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re: Outside of Vandy is Harsin and Freeze the worst back to back hires in SEC history?
Posted on 11/2/25 at 7:41 pm to Jeepin_Josh
Posted on 11/2/25 at 7:41 pm to Jeepin_Josh
He couldn’t recruit the south.
He did recruit this however:
He did recruit this however:
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Posted on 11/2/25 at 7:48 pm to CNB
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Muschamp and Beamer
Beamer’s had 3 winning seasons in 4 years and is 2-1 in bowls.
Auburn’s last winning season was 2020 and they haven’t won a bowl since 2018.
South Carolina won 5 SEC games last year. Auburn won 6 in Freeze’s entire tenure.
If Freeze had merely produced the same results as Beamer, he’d still be Auburn’s coach tonight,
Posted on 11/2/25 at 7:54 pm to JustGetItRight
Let me bitch dammit
Posted on 11/2/25 at 7:56 pm to Sid E Walker
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although McElwain somehow did win an East Division title.
He won two then got fired at the end of year 3.
Kind of like Bill Curry at Alabama. He had good success but was 0-3 vs FSU.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 7:58 pm to CNB
Posted on 11/2/25 at 7:59 pm to TheFourHorsemen
Mike Price & Mike Shula was pretty bad. One guy didn’t even win a single game.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 7:59 pm to Sid E Walker
Yep even with our crappy hires Napier was the first to totally crap the bed. Most of the rest except Zook