Bryan Harsin Reveals Why He Left Boise State Bryan Harsin is different. Coach Harsin is one of the few folks born here who have played in high school in Boise, then at Boise State, served as an assistant, and finally became the head coach in 2014. Other BSU Coaches, like a lot of us, moved here and found success. Then like Harsin, they all left for bigger jobs. Many believed that Coach Harsin would be the one coach who would break the move on to bigger teams. You can find members of his family at Firebird Raceway and throughout our community. Why did Coach leave one of the most popular places in America to move to the obscure 'Plains' of Auburn, Alabama, where the closest 'big city' is Montgomery?