Auburn recruiting stat further illustrates Bryan Harsin’s Plains failures

The sky is blue and another stat from the Bryan Harsin era of Auburn football paints his tenure on the Plains as one rife with failures — failures that weren’t confined to just when the game clock was running but also took place on the recruiting trail for nearly two years.

This time, it’s in regard to the program’s blue-chip ratio, otherwise known as the ratio of 4-star and 5-star recruits signed over 3-star and 4-stars. AU’s almost fell off over the last four classes, down to No. 15 in the country and at 51%.

As 247Sports’ Brandon Marcello pointed out that Harsin almost had the team out of the graphic altogether after bringing on just 18 4-stars and 5-stars over his two years in East Central Alabama.

Bryan Harsin finally thriving after not doing so during 21 games as Auburn football head coach

Auburn football is certainly not thriving relative to the 90% blue-chip ratio for Alabama and 77% blue-chip ratio for the back-to-back defending College Football Playoff National Champions, Georgia. But don’t worry.

Harsin said he now is in Boise, Idaho. Hooray.

“I wasn’t going to let (Auburn) eat at me, no matter how s—ty some of the things were that my family had to endure,” Harsin told ESPN’s Chris Low. “There were things we didn’t like. There were things that were disappointing, on and off the field. There were things that I wish I would have done better, and there were things where we got a chance to see some of the worst in people. At the same time, here we are. We’re thriving.”

Harsin receives his $15.3 million in buyout money, and the new coaching staff gets to pick up the pieces. That sounds like a fair trade-off, right? No?

Luckily Hugh Freeze is working hard enough to distract from his own personal shortcomings in the SEC that he may just undo the damage done by Harsin and his coaching staff.