re: Auburn fans - Why was Harsin sabotaged?

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It is a QB leave. Without a QB, you suck. Not just an Auburn issue.

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I think that's fair. But isn't Harsin's job to get players to fill the positions? Part of me hopes you guys keep him the rest of the season. I haven't researched this and I might be forgetting a game, but I think I would have to go back to 1991 for the last time Bama lost by so much. I don't think either Dubose or Shula ever took a beating like that. this is where Auburn is. Not trying to troll you, my point is that I think Auburn should metaphorically punt. Fire him right now and get a nice jump on the coaching search we already know is coming.

I think it all started internally when Harsin was forced to hire Bobo and Mason. Things got ugly when Harsin fired CWill and hired his Boise buddy Kiesau just after a few weeks (former HC Mason did not agree with it). We were winning some games until Bo Nix got injured ... everything went south then.
Harsin has a personality disorder according to some online rumors and more people started leaving the program (Bobo, Mason, many transfers). Some allegations of passive/indirect racism and more red flags (we didn't sign recruits on NSD, didn't hit the portal)... reports that Harsin hates NIL, etc. Boosters never wanted him in the first place but all of this was too much... btw some people don't think it was the boosters but parts of the administration that actively sabotaged him earlier this year (the boosters just refuse to support him).

Jimmy Rane don’t want him.

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Mind boggling. Cruitin is/was his primary job. Standing on the sidelines on 12 Saturday's with a headset is secondary.

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The guy has spent most of his career in Idaho with his alma mater. Boise's program was built long before Harsin took over and in the Mountain West, he could grab a team full of plucky two and three stars and keep the ball rolling. He wasn't prepared for the SEC. You can be the best X's and O's guy in the world, but if you can't also be a politician, a salesman, a cheerleader, a top shelf organizer and a corporate style leader of men you're not going to compete at the top of the conference. Harsin came in pretending he was already Nick Saban, didn't sell his program, didn't make friends with the money, didn't even bother visiting area high schools, fired most of his staff with SEC experience and replaced them with Boise loyalists who had none and apparently his off season preparations were sub-standard as well, because through three games, Auburn looks softer and more fundamentally poor than last.

I'm not a fan of firing a coach after two seasons, but this was clearly a poorly vetted hire from the start and a justification of those who said Greene was not cutting it as AD.

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Does a lot of it come from Patrick Nix because Harsin benched the golden boy?

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I don't recall Harsin benching Nix outside of a quarter or two for playing bad in the first half.

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Crappy coaching. Internal issues with coaches. Can't relate to players. Can't recruit. Ran off best QB he had and replaced with nothing. Can't recruit. Messing with little Boise side pieces. Can't recruit. Terrible offense. Can't recruit.

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Sabotage? Yes, there have been elements of that. But most of the issues are self-inflicted and have already been chronicled. You can be the biggest dickhead in the room and isolate yourself on an island if you want. And lots of highly successful coaches have moments when you cannot stand to be around them. Dickhead just can't be the default position 99% of the time. Be that if you want Coach, but you better win and win big. Otherwise when the losses and embarrassments pile up, there are no allies.

Here is an indication from early 2020 this hire had face plant potential.

Drinkwitz has been a part of five conference championships and a national championship. Last year's Sun Belt title was his third. Drinkwitz previously won the league as an assistant under Gus Malzahn (2012) and Bryan Harsin (2013) at Arkansas State. Harsin then took him to Boise State where the Broncos won the Mountain West in 2014.

That sparks Drinkwitz's two versions of Harsin, now the game's eighth-winningest active FBS coach.

"'Hars' is a hell of a guy," Drinkwitz said, "'Bryan' is a dickhead. Whichever one shows up to work, you know what the rest of the day is going to be like.

"If 'Hars' walks in, you're like, 'This is going to be a great day.' When 'Bryan' calls you a mother f'er on third down because you didn't get a conversion, here we go. Put your hard hat on."


CBS - Eli Drinkwitz did not top Mizzou's list

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This is what truly baffles me. He had to see what Malzhan left him to work with, especially on the offensive line. There were a ton of o-linemen in the portal he could have gone after. But as far as I know we had exactly zero offensive linemen transfer in during the offseason. He’d had his chance to address our pitiful offensive line situation and for whatever reason he failed to do so. There’s no excuse. Yeah, Malzhan created the situation. But Harsin could have took steps to correct the situation. He’s not done so, which in my opinion, is grounds for his immediate dismissal.

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It seemed he ignored the oline and when he failed to pull any from the portal he went to his roster and talked your veterans into returning for their super senior year. Brahms pre-season injury was a huge blow which only compounded things for the entire oline.

That online looked atrocious vs PSU and Manny Diaz put his defense in attack mode and they feasted. For whatever reason Tank Bigsby refused to block to help his QB and Finley is too dang slow to work behind a line that's getting trucked non-stop. Ashford is more mobile than TJ and he even struggled behind that line.

Whoever AU hires absolutely has to address the lines on both sides first and then get a QB(s) to fit his system. Patience is probably running thin among the fan base & boosters as the clock ticks down to OU/UT joining the conference and the CFP expansion.

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Why was Harsin sabotaged?

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The important people who throw down large sums of money in support could see that the guy was in over his head.

Not to mention Harsin is apparently incredibly hard to get along with. He treats people like shite and has an ego the size of Idaho.