Game 9 Review: Irrelevant

Auburn 42 New Mexico State 7.  It sounded like a nice day and it is definitely good for the players to enjoy a win but unfortunately this game in the big picture is completely irrevelevant.  Those in leadership at Auburn have a lot of decisions to make and the clock is ticking.  So far off the field around Auburn has been a lot of noise and fury signifying nothing.  A new rumor about this or that comes out every hour yet so far no official action has been taken.  That in and of itself may not be that surprising but there is no clear indiciation of what actions may be taken later and that has become increasingly frustrating for most Auburn fans.

I might not know what those at the top are going to do but I do know that Jay Jacobs and his merry band are going to fight for their cushy jobs.  I guess I do not blame them because I do not think anybody else will hire them for any job remotely close to what they have now.  Yes these architects of this colossal failure that is now Auburn football appear to be working a lot harder to save their sorry butts than at their jobs at Auburn. 

I saw this week an official e-mail campaign to save Jay Jacobs.  Multiple published reports confirm associate athletic director Tim Jackson combing the luxury suites yesterday to drum up support.  Let me be real clear here, these men are the problem and completely cleaning out the athletic department is the only way for Auburn to start anew.  I do not care if Jacobs or anybody else is an "Auburn man" if he is completely failing at his job.  At this high level, if you mess up this bad you lose your job, it is as simple as that.  It has been one thing after another with Jacobs and his group.  It started with running off maybe the greatest college swimming coach ever, it continued through two seasons of continous unprofessional bickering with Tommy Tuberville and has finished us off with this even more unprofessional relationship with his "chosen one" Gene Chizik not to mention many other things. 

There is no point even discussing the merits of Coach Gene Chizik any more.  You go 0-8 and get skunked in conference with this team then you lose your job.  Again it is as simple as that.  You cannot make 3.5 million dollars with the highest paid assistants in the nation (or close to it) and be this bad.  Nobody in the country at any BCS school would keep a coach that did that.  End of story.  Some of us realized that Chizik was done after the Arkansas game and just about everyone else got there between Ole Miss and Vanderbilt.  The stragglers just about all came in after the Texas A&M massacre but for those very few left who are somehow still on the fence the Georgia and Bama games should take care of them.

Yes it is time for "Amen Corner" and we go into these games with no chance at all to win them.  The only thing that matters is the answers to these questions and I will keep posting them till they are answered...  "Who is in charge at Auburn? Will that person or group do what needs to be done and completely clean out the atheltic department? If not, how will they handle the inescapable fact that Jay Jacobs is a failure as an athletic director? How will a football coach be hired in the midst of all this? Can Auburn get a decent coach with all this going on?  Wrong answers and choices could lead to a prolonged down period for Auburn in football."