Take a look here. (the video scroll on the right, "Did race play a factor in Auburn's hiring of Chizik?")
Finebaum had the most scathing remarks:
Jay Jacobs, first of all, is a pawn of the trustees at Auburn University and there was no way they were going to hire Turner Gill, even though he should have been hired. ... The plantation mentality exists at very high places at Auburn University and there was no way he was going to get the job.He finished with another blast of Jacobs and the trustees:
Auburn's been run by trustees for a long time. This school has been under investigation. Everyoen remembers five years ago when Bobby Lowder and others tried to get Tommy Tuberville fired in the middle of the night by bringing in Bob Petrino. They were under investigation. They almost lost the accreditation. But they haven't gone away. They're still running this program. And Jay Jacobs, the athletic director who wouldn't come on, might be the most incompetant athletic director in America. He couldn't go to the bathroom without asking Bobby Lowder or the Board of Trustees for permission.
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How can people say it was a racial decision not to hire Turner Gill!?!?!?!
What about Mississippi State, or Nebraska last year, or Clemson, or Tennessee or Syracuse??
Are they also racist, then, for not hiring Gill?
What about Iowa State? Will they be considered racist if they don't hire Turner Gill?
What a load of crap. Chizik was not my first choice either. But he's a hell of a coach and anyone who does his or her research would know that. Anyone who understands how rebuilding a program works and installing your system at a place where your ideas are foreign should see that it's not fair to judge Chizik on two years at Iowa State.
The difference is that his ideas are very similar with those of Tuberville. Since Tuberville was tired of being influenced by the administration, he left. But guess what, Chizik just may be the second coming of Tuberville.
And he's fresh, meaning not tired of the bull.
Finebaum, may be right about Jacobs being a pawn, but he is an idiot regardless. Finebaum can't stop ogling over Nick Saban long enough to give an impartial opinion of anyhing at Auburn. If Auburn had hired Turner Gill, Finebaum would be making fun of Auburn for hiring a guy with a 15-22 record from the MAC. Seriously, where is all this hype coming from about Turner Gill, he may have a better record than Chizik, but it's still a losing record and in a worse conference.
In my opinion Turner Gill would not have been a much better choice than Chizik. This business that he is such a greater coach is just ridiculous. It's almost like Gill is getting more credit because he is black. If Gill were a white man, we wouldn't have heard a peep from anybody that he should have been hired over Chizik. Auburn interviewed several coaches that were better than Gill and Chizik. How come we aren't hearing complaints about them not being hired?
I personally was a huge supporter of Turner Gill's hire.I see him as an up and coming championship coach. I love his integrity on and off the field, and I think he could teach the kids more than football. However, what Charles the Round Head of Rebound says is very disturbing. I am so disappointed that a man so Blessed by a university could make such asanine an unfounded statements in public.I believe his accusations are probably considered cause for legal action against him without his having evidence since hiring and firing because of race is illegal. At the very least it is deformation of character. I know he has the money to pay a good attorney and I wish Auburn University would make him use it. Woe be unto us if he is an icon for Auburn. He is an overgrown spoiled brat who didn't get his way!
as far as ESPN using finepam as a person to represent our local response and the way Auburn conducts it's athletic department...WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!!! does any journalist have a greater reputation for hating Auburn and loving Alabama.He would like nothing better than to scare every recruit that considers Auburn away, and he would do all he could to give the ncaa the impression Auburn was opperating inappropiately and worthy of probation. SHAME ON ESPN!!
Mr Bitter this is your opportunity to identify yourself as a journalist that support truth in journalism.If these claims are more than rumors and sour grapes then say what you can factuate. Otherwise do what you are in this position to do!
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