Every Auburn fan is concerned with the state of the program, and what its’ future holds under head coach [autotag]Bryan Harsin[/autotag].
There is another class of people who are also concerned with the future of the program, those that have committed to play for the Tigers in the future.
As one of those commits, four-star offensive lineman [autotag]Bradyn Joiner[/autotag] hears more chatter regarding Harsin’s job status than anyone. He plays high school football for Auburn High School and plays alongside Harsin’s son, Davis, who serves as the Tigers’ quarterback in several packages as an 11th grader.
In a recent interview with Keith Niebuhr of Auburn Live, Joiner says that the criticism that Auburn’s head coach is experiencing is a tad extreme.
“I just feel like a lot of fans and people that are not even Auburn fans are pressing on Harsin more than he should be pressed,” Joiner tells Auburn Live. “This is his second season. The first year, everybody gave him crap. He’s trying too hard to please everybody.”
While Joiner wishes that the coach that he has committed to play for would not receive as much backlash, he understands that college football is a business and that he needs to consider his personal future.
“You’ve got to be selfish sometimes in the recruiting process,” Joiner says. “(The hot seat talk) kind of bothers me, but at the same time, it’s a business. People say stuff but you’ve got to keep moving forward.”
At the end of the day, Joiner says that he has committed to Auburn, and not to any one coach. The good news for Auburn fans is that the majority of the other ten commits in the class seem to echo Joiner’s sentiment.
“Everybody that has committed, they love Auburn,” Joiner said. “That’s the first thing they say, they love the atmosphere. They don’t really say much about the coaches. We don’t ever really talk about it.”
Auburn Football currently ranks No. 48 in 247Sports’ recruiting rankings for the 2023 recruiting cycle. The Tigers have 11 total commits, with eight currently rated as four stars.
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