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Harsin never had a chance...

     If reports from the knowing or perhaps the unknowing, Auburn intended to fire Bryan Hansin as soon as possible after the loss to Arkansas.  I normally don't meddle or even care about what goes on in Lee County. After putting their coach and his family through the wringer, Aubie gets rid of Harsin without a second thought. Harsin will get an immediate 7.5 million dollars later. I don't know what "later" means. Add that 15 million to the last couple of coaches on the dole and you'll understand why Auburn will get a decent coach in-house within a couple of weeks. On the Plains, you are playing with house money.

    Coaches get fired every year. Nick Saban may be the exception from the general rule that applies to every other NCAA coach. Hired and fired is just the beginning and end of almost every coach. Most schools have the decency not to drag a coach's family. What was that about? For a university that values "family values" hiring Harsin is a self-evident recognition that AU talks out of both sides of its mouth. So here the Tigers go again. They are shooting their foot. For the record, I have no real idea if Coach Harsin is a good coach. He might be. He was successful at Boise State. He had a "dead man walking" tee shirt from the first game this season. Auburn fans believed "he ain't from around here " meant something. It was never the lack of familiarity with SEC football that caused Harsin problems. It was a hard-core group of boosters who didn't want him. I believe they also hated Allen Green. 

     Instead of saying how well his team played against Alabama, the naysayers wanted to condemn him for blowing the game. An AU running back was tackled before he could make the sidelines. Bama went on to stage a Bryce Young-type comeback. It was as dramatic as Bo over the top. It takes a certain kind of stupidity to blame your coach for a player's mistake. That AU team looked dog-gone good that night. Auburn boosters couldn't stand that loss. I hope Bryan Hanson comes to Alabama for oblong rehabilitation.  Wouldn't that be ironic?  

   Auburn is unlikely to be Alabama. Auburn has a storied tradition. It seems to me that the Tigers believe they are on the same level as 'Bama. Not now, not soon, and perhaps not ever.