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Cyclones Get Jilted Again, Bash Gene Chizik, Wonder Who's Coming Next

For Iowa State, their next football coach was obvious. All they needed to do was send a dump truck full of money to Turner Gill's office in Buffalo and the former Nebraska quarterback would be Iowa-bound. It didn't work out that way, though, as Gill signed a contract extension with Buffalo on Tuesday.That makes ISU...

Auburn Hires Gene Chizik; Must Know Something Nobody Else Does

As we reported yesterday, Iowa State head coach Gene Chizik interviewed this week for Auburn's head coaching vacancy. There's a little more to report now; apparently, he's headed back to the Loveliest Village on the Plains, as he will be Auburn's next football coach. Des Moines TV station KCCI confirmed that Chizik got on...

Syracuse Decides to Go With the Unknown 'Syracuse Guy'

Way back in September, Syracuse athletic director Daryl Gross all but declared his head football coach to be a dead-man walking. In the course of which, he infamously stated that when Syracuse made the inevitable coaching change, "we'll get the first pick of the draft."That did not work out as expected. Instead, Tennessee,...

Gene Chizik Interviews at Auburn; No, Seriously, Gene Chizik Interviews at Auburn

While everybody else was wondering if Will Muschamp was actually going to be Auburn's next head coach, there has been a development involving another former Auburn defensive coordinator. Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard has confirmed that Cyclone head coach Gene Chizik has had talks with Auburn, and apparently...

Skip Holtz Rejects Syracuse

You know, for a program that had announced back in mid-November that they were looking for a new coach, Syracuse has really struggled to find someone, anyone to take the job. First Al Golden would rather stay at Temple than consider the Syracuse gig (though, that may not be entirely true). Now East Carolina's Skip Holtz...