Auburn football: Firing Allen Greene doesn’t solve any problems

The thought of Allen Greene being fired from his post as AD of Auburn Athletics because of the lack of success from the Auburn football program is one that should be passing, if not outright taboo.

This man single-handedly raised the profile of the hoops program to the point that the Tigers could have the No. 1 overall draft pick. In basketball. Jabari Smith is currently the odds-on betting favorite to hear his name first come June 23rd.

Must we remind the world of Suni Lee competing every other Friday at the Auburn/Neville Arena as well? Between everything Bruce Pearl, Jeff Graba, Mickey Dean, and Butch Thompson have accomplished since 2018, the underperformance of Gus Malzahn, Bryan Harsin, and the entire Auburn football program shouldn’t be the be-all and end-all for Greene’s time on the Plains.

And yet it might be, considering new university president Chris Roberts’ plans to meet with Greene and discuss the future of an athletics program centered around football, which had the kind of offseason that could require damage-control in some form.

Allen Greene has less control over Auburn football than its boosters

It was the Yellawoods of the world that helped oust Gus Malzahn in the hopes that Kevin Steele would be his heir apparent to the Auburn football coaching throne. In that same vein, they are the ones that reportedly did everything possible to undermine Bryan Harsin at every turn this past offseason as he rebuilt a staff that suffered mass turnover.

Allen Greene has much less say in how the pigskin program operates than those that have been meddling in the affairs of Auburn University for decades. He may be the one that hits the chopping block, though, with a contract set to expire at the end of January and a 2022 football season that almost no one has high hopes for.