re: Why Hugh Freeze failed at Auburn

His face HAS been real red for a while now. Can’t hide that.

One of the beat reporters said something always struck him after practice when they were allowed on the practice field. The difference between the offense and defense.

The defensive players were usually still on the field in groups practicing something they had worked on, etc. And the entire offense was gone.

Where there is smoke there is usually fire. The comments about him missing planning meetings for the offense, then calling plays....explains a lot of the confusion on the field.

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I made a comment that he looks and talks like an alcoholic.

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Yep! I know you can’t judge a book by its cover, but unshaven, disheveled clothes, bloated. He looked like an alcoholic. He may be a tee-totaler, for all I know, but the impression he makes in his appearance is important.

For decades, the Yankees had a rule that players had to be clean shaven. Some thought it was a silly rule. I loved it. You get paid millions of dollars to play baseball (or coach football), literally the bare minimum you can do is show up for work looking like a professional. Moreover, it not only sends an impression of you to the outside world, but also sets your own mindset - you look like a professional, you think of yourself as a professional, you act like a professional because you expect that of yourself.

Maybe I’m just old, but that’s my opinion…now where are my slippers???

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Does anyone actually care that Freeze played golf in his free time?

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are you serious? Do you understand how much money he is being paid? With kinda of salary and job expectations, he should only be playing the celebrity round at the Regions Classic once a year. Playing golf in the middle of a season is absolutely wild.

The golf course without clubs is lame. We go all the time to pickup food or to eat there and i'll step out while waiting and watch people hit balls.

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Playing golf in the middle of a season is absolutely wild.

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I heard that when we went to aTm this year we arrived Thursday and he played 18 on Thursday and Friday.

My take is that CHF was just done when he took the job. His pride had him accept the “big SEC job” and he could sell and did sell to the PTB a version of himself that just didn’t exist in reality.

When the rubber hit the road his game planning, offensive schemes just didn’t work, his QBs didn’t work, his o-line was bad and so he just increasingly defaulted into things that allowed him to escape it all.


His reaction to bad calls et cetera, the defeatism, the golf, the checked out mentality is totally a sign of someone that is burned out.

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He like Gus couldn’t run the HUNH offense effectively once the rule changes killed it and they couldn’t adapt

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You do know Gus has FSU leading the nation in yard per game, right?

What if the new coach brought in Gus as their OC?

I am as big a Gus fan as you will run across.............his time at Auburn is over. He had some good years. He fizzled at the end. It was time to move on. There is no need for another chapter.