{"id":302940,"date":"2025-11-20T09:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/302940\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:46:06","slug":"inside-scoop-auburn-coaching-search-frontrunner-additional-candidates-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/302940\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Scoop: Auburn coaching search: Frontrunner, additional candidates emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is one SEC program with an &#8220;open for business&#8221; sign on its head coach&#8217;s front door that absolutely is not pursuing Lane Kiffin: Auburn University.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers, seeking their replacement for the fired Hugh Freeze and to stabilize a program that since 2012 already has had four different full-time head coaches and three interims, have advanced the search with numerous candidates, including a pair of sitting Southeastern Conference head coaches and a prominent Group of Five leader, among other targets.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re sharing this one for Premium Members as this one deals with several men currently leading their teams; but also who could be involved with other searches. Premium membership is $5 \/ month if paid annually, $7 \/ month otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is one SEC program with an &#8220;open for business&#8221; sign on its head coach&#8217;s front door that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[157493,831,157494,399,398,396,397,3,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-302940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-auburn-coaching-search","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-florida-coaching-search","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}