{"id":1326,"date":"2008-12-15T21:03:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T01:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/15\/trading-down-from-tommy\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T21:04:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T01:04:39","slug":"trading-down-from-tommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/15\/trading-down-from-tommy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading down from Tommy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am really not sure what Auburn was thinking when they fired \u2026 err \u2026 forced Tommy Tuberville to resign \u2026 err \u2026 accepted Tuberville\u2019s decision to step down \u2026 um \u2026 paid Tuberville 5 million plus to get the hell out of dodge.<\/p>\n<p>So the best Auburn could do was Gene Chizik.  WTF is a Chizik?  God bless you!<\/p>\n<p>I really do not get this one.  I can understand that the alumni are disenfranchised with Tuberville, and want to go in a different direction.  I can even understand calling on a former Auburn coach.  All that is well and good, but is Chizik the best Auburn could do?  How in the world is his hiring going to energize the fan base?  Are the recruits going to start singing the \u201cI needs me some Chizik\u201d song and dance, and come running to the Plains of Alabama?  Not likely.<\/p>\n<p>OK, let me get this out.  I have nothing against Chizik.  Probably a good man and his credentials certainly peg him as a damn good assistant coach.  Key word is <em>assistant<\/em> \u2013 it is not like he was on everyone\u2019s radar as the next great head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, poor Auburn is going to look back on this one in a few years and long for the days of Tuberville.  Funny how fast the faithful forget 13-0 seasons.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really not sure what Auburn was thinking when they fired \u2026 err \u2026 forced Tommy Tuberville to resign \u2026 err \u2026 accepted Tuberville\u2019s decision to step down \u2026 um \u2026 paid Tuberville 5 million plus to get the hell out of dodge. So the best Auburn could do was Gene Chizik. WTF is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/12\/15\/trading-down-from-tommy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trading down from Tommy.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}