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August 10, 2006

How Auburn ended up with Pat Dye

Paul Finebaum looks back at Auburn's search to replace Doug Barfield after the 1980 season.

He talks about Dooley's near acceptance of the Auburn job as well as the other candidates involved in Auburn's search. Candidates included Bobby Bowden, Ray Perkins, Dick Sheridian, Jackie Sherrill, etc.

On the topic of odd coaching searches and Pat Due, do you remember Dye coming out of the woodwork in 2000 asking to be considered for the UGA job?

That talk scared the crap out of me because I'm pretty sure that Don Leeburn played with Dye on the 1959 SEC championship UGA team. Talk about a bullet dodged.

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