Gus Malzahn and Ted Roof will have their jobs cut out for them.
Gus Malzahn has to find his sixth different starting quarterback in six years coaching collegiate football, and his third in three years at Auburn.
Ted Roof is looking at only three returning starters on his defense, one of whom won’t be playing the position at which he started the past two seasons.
Gene Chizik presides over a team that is missing 34 scholarship players from its run to the national championship, one that sported only 52 scholarship players at the start of spring practice Wednesday.
Well, 53 if you count offensive lineman Shon Coleman. But he’s not expected to play this year.
“First day,” Malzahn said Wednesday. “A lot of new faces out there. ”
Even Chizik wasn’t there to take in the first 25 minutes of Auburn’s practice at the Hutsell-Rosen Track/Soccer Facility, the Tigers’ temporary home while their new indoor practice facility is being completed.
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Please Roof...Let my Coleman GO!
By: Kevin Strickland
A week after being punched in the face and abused like a nerd at a biker convention by the Arkansas Razorbacks, the Auburn Tigers have the opportunity to show the college football world how this team and its new coaching staff respond to adversity when the Kentucky Wildcats come calling Saturday night.
Will Auburn of 2009 self destruct and allow the misama of the Arkansas loss to pollute the remainder of the season? A loss to Vanderbilt in 2008 set in motion a chain of events that led to infighting, turmoil, mid-season firings and the first non-bowl season for the Tigers in a decade.
Or will the Tigers rebound, recover some of the offensive swagger that marked the first four games of the season and begin to find some defensive identity?
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So I am a little late on my SEC preview part II, but good things come to those who wait, so I guess you’ll just have to keep waiting.
In my SEC East preview, I said that the SEC Champion and Potential BCS Champion would come from the Eastern Division (if you didn’t read part 1 or have been in a coma for the last few weeks, it’s the Florida Gators). However, from top to bottom, the tougher division will likely be the Western Division, where all 3 of the top teams have a legitimate shot at facing Florida in the SEC championship game.
Ole Miss Rebels: (7-1 SEC; 11-1 Overall)
2009 Predicted Finish
