Gene Chizik is not a rabbit. He is a one-legged hamster that spends most of his day running in his stationary wheel and the rest sleeping in his own excrement. He smells bad and has no friends.

What a beautiful synopsis!

although I find it interesting that every Barner seems to blame the administration for this. Never coming close to considering that maybe its the fact that Tubbs was the best they could get, that nobody good wants to coach at Auburn, that they ARE stepchildren and always well be. No, that can’t be it, its the admins fault, they want us to fail.

The Iowa State blog, Clone Chronicles, asks the question we’ve all been asking….

Who’s honestly more confused in this clusterf*** of a coaching circus?

And Team Speed Kills has the answer….

I’ve been turning it over in my mind all day, trying to make sense of it — Gene Chizik to Auburn, Gene Chizik to Auburn — and finally gave up. It makes no sense.

Although the reaction over at Missouri blog, Rock M Nation, is more akin to the general populace…

I’m speechless.

Closer to home DawgSports makes a typically profound observation…

Chizik’s hiring is further proof that people are more comfortable with the demonstrated incompetence they know than almost any unknown quantity (Exhibit B? Wade Phillips, of course.)

And the Valley Shook points out something most have left unspoken…

I think the Black Coaches Association will and probably should make a big stink over this hire. Not all hirings of white coaches are offensive, but when a retread like Gene Chizik gets a big pay raise after failing at his previous job, while coaches like Turner Gill and Dewayne Walker are passed over, they have every reason to complain.

ATVS is also planning a Gene Chizik firing watch graphic that “will count up the time, 1970’s Iran Hostage Crisis-style” from his hiring until his inevitable dismissal. How awesome is that?

haha like they know what they are talking about

… the man hath arrived!

There was once a time when you could asked me about Jay Jacobs. And I would ask “Who is this man you speak of?” Well, last saturday I realized that he was my friend all along. He that has brought us an early christmas present is nothing short of brilliant, generous, and just a stand out guy. He said that he was going to find the right coach for the job and boy did he deliver. This Brilliant Architect of college athletics has given us what we have been craving, at least 4 years of total silence from the Auburn Nation (2 for Chizik’s tenure, and 2 more for breaking in the new coach.) Not since Jolly ‘ole Saint Nick brought us bountiful gifts of Julio Jones and Terrence “Mount” Cody have i been so Jolly. I will be sending him a Christmas Card, inclosed in it will be a $25 dollar gift card to Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Here’s to ya good friend!!

With love,

Your #1 Fan!!!