Malzahn accepts Vandy offer

[Tigeman]

Rut Roh Auburn! We've seen how losing a guy right before the big game affects you.


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/terrapins-insider/2010/12/gus_malzahn_accepts_vanderbilt.html


The Post's Eric Prisbell has been told that Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn has accepted Vanderbilt's offer to become the Commodores' next football coach.

[silverwheels]

Vanderbilt is a dead-end job. They have no Athletic Director. They have the worst facilities in the SEC and a crappy stadium. Either they've pledged to spend more attention and money on football, or Malzahn knows Auburn is going on probation soon and he wants a temporary job in familiar territory until he can find a better one.

[bigfatjerk]

Wow! That's a big time hire by Vandy. They had a pretty good coach there for a long time in Bobby Johnson. He didn't win a ton but they were decent a few years back. If they are putting in this much money for a coach maybe they are putting more into that football program.

[waynepayne]

I just dont see a MNC bound OC coach going to a bottom dweller like Vandy unless he sees the writing on the wall.

[Tigeman]

Money talks, and it's a chance for him to get some HC experience, and in the SEC no-less.

His short, albeit successful, resume has always been the knock on him.


They also lose like 20 seniors next year, and Cam! GTFO while you can.

[silverwheels]

The Warshington Post is the only place I've seen this report. Nothing out of ESPN or Nashville yet, so I would hold off on this for now. Unless the Maryland OC mentioned in the article knows something and told the Post.

[Tigeman]

I got no problem citing the Washington post, when they say he's accepted.

Had they said contract talks were almost done, then I would have said nope, not listening. Especially had it been ESPiN. I believe the Post has a bit more journalistic integrity!

Also a Vandy insider was reporting this around 4 as well. Unless the Post is citing him :D

[bigfatjerk]

Washington Post isn't like TMZ or MSNBC or Fox News. I think this is probably right.

[silverwheels]

Washington Post isn't like TMZ or MSNBC or Fox News. I think this is probably right.

It probably is. But so many news outlets are trigger-happy with stuff like this.

[Tigeman]

Hey TMZ hasn't really ever been wrong so far so I'd definitely be listening to them! :D

[bigfatjerk]

Hey TMZ hasn't really ever been wrong so far so I'd definitely be listening to them! :D

Looks like they missed the mark on the Tiny Gallon stuff.

[Sooner_Tuf]

I just dont see a MNC bound OC coach going to a bottom dweller like Vandy unless he sees the writing on the wall.

Gene Chizik left Texas after a MNC to go to Iowa State.

[soonerchk]

I just dont see a MNC bound OC coach going to a bottom dweller like Vandy unless he sees the writing on the wall.

I like Gus and what he did at Tulsa, but yeah this makes no sense. Unless he figures they're about to be on probation over Cam Newton, and then it kind of would.

[silverwheels]

No Malzahn Yet (http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6270202/26398915)


Not saying it won't happen but Gus Malzahn to Vanderbilt hasn't happened yet.

That's what a source at the school told me Sunday night.

"I'm supposed to be in the loop," the source said. "Nothing has happened yet."

[tommieharris91]

No Malzahn Yet (http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6270202/26398915)

I'm the source for this.

[bluedogok]

If you go to Vandy and break .500 then you get attention from other teams. After all, Chizik went 3-9 and 2-10 at Iowa State and got the Auburn job. I think Malzahn is enough of a known commodity at this point that any measure of success at Vandy would get him a lucrative offer at a higher profile program. With his rep all it takes is another talented QB to go there and you can hit .500.

In some ways he reminds me of Leach, he seems to need to do things his way and it is hard to do that as an assistant coach.

[goingoneight]

Chizik got the Allbarn job because no matter how much Texas melted down in 2006 and no matter how bad he looked at ISU, 'Barners still had a hard-on for him when Tubberville wasn't doing so hot and Chizik's defense got to a National Championship at Texas.
Imagine if Mike Stoops got to the MNC last year when we were 8-5... imagine the board reaction to that.

[bluedogok]

Mostly I was just stating that if you have a modicum at success at a traditionally poor school then you can get a lot of press and move up the ladder. Spurrier made Duke football into a decent team and got the Florida job, I bet Briles could get another, better job than Baylor based off his success there if he chased other jobs. I don't think Vandy is a complete dead end job, just a stepping stone job and some have had what would be considered "successful runs" at Vandy. You think if Petrino starts to struggle (not likely at the moment but if the next QB is a bust) and Malzahn gets Vandy to a consistent .500 and occasionally better record there won't be a clamor for him to replace Petrino in Fayetteville? Even Kentucky can have a few decent years, no reason why Vandy can't.

[Tigeman]

Boy was I was wrong!


Auburn sure doesn't want to let this guy get out of the barn and be able to spill the beans to anyone.

$1.3mil to stay on as an O.C.??? Hmmmmm, somethings fishy!

And props to silverwheels for calling the story being wrong!

[silverwheels]

I wasn't calling it wrong, technically. I was just waiting for independent confirmation.