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Eric Kiesau, a former University of Washington offensive coordinator, has been promoted to the same role at Auburn as embattled coach Bryan Harsin searches for program relief following a challenging first season at the SEC school.Harsin, formerly the Boise State coach, was the subject of a university inquiry after his initial Tigers team lost its final five R.A. Dickey Jersey games to finish 6-7 and several coaches and players left the program.Auburn chose not to fire him and be responsible for another huge buyout, which is what it is doing with his predece sor, Gus Malzahn, now at Central Florida. John Smoltz Jersey Kiesau, 49, amazingly becomes Harsin's third offensive coordinator in 14 months.He replacesAustin Davis, who held the job for just six weeks before leaving for personal reasons. Davis took over for Mike Bobo, who was fired by Auburn following the end of the regular season.Kiesau spent Jose Ramirez Jersey the 2012 and 2013 seasons with the Huskies as part of Steve Sarkisian's staff.When Sarkisian left for USC, Kiesau wasn't invited to join him and ended up Hank Aaron Jersey at Kansas for a season as a wide-receivers coach.Scroll to ContinueAfter another year at Alabama as a quality a sistant for Nick Saban, Kiesau interestingly ended up at Fresno State as the offensive coordinator for Tim DeRuyter's staff and finished the season as interim head coach.DeRuyter was fired during a dismal 1-11 season for the Bulldogs in 2016, leading to the hiring of Kurt Suzuki Jersey Jeff Tedford as coach and Kalen DeBoer as offensive coordinator.DeBoer is now at Washington as head coach after leaving the same role at Fresno State, Tedford is back at Fresno State as coach after a two-year absence and Kiesau is at Auburn after a stop at Boise State as offensive coordinator for Harsin. |
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