<div id="subtitle">Fired mid-season by Auburn, coordinator Tony Franklin back in Sun Belt with Middle Tennessee</div><div><p>Getting fired isn't easy. Call Tony Franklin an optimist because the offensive coordinator says he's glad he went to Auburn and got fired seven games into his tenure.</p ...

<div id="subtitle">Former Auburn offensive coordinator Franklin hired by Middle Tennessee</div><div><p>Middle Tennessee State University has hired former Auburn assistant Tony Franklin as its new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.</p><p>Franklin spent 10 as Auburn's offensive coordinator and was fired midway ...

<div><p><p>MOBILE - In the coming weeks or months, new offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn and Gene Chizik will likely sit down for a long chat.</p> <p>The topic will center on things Chizik hates and Malzahn will probably be jotting down plenty of notes. Then, when Auburn hits ...

<div><p><p>MOBILE — Still searching for a major difference between Gus Malzahn and Tony Franklin?</p> <p>Still wondering what the big difference is between the two media-anointed “gurus?”</p> <p>Still in doubt about 2009’s offensive output being any better than the woebegone ...