re: “ Big news about to drop on Auburn”

When we were filling out our staff, Kiesau was still in limbo at Boise State because they had not yet made a decision on a HC . He would have very likely been the WR coach from the start, but he's not taking a demotion to position coach before he's certain that he doesn't get retained as the OC at Boise State (I can't entirely remember, but he might have also been one of the more longshot candidates interviewed to outright replace Harsin as the HC). After they hired Avalos and he wasn't retained, he came here in an Analyst role - but by this point we had already hired Cornelius Williams.

Harsin likely took a "shot" at Williams because he does fit several marks that a lot of the rest of his staff don't: he's young, he's from Alabama and has connections in this state, he was seen as an up-and-coming recruiter, probably came with good recommendations from coaching circles in this area, etc. If you remember during the initial press about the staff hiring process, I believe that Williams' interview was deemed as one of the longest (if not the longest) - so I think that he was seen as a "project" from the start. He was likely hired on the basis that he would need to learn and adapt to a more demanding coaching style, and he was likely let go because he wasn't progressing on those fronts.