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He?ll be just fine and probably better than ever
Yeah. I've never been skeptical of his recruiting. If he's getting the money, he'll buy a great team. I'm EXTREMELY skeptical of his coaching abilities.
Freezus's best play call..."go deep, get open".
I have a lot of Auburn friends (and my dad) that swore off Auburn football if they hired Freeze. You know Auburn fans and their holier than though morals.
Can't wait to see how they walk it back and buy back into the program and how they excuse what they previously said was a non negotiable for them.
You're smarter at football than me, so you have to know that 1 of those Bama wins was the flukiest game of all time. The other win was 100% on Lane Kiffin. Bama was gashing ole miss D for 5-7 yards per rush but Kiffin could not help himself. He insisted on throwing the ball. I was yelling at the TV for Saban to fire him mid game. They kept ole miss in the game by not running it down their throats.
Freeze had the most talented team that money could buy and he still couldn't win the West.
I just don't think he's a good coach. I could have the most talented team and win 10 games.
I can see Freeze's downfall at Auburn if he let's the inmates run the asylum. The discipline issues were becoming a problem for him at ole miss just before he was fired.
With NIL players can buy their own hookers.
That or confronting a rape victim about the validity of their claim (that doesn't even involve him and he could have easily stayed out of) in written format. What a wacko. Undoubtedly, he will be his own downfall. His handlers can only be present for so much. If he does start to trend downward and the boosters want to cut bait, he will make "for cause" easy for them. Lol.
He?s a slightly above average coach that has no problem breaking rules to get elite players to play for him. He fit at Ole Miss and fits at Auburn like a glove.
I disagree with the slightly above average part.
Freeze is a heck of an offensive coach. The dude is gonna have a good offense pretty much every year. And he's gonna recruit well.
The only thing that has held him back is that he's a slime ball for a human being. But if he can somewhat manage all of that, he's gonna do well.
It?s almost impossible to get in trouble anymore so there is no reason he shouldn?t do well if AU has the cash. Now if he gets caught grabbing secretaries by the butt or they file suit then his time could be short.
Freeze signed 2 top 10 classes over a 3 year period at OM and averaged 7.2-4.8. He had two 9-3 seasons but also a 5-7 before any of the probation issues. Solid, not great considering the talent. Dan averaged 7.1-4.9 without anything close to a top 10 class, if you believe in recruiting rankings.
He will flip a program and build it, but he has never shown the maturity to maintain it. Maybe that's changed now that he's older.
My border county of MS is run over with MS people with bama stickers on their cars and the AL country adjacent to us is very heavily bama. There is one older, inactive deacon in our church who is all Auburn his entire life. We have a meet and greet before the sermon and we always talk a few minutes about State & AU. He had difficulty trying to justify the hiring of Rev Freeze shortly after the hire. Last Sunday was even worse. He was worried about his RB getting to play after being involved in the sex tape. He said,"You do know this was an Alabama set up." I told him I couldn't buy that and went to greet others. Wow! Fans are indeed short for fanatics. I expect the RB to soon be ruled eligible and if they have a good year, hear that OM set up Freeze! Hail State!
Auburn was consistently a Top 12 recruiting class program from 2009 to 2021. In 22, they had the 30th ranked class, their worst since 2004 when they were also ranked 30th. Freeze rolls in with a 20 Ranking in year 1. With HI$ Recruiting $KILL$$ he will get them in the low TEEN$ this coming CLA$$ and then in the Top 10 after that.
Or we use our heads and look at the big picture.
Hugh freeze had an advantage over all the teams he was coaching against and still didn't win big. He was throwing money and buying prostitutes for recruits and still couldn't win the West. Look at the big picture. Mullen did as well or better than Freeze with classes ranked in the 30's.
He'll be 7-5 to 9-3 at Auburn because the boosters will spend the money. He'll beat Saban a time or two because saban is getting old and it's easy to see he's lost some fire. It's Kirby's time to rule now.
Hookers and blow are effective recruiting tools
Offensively he is way above average. His ole miss teams were a handful on offense. At Liberty he changed his offensive philosophy a bit (probably catering to his roster skill set), showing he could evolve, and had a qb at a no name school go in the first round of the draft. Guy can absolutely motivate, recruit, and coach offense. I know I will get flamed for this, but I put him on the same level as Kiffin on the offensive side.
He needs a great defensive coordinator that he leaves alone.
He has character issues that could catch up with him and they probably will eventually. He is great at getting talent to listen, but loses leverage because he probably promises them the world and then as others have said ?the inmates then run the asylum?.
It?s going to be difficult for them to win big this year because the roster is depleated and no clear qb talent. This will change in a cpl years as he recruits and they will likly be a handful for a couple years but it will self implode somehow. This is my guess.
Some of you need to take your maroon-colored glasses off. Freeze is a problem for defenses. He has a rare ability to expose defensive weaknesses and then make needed adjustments to take advantage of those weaknesses, even with average talent and especially in-game. He is a better offensive coach than we have probably ever had. He adjusts to his players talent and adjusts to the defenses he faces. And I don't like guy personally.
Also. I've tried telling all of you this before. As much bad rap as Hugh gets, he was the scapegoat. If he was literally the one making the calls to hookers, he would never be a HC again. The NCAA had him but didn't nail him - why? Why did Jimbo go get Bjork when he wanted to utilize the $$$ A&M has? One of these days this will all unravel and it will most likely hit the Aggies the most..."you ride with outlaws, you die with outlaws"...
Yep. Lots of maroon glasses on this thread. The other thing that Freeze did and to a bit lesser extent Matt Luke, was they motivated the shit out of their players at OM using bulletin board material and whatever else. Just about every Egg Bowl they were ready to chew nails and they punched us in the mouth especially those games where hunchback Dan had already checked out.
For that reason alone I’m glad they are both gone from the Plantation. Lane is more like Dan in that he gives off that I don’t give a crap attitude.
Who is better, lane or freeze?
Freeze offense will move the ball and score TDS.
Not sure how the defense will do. Talent alone should save him there.
Does he still use the Christian angle in his recruiting pitch?
I would say Freeze. Lane running the Bama offense is the only reason Freeze beat Alabama. If you want to argue that point, then all you have to do is go back and rewatch the games. Bama could have ran the ball every play and eaten the clock and absolutely destroyed ole miss. But Lane couldn't let that happen. He got pass happy and and kept ole miss alive in high game. It was so frustrating to watch because a 10 year old could see what was happening. It was so obvious.
I would have said freeze 6 years ago.
Now I say lane.
Freeze had a D1 bounce back first rounder playing qb who was the most talented player every time they took the field and still had several inexplicable losses. Most offenses have caught up to freeze imo. He is still good though.