Is an interim or new head coach best for Auburn; buyout safeguards & why did Andy choose Florida?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Another week, another rollicking episode of 'Dear Andy'! Andy responds to a listener question about Auburn's current coaching predicament. Should the Tigers appoint an interim head coach to bridge the program through next season, or hire a new coach to steward the club? When negotiating with a new head coach, should ADs include safeguards to protect their respective program/university from gargantuan buyouts? Plus, Andy details his time playing at Florida and discusses why he went with the Gators. Also, what's the ideal BBQ plate?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staple show. |
| 0:10.5 | It's a dear Andy edition. |
| 0:12.2 | You ask, I answer. |
| 0:14.8 | And as always, you guys have some great questions. |
| 0:17.1 | I've put out the call. |
| 0:18.4 | We've done it on the athletic website. |
| 0:20.3 | We've done it on Twitter. And we're |
| 0:22.1 | going to mix it up. We've got this podcast version of it. We've got the written version of it, |
| 0:28.5 | which will be completely different questions, and we'll include a random ranking. I'm not going to |
| 0:32.8 | have a random ranking tonight because we have a very interesting barbecue-related question that I've |
| 0:36.7 | got to get to that I feel like I probably need to take a little time on to explain the answer to. But first, |
| 0:44.0 | we got to get to some college football questions. Obviously, there's one burning topic this |
| 0:48.7 | weekend in college football, and that has been the focus of almost every question I've gotten, which, listen, it's a |
| 0:56.7 | wild situation, so I understand completely. This one comes from at Wiley E. Dogg on Twitter. |
| 1:04.7 | If a program were to be unhappy with their coach in late February, would they be better |
| 1:08.8 | off keeping that coach until the season, |
| 1:15.0 | firing the coach now and hiring an interim, or firing the coach now in hiring from a limited pool, asking for some friends down south? And so what Wiley means in terms of firing and hiring |
| 1:22.5 | an interim or hiring from a limited pool, the limited pool one would be a permanent replacement, not someone |
| 1:29.7 | who would be the coach for 2022, and then you move on and do a full search at the end of next |
| 1:35.6 | season. So obviously, this is about Auburn, and I think Auburn has sort of telegraphed |
| 1:41.1 | what's going to happen with Brian Harsen. We don't know exactly how it's going to happen, |
| 1:47.3 | when it's going to happen, but it's probably coming sooner rather than later. When the president gets up on Friday at the trustees meeting and says, they're trying |
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