Bryan Harsin Speaks Out About His Job Speculation At Auburn
by Staff Reporter
February 4, 202213 Comments
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Auburn head coach Bryan Harsin spoke with ESPN on Thursday night about his job speculation. Here's what he had to say:
quote:Auburn went 6-7 during Harsin's first year as coach in 2021. He recently lost both of his offensive and defensive coordinators and several players have transferred this offseason, including starting quarterback Bo Nix. There are a few reports out there that players and coaches did not like how they were treated by Harsin but he disputed the claims to ESPN.
"I'm the Auburn coach, and that's how I'm operating every day," Harsin told ESPN in a lengthy interview late Thursday night. "I want this thing to work, and I've told our players and told everybody else there is no Plan B. I'm not planning on going anywhere. This was and is the job. That's why I left the one I was in, to come here and make this place a championship program and leave it better than I found it."
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"Any attack on my character is bulls---," Harsin said. "None of that is who I am."
Said one source to ESPN: "There are some kids in the locker room who do like him. If they fire him, what are we going to do? It would set Auburn back two or three years."
Harsin said he's struggled to find clarity from school officials on the contract numbers for his open offensive coordinator job -- one of three coordinator changes on his staff during his first season.
"This is where I want to be. This is what I want to do," Harsin said. "That's why I came here. I didn't come here to fail. We've got to build something, and right now I feel like when you hear some of these things, that there's a lot of things building against me.
"Certainly, I'm the right man for the job. There's no doubt about it. No one is going to have a better plan than I do, but we've got to change some things. This place is not going to be a championship program until we change some things. You've got to let the head coach be the head coach and support him."
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