Auburn football reporter slams former Alabama QB for spreading Bryan Harsin misinformation
Former Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron, the only quarterback to ever win consecutive BCS National Championship Games in 2012 and 2013, is spreading lies about Auburn football head coach Bryan Harsin.
McCarron intimated that Harsin has already been told to his face that he won’t be returning to be the head coach of the Tigers in 2023 no matter what. Several beat reporters have chimed in to refute that.
One did it in style, though, and it’s somebody you could probably imagine doing such a thing: none other than Justin Lee of Opelika-Auburn News. Lee took a shot at McCarron in the process of calling him out for misinformation about his alma mater’s blood rival — and it went took a bit of a personal turn:
It doesn't need to be said that obviously AJ McCarron doesn't know anything.
— Justin Lee (@ByJustinLee) September 28, 2022
Auburn football head coach Bryan Harsin could have a statue one day for all we know
If Auburn football upsets LSU this Saturday and then goes on to do the unthinkable Between the Hedges on October 8, you think the AU brain trust is going to show him the door? And if the Tigers could beat Georgia, who’s to say they don’t run the table and see Penn State in the College Football Playoff?
These are pie in the sky dreams — and I’m not putting any wagers on any of this personally — but who knows? College football is where the unthinkable happens regularly, and Auburn football winning games they aren’t supposed to isn’t unprecedented.
Will Bryan Harsin have a statue outside of Jordan-Hare Stadium one day? No, but all great coaches start somewhere. Harsin has never lost to a Sunbelt team, though Georgia State tried, so that makes one Power Five coach in the state of Alabama to stake be able to that claim.
Bookmark this if LSU embarrasses Auburn, but again, until this stuff happens, we don’t know.
But according to Justin Lee, A.J. McCarron apparently knows even less.