considering chizdik is now 5-0 with about the same group of tigers tubberville had last year, yes.
i'm not sure what the same coach who lead a mediocre iowa state did to right the ship down there, but you have to think turner gill could have gotten the same results.
I agree that Auburn would be a bad place to go. Chizdik may look good now, but teams in the SEC have unrealistic expectations and I suspect Chizdik will get chewed up and spit out. The SEC only has so much room for perennial powerhouses.
It is too bad Gill didn't end up at Syracuse. New York is his area so he would have been able to recruit rather well there. The Big East is a relatively weak conference and it is possible Gill could have transformed 'Cuse into a competitive, maybe even dominant, team in that conference. Then he would be a regular at BCS bowl games and a legendary coach at 'Cuse, in the Big East, and perhaps nationally.
Nonetheless, Turner Gill is a class act and all around awesome person. Too bad it was between him and Pelini, both coaches are great and were equally qualified for the 'skers, T.O had an impossible choice with no real wrong answer. I'll root for Buffalo as long as he is there.