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LSU
Charley McClendon - fired and then asked to stay on an additional year (Billy Cannon applied pressure)
Bo Rein - killed in a plane crash mere weeks after taking the job
Jerry Stovall - fired after 4 years
Bill Arnsparger - left for Florida AD after 2 Sugar Bowls in 3 seasons
Mike Archer - fired after 4 years
Curley Hallman - fired after 4 years
Gerry DiNardo - fired after (almost) 4 years
Nick Saban - left for NFL
Les Miles - fired early in his 12th season after signing a new contract
Ed Orgeron - fired midway through his 5th season as permanent head coach
Brian Kelly - fired midway through 4th year

LSU has fired 8 head coaches since 1979.
 
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selmaborntidefan said:
Ears and Shula were the only two fired for PERFORMANCE. Technically, so was Red Drew, who just stepped aside (under pressure) but remained a university P.E. teacher and the track team coach. DuBose resigned but would have been canned anyway - and given what dropped on our doorstep on his way out of town (the Albert Means scandal), he should have been.

Price's firing was for what in the old days would have been called moral turpitude.
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Ou; just plain stupidity
 
BamaMoon said:
Curry, Shula, Price (non-football reason who never coached a down other than spring practice).

What about Ears Whitworth? Did he resign OR did Coach Bryant just kick him out of T-town?

I was thinking Mike Dubose, but someone said he resigned.

We actually won alot of games under Curry, but he couldn't win "the" game that mattered most.

Other than those years, the "3 Mikes" have to be our darkest years, which include the Tubberville, 6-finger years.
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I consider Dubose as fired, I don't recall the precise semantics

Curry left for UK after we gave him a contract extension/offer he didn't like

And I was starting with Bryant's era, since other fans are quick to say we fire guys quickly because they're not as good as Bryant
 
Joefus said:
Got bored on my commute and checked out the aufamily board. They seem to believe you can get a negotiated buyout bc freeze was golfing during the week of games. While that’s hilarious I doubt it’s enough to leverage a negotiated buyout . So either their fans are full of it (yes) or there’s some tea about to be spilt 🍿🍿🍿
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I know people at the same country club. He was there all the time playing golf, recruiting season, game weeks, etc.
 
selmaborntidefan said:
LSU
Charley McClendon - fired and then asked to stay on an additional year (Billy Cannon applied pressure)
Bo Rein - killed in a plane crash mere weeks after taking the job
Jerry Stovall - fired after 4 years
Bill Arnsparger - left for Florida AD after 2 Sugar Bowls in 3 seasons
Mike Archer - fired after 4 years
Curley Hallman - fired after 4 years
Gerry DiNardo - fired after (almost) 4 years
Nick Saban - left for NFL
Les Miles - fired early in his 12th season after signing a new contract
Ed Orgeron - fired midway through his 5th season as permanent head coach
Brian Kelly - fired midway through 4th year

LSU has fired 8 head coaches since 1979.
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I didn't realize Miles was at LSU for 12 years. I would've guessed 5 or 6.
 
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mlh said:
I didn't realize Miles was at LSU for 12 years. I would've guessed 5 or 6.
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I just caught part of Auburn AD John Cohen’s press conference talking about the dismissal of Reverend Freeze. Cohen said one of the most “little brother” things ever to come out of a Barner AD’s mouth.

Cohen was asked a question concerning the Auburn football program being in a state of turmoil, now needing what will be its fourth coach in past seven years and how much of that turmoil could be related to “outsider” influence on the program (the reporter didn’t say it but he was saying “booster influence”)?

Cohen immediately said (paraphrasing) “in his three years at Auburn not ONCE has that ever occurred. Auburn doesn’t have issues with outside influencers and, as far as he knows NEVER has”. Then he couldn’t help but “throw the shade”.

“I don’t know where that stuff comes from. Probably another part of this state….” (I’m looking at you, Tuscaloosa..).

In other words, the problems Auburn football has been experiencing according to Cohen are cause by BiG BROTHER across the state.

I was listening on WJOX in B’ham. Landrum Roberts, a former Auburn player that does the midday show with Pat Smith, picked up on the “shade” immediately saying “well I don’t know how it is now since Cohen has been there, but I can say that hasn’t been the case in the past (basically saying barn boosters ALWAYS are involved in decisions). I appreciated Landrum’s honesty in that moment.
 
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CB4 said:
I just caught part of Auburn AD John Cohen’s press conference talking about the dismissal of Reverend Freeze. Cohen said one of the most “little brother” things ever to come out of a Barner AD’s mouth.

Cohen was asked a question concerning the Auburn football program being in a state of turmoil, now needing what will be its fourth coach in past seven years and how much of that turmoil could be related to “outsider” influence on the program (the reporter didn’t say it but he was saying “booster influence”)?

Cohen immediately said (paraphrasing) “in his three years at Auburn not ONCE has that ever occurred. Auburn doesn’t have issues with outside influencers and, as far as he knows NEVER has”. Then he couldn’t help but “throw the shade”.

“I don’t know where that stuff comes from. Probably another part of this state….” (I’m looking at you, Tuscaloosa..).

In other words, the problems Auburn football has been experiencing according to Cohen are cause by BiG BROTHER across the state.

I was listening on WJOX in B’ham. Landrum Roberts, a former Auburn player that does the midday show with Pat Smith, picked up on the “shade” immediately saying “well I don’t know how it is now since Cohen has been there, but I can say that hasn’t been the case in the past (basically saying barn boosters ALWAYS are involved in decisions). I appreciated Landrum’s honesty in that moment.
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When you are asking boosters to pass around the offering plate every few years for millions to buyout a coach and now every single year to ante up for NIL, it goes without saying that the boosters are toiling within the program, and probably more than they need to.
 
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cdub55 said:
When you are asking boosters to pass around the offering plate every few years for millions to buyout a coach and now every single year to ante up for NIL, it goes without saying that the boosters are toiling within the program, and probably more than they need to.
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Cohen comes over from Mississippi State three years ago and in that short period of time already has the Auburn “little brother syndrome” down to a science. Was MSU always under the shadow of the school up in Oxford when he was there?

Here’s the thing: Auburn will always be Auburn and never will be Alabama. And deep down they can’t stand it. I’ve got two kids that graduated from the delusional little village on the Plains. They married Barn grads. They can’t be happy with any success they have because they, deep inside, have to compare it to what happens in Tuscaloosa.

Cohen just confirmed the notion. He’s discussing the Auburn program but somehow has to bring in Tuscaloosa into the conversation. When was the last time you’ve heard an Alabama AD mention them in course of that discussion? How about never.
 
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CB4 said:
I just caught part of Auburn AD John Cohen’s press conference talking about the dismissal of Reverend Freeze. Cohen said one of the most “little brother” things ever to come out of a Barner AD’s mouth.

Cohen was asked a question concerning the Auburn football program being in a state of turmoil, now needing what will be its fourth coach in past seven years and how much of that turmoil could be related to “outsider” influence on the program (the reporter didn’t say it but he was saying “booster influence”)?

Cohen immediately said (paraphrasing) “in his three years at Auburn not ONCE has that ever occurred. Auburn doesn’t have issues with outside influencers and, as far as he knows NEVER has”. Then he couldn’t help but “throw the shade”.

“I don’t know where that stuff comes from. Probably another part of this state….” (I’m looking at you, Tuscaloosa..).

In other words, the problems Auburn football has been experiencing according to Cohen are cause by BiG BROTHER across the state.

I was listening on WJOX in B’ham. Landrum Roberts, a former Auburn player that does the midday show with Pat Smith, picked up on the “shade” immediately saying “well I don’t know how it is now since Cohen has been there, but I can say that hasn’t been the case in the past (basically saying barn boosters ALWAYS are involved in decisions). I appreciated Landrum’s honesty in that moment.
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I think Cohen's statement receives 4 Pinocchio's
 
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All Cohen is saying is y'all think it's a problem when we, aubrens, have absolutely no problem with meddling boosters.
 
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CB4 said:
Cohen comes over from Mississippi State three years ago and in that short period of time already has the Auburn “little brother syndrome” down to a science. Was MSU always under the shadow of the school up in Oxford when he was there?

Here’s the thing: Auburn will always be Auburn and never will be Alabama. And deep down they can’t stand it. I’ve got two kids that graduated from the delusional little village on the Plains. They married Barn grads. They can’t be happy with any success they have because they, deep inside, have to compare it to what happens in Tuscaloosa.

Cohen just confirmed the notion. He’s discussing the Auburn program but somehow has to bring in Tuscaloosa into the conversation. When was the last time you’ve heard an Alabama AD mention them in course of that discussion? How about never.
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You would sort of expect better from Cohen given he is a Tuscaloosa native...
 
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