Mack Brown, Texas Head Coach

“Gene is a terrific football coach and a good man with a great family. He did a great job for us at Texas and was very instrumental in leading our defense in the 2005 National Championship season. He had the guys well prepared, did a nice job managing practices and games and we could always tell he was going to be a successful head coach at some point. As good of a coach he is, he is equally as good at building relationships, which is one of the main reasons I think he’ll do a terrific job running the Auburn program. He’s a guy I will always be pulling for and look forward to following him at Auburn as I did at Iowa State.”

Kirk Herbstreit, ESPN GameDay, ESPN/ABC College Football Analyst

“I think it’s an outstanding hire….if you look a little bit deeper, the fact that he was the defensive coordinator the year that Auburn had that magical year where they were undefeated and left out of the national championship, you might understand it. If you look at the success he had as defensive coordinator at Texas, you might understand it. And if you look at the man that he is and the way he can represent this (Auburn) university, me personally, I think it’s an outstanding hire. Auburn, congratulations, you go a great one.”

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What a crock of B S…