Hold off on that bronzed Chizik…Arkansas 44 Auburn 23
Probably too Soon?
By: Kevin Strickland
About 1:30 Saturday afternoon, Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs slipped into the relative privacy of a stall in the restroom of the pressbox at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville and punched numbers into his cell phone. When the call connected, Jacobs barked orders in an urgent whisper:
“Tell the sculptor to hold off on that statue of me and Gene Chizik. What? I don’t care if he’s 90% done with it, tell him to put a hold on it, we’re not putting it out in front of the stadium just yet. And cancel the order for the Chiz-nickels, too. “
For the past two and a half hours Jacobs watched as the Arkansas Razorbacks served a healthy dose of 44-23 humility to the Auburn football program.
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