Auburn rolled the dice with a new head football coach last December, firing Gus Malzahn after eight seasons and hiring seven-year Boise State leader Bryan Harsin. Following a 69-19 (45-8 Mountain West) run with the Broncos from 2014-20, can Harsin harness similar success at a step up in the SEC?
After 247Sports national college football reporter Brandon Marcello spoke with Harsin earlier in July about the plan entering a debut campaign with the Tigers, The Late Kick with Josh Pate took a closer look.
“It’s not whether Bryan Harsin gets it, it’s not whether his model works — of course it works,” Pate said on Episode 153. “Multiple guys have implemented it — himself included at Boise. It’s worked. So you don’t have to question whether the approach works. What you have to question is whether he gets enough buy-in — from his roster, from his coaching staff, from the entire organization at Auburn — ’cause that’s the key. And there’s a certain kind of guy who can accomplish that, and they’re few and far between.
