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If a successful head football coach in the Big Ten left to become an assistant in the SEC, media outlets across the country would lead with the news.
In swimming and diving, the reach may not be as vast, but the impact on the programs certainly is.
That’s what John Hargis did nearly three years ago when he left Penn State after five seasons to come home to Auburn.
Hargis, an Olympic gold medalist and member of Auburn’s first men’s NCAA Championship team in 1997, returned to the Plains in 2013 amid unprecedented turmoil at Penn State.