In the end, Auburn’s search for a new football coach took exactly nine days to complete. That’s the same amount of time it took to hire Gus Malzahn after Gene Chizik was fired, and one day less than it took to hire Chizik after Tommy Tuberville resigned.
But those nine days felt like an eternity. There seemed to be a new twist and turn every single day. The fact that Twitter and podcasts are a much larger part of the mainstream media culture than they were during the program’s last search in 2012 probably had something to do with that.