Last year when Tommy T. was shown the door at Auburn, there were rumblings on the Tiger message boards about which assistants should be retained by the new man. Gran was loved as a recruiter, but not as a coach. The repeated line was Cadilac Williams and Ronnie Brown would make any coach look good, and the AU special teams were not very productive.
This was before he left, so I don't think it was sour grapes.