It’s that time again, where – oh, who are we kidding. Auburn is one Hail Mary pass away from being 0-5, and just lost to the Arkansas Razorbacks, a team Alabama beat 52-0 a couple weeks ago. The wheels are coming off the short bus down on the Plains, and so let’s see what the fans are saying on the Auburn message boards. As ever, spelling and grammar errors are in the originals.
"WE SHOUDLN’T HAVE TO FIRE HIM HE SHOULD QUIT LIKE HE DID 2DAY. Pathetic. HE HAS NO ABILITY TO MOTIVATE, NO PASSION, NO PRIDE. IT BREAKS MY HEART TO SEE MY BELOVED UNIVERSITY EMBARRASSED BY SOMEONE WHO OBVIOULSY DOESN’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT AU. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS. AUBURN DESERVES BETTER, THE FANS DESERVE BETTER AND THE PLAYERS DESERVE BETTER. I SUPPORT AUBURN AND OUR PLAYERS I DON’S SUPPORT A MAN WHO HAS NO MORE SPINE AND BACKBONE THAN THISIt won’t be long now until the bleeding stops. Just a little longer."
"The offense had a bye week to prepare. Guessing this is the best they’ll look against an SEC opponent, since Arkansas has been one of the worst in the SEC."
"Grimes should be drawn and quartered. If I did my job like that I would be beyond fired and I don’t make half a million a year. We are weak and don’t care if people run free right though the line. It is pathetic."
"Well, for the 3rd time for the year, I’m turning off the game"
"It’s time to pack it up and go home. The team has quit and the coaches will coach to not get blown out."
"Yes, please keep rotating QBs, that’s the problem."
"There must be a bammer on the staff with a buddy at fed-ex sending out our plays before the games…"
"Chiz shouldn’t last past Sunday. Make trooper the hc, and start the search. Wgas what effing espn says, this program will sink lower into the abyss if a change is not made."
"The Auburn family does not deserve this. It just doesn’t."
"It does not matter whom is quarterbacking this team. The offensive line will not or can not block anyone. We would have trouble scoring against air. Watch the replay of this game and count the number of arky defenders in our backfield every play."
"Would Kirby Smart be on a short list for HC?"
"the only thing the Auburn family Deserves are better fans. The biggest disappointment this season is our fan base. Acting like a bunch of spoiled brats. Its embarrassing."
"Dye, Tot, and Tubs were not big names when they were hired it is just not AU’s style."
"The only way JJ fires Chiz is if Chiz misses Bible study at Jay’s house on Wednesday night. It’s time to hire a new AD and then let him hire a real football coach."
"Is Chizik a genius? He gets most of if not all the fan base and Higher ups to buy into him and his stand up guy mentality. He underachieves over an over on the field but its because we are young. Recruiting classes keep getting everyone exited for the future with the talent that’s on the way. Guys don’t pan out and appear to never fulfill their potential and are past over by younger more “talented” players. Then a new class comes in and we start all over. It’s becoming a cycle that I hate. We could be young forever at this rate. I’m just so frustrated right now. The football product tht we are seeing is not acceptable at Auburn after a coach has been around this long."
"I am fairly certain Chizik sealed his fate around 2pm today my friends. When you have 2 weeks to prepare for a COACHLESS Arkansas Team with the worst Defense in College Football and your back is against the wall you absolutely have to win and do it convincingly. How your team performs after a bye week will tell you a lot about your Coaching Staff and their ability to prepare their team. Today you saw an inept offense that was unwatchable. I listened to parts of the game on the Radio and I promise you if Stan White could have spoken uncensored he would have told you the product on the field was absolutely terrible and no prepared. Today we got shut down by the worst Defense in College Football. Men, it is time for a change…starting with Jay Jacobs and on down with Chizik being let go…no one likes change but it is necessary in this case….Really no other option in my eyes. I hope that Jay Gouge and the board at Auburn man up and do it …otherwise they will see empty stadiums on Saturday."
"The other option is that Chiz will be back next year, will bring in a great recruiting class this year, and start working on improving this football team. Fans are always about “what have you done for me lately”. But there is a long-term plan in place and it is in effect, whether you like it or not."
"IT IS AMAZING THAT U guys who want someone like Petrino who walked away from the Falcons and disgraced his wife and family as well as a whole team with lies and just embarrassment blows my mind..I’ll tell U we would be so much better off with him right now..F@CK Petrino!…Who are y’all right now!…as long as we hang on to this class we currently have then we will be back in a couple of yrs with a good QB."
"So you want to avoid cBP bc of his lack of class… Then u drop the F bomb?I could stand the offense being bad if it at least had some kind of identity. It seems to me like we’re shaking a magic 8 ball to choose what plays to run. We don’t play to our strengths. We don’t set big plays up by showing false tendencies. We run maybe 4 running plays, three of those to the same damn side of the field every time. We don’t use our all american fullback but maybe 10 plays a game. We actually went no huddle, prairie dog for a good amount of plays yesterday. I’m just flummoxed. Are we a spread, shotgun team? Are we a power running team? Are we a play-action team? What the hell are we?"
"Hey!!! Instead of blaming the players Why doesn’t everyone blame the player development? Name on school that has had recruiting classes at or above ours over the past 4 years that is sucking like we are. Don’t worry, I’ll wait. We all get our hopes up about these so called studs out of high school but yet they never improve. That’s our problem, we can recruit with the best but once they get on campus they never improve like others do at bama, uga,lsu. If you don’t agree then please name me one person who has come in as a freshman under chiz and co that has gotten better. And don’t tell me lemonier cause he’s been a one trick poney the entire time."
"For all of you demanding a change be made I agree with you. But it must not begin and end with GC. It begins with Pat Dye finally riding off the AU campus, with Jacobs, Jackson, and THEN GC right behind him. I love PD, but his time has passed and has done almost as much harm as he has good for the program. Jacobs and Jackson are the laughing stock of collegiate athletic leadership….always have been. Things will never change at AU unless we clean house and hand over the keys to some real leadership….and call me crazy, but I believe, as I have for some time now, it would be best if that leadership DOESN’T have ties to the AU family."
"Notwithstanding I’m a Bammer according to some dip$hits This is not like ’98 and ’08. Those firings were not in question, they were inevitable. This isn’t that…no one is working against Chiznik, but his sorry ass has made his own bed. He’s 5-19 and 17-14, and if it weren’t for Trooper and Thig (which to his credit and California Corky’s, they did hire) his ass would already been gone. He’s a decent human, but a phuking disgrace on 7 levels as a coach."
"Pulling KF was a knee jerk reaction that is reminiscent of a sh*tty high school coache’s tactics. Just a bi*ch move trying to save his job by showing our sh*t administration that he’d give someone else a chance when in fact KF was performing better than we had ever seen him perform. Down 10-0, getting the ball coming out of the half, and you get that drastic is a huge sign of desperation and was an idiotic move. KF is ruined, if he ever might have been a decent player he won’t be now."
"Coah Dye meant the world to me. There were two givens growing up….hide when Daddy was in to the brown liquor and Coach Dye would have them ready to go on Saturday. To this day, and at the risk of sounding like a member of the Cult, I remember exactly where I was when it was announced he was resigning. All that said, he has pushed all-in, to borrow Chiznik’s phrase, on a J-3 off suit hand. PLEASE PHUKING STOP! I’m glad your boys rule the roost, but they suck. Pat, you wolud have been fired too if you had gone 4-8. More later…I’m getting hammered…"
"Do we have a live tiger now? I saw the cub on the sidelines today….is that something permanent? Sorry If I am out of the loop…just noticed it for the time today."
"We shoulda got a live chicken."