Auburn University is expected to announce Friday that head football coach Bryan Harsin is returning after completing a university-directed inquiry into the program, ESPN has learned.
Harsin has been in limbo for the past eight days as news surfaced that the school has been scrutinizing the exodus of coaches and players that accompanied his rocky first season there.
Last Friday, outgoing school president Jay Gogue declared that the school was attempting to make an "appropriate decision" on Harsin's future. Harsin left last Thursday for a previously scheduled vacation and was out of the country until Wednesday.