Charles Barkley Unhappy About Chizik Hire, Plays Race Card

/Sir Charles is fun and easy to make fun of

but in this instance he forgot it was folded on the turn. Charles is craaazuh, he a knuckolhyead. Let’s also not forget that he, too, has a white wife and is probably more sensitive to the issues of……..yeah, I can’t do it. We elected a black president by a landslide…the race card has lost some of its luster.

I spent the first 15 years of my life in Charlotte. Of course, racism did not mean a thing to me until halfway thru those years, and North Carolina is probably significantly less racist than Alabama. However, you and I are debating the racism in the general population, not university presidents and athletic directors. I simply cannot believe that Gill being black was a major reason for being snubbed. Did they think about? Probably. When they were weighing their options did it make the “cons” list? I would like to think that it did not.

I know it’s a weak argument, but I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt here, and assume they chose to go with a former coach that knows the program, or can point to a time when he was relevant in the program, over a coach that is making his living in he MAC. Of course, I could be wrong and Alabama could just be as racist as the rest of America seems to assume.

If Gill were to end up at ISU, then I’d say y’all came away ahead in that particular transaction.

For what it’s worth, on the Auburn SBNation blog, there appears to be at least some confirmation that the reason Gill didn’t get the job (or wasn’t given the proper consideration) is because he was a black man married to a white women. A number of the commenters there seem to believe that the more influential boosters who really run the show at Auburn (read: old, rich white men) were against Gill. Also for what it’s worth, most of the people on the Auburn blog are pissed that Gill was treated so shabbily and seem to prefer him to Chizik.

winning at Buffalo is MUCH harder than winning at ISU.

We’re busy making fun of Pollard and peds in the other thread.

We’ll get back to race ASAP!

Moot point now.

Gill said no.

…like Carl Jackson, Ron Aiken, and now Coach Campbell, yet I do not recall a single mention of whether their race played any role in their hiring, performance, or anything else.

Which is the way it should be. If Iowa hired another head FB coach if Ferentz left, I don’t think anyone would care one whit if they were non-white.

Iowa’s athletic department seems to be pretty color blind which is, as I said, the way it should be.

Our first black player joined the squad in the 20’s, for crying out loud.

Evy systematically broke the color line in the 50’s.

Raveling?

The only thing I would protest is another white guy like Alford pretending to talk tough like an inner-city baller — while building a McMansion in Cor-Al-Ville.

In case we’ve forgotten, lily Iowa launched the Barack. This is an old and tired query in search of a problem.

First off, I do have to agree that Chizik was probably not the greatest hire in the world at Auburn. But his record at ISwho? over 2 years is pretty comparable to KF’s. Granted, l’Ames is not quite the football selling showcase that Iowa City is. Chizik is not that bad of a coach. He went into a horrible situation in Ames. The puzzling thing to me, is why didnt Chizik stay on at Texas until a job like this Auburn job came along? I think you can take the last 2 years with Chizik as a grain of salt. I think he could become a pretty good coach in the SEC, as he was an “elite” defensive coordinator. People are to big on Turner Gill, who I think may be a pretty darn good coach. Yes, they are going to a bowl at Buffalo. Big fucking deal. How long has Carl Peterson been in Boise and still not got a big time job. And before him, the old Boise coach had to take a crap job at Colorado after years of 10 win seasons at Boise. Urban Meyer wasnt given a big time job until he went undefeated for an entire season at a smaller school, and built the program for years to come. Gill has been at Buffalo for three years, and has 1 winning season. Yes, he has absolutely done wonders to get them to this point, but come on, if every small school coach that has a winning record deserves a bigtime job, we’d be out of big time jobs. Look at Middle Tennessee’s coach. Or Howard Schnellerberger(no idea how to spell his name). He is a proven winner. He brought a school with no tradition to a bowl game. But, since he isnt black its not a big deal that he didnt get the job. Gill’s record through 3 years is pretty similar to KF’s. After Kirk took us to the Alamo Bowl would it have made sense for Texas to fire Mack Brown so they could hire Kirk Ferentz because he took a team to one bowl in 3 years? I think eventually Gill will get a bigtime job, and be very successful, but as a university that is going to have to pay him the big bucks and live with that decision, why wouldnt you want to wait and see if he could have another winning season. This may be the best thing for Gill not getting this job. If he comes out next year and wins 8 more games, he can command any open job in the country for any reasonable amount of money he wants. Example: if our boy Mike Stoops lays another egg at AZ or Erickson at AZ State, what would Gill do down there. Something about that rings the words gold mine to me. There also are quite a few jobs that could open up in the big east and acc that could be much better for him than this auburn job(i mean common, who would want this job? they tried to get rid of tuberville multiple times(petrino incident)).

Thats just my humble opinion. My guess is Turner Gill is one year away from getting a much better, much more lucrative job.