Barn is Burning Coaching Search — Freeze is the early favorite, but O’Brien is a better bet

If you’ve been gleefully watching the Barners get their hopes up about their next head coaching hire, you’re not alone. Rarely has delusion met such a constant bedfellow as when Auburn Man bats his eyelashes at potential coaching hires.

We’ll first take a look at these odds, and then we’ll discuss why so very many of them are sucker bets:

Let’s start with the bottom line first, and then I’ll tell you why: Bill O’Brien, Matt Rhule, and the Field are the best bets here.

Here’s why:

The issue of course is that Auburn Man is under the delusion that Auburn is, at the best of times, an A-List job.