Sunday, November 25, 2012
Auburn fires Gene Chizik after four years as coach | al.com - Charles Goldberg - Chizik told the assistant coaches he was fired Saturday night after losing to Alabama 49-0. - Athletics Director Jay Jacobs fired all the assistant coaches after Chizik told them of his fate. The assistant coaches were told they could apply for a job with the new head coach.
But Can They Eat 50 Eggs? - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - “Coach said you’re just like Cool Hand Luke,” a reporter said to Robert Griffin III, after the Baylor graduate and Heisman Trophy winner returned home to Texas on Thanksgiving and scored four touchdowns to lasso the Dallas Cowboys, the Redskins’ biggest rival. “Do you know who Cool Hand Luke is?” - The 22-year-old Griffin did not. But he laughed, shaking his braids held back with a silver headband, and observed, “He must be pretty cool.”
Scarbinsky: Gene Chizik won't be able to dodge his fate at Auburn much longer | al.com - Back in the real world, it's expected that Auburn will announce any day now that Chizik will be replaced and that some type of search committee - including embattled athletics director Jay Jacobs - will be looking for his replacement. - According to the Auburn source, it appears that the behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to keep Jacobs, led by former Auburn trustee Earlon McWhorter, is going to succeed, at least in the short term. There's still the unresolved issue of the current NCAA investigation into the football program.
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