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Auburn expected to hire Harsin
Auburn has zeroed in on Boise State football coach Bryan Harsin to replace Gus Malzahn, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed to USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the school had not yet made the hire official.
Yahoo Sports first reported Auburn was moving to hire Harsin, who compiled a 69- 19 record at Boise State with three conference titles and four top- 25 finishes in seven seasons.
Auburn had considered and spoken with several coaches before landing on Harsin, including LouisianaLafayette’s Billy Napier and Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables.
Harsin takes over one of the Southeastern Conference’s most high- pressure football jobs where the previous coach was fired despite winning 66% of his games and being owed a $ 21.5 million buyout.
Harsin, who is expected to get a significant raise from the $ 1.85 million package he had at Boise State, had grown clearly frustrated with his situation there and was ready to move on. Recently, the Idaho Press had obtained a series of emails in which Harsin urged Boise State to leave the Mountain West Conference and seemed to push for certain roster size commitments for 2021 that the school was hesitant to meet due to scholarship costs.