WATCH: Bryan Harsin, Auburn football team spend day playing paintball

The Auburn Tigers spent Saturday playing a much different game than they’re used to. Taking full advantage of the offseason before spring football begins, Bryan Harsin took the team to a paintball field for some tactical games.

The head coach went all-in on his gear, rocking camouflage clothing and a bulletproof-style vest. He also brought a combat helmet and painted his face for the occasion. The footage made for some great content for the Auburn creative staff.

Paintball Day! 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐍!#WarEagle | #AuburnMade pic.twitter.com/1woKS7GiRr

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Soon, the second-year head coach will be all business once again. The Tigers have 15 spring practices coming up that culminate in the annual A-Day spring game. The program announced that this year’s A-Day is on April 9. Fans can check out the progress Auburn’s made since finishing the season with a loss in the Birmingham Bowl.

Harsin won a lot of games at Boise State before being hired at Auburn. In his first year with the Tigers, he led the team to a 6-7 record. Given the latest controversy that brought so much negative attention to the program, a quick rise in the rankings would go a long way to secure his position in Alabama.

Charles Barkley discusses why Bryan Harsin was facing pressure

Bryan Harsin’s future as Auburn’s head football coach was very publicly in doubt over recent weeks. While he is staying on, at least for this year, there are still questions that arose out of his situation. Former Auburn basketball great Charles Barkley joined the Don’t @ Me show with Dan Dakich on Thursday, where he discussed how Harsin found himself in that position to begin with.

Barkley doesn’t really care about Harsin being, as he describes, “not friendly.” Ultimately, he believes that all he wants to do is win football games.

“Well I guess he’s not overly friendly, which I don’t care to be honest with you,” Barkley said when asked how Harsin got into this situation to begin with. “Listen, it’s all hearsay. He is very stoic, which, that’s his personality. He was winning eight games a year at Boise State with the same personality. I don’t expect my coach – I call him probably once a month just to say hello or check in – I don’t call him with play calls and substitutions and things like that like both of our alumni do.

“But just because he’s not a friendly, gregarious guy who wants to go out and hang around the alumni all the time, he just wants to be a great football coach. And I got no problem with that.”