games by the commentators and then not a mention. I would trade a week of bad press for a top 3 football team.
Auburn has had its share of scoundrels before. Drunk Pat Dye comes to mind.
Well..as its been discussed on this site ad nauseam the difference between Briles alleged discretions and Petrino's discretions is pretty big. See the article below as evidence for what I mean.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/while-...be-as-smooth-as-bobby-petrinos-150748328.html
Also, Louisville football isn't Auburn football...Louisville has to take on "risky" hires such as Petrino and Auburn doesn't. I was 100% all in on Petrino being re-hired because I knew going into the ACC we needed a big time hire and Petrino was the obvious choice despire baggage. Auburn can just about pick their coach...I can see coaches shying away from not wanting to be in the SEC West and fighting with Bama and LSU every year and being constantly in Bama's shadow in their own state...but for the most part Auburn can do better than Art Briles and avoid a media backlash all together.
There will be some talking heads that harp on it until a point when nobody is listening - which is usually about the time Auburn knocks off somebody like A&M or LSU or Bama.
You don't know much about Auburn do you? This is a school that was on the verge of losing their accreditation a few years back for creating an independent study program to keep athletes eligible and had a good percentage of their normal students taking them. Only thing was there was no work assigned, no syllabus, nothing, just an A at the end. Had players make the dean's list who ended up not being able to read their contracts. They are doing all of this to beat Alabama, they will hire a coach who they feel gives them a good chance to beat Bama regardless of what he has done. I don't think people realize how serious the people in Alabama take this rivalry. Friends/neighbors/family have shot and killed each other over the result of this game, and this isn't a one time event, its happened multiple times. I am not sure Gus will survive with 8 wins if one of them isn't a Bama win, lose to LSU and MSST he could be gone, with Arky, Bama, OM left Auburn will be looking at last in the West again and no bowl game again.
Auburn, like 90% of all other programs, doesn't give a rats *** about playing tip toe the line.
There are tens of millions at stake. There is an entire department on campus that depends on winning for job security. Just as well there are businesses near campus that no doubt do better when the tigers are relevant.
NCAA isn't going to do anything. They're losing legitimacy and power by the day.
The risk for programs is no longer hiring the coach with baggag but not hiring the coach with baggage.
There is too much money at stake for the NCAA to go around and deliver significant punishments to programs that are getting the ratings and making the money.
The NCAA has essentially been relegated to a ceremonial figure head. Kind of like a Professor Emeritus.
What does Auburn have to worry about. If Briles slips up they'll get to form their own in house "investigative committee" and essentially be counsel, judge, jury and executioner.
There are tens of millions at stake. There is an entire department on campus that depends on winning for job security. Just as well there are businesses near campus that no doubt do better when the tigers are relevant.
NCAA isn't going to do anything. They're losing legitimacy and power by the day.
The risk for programs is no longer hiring the coach with baggag but not hiring the coach with baggage.
There is too much money at stake for the NCAA to go around and deliver significant punishments to programs that are getting the ratings and making the money.
The NCAA has essentially been relegated to a ceremonial figure head. Kind of like a Professor Emeritus.
What does Auburn have to worry about. If Briles slips up they'll get to form their own in house "investigative committee" and essentially be counsel, judge, jury and executioner.
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Petrino has played nice and is a changed man. Just listen to Jurich.
Briles has a lot more baggage and the longer he stays on the forefront and the more that comes out the "cleaner" BP looks by comparison, sadly.
Auburn was willing to go after BP when he had a job and they had a coach-TT. The fact that no one bothered to check to see that they both had the same agent resulted in both making mucho money from Auburn's mistake.
If UL doesn't make any big mistakes and makes the playoffs and if Auburn crashes and burns, especially on offense, I can see them paying whatever it takes to get BP.
I can then see TJ skipping Brohm and going for Briles.
Briles has a lot more baggage and the longer he stays on the forefront and the more that comes out the "cleaner" BP looks by comparison, sadly.
Auburn was willing to go after BP when he had a job and they had a coach-TT. The fact that no one bothered to check to see that they both had the same agent resulted in both making mucho money from Auburn's mistake.
If UL doesn't make any big mistakes and makes the playoffs and if Auburn crashes and burns, especially on offense, I can see them paying whatever it takes to get BP.
I can then see TJ skipping Brohm and going for Briles.
The reality is that we don't know what baggage Briles has. Currently any evidence regarding what happened at Baylor has not been revealed. My guess is that Baylor takes the Tennessee route and pays everyone off. If that happens then Briles can easily sell himself as the fall guy. Even if he doesn't it will all be forgotten very quickly. Look at Butch Jones as a prime example of this. The only difference between the two is that someone at Baylor decided to make a stand, while Tennessee decided to be completely complicit in the whole thing.
I'm going to say this: Petrino won't leave Louisville for the SEC, because the road to a championship is much easier at Louisville at this point. Keep an eye on Texas, instead.
I see you do this on every thread about Briles and I don't get the point. Everyone in America knows what he's been accused of...he hasn't been proven guilty yet but everyone knows what his "alleged" discretions are. Obviously we don't yet know his level of involvement but the point was that until we do based on what he's been accused/associated with it would be very unwise for any school to hire him until his name is cleared based purely on the heinous nature of what he's being accused of. What if Auburn hires him and a female comes forward with evidence proving Briles knew? These are rapes being covered up, not dumb NCAA rules.
