Bryan Harsin has an ally in Charles Barkley. That’s for sure.
The Auburn basketball legend-turned-NBA Hall of Famer said that ‘for the people who keep bothering this man…I wish somebody would just slap the hell out of them’, during an appearance on “The Next Round Live” with Jim Dunaway, Ryan Brown, Lance Taylor, and Sean “Rockstar” Heninger.
"For the people who keep bothering this man...I wish somebody would just slap the hell out of them." - Auburn legend Charles Barkley had Bryan Harsin's back when he joined us in studio. @AuburnFootball @CoachHarsin @AGreeneIV @coachbrucepearl pic.twitter.com/ysAZrV6aAk
— The Next Round (@NextRoundLive) July 15, 2022
Barkley said he was a Bryan Harsin fan and pleaded with the Auburn family to let the man do his job. According to Barkley, he’d feel really good if Tiger fans simply let Harsin, AD Allen Greene, and Bruce Pearl do their jobs.
Bryan Harsin is on the hot-seat according to CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd
While CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd believes Bryan Harsin is a ‘decent man and good coach’, he also believes that you are only as good as your next game. Harsin will have nine games that could realistically go either way against SEC opponents and Penn State, so while his next two games should be winnable (against Mercer and San Jose State), this will be the ultimate trial-by-fire year a coach can have in the SEC.
Dodd said that Harsin was ‘the latest to go through the Auburn Churn that seems to impact every Tigers coach eventually’ and warned that on the Plains, ‘job security is written in invisible ink’. Referring to the offseason inquiry this past February, he simply stated that ‘in the end, it was JABA — Just Auburn Being Auburn’.
This is not a good look for national reporters to be talking about the program like this, but if you’ve been reading Fly War Eagle at all in recent months, you know what I’m about to say:
All of this talk dissipates if the product on the field improves to the level that Alabama and Georgia’s rival should be at.