Will Friend tells hilarious joke about offensive lineman Brandon Council

Second-year Auburn offensive line coach Will Friend has been working with his players during the offseason. Now in Fall camp, Friend knows his team well. So, he was able to tell a hilarious joke about redshirt senior Brandon Council.

“Brandon Council is two years older than me. When he was a senior in high school, I was just a sophomore,” Justin Ferguson reported the joke on Twitter.

Auburn OL coach Will Friend with the line of fall camp so far: “Brandon Council is two years older than me. When he was a senior in high school, I was just a sophomore.”

— Justin Ferguson (@JFergusonAU) August 10, 2022

The joke stems from Brandon Council’s age, being a member of the Class of 2016. Initially, Council enrolled at Akron, before transferring to Auburn in 2020. A three year-starter at Akron, he came to Auburn as a graduate transfer with two years of eligibility left. Council did lose time in 2020, due to a knee injury, but he returned to start at right tackle for Auburn in 2021. He then got another year of eligibility due to the pandemic season. For what it’s worth, he’s not actually older than Will Friend.

Will Friend had spent three seasons at Tennessee before joining the Auburn staff. Prior to that, he had been the offensive line coach at Colorado State under Mike Bobo. Friend was also the offensive coordinator at Colorado State. Bobo was the Auburn offensive coordinator in 2021.

During his own playing career, Will Friend was an offensive lineman for the Alabama Crimson Tide. There, he was a two-time All-SEC selection and was named a member of Alabama’s Team of the Decade for the 1990s.

Now, on the other side of the Iron Bowl, Will Friend is working to make sure Brandon Council and the rest of the Auburn offensive line are ready for the 2022 season. If the Tigers are going to have a bounce-back season, they’ll need the offensive line to be there to protect a new quarterback and block for Tank Bigsby.