What’s at stake for Auburn football over the next month is bigger than one man. Its outcome threatens to bring down the entire university. On the surface that sounds like a lot of hyperbole, but it’s very real.
A new school president staked his future on a football coach he barely knew last year. He brought on a new athletic director as his first major hire. Now, all three men are joined at the hip and must find a way forward or out.
Saturday’s contest in Oxford may be the biggest game in a generation; not because of the opponent, but what a loss to Ole Miss could mean to the future.