Dont forget who we couldnt hire last time

Don't know why anyone would downvote your post, it's factual.

When Freeze was hired, he was the best on paper, that we could get. That says a lot about the reputation off the power brokers that are in charge of our program. Sad thing is, super rich guys willing to fork over large sums of money, are hard to come by. Not much will change until that dynamic does. The term "good fit" comes up during every hiring cycle. I'm starting to think that may be the thing that needs to be reevaluated the most.

Some coaches are scared of playing bammer and UGay every year. It’s that simple

The Venebles and Napier chatter / comments were during the hiring of Harsin.

Obviously the Allen Green situation wasn't the best.

Well known that he insiders were going to go with Freeze if unable to obtain Kiffin.

Cohen's outside choice was most likely Mike Elko.

So we basically had options of Freeze and Elko - not bad (considering there WAS a lot of hype around Freeze). You miss and move on.

Damaged goods? Hire grud3n… he wants the AU job

I think smart prospective coaches will look at the support Hugh got and take note.

It's a better job than it was then.

I still think we've got challenges, but I think we'd get consideration from the iffy prospects at least - Key, etc.

Freeze has delivered on recruiting, but he can't put all of that talent into gear on the field. Freeze has no energy on the sidelines. It's like he is in a daze.

If there are no good options for HC, a major upgrade at an OC who actually controls the offense and calls plays could work. A QB coach and an O-line coach upgrade are also very doable.

AU has to make Lane Kiffin say no (again).

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there WAS a lot of hype around Freeze)

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Are you high right now?

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He is never coming to AU sorry.

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I agree - But I think this time around AU has to make damn sure that is the case. He could legitimately be for football what BP has been for basketball. Not sure who else we could say that about. There's certainly other names out there, but Kiffin is proven at this point.

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This will never happen, it’s why every new hire we have made since Dye had numerous former players/ coaches on the staff in some capacity. It’s why basketball accomplished so much cause they didnt give a shite and let Bruce do whatever he wanted. So what’s the point of running Freeze off to,get another Harsin, Gus, Freeze coach. It doesn’t matter who we hire unless they get to run the show.

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Both Harsin and Freeze have had essentially full autonomy. Freeze even pushed Carnell off the staff so that he could bring in Derrick Nix to pretend to be the OC, all so that he could go back to calling plays. You seem to have forgotten Bryan Harsin pushing/firing Bobo and Derek Mason out the door and replacing them with his two buddies from Boise State. Harsin was left to fail on his own terms, nobody told him how to run his program (as proven by the fact that he did nearly zero recruiting). Don't forget that Harsin was hired without the blessing of the "PTB" - they weren't involved with his program.

Gus Malzahn is a weirdo and needed all of the help that he got with staff building. The other side of the "meddling" you bring up is all of the actual times that it worked out in the coach's benefit, which was most obvious with Malzahn. His first staff at Auburn would have been a complete joke without help: he had very few connections and he wanted to bring a bunch of G5 coaches onto his staff because he had no high-end SEC contacts. Someone like Rodney Garner would never be on his staff without "help". Muschamp and Steele being brought on as DC's was also driven by the "PTB", and these two guys basically saved Malzahn's job considering that defense was the only reason why we were even winning games in the final ~third of his tenure as the HC.

By the way, you seem to have forgotten someone by the name of Chuck Person who was hired onto Bruce Pear's staff from the very onset. Marquis Daniels has also been employed by Bruce Pearl since 2019. So was Bruce Pearl told to hire Chuck Person, or did he consciously make that decision himself?