The Bodda Getta

Do you call character and discipline letting a star running back basically do anything he wants and brag to his team-mates about it. Maybe Chizik has come to his senses and started culling the bad fruit. I hope so. I also hope it isn't too late.

let me start this by saying I have no proof or inside info about the Dyer situation just what I have heard on this board and other places, but a lot of times the simplest and easiest reached answer is likely the right one. It seems to me that the most likely situation regarding Dyer is that Malzahn was the one that was pushing Chizik to do whatever it took to keep him on the field. Malzahn was the one trying to get a head coaching job somewhere so mainatining his offense at all costs was his primary goal, he likely didn't have a problem hurting the future of the program to help his present. I think all this became much more likely once Malzahn took ( I believe was pushed by Chizik ) to take Ark St. job, and Dyer quickly followed him. Then I don't think it took Malzahn long to figure out that Dyer was just too big a problem for any head coach to deal with.
I know a lot are going to argue that CGC was the head coach and it was his job to do what he though was right, but I also believe that following the NC he let the pressure get to him to keep Dyer on the field and also to keep Malzahn as the OC ( can you imagine this board and others had he let his OC go and kicked Dyer off the team after the 2010 NC ). I think he learned a lesson from caving to the pressure and now he has his mind set as to the direction he is taking this program come hell or highwater. It may cost him his job, but I dont think it will and I think that Auburn University and the Auburn Football Program will be better for it.

Just my 2 cents

Please give us a list of coaches who have top programs and top talent which does not include a major disciplinary issue ever being involved... Saban, no... hmmm... Lane Kiffin, hahahaha... Chip Kelly, nope... Surely the ole ball coach fits this category when no one else could, wrong... Jim Tressel? That one's retorical... I know, URBAN MEYER! baahaha... Lets see... Bobby Bowden, Mark Richt, and Lloyd Carr? dang dang dang.

Its like biggie said, the more money you have, the more problems you get.

Top programs are rich with talent, most are rich in tradition, and they are certainly bringing in the dough. That combination is going to foster disciplinary problems.