And with Auburn losing players at they rate they are this week, the problems are bound to get worse. Four players, sophomore safety Christian Thompson, redshirt freshman defensive end Cameron Henderson, redshirt freshman defensive tackle Jomarcus Savage, and redshirt freshman wide receiver Philip Pierre-Louis, have all left the team. There aren't many details on why or if they’ll return due to Chizik being on vacation.
All were expected to play significant roles with the Tigers this year. Maybe Auburn needs more crutches than just Dye.
Like Tennessee's Major, Auburn’s Dye is at practices, rallies and alumni meetings. Chizik has been very polite and eager (at least publicly) to have Dye around and to listen to all his advice.
Whether either man needs these crutches to win games remain to be seen, but they have certainly helped settle a nervous fan base and if that’s all they accomplish, that's quite a lot.
Is there not an old coach Mississippi State can drag out for old Dan Mullen? Where’s Jackie Sherrill when you need him. He's probably still at his job at the Longhorn Neutering Institute making steers out of bulls.
Speaking of Mullen, last week I thought Mullen needed a little publicity and said it looked like he'd have to do something really drastic to get it. Lo and behold, God has proven me wrong again. He and Mississippi State were featured in the series, "Under the Lights".
It was a very good step in getting out the message that "things are a changing" in Starkville.
So naturally, since I was proven wrong by writing Mississippi State couldn’t get publicity, I had to rain on their parade in this weeks article Can Dan Mullen Get the Goods from the Coaching Staff by pointing out that maybe everything hasn’t changed for the better.
What ultimately cost Sly Croom his job was the offense’s inability to score some points.
When you lose to a pitiful Auburn team 3-2, it really shows just bad things had gotten.
Croom refused to fire his buddy Woody McCorvey, who’s a fine man and a friend of mine, but a coordinator he’s not.
Had Croom fired him early on and brought in a better coordinator, he may still be there.
What may have not changed is Mullen is bringing in yet another Alabama retread that’s seen better days in Les Koeninng. This is a guy who couldn’t get things going at Texas A&M after leaving Alabama.
Let’s hope Mullen cuts the cord a little quicker if in fact Les can’t get things going.
But hey, Dan’s supposed the man when it comes to offense, so maybe he’ll teach this old dog some new tricks.
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