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Freeze vs Rhule vs Deion
Posted on 8/3/26 at 10:44 pm
Posted on 8/3/26 at 10:44 pm
Remember our last coaching search?
In hindsight, each choice was fricking terrible. It almost makes me think Charles Kelly wouldn’t have been a bad choice.
Record vs ranked opponents last 5 years (yes I realize they haven’t been there 5 years):
Colorado 0-16
Nebraska 1-16
Auburn 2-20
In hindsight, each choice was fricking terrible. It almost makes me think Charles Kelly wouldn’t have been a bad choice.
Record vs ranked opponents last 5 years (yes I realize they haven’t been there 5 years):
Colorado 0-16
Nebraska 1-16
Auburn 2-20
Posted on 8/4/26 at 4:22 am to TTsTowel
Worst period of Auburn football in my life(born in the 1960s).
Barfield was better than Harsin or Freeze.
Barfield was better than Harsin or Freeze.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 6:19 am to makersmark1
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Barfield was better than Harsin or Freeze.
Ironically, if you had Freeze just recruiting and Harsin just coaching, we might have been pretty decent. Neither wanted to do the entire job.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 6:47 am to makersmark1
Not based on what he followed.
Barfield was a miserable choice.
Barfield was a miserable choice.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 7:46 am to TTsTowel
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Colorado 0-16
Nebraska 1-16
Auburn 2-20
Mind blown insanity
Posted on 8/4/26 at 7:51 am to TTsTowel
There is a silver lining in the idea that we were doomed to failure no matter what direction we went.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 7:54 am to Bigbens42
At the same time, we were so very close to landing Lane. Yeah, the guy is a dramatic a-hole and honestly I could see him crashing and burning at LSU, but at the same time, I am getting pretty desperate 
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:06 am to makersmark1
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Barfield was better than Harsin or Freeze.
Understatement. Barfield went 8-3 in ‘79 and those two clowns never even sniffed 8 wins. Barfield went 4-2, 3-2-1, and 4-2 in the SEC ‘77-‘79. Not great but head and shoulders above Harsin or Freeze.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 6:27 pm to bluedragon
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Barfield was a miserable choice.
Erk Russell would have been my choice.
Posted on 8/8/26 at 2:02 pm to TTsTowel
You can also add Wisconsin and Luke Fickell to this list. He was also part of the "Big 4" hires along with Freeze, Deion and Rhule. Wisconsin has been horrible under Fickell but they've given him this year to fix it but I don't think he will. Fickell has beaten 2 ranked teams in his 3 years at Wisconsin and both were last year; Illinois and Washington.
One question; are you viewing a ranked win as the opponent being ranked at the time we beat them or they were ranked in the final polls at the end of the season? The reason I asked is because the stats come out different. Just going by ranked in the AP Poll at the time the game was played, here are some different stats.
Deion's Colorado team beat #17 TCU at TCU in Deion's first game at Colorado. TCU was fresh off a National Title appearance. Deion beat them 45-42. He also beat #22 Iowa State 24-17 last year.
Auburn has 3 wins over AP ranked opponents since the start of 2021. Harsin beat #17 Arkansas 38-23 on Oct. 16th 2021. Then right after that, we beat #10 Ole Miss 31-20 on Oct. 30th 2021. Harsin, along with Bo Nix, had us 6-2 and ranked #11 in the nation with a win in Baton Rouge as well. Bo getting hurt killed that season.
The 3rd ranked win for us came Nov. 23rd, 2024 when Freeze was in year 2 and we beat #15 Texas A&M 43-41 in 4 overtimes. That was Mike Elko's first year as A&M head coach.
One question; are you viewing a ranked win as the opponent being ranked at the time we beat them or they were ranked in the final polls at the end of the season? The reason I asked is because the stats come out different. Just going by ranked in the AP Poll at the time the game was played, here are some different stats.
Deion's Colorado team beat #17 TCU at TCU in Deion's first game at Colorado. TCU was fresh off a National Title appearance. Deion beat them 45-42. He also beat #22 Iowa State 24-17 last year.
Auburn has 3 wins over AP ranked opponents since the start of 2021. Harsin beat #17 Arkansas 38-23 on Oct. 16th 2021. Then right after that, we beat #10 Ole Miss 31-20 on Oct. 30th 2021. Harsin, along with Bo Nix, had us 6-2 and ranked #11 in the nation with a win in Baton Rouge as well. Bo getting hurt killed that season.
The 3rd ranked win for us came Nov. 23rd, 2024 when Freeze was in year 2 and we beat #15 Texas A&M 43-41 in 4 overtimes. That was Mike Elko's first year as A&M head coach.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 8:13 am to TTsTowel
I tired to warn yall about freeze but no one listened
Posted on 8/9/26 at 11:07 am to Scoper
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I tired to warn yall about freeze but no one listened
Posted on 8/9/26 at 11:53 am to Scoper
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I tired to warn yall about freeze but no one listened
Posted on 8/9/26 at 12:01 pm to Scoper
You weren’t the only one by a lot. Many here didn’t like him from the start.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 12:38 pm to wareaglepete
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You weren’t the only one by a lot. Many here didn’t like him from the start.
I think the point of the OP was "Who else could we have gotten at that point in time?" Did any contemporary hire work out? Was that the year that Cristobal was in play? Not that he's proven to be the 2nd coming of Saban himself with a 35-19 record against a softer schedule.
So yeah, you can say "I told you so" all you want, but do you really have a realistic alternative to offer up? If not, pretty empty "I told you so".
Posted on 8/9/26 at 3:57 pm to wareaglepete
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You weren’t the only one by a lot. Many here didn’t like him from the start.
Most people who didn't like him didn't like him for political reasons, not football.
I don't think anyone thought he wouldn't be able to win more than 6 games in any of his 3 seasons. He was no improvement over Harsin, which I think surprised even the Freeze haters.
EDIT: In fact, you could say he was worse than Harsin because Harsin rolled a shite roster out there. Freeze had dudes all over the place.
This post was edited on 8/9/26 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 8/9/26 at 4:18 pm to Scoper
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I tired to warn yall about freeze but no one listened
This is Ben erasure
Posted on 8/9/26 at 5:29 pm to AUstar
Freeze was a worse coach than Harsin. I don’t know what the “political” reasons were people hated him. I didn’t like him because he didn’t impress me as a coach and on top of that he is a scumbag.
Posted on 8/9/26 at 5:33 pm to AUstar
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EDIT: In fact, you could say he was worse than Harsin because Harsin rolled a shite roster out there. Freeze had dudes all over the place.
Harsin rolled a shite roster out there on purpose.
Your point is retarded
"Harsin is better because we had Koy Moore and not Cam Coleman and Eric Singleton instead."
This post was edited on 8/9/26 at 5:35 pm
Posted on 8/9/26 at 7:15 pm to jangalang
Harsin was a head coach in the SEC and he didn't know how to buy players when the NIL roiled around.
Let that sink in..... head coach, SEC, couldn't buy a team.... like a fish out of water
And we practically ripped out the morals clause...because Freeze had a southern drawl?
Let that sink in..... head coach, SEC, couldn't buy a team.... like a fish out of water
And we practically ripped out the morals clause...because Freeze had a southern drawl?
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