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Huntsville, AlabamaVol. 99, No. 267, 84 pagesContents © 2008, Huntsville Times
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A TIMES SPECIAL REPORT
By EVAN WOODBERYTimes Auburn Writer evan.woodbery@htimes.com
AUBURN – Iowa State’s GeneChizik agreed Saturday to become
Auburn’snew headfootballcoach inastunningconclusiontothesearchtoreplace Tommy Tuberville.
Officials from both schools con-firmed the newsSaturday night.
“Through my travels in coachingoverthe last23 years,there’sone place
that I’ve always wanted to return toand that is Auburn,” the 46-year-oldChiziksaid ina statement, which wasreleasedat 9 p.m.
“The tradition of theAuburnfoot-
ballprogram,combined withthe pas-sionatefansandtheirloveforAuburn,
are second to none. Myfamily and IareAuburnthroughandthrough,andlook forward to being part of the
Auburn family and community.” As word of Chizik’s hiring spread
Saturday,itappearedthatmanyin the Auburn family and community did-n’t feel thesame way.
ChizikwillreturntothePlainswithatwo-yearrecordof 5-19atIowaState
andcarryinga10-gamelosingstreak, which means his hiring could be a
tough sell to Tigers fans, many of whomseemedangryor bewilderedby Saturday’s news.
PopularAuburnInternet message boards were almost unanimously negative,blogs on al.comoverflowed
with vitriolic comments, and somefansevencametothe airportto meet
Athletic Director Jay Jacobs andschool President Jay Gogue and ex-
Some trusteesask about hiring,specific dutiesBy CHALLEN STEPHENSTimes Staff Writer challen.stephens@htimes.com
Dr. Carl Marbury stays inthepresident’smansionatopthe hill at Alabama A&MUniversity. Down thehill, heclaimsanofficeand secretary across thehallfromthe uni-
versity comptroller.But Marbury, technically
speaking, is not an employ-ee of Alabama A&M.
Infact, onApril 26, Mar- bury gave an impassionedhalf-hour speech, askingtrustees notto hire him. Hecalledfor unity,withdrewhiscandidacy for interim pres-ident, and urged the boardto instead choose theprovost, Dr. Beverly Ed-mond.
The board did just that.Moments after Marbury’sspeech, the board namedEdmond as interim presi-dent.
Less than a month later,Edmondturnedaround,and
without a vote of the board,
hired Marbury as a consult-ant, labelinghim“specialas-sistantto the president.”
Marbury, a former presi-dent at A&M, now earns$12,500 a month. (That
works out to $150,000 a
year.)Someboardmembersare
asking what Marbury doestoearnthatmoney.Andthey
want to know why they weren’t told about the hire,andwhyMarburyisusingthepresident’s mansion.
“To tellyouthetruth,” said
EX-PRESIDENTBACKONHILLQuestions arise overMarbury’s consulting agreement, residence, salary atA&M
AU picks Iowa State’s Chizik
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Huntsville’sSusanna Phillipssings the role of Musetta in ‘La
Bohème’Monday
inNewYork.
A year after police officerEricFreemanwas slain, hisfamily vividly remembers
the shootingand its impacton their lives. ‘I knew it
was bad,’ his sister says.
Michael Mercier/Huntsville Times
Hillcrest, the president’s residence on the Alabama A&M campus,is home to Carl Marbury when he is in town.
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