Gene Chizik only coached Travaris Robinson for one season. That was long enough for Chizik to know Robinson would be a football coach one day.
“I saw a guy who absolutely understands the game,” said Chizik, who was Auburn’s defensive coordinator in 2002 when Robinson was a senior safety for the Tigers. “He was literally a coach on the field. I would ask him in between series, ‘What do you think? How do you think we can handle these receivers? What do you think about this guy?’ He was very realistic about what he thought we needed to do.