Terry Mohajir, a former Arkansas State athletics director who is now at UCF, has come to the defense of Bryan Harsin following a report from Sports Illustrated that “ASU could have warned Auburn what they were getting.”

Mohajir fired back at Barrett Sallee of CBS Sports, who shared the story on Twitter, and wrote, Barrett – That story is 100% not true!! Very false and a lack of journalistic integrity! Whoever wrote it should have checked with me first! THE IRONY?!Bryan won a conference championship as the fourth Head Coach in four years! We fully intended and hoped he would stay!”

However the situation unfolded at Arkansas State, Harsin has had a tumultuous week at Auburn. He returned from a Mexico vacation on Wednesday, and reportedly met with officials working on an inquiry at Auburn. Then on Thursday, he attended a meeting of SEC head coaches in Birmingham, and did not comment to reporters as he left through a side door.

The university is looking into the football program, which has lost 18 players and 5 assistant coaches since the end of Harsin’s first season, and the Auburn administration is looking into what caused the wave of departures. The defections came after the Tigers lost their final 5 games and finished with a 6-7 record.

Harsin maintained in an interview with ESPN last week that he’s “not planning on going anywhere.” Auburn released a statement on Monday saying university officials are “judiciously collecting information” from sources, including student-athletes.