![]() Let's repeat that: Gene Chizik believes that Cecil Newton asked one school for money for Cam's signature - a school that Cam admitted he wanted to play for - but he did not ask the school that Cam ultimately played for for money. But I just want to address one issue with the above statement, and that is Gene Chizik's use of the word "logic." In Chizik's statement given to AL.com, he says that he doesn't see logic in assuming that Auburn was involved with Cecil Newton - Cam's father, who admitted to soliciting Cam to MSU for cash - just because MSU was involved with him. ![]() Now, it's plenty to clear to everyone who has followed this mess that the dead horse has long since been beaten to death ten times over. "Because obviously they left and found that there was nothing there." "So, how that became a Mississippi State issue, and then all the sudden it was assumed - and there were accusations out there - well, if something happened there, it had to have happened here, I don't see the logic in it," Chizik said. Here's exactly what Chizik told Marcello: So it comes as no surprise to anyone that Chizik - again, doing his best politician impression - vehemently defended the integrity of that 2010 Auburn season, even going as far to say that the allegations of Cam Newton's father's dealings with MSU led to assumptions about potential allegations with Auburn as well. Gene, who is currently off the football coaching circuit and I'm sure angling for a job in 2014, was very public relations-ish in his talk with Marcello - defending his time in Auburn, which ultimately totals to one year and one national championship.Īnd anybody who follows college football even half-way knows the rumors ( and that's all they've been proven to be) that surrounded that 2010 team - led by Cam Newton, who was at the center of a year-long scandal/investigation that never amounted to any violations or penalties for the school. It was enough to lure him back, this time as head coach, to rejuvenate a program Chizik left in shambles two years after winning it all.Former MSU beat writer and blog friend Brandon Marcello, who now covers Auburn for AL.com, got a chance to sit down with former Auburn coach Gene Chizik yesterday to talk with Chizik about his time at Auburn. In his only season with the Red Wolves, Malzahn led his team to a conference championship before Auburn came calling, again. He enjoyed three years of success before arriving at Arkansas State, his first head coaching job 21 years after he started. He won several national coach of the year awards for his accomplishments and brought Auburn football back into the nationwide limelight it last saw while Malzahn was offensive coordinator for Heisman winner Cam Newton and the national champion Tigers in 2010.įollowing a two-year stint at Tulsa where he engineered the Hurricanes’ offense into one of the nation’s leading units, Auburn head coach Gene Chizik welcomed Malzahn to his staff in 2009 to sprinkle in some of his no-huddle knowledge as the Tigers’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Malzahn took the Tigers from worst to first as an SEC rookie head coach in 2013 when Auburn captured a league championship and appeared in the national title game a year after losing all eight league games - the program’s worst season in 60 years. An offensive mastermind who learned the tricks of his trade at the prep football level in Arkansas from 1991 to 2005, Gus Malzahn has since blossomed into one of college football’s brightest stars, a true miracle-worker on the Plains in recent years at Auburn.
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