Auburn's Gus Malzahn named Dodd Trophy's coach of the week
Gus Malzahn was probably just happy to cool off his ever-warming hot seat for one more week.
But the Auburn coach earned a national accolade in the process, being named the Dodd Trophy’s coach of the week Monday after pulling off a thrilling 18-13 win against then-No. 18 LSU, according to a report from 247Sports.
“Coach Malzahn was an easy choice for this week’s coach of the week honors, as no one had a more thrilling win than his Auburn Tigers,” said Jim Terry, chairman of the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Foundation. “Any time an unranked team can beat a ranked team it’s a big accomplishment, but for Auburn this was truly a must-win game.”
Auburn won the game despite failing to score a touchdown. Instead, the reliable leg of kicker Daniel Carson and a stout defense gave Malzahn a ranked win he so desperately needed.
Congratulations, Gus. Let’s have some more good weekends!
Not to be a homer, but why…? Even Butch Jones, despite his many coaching shortcomings, deserved it this week much more than Gus. At least Butch made some serious halftime adjustments. Gus left with a win, but lest we forget, he was less than a second away from losing the game. Both teams played poorly all night. Gus wins because he managed to get less crappy play out of his guys? There are a ton of coaches that coached a better game than Gus.
Why? He couldn’t even score a touchdown against LSU. ?!?
Do they get a trophy for that? Cause that’s gonna be the highlight of auburn’s season.
It’s good to see a smile on Gus’ face after he BTHO lsu. He’s a good coach but I still like his funny faces too, who doesn’t?
1 second difference between being the coach of the week and fired lol
YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME