Auburn’s Gus Malzahn is early favorite for Arkansas State job
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Auburn’s Gus Malzahn is early favorite for Arkansas State job
The current Auburn offensive coordinator is an Arkansas native and is said to be a front runner to take over Freeze’s spot. Freeze’s offense at Arkansas State has been built around a high-octane spread attack similar to Malzahn’s hurry-up-no-huddle offense. Arkansas state led the Sun Belt conference in scoring and total offense, going undefeated in the league and winning the conference title.
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My two favorite teams are FAU, and who ever is beating FIU!
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Teambeer is the most knowledgeable FAU sports fan I know, way smarter than me.
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Auburn coordinator Gus Malzahn agreed Tuesday to become Arkansas State's new football coach, replacing Hugh Freeze, sources close to the coach confirmed to ESPN.com.
Malzahn will return to his home state and become a college head coach for the first time. As offensive coordinator at Auburn, Malzahn helped lead Cam Newton and the Tigers to the BCS national championship in January.
A person close to Malzahn said that not only was the coach looking for a head-coaching opportunity but that he was "looking for a change" from Auburn and "looking to move onto something else."
Malzahn, who nearly took the Vanderbilt position and was a top target for Kansas and North Carolina jobs earlier this year, was willing to take a relatively large pay cut, the source said, to step up to a new coaching challenge.
My two favorite teams are FAU, and who ever is beating FIU!
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I like that they are paying him >$800k a year this is what needs to happen in the SunBelt. If we can get the schools to start paying coaching upwards of $1m a year it will drastically raise the bar for the conference.
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Who else is amazed that Cristobal at FIU has not been talked about much this year, 8-4 and a bowl game is a very good record. I know he just re-signed longer with FIU but still….
Cristobal's name comes up all the time. Anytime a big conference has a HC vacancy his name gets mentioned. For all we know they could've said we'll triple your salary if you come to Kansas or if you come to New Mexico. He's done a great job at FIU and obviously he doesn't care what they offer and likes where he is at FIU
My two favorite teams are FAU, and who ever is beating FIU!
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http://deadspin.com/5868492/heres-the-bizarre-kristi-malzahn-interview-somebodys-trying-to-sweep-off-the-internet
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