From the very beginning, there were red flags about hiring Bryan Harsin to be the head coach of the Auburn football program. Though he saw success at Boise State, he arrived on the Plains without any experience in the cutthroat world of the SEC and had no idea what he was about to get himself into.
The issues began early on, with boosters that viewed Harsin as an outsider and someone they needed to get rid of alongside high school coaches that wondered about the culture fit. It didn’t help that Harsin struggled to open up to the public as the face of the Auburn football program and work on fitting in with the Auburn family.