By Charles Goldberg
AuburnTigers.com
AUBURN, Ala. u2015 Herb Hand was hired to be the offensive coordinator at Tulsa on a Thursday in 2007. A couple of days later, the phone rang.
His head coach, Todd Graham, was on the other end of the line with some news.
"He called and said, 'Hey, I've got a chance to hire a guy, Gus Malzahn. Do you know Gus?' I said I don't know him, but I know of him. He said, 'Well, I've got a chance to hire him and he'd be co-offensive coordinator with you.