🏈 Auburn officials decide to retain Harsin

[Secondand26]

Ok don't get me wrong. I'm laughing hard at the barn BUT......where would we have been if Richards wife had liked Tuscaloosa.

Kinda makes the blood run cold!

 

[It Takes Eleven]

All in for Harsin here.

A few years from now it'll be like Woodstock. We'll all say we were among the Harsin 24 rally at Toomer's...

 

[OGBamaholic]

But i wanna play the barn on a blue field. Keep Harsin.

 

[252BAMA]

"Alabama infamously had a coach named “Ears” Whitworth, and now Auburn has their modern version of that old coaching relic."

And Auburn infamously had a coach named Earl Brown who was just as bad, if not worse, as Whitworth. Brown was 3-22-4 in his three years. Whitworth was 4-24-2.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

"Alabama infamously had a coach named “Ears” Whitworth, and now Auburn has their modern version of that old coaching relic."

And Auburn infamously had a coach named Earl Brown who was just as bad, if not worse, as Whitworth. Brown was 3-22-4 in his three years. Whitworth was 4-24-2.

They have nothing to write about right now, so they're just providing unrelated filler from the past.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

"Alabama infamously had a coach named “Ears” Whitworth, and now Auburn has their modern version of that old coaching relic."

And Auburn infamously had a coach named Earl Brown who was just as bad, if not worse, as Whitworth. Brown was 3-22-4 in his three years. Whitworth was 4-24-2.

Wonder if i am only one on here that ever went to a game that Ears coached.....
( vs GaTech...legion field)

 

[#80]

Yellawood just paid off Gustavo now he is looking at $18M if they decide to fire Harsin.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Wonder if i am only one on here that ever went to a game that Ears coached.....
( vs GaTech...legion field)

My 1st games was 1959 so I believe you hold the record.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

My 1st games was 1959 so I believe you hold the record.

As 57 or 58 i think

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

LOL, auburn gonna auburn...



The brand new policy...

https://sites.auburn.edu/admin/universitypolicies/Policies/EmployeeDutytoCooperatePolicy.pdf

 

[OldPlayer]

LOL, auburn gonna auburn...



The brand new policy...

https://sites.auburn.edu/admin/universitypolicies/Policies/EmployeeDutytoCooperatePolicy.pdf

As I read it, Harsin is violating the policy that was adopted yesterday thereby giving Auburn the ability to fire for cause (violation of university policy).

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Update: The very same auburn writers who were convinced over the weekend that Harsin would have to accept a lower buyout have now come to the realization that barring a major auburn god miracle, he will get every dollar owed to him if fired. I swear it's as if every person associated with that boil of a university is dumb as shit.

Meanwhile, Harsin just keeps on being the coach. He will probably show up in Birmingham to meet with the other SEC head coaches tomorrow, walking in like Milton with his red stapler... owning auburn for yet another day.

 

[252BAMA]

My 1st games was 1959 so I believe you hold the record.

My first game was 10/17/1953, TSIO. 0-0 tie. Also attended the GT game that year. Ticket was a Birthday present. Guy offered me $20 for that $4 ticket just before entering Legion Field. Told him thanks but no thanks, I'm going to the football game. All of 12 years old, $20 would have been the most money I had ever had. Would have been like $200 today.

The only Whitworth game I remember attending was his last. 1957* Auburn.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

My first game was 10/17/1953, TSIO. 0-0 tie. Also attended the GT game that year. Ticket was a Birthday present. Guy offered me $20 for that $4 ticket just before entering Legion Field. Told him thanks but no thanks, I'm going to the football game. All of 12 years old, $20 would have been the most money I had ever had. Would have been like $200 today.

The only Whitworth game I remember attending was his last. 1957* Auburn.

@252BAMA I think it may down to you and @Sid Youngleman for the Methuselah Award.

 

[JoshB]

As I read it, Harsin is violating the policy that was adopted yesterday thereby giving Auburn the ability to fire for cause (violation of university policy).

How on earth could that be legal, though? You're on a approved (I would assume) vacation and they demand you come back to cooperate from said vacation or get fired... based on a policy they adopted literally the day before? Some lawyer has to be licking his/her chops at this stuff.

 

[Justneedme81]

This is interesting because if they wrote a policy literally yesterday just to have a cause, then it's not going to hold up in the court. Whoever came up with this dumb idea needs to resign.

Secondly, why wasn't this policy in place years ago?

In the end, guess who wins? If Auburn was smart they would just ride out the year and deal with it in off-season.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Secondly, why wasn't this policy in place years ago?

Well, it's probably a good practice not to have a policy like this when Bruce Pearl is on the payroll.

 

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Jay G. Tate
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Hey everyone.

I honestly thought this was going to be Judgment Day in terms of Bryan Harsin's future with the football program. It appears judgment must wait a big longer.

Interviews either have reached the end or are nearing the end this afternoon. So in that sense, most of the data is in.

So what's next? President Jay Gogue, his right-hand man (Gen. Ron Burgess), the board of trustees and the university's office of general counsel will make a collaborative decision about what to do with the data gathered. That's how things like this work — even when certain elements of the operation attempt to exert bonus influence on matters.

At this stage, honestly, I'm not sure how this is going to end. That's a real problem, you know?

If Harsin isn't fired, he'll be saddled with immense baggage that doesn't belong to him. Winning in any existential sense will be almost impossible. Sure, they can win games next season. How will they recruit knowing strong, important elements within the university pine for a day when Harsin isn't the head coach? You'd better believe Auburn's competitors will be falling over themselves to paint Auburn as a rudderless organization on the verge of collapse. Even faithful Auburn people couldn't really protest that presentation too vociferously, you know?

If Harsin is fired, he's going to get paid and I'm here to tell you that there isn't a unified plan to fill the vacancy. I already can sense different plans being considered by different blocs. This feels just like December 2019 all over again. There's a rush to whack the king, so to speak, without an actionable plan to replace the king. Having a full plan in place is Coup Design 101 — and Auburn simply doesn't get it.

That Auburn doesn't learn from these fiascos really confuses me. What happened to lessons learned from Jetgate in 2003? What happened to lessons learned from the totally polarized (and FUB*R) Search of 2020? There were many teaching moments contained in those two disasters. Why are those lessons ignored?

The answer to that question will lead all of us to enlightenment. Unfortunately, I don't have incontrovertible answers there.

I think Gogue and the board and the OGC are waffling.

I think they lack clear evidence of any meaningful wrongdoing, which means Harsin (plus his staff) would be entitled to a lot of money if they're dismissed right now. It's reckless to put that expense on the athletic department again; Gus Malzahn's buyout just rolled off the department's books a few months back.

Paying Harsin to leave isn't a good option.

Leaving Harsin here after this drama isn't a good option.

Someone must answer for this — and not necessarily from an accountability standpoint.

I'm merely talking about from an explanation standpoint. In lieu of a smoking gun that hasn't yet been found, someone would be required to stand behind a podium and coherently explain to Auburn people why Auburn worked to sabotage its own football coach. This person probably will say that certain accusations were made and the university was required to investigate those claims fully, that Auburn merely was following established protocols.

But this dilemma didn't begin with an accusation. It began long before that.

 

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Turd in a punch bowl inside of a sandy vagina that’s on fire, onboard a ship that’s sinking into a sea of donkey dicks.

 

[18Champs]

This is interesting because if they wrote a policy literally yesterday just to have a cause, then it's not going to hold up in the court. Whoever came up with this dumb idea needs to resign.

It'll hold up from the day it was instituted. They couldn't use it for something last week, but anything from yesterday moving forward is good.