Hugh Freeze, Bryan Harsin catch stray from analyst: 'Crooks and malcontents'

Split Zone Duo host Alex Kirshner believes that Hugh Freeze and Bryan Harsin's political leanings have nothing to do with Auburn's failures on the football field, but he does think that the Tigers need to hire a "Normal Guy" as their next head coach.

Kirshner also alluded to both being "crooks and malcontents."

"I have no illusions that the reasons these guys have been bad is that they're politically polarizing," Kirshner prefaced before saying, "All kinds of crooks and malcontents have been amazing CFB coaches. But I think whenever Auburn gets around to the next hire, they should try hiring a Normal Guy."

Gus Malzahn seen as the perfect personality to be Auburn's head coach

Don't look at the comments below Kirshner's post, Tiger fans. You may feel a bit heartbroken at who the fanbase feels has the perfect personality to man the head coaching post on the Plains.

Spoiler alert: it's Gus Malzahn. Aka the head coach who had the job, oversaw winning seasons every year, and never had a beef with a coaching peer, a media member, a player, or anyone else for that matter.

Malzahn has gone on to lead UCF to great heights in the AAC and helped lead their transition to the Big 12. No Tiger fan wouldn't trade AU's NIL era's results with the Knights'.

Malzahn still keeps up with all things Auburn but it'd be hard for him to trust the university's brain trust again. There's a new AD but the powers that be didn't change.

Malzahn is the one that got away from Tiger fans. Any SEC return would probably be elsewhere. He's not coming back.

AU's fanbase needs to sleep in that bed. They wanted excellence, not eight wins every year, so they got the change they called for.

That change just looks much worse than what they expected.