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Florida hires Jay Jacobs as assistant athletic director

ohsfan28

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Former athletic direrctor at Auburn. He is the guy who hired Bruce Pearl as Auburn"s basketball coach. Also hired Gene Chizik and Malzahn as football coaches. Auburn fans basically despised him. Might not be a huge deal since he will only be an assistant athletic director at Florida
 
Former athletic direrctor at Auburn. He is the guy who hired Bruce Pearl as Auburn"s basketball coach. Also hired Gene Chizik and Malzahn as football coaches. Auburn fans basically despised him. Might not be a huge deal since he will only be an assistant athletic director at Florida
Aren’t Bruce Pearl and Gus Malzahn considered to be good hires? Minus the fact that Pearl is cheater. Heck even Chizik can claim he won a national championship while at Auburn.
 
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Pearl is viewed as a good coach and the basketball program is seen as so hopeless most fans are willing to take a chance on his off the court problems.

The football prigram is viewed as a roller coaster that has been too up and down...not as consisently good as the fans would want

The reaaonrJay Jacobs was forced out of Auburn is because of off the field problems combined with the inconsistency of the football program..

He hired a softball coach a few years ago who in return hired his two 30 something year old sons as assistant coaches. They were very successful on the field...even getting Auburn to the softball world series twice. But it eventually came out that one of the sons was having sex with one of the players and making inappropriate comments to other players. A title 9 investigation was launched and all the coaches were fired

At around the same time you had both the FBI investigationi into basketball and an assistant track coach file a lawsuit against Auburn claiming he was discriminated against. The odd thing about that situation is that the track coach is black and the guy who filed the lawsuit is white.
 
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