The Tigers’ new coach, fresh from a successful seven-year run at Boise State, meandered through a more than half-hour opening statement Thursday at his introductory news conference. The first question when he finally finished was, fittingly, about competing against Nick Saban and No. 1 Alabama in the Iron Bowl.
“I’ve got nothing other than respect for [Saban] and what they’ve done and I’m certainly looking forward to competing against him and we’ll have our opportunity to do that,” Harsin said. “But we’re going to focus on what we need to do at Auburn and how we need to do it so we can put ourselves in position to compete when it’s time.