Coaching hires overwhelmingly end one of two ways: you get fired or you leave. Few get to ride into the sunset of retirement on their own volition after a long spell at the top of the game. But from the day Bryan Harsin took over at Auburn, the writing has been on the wall for how this would end. Now the inevitable is definitive and Harsin has been fired.
After Auburn’s loss against Arkansas this past Saturday, Harsin took longer than usual to hit the postgame podium (around 75 minutes). It raised some eyebrows among the assembled media—each previous loss was seemingly followed by 24 hours of waiting with bated breath to see if Harsin would keep his job, especially after losing to Ole Miss two weeks ago heading into a bye week.
But this past Sunday came and went, with Harsin still with the program and Auburn still without an athletic director since parting ways with Allen Greene in August. And that’s where the timeline here gets very interesting.
