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Saban terrified: Auburn to hire Boise State's Bryan Harsin as head coach
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No. He's the obnoxious mouthbreather who hit puberty in the 3rd grade, but still sucked at sports because he was uncoordinated and likely inbred. Front and center when it's time to pick teams, he bellows out a, "yeah boy!" with every pick by the one captain who knows all the best kids to take with the vain hope that said captain will notice him and pick him as well. He then storms off in a fit of rage due to his wounded pride of being the last available pick, refusing to join the team about to get its collective s**t pushed in, and instead heads over to the tetherball court where he Napoleon Dynamite's the rest of P.E. away, challenging any and all 1st graders and girls within shouting distance.
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We'll see. Again, I'd rather hire a proven head coach w/ an 8 year track record of winning vs. a coordinator (or say, a coach with a losing conference record?). Or they could have hired Napier, w/ a 3 year track record, or Venables who has never been a head coach, or a Beamer type, or an Eli Drinkwitz who had 1 year as a head coach, or a Sam Pittman who had never been a head coach. It's a solid hire, especially for a program that evidently had no plan prior to firing Gus.
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Ryan Day and Lincoln Riley have more playoffs and championships than all the mediocre garbage Butterific hires.
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Yeah, I’m not sure one way or the other here. I don’t think he’s dreadful, but again, as always, if they truly liked him that much they wouldn’t have interviewed everyone on the planet before. So it’s a bit of a tough sell to the fans. And as I’ve pointed out in this thread, Malzahn was like 3-4 against Saban, played for a NC and played for 2 SECs(winning 1). So he’s not stepping into a situation where modest improvements will be rewarded. And as ltraz mentioned, it seems like everyone wins at Boise, but rarely succeed elsewhere. It could be decent. But the could definitely also backfire.
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Who TF knows (other than Donkey, who knows everything)? In the last two years we saw the SEC hire: Shane Beamer, Sam Pittman, Eli Drinkwitz, Clark Lea, and now Harsin. The dude was head coach for 8 years at Boise and one year at Arkansas State. He's proven he can win, never had a losing season (five 10+ win seasons), #1 recruiting classes in conference, and is a former QB in that same Boise offense. Like I said before, I'd have much rather hired a guy with this track record vs. a Ron Zook or Will Muschamp type of hire (a Jeremy Pruitt type). He's going to have to hire several SEC guys as assistants, but I imagine he brings one or two Boise assistants with him. Watching UF go through this 5 times in the last 18 years, it's not as easy as some make it out to be. Can he beat Saban? Probably not. Who can? Gus was 3-5. Saban won't be there forever, probably only a few more seasons. Unless he leaves the program similar to the way Ryan Day took over for Meyer, he can make a run in that series. But these hires are a crap shoot, most fail.
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If I remember correctly. Harsin improved texas offense in his one year there. Not like he had much to work with at qb or anything. I don't think a coach has to be recycled throughout the sec his entire career to be successful in the conference. And I'd also like to add Chris Pedersen didn't do terrible at Washington. Hell he had em in the playoffs. I think alot of this doubt stems from that one guy that left boise before Pedersen stinking up the joint at Colorado I think.
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Koetter and Dan Hawkins.
Houston Nutt was there.
Even Pederson really doesnt have Malzahn's resume, in a pathetic PAC vs Malzahn going head to head vs Saban.
Houston Nutt was there.
Even Pederson really doesnt have Malzahn's resume, in a pathetic PAC vs Malzahn going head to head vs Saban.
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I think that's fair. He's obviously not as accomplished as Malzahn but he's probably as good of a coaching prospect as there is.