I don't think any SEC school is ever going to hire Petrino.
And I don't think any school will ever hire Briles. It's not just how he ran the program. But the forgotten story is how he blackmailed Baylor on the way out. He made it known he would talk for the victims unless he got his buyout from Baylor. No AD wants his baggage and the spectre of what this guy could take them for.
And I don't think any school will ever hire Briles. It's not just how he ran the program. But the forgotten story is how he blackmailed Baylor on the way out. He made it known he would talk for the victims unless he got his buyout from Baylor. No AD wants his baggage and the spectre of what this guy could take them for.
The "media backlash" for Briles to Auburn would last only a few days. Then, just win baby!
Regarding UK - only a righteous fool wouldn't trade Stoops for Petrino right now.
Look at how many millions$$ are going to be wasted on "that safe Stoops hire", thanks to Mormon Mitch.
It's crazy that Auburn's last 2 coaches took them to the championship game and then completely fell off the map.
For that matter Tuberville did almost the same thing going undefeated and then struggling to compete. That's a weird pattern for Auburn.
I guess the moral of the story is that whoever they hire will have them in the playoff in the next 4 years and then get fired 2-3 years later.
For that matter Tuberville did almost the same thing going undefeated and then struggling to compete. That's a weird pattern for Auburn.
I guess the moral of the story is that whoever they hire will have them in the playoff in the next 4 years and then get fired 2-3 years later.
No, hiring Briles woild bring much more heat. The kind of people who organize and bring media attention don't care about NCAA sanctions.
But they do care about rape. Think of that Stanford swimmer that raped the unconscious girl. that didn't blow over. He got heat. Judge got heat. There's going to be a lot off women, on campus and in the media that will speak up about a coach that covers up rape.
You might be right but I wish we were winning and going to a bowl....how long do we have to wait?
Yes, they are the perfect program for Briles. They are a totally desperate almost super power in college football, but always little brother to Alabama. They would literally hire satan if they thought it would improve their chances against Bama.
Before Bama hired "The Bear" Auburn Shug Jordan was the man in Alabama and for that matter a king pin in The SEC. I lived in Georgia in late fifties and early sixties and it was well known Auburn played by their own rules. Auburn has many, many deep pocket alumni that do their best to see that tradition lives on. Been very little tenure being a Auburn football coach since Pat Dye! Jmo but if Gus does not win 90% of his games this year and loses to Bama he's gone.
You got me started....
The NCAA is much more concerned about political correctness and secular liberal progressivism (see their punitive action against the state of North Carolina regarding the bathroom law, cracking down on Native American nicknames, etc) then they are in upholding standards of fair play in the classroom and the playing field (witness their leniency against the UNC Tar Heels, looking the other way against Auburn's many transgressions, etc).
Like the United Nations, the NCAA is a worthless organization.
You need to move down to Alabama then you would understand just how important it is for Auburn fans to win over Alabama. These fans of both teams would never find anything wrongmwithmany coach who can beat the other.
Think UK vs. UL and times it 1000 times to understand that riverary
Briles to Au and Petrino to LSU. If LSU comes calling for Petrino I would put money on it. He can stay within a 100 mile recruiting radius and have a top 10 top 5 class every year. Plus he would probably land a #1 class almost garuntee every few years. I dont ever remember LSU having a class ranked les then 15-20 . That is a horrible recruiting year for them. I also bet the qb situation would get fixxed for them within couple seasons without a doubt. So can LSU pay him big? YES. Would his main recruiting area be better then it is now? Yes, probably top 3 area in nation, Is it a bigtime program? Yes top 3 program in SEC only probably BAMA and UGA BETTER. Would he love a chance to try and dethrone Saban and Bama from the SEC west? I bet your *** he would and I bet he would love the challenge. I know if Louisville fans read this it is no disrespect he has things ticking at UL but look what he would have at LSU. If LSU come calling I bet its atleast 50/50 he would leave. I say LSU will do everything they can to try and sway Petrino. That would be some intense coaching wars and recruiting wars LSU VS BAMA year in and out! Hell I would try and go to one of those gere and there.
Briles will be the first AU contacts, he is currently unemployed and I would be surprised if contact hasn't already been made by AU in some manner. If Briles doesn't take it, then you can bet Petrino is next in line, he may not take it either, but to bet he won't leave a place is a foolish bet, especially for someone he has already ran out on. Like I said, he may not, but no one can be sure what Bobby Petrino is thinking, he may want to match wits with Saban every year and coaching at AU will guarantee that, he will recruit better than he ever did at Arky because AU spares no expense on recruiting.
As for as the NCAA is concerned, AU couldn't care less, any charges their response is, "Prove It" and goes on about the business. They know the NCAA can't really do anything if you don't admit to wrong doing and they lawyer up and shut up.
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Im in the U.S.A. its innocent until proven guilty well thats what I thought. Kentucky should try before one of the Big dawgs snatchs him up. Turn us into a Big Dawg!
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