UT and AUs new coaches

Auburn is better off. I think 2021 could be rough for them but he will ultimately be solid.

I think Tennessee is doing this all over again in three years.

I can't help but think Harsin will do relatively well at AU. I think their overall record will be better, but I also think their record against Bama will be worse than it was with Gus. Gus had an ability to outcoach Saban every other year and really amped his team up when playing us. It also helped that he had a rabbit's foot connected to a golden horseshoe up his butt but that is a different story for a different day.

Regarding UT. They can't really get any worse can they? I think it's a bad hire but it's probably the best they could have done

I doubt the Auburn coach will beat Alabama as often as Malzahn did. I also doubt he will recruit as well.

I guess I'm more down on him than others, but I kind of see the Harsin hire as going very poorly for Auburn unless he somehow knocks it out of the park on the recruiting trail.

Don't know what it means for Auburn but Harsin had the best recruiting class in the Mountain West every year except this class where they finished second and Harsin was out less than a week after the early signing period. He also won his conference all but one year. I don't think that means he is winning SEC titles but it makes me think there is potential.

Heupel recruiting and record went down each year at UCF so I'm not too bullish on his chances especially if his best players go through the portal. I don't see him winning recruiting battles over Kirby, Mack, Dabo and the like.

Harsin has a punchers chance, Heupel probably needs some Riddick Bowe, Andy Ruiz type luck.

I really wonder if both teams got some bad intel on who would be available to them... Neither coach is a home run, in my book. Doesn't mean they won't do well, just means they don't jump off the paper.

Just seems like both teams thought they were going to be able to pull in a major name and whiffed.

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Gus really fricked them over. Did he just basically decide to stop recruiting?

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I don't know if it's that, exactly; it may be more of just the uncertainty that swirled around him for 2-3 years. He was perpetually on the hot seat during that time, it seemed, and it's almost impossible to recruit when players kept hearing he and the staff might not be there next year.

Unless Gus gave them the horse shoe he had up his rectum, I dont see how Harsin can do as well as Gus. Im not sure how the new TN coach can get a DC. He runs a fast paced offense, and all these DCs dont like that kind of offense. I think that is what caught up with Gus. Steele didnt want to field a defense with the fast paced offense that Gus was running, so Gus caved in and slowed it down. Tn is going to see arena ball.

Heupel will bomb. I don't know why y'all think Harsin will succeed. Very few coaches who have succeeded at Boise have carried that success with them when they leave. Boise is the 800lb gorilla in that league. They get who they want and they out talent their league. He just signed up with just another SEC school. It's going to be rough sledding for Auburn the next few years.

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What do you guys think?

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Harsin did fine at Boise but nothing mind blowing. I think that program is far better than most of their conference competition. I think Auburn will be more consistent under him but will probably beat us less.

I’m happy with the change because for all his flaws, Gus was pretty good at beating us compared to how other coaches have faired.

Heupel is a bad hire. He has no feel for tempo- just goes as fast as possible always. UCF progressively got worse under him. I know the national championship thing was a farce, but that program was in incredible shape for a G5 when Frost left and Heupel failed to capitalize on it.