This feels like a soap opera doesn’t it? Like sand through the hourglass, so are the days of our Harsin lives.
After reports of the Auburn Tigers head coach having a ‘benign’ meeting with school officials, one former player believes Bryan Harsin will be retained as head coach. In the words of The Joker…And. Here. We. Go.
Former Tiger and current ESPN analyst Cole Cubelic took to Twitter to voice his take on the matter for his alma mater.
“I believe that Bryan Harsin will be retained as the Auburn head football coach,” Cubelic tweeted. “Alignment will be critical moving forward. Adjustments from all sides will be necessary.
“Must find a way for everyone to attempt to put this behind them & move forward to help all parties reconcile & find a way to work together towards competing for championships. Will not be easy. Divisiveness cannot continue.”
With each passing day, it feels like Harsin returning in 2022 becomes a likely scenario. In his interview with ESPN, the Auburn head coach stated, “certainly, I’m the right man for the job.”
“There’s no doubt about it. No one is going to have a better plan than I do, but we’ve got to change some things. This place is not going to be a championship program until we change some things. You’ve got to let the head coach be the head coach and support him.”
But has the damage already been done? While yes alignment will be critical, could this just be delaying the inevitable? Should the Tigers have a slow start out of the gate in 2022, they could then pull the trigger. Perhaps given the fact that it would be late in the process, Harsin will be given another chance due to a lack of options?
Frankly, Harsin deserves to come back in 2022 and the administration needs to give him support or this was never going to work with him as head coach.