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Hugh Freeze Wasn't Comfortable Paying $1 Million For Quarterback

by Larry Leo

May 9, 202426 Comments

During his Wednesday interview on McElory and Cubelic in the Morning, Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze didn't feel like paying for a QB via the transfer portal...

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"The options that you’re presented with: develop Payton, develop Holden [Geriner], develop Hank [Brown], develop Walker [White], or go spend a million dollars on this guy," Freeze said. "I just couldn’t bring myself to doing that because I wanted to put all the pieces together.

"Now, I’m not saying I won’t do that in time. But just currently, I think the guy’s proven."

"I believe in our quarterback room. I believe in Kent Austin," Freeze said. "I believe if you have the right pieces around Payton that we can have success. I think you saw some glimpses of that, and I don’t think we had a total package around him really."

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cajunmud•10 days

The main thing is that we gotta keep gov out of it. These have to be private agreements between schools/conferences and players just like in the NFL...owners and players.

Once the playing field is leveled, salary caps & contracts, THEN we will know what a QB is worth.

Luckydog•10 days

For the 10th time, it’s is the Supreme Court and rulings that trump the ncaa. NCAA can’t do anything anymore due to the court recent rulings, or be sued

GumboPot•10 days

SCOTUS ruled in favor of Alston 9-0. Even your beloved "liberal" justices joined the "conservative" justices.

AtlantaLSUfan•10 days

It would be so easy for NCAA to apply a cap for player to receive. Instead, they just sit there being worthless.

PeleofAnalytics•10 days

And then it would be equally easy for a player to sue them and have the court tell them that the cap cannot be enforced. Sorry but the day of the NCAA is over. Their rules are just a house of cards just waiting for someone to file a lawsuit. Has the NCAA had a single court win in the past 10 years??? The only way a cap can be implemented is if the players are declared employees of the school or conference, they unionize, and then sign a CBA with their employer that agrees to a cap.

TFH•10 days

This is supreme ignorance. NIL = endorsements. In no way shape or form can endorsements be limited or capped.

Billy Mays•10 days

If Riley Leonard or whomever they got outbid for wins you multiple extra games per year, it's worth it.

MT555•10 days

This is a sport that is dying and has been since 2020. It’s a like star and it’s final stage. It reminds me of our country.

AlterDWI•10 days

Why pay for a QB when you could spend it on hookers??

lsusteve1•10 days

Waiting on the hit piece from Yahoo

Zarkinletch416•10 days

Okay, I'll say it.....NIL, the transfer portal, and the NCAA is destroying collegiate football.

Kudos to Brian Kelly for refusing to go along with the "best team that money can buy" scheme.

I thought the purpose of a collegiate scholarship, was so a young athlete could get a quality education in a great university?

Globetrotter747•10 days

Anyone who willingly gives a competitive advantage to his opponents in the SEC will soon be unemployed.

PeleofAnalytics•10 days

Brian Kelly still has guys on his team that demanded NIL to go there. He is not some bastion of integrity because he was given a budget.

PuertoRicanBlaze•10 days

Funny, because you guys blasted Saban for echoing similar sentiments.

dstone12•11 days

But he was cool with hookers on the cell phone. I don’t want to hear his shite.

GusAU•10 days

Ironic because we don't want to hear your bullshite.

You are too damn dense to understand his point.

theballguy•11 days

This man will be out of high level football pretty soon.

GusAU•10 days

You don't know shite you toothless moron.

atltiger6487•11 days

I hate what college football has become

Christopher Columbo•11 days

Probably thought about how many hookers he could get for a million bucks

KillTheGophers•11 days

It is called semi pro football coach. Join the Sunbelt if you are going to complain about playing the cash game.

PUB•11 days

Then pull it out of the colleges and "amateur" sports, set a sliding scale like the NFL, have a draft with contractual obligations and free agency rules. It is out of control.

DesScorp•10 days

Oh, and tax the colleges. If they're going to be just another pro sports league, then the colleges can pay taxes like any other pro league.

TROJANFORCEONE•10 days

Our fund has more cash than some of yalls schools. State for example.

MC5601•11 days

Crazy that it's come to this. Not even a mention of so called "NIL".. Straight pay to play and they aren't even trying to sugar coat it

SuperOcean•11 days

It's a zero sum game... Can't spend same money on QBs and escorts