re: Auburn fans: Grade Bryan Harsin's performance so far

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His recruiting is a big question mark. It is a first principle for CFB coaches. It will be interesting to see how he navigates the close of the recruiting season, early signing period and the transfer portal to set conditions for the next few years.

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That's going to make or break him. I don't think anyone expected this years class to be a great one. Hopefully we can close strong and get some transfers, but the 2023 class will be critical. It's all about relationships and a guy that was all but unknown in the south was going to have a real uphill battle in 2022 without any real established relationships, especially since we couldn't get anyone on campus until July. They've done a great job of getting 2023 and 2024 kids in so far, so we'll see how those classes pan out, but they'll be very important to how far he can take this team.

As for coaching, I think he's done a great job and has really instilled a culture change that we'll see over the next few years. I love his approach and I think we'll continue to see a team that's tough as nails and that plays smart football. We're still making mistakes out there, but it takes a while to get all that out of your system. We've clearly improved as the year has gone on, but we still don't have it in the trenches, especially on OL and any good DL is going to make it tough for our offense to function until we have a better OL. You saw that against uga, A&M, Penn St to an extent, and I think we'll probably see it again against bama.