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Gene Chizik (Former Auburn HC)

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Iowa State lands Texas assistant Chizik, paper reports

AMES, Iowa -- Texas assistant head coach and defensive co-coordinator Gene Chizik has been hired as Iowa State's coach, a newspaper reported Monday.

Iowa State officials refused to confirm the hiring to the Associated Press, but said a news conference was scheduled for 7 p.m. to introduce the new coach. The Des Moines Register reported that Chizik landed at Ames Airport on Monday morning.
"We were challenged to get him," Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard told the newspaper. "We were told we wouldn't be able to get him by a lot of people. He's the real deal."
Chizik came to Texas before the 2005 season, and the Longhorns won a national championship in his first season. By the end of the 2005 season, Chizik's teams had won 28 straight games dating back to his years in Auburn, where he was defensive coordinator for three seasons.
In 2004, the Tigers went 13-0 and finished the season ranked No. 2. The Tigers had the nation's top scoring defense and ranked fifth in total defense that season, and Chizik won the Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant coach.
Chizik would replace Dan McCarney, who resigned this month after 12 seasons with Iowa State.
Iowa State finished 4-8 this season and was 56-84 overall under McCarney.
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I thought I heard this morning that they were hiring someone else and I for the life of me cannot remember who it was but it wasn't Chizik.

Agree it's a good hire if indeed him.
 
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Dumb choice by Chizik. Iowa State is a career ender.

Is that saying that Alabama, Arizona State, Cincinnati, Miami, and NC State all weren't going to interview him? Any of those jobs is better than ISU.
 
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Dryden;671462; said:
Dumb choice by Chizik. Iowa State is a career ender.

Is that saying that Alabama, Arizona State, Cincinnati, Miami, and NC State all weren't going to interview him? Any of those jobs is better than ISU.
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I disagree, at least at Iowa St. he'll be given a little more leeway than all of those other jobs you mentioned except for maybe UC.

He won't be expected to compete for a National Title in his 1st or 2nd year.
 
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Thump;671456; said:
I thought I heard this morning that they were hiring someone else and I for the life of me cannot remember who it was but it wasn't Chizik.

Agree it's a good hire if indeed him.
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Thump,
I heard the same thing and it was the Central Michigan coach.
 
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Thump;671468; said:
I disagree, at least at Iowa St. he'll be given a little more leeway than all of those other jobs you mentioned except for maybe UC.

He won't be expected to compete for a National Title in his 1st or 2nd year.
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Nebraska is getting better. Colorado will get better once they get past their recruiting hangover and the mess Barnett left. At best, Chizik will be fighting with Missouri and Kansas State for 3rd place in the Big-XII North.

The problem with ISU is that he'll never do well enough to get a better job, but he'll never do poor enough to get fired early and resurrect his career somewhere else. He'll just drift off into obscurity on a wave of 7-5 and 8-4 seasons, just like Dan McCarney did.
 
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Dryden said:
Dumb choice by Chizik. Iowa State is a career ender.

Is that saying that Alabama, Arizona State, Cincinnati, Miami, and NC State all weren't going to interview him? Any of those jobs is better than ISU.
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Totally agree. Think of how good he could have made Arizona St by installing the sole defense in the Pac-10....while gobbling up the discarded remains of Texas and Cali recruits.
 
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Dumb choice by Chizik. Iowa State is a career ender
They're all career enders if you don't win.

He's good at Iowa State for 5-10...what more can you ask for?

Then you lead the life of leisure or at least I would.
 
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BuckeyeNation27;671490; said:
Totally agree. Think of how good he could have made Arizona St by installing the sole defense in the Pac-10....while gobbling up the discarded remains of Texas and Cali recruits.
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That's what everyone said about Mike Stoops and Arizona. Think he'll win his 4th straight Pac10 title next year? Or will he get bored with Pasadena and throw a game or two on purpose so he can go Sugar, Fiesta, or Orange?
 
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Thump;671468; said:
I disagree, at least at Iowa St. he'll be given a little more leeway than all of those other jobs you mentioned except for maybe UC.

He won't be expected to compete for a National Title in his 1st or 2nd year.
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he should never be expected to compete for NC's at ISU. Agree w/ Dryden and others, this is a horrible choice with the other jobs open.
 
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methomps;671756; said:
That's what everyone said about Mike Stoops and Arizona. Think he'll win his 4th straight Pac10 title next year? Or will he get bored with Pasadena and throw a game or two on purpose so he can go Sugar, Fiesta, or Orange?
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Arizona is on its way. Give Stoops a few more years - he's on the right track.
 
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Are you sure it was Gene Chizik and not this guy?

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Gene Shalit
 
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