Tuesday, news broke that the Auburn football program would look to Boise State’s Bryan Harsin as the successor to Gus Malzahn at head coach.
After a week filled with drama and headlines for the Tigers, the program appears to finally have a candidate interested in taking the available position on ‘The Plains.’
Breaking: Auburn has reached an agreement to name Boise State's Bryan Harsin as the Tigers' new head coach, first reported by The Athletic and confirmed by @ESPNRittenberg. pic.twitter.com/6LkhPVgBR9
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) December 22, 2020
UGAWire decided to fire up the ‘ole planetracker for a variety of Alabama airports upon hearing the news.
Coincidentally, it looks as though a plane is currently headed to Prattville, Alabama out of Boise, Idaho.
Now, before you jump to conclusions that this could be any regular delivery jet, a rental plane arrived in Boise at 1:00 ET this afternoon.
Within the hour of the news breaking on Harsin to Auburn, a new plane took off headed back to Prattville.
Of course, this isn’t 100% confirmed to be related to Auburn, but who else is traveling to Boise, Idaho out of a private airport in the Alabama countryside where several boosters for the school reside, on a NetJet.
Let’s speculate for a minute. The plane that went out to Boise likely delivered powerful members of the Auburn search committee and or boosters to work out a contract with Harsin.
Upon reaching an agreement, the Auburn people out in Boise are headed back East and now have two destinations tonight.
First, the returning NetJet plane is scheduled to arrive in Prattville at 10:30 ET. Then, the jet will take off again for Atlanta at Peachtree Dekalb Airport, with a scheduled arrival of midnight ET.
What does all this mean?
Well, it could very well be powerful members of the Auburn board/boosters arriving in Prattville tonight, with the remaining members of the search committee going back to Atlanta.
Remember, the Tigers announced last week that they would use a committee headed out of the Peach State capital for their hiring process.
Stay tuned, folks… We might be onto something here… (wink, wink)
Oh and if you feel up to a little plane tracking yourself… click the link shown here: