Auburn football: Don’t expect Bryan Harsin controversy over vaccine mandate
Auburn football head coach Bryan Harsin has never once come out and said he was anti-vaccine, despite what a specific Alabama publication wants you to believe based on him not pushing it on his team during the summer.
Harsin just believes in personal responsibility, which is ultimately a pretty simple take to understand.
When it comes to Auburn University’s recent mandate for all employees–which includes the likes of AU baseball manager Butch Thompson, Lady Tigers HC Johnnie Harris, Auburn basketball HC Bruce Pearl, and the entire Auburn football staff–there shouldn’t, and won’t, be any controversy regarding whether or not they will still be in charge on the other end of the December 8th deadline for inoculation.
Everyone affiliated with Auburn Athletics knows the value of the position they are in. Coaching for Auburn is akin to coaching at a professional level in your sport.
Bryan Harsin will do what’s necessary to continue to his inspiring run on the Plains, which has so far featured a 5-2 record with both losses being to current top seven teams in the country.
And the Auburn family isn’t sweating this issue in the slightest:
My take and last word: Harsin is vaccinated but will not discuss it. Dec. 8 will come and go. The players will know but respect his wishes not to reveal. Obsessive CFB media discourse in the interim.
— John Carvalho (@John_P_Carvalho) October 23, 2021
My take also.
— wjlanesr 🦚 (@wjlanesr) October 23, 2021
I think you’re exactly right.
— All is well! Remain Calm! 🅿️🏀😎🇺🇦 (@PavsNewAccount) October 23, 2021
Much ado about nothing. https://t.co/ocQhMZRzWY
— Aubiece (@Aubiece) October 23, 2021
Now that the season is underway and the Tigers are tied at the top of the SEC West with Alabama–and that not a single game has had to be canceled due to COVID-19, unlike the 2020 season–the focus has been where it needs to be.
It just needs to continue, because this mandate shouldn’t change a thing about the state of Bryan Harsin and his role as the locker-room leader of Auburn.