Auburn coach Gus Malzahn is known as an offensive mastermind and a pioneer of the no-huddle spread attack that has swept the land. We may know how he got to be so smart.
Auburn Tigers football coach Gus Malzahn had an enormous head as a child.
Seriously. This melon was huge, almost enough that he could have been confused for one of the these guys from Mars Attacks.
To celebrate her husband’s 49th birthday on Tuesday, Kristi Malzahn tweeted out a collection of photos of Gus, going from early childhood up to his current job as the head coach at Auburn.
Couldn't love you more @CoachGusMalzahn !! Happy Birthday! http://t.co/Lyqj4gT3zp pic.twitter.com/MVEPKPhNds
— Kristi Malzahn (@kristi_malzahn) October 28, 2014
That photo on the bottom left may explain why Malzahn is a visor guy on the sidelines. Getting a full hat over that dome might be uncomfortable.
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And it could restrict blood flow to the root of all of those deviously fiendish up-tempo quick hitters that Auburn rode to a berth in the final BCS national championship game last January.
In all seriousness, it’s been a rapid rise for Malzahn, who was coaching high school football in Arkansas as recently as 2005.
He joined the college ranks as offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at Arkansas in 2006, moved on to Tulsa as co-offensive coordinator, assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach in 2007-08 and went to Auburn under his predecessor, Gene Chizik, as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2009-11.
He got his first head coaching gig at Arkansas State in 2012 and won the Sun Belt Conference title. But he did not coach in the GoDaddy.com Bowl, having already gotten the call to replace Chizik on The Plains.
He is 18-3 in two seasons at Auburn and 27-6 in 2½ years as a college head coach.
That’s a big journey for a big-headed baby.
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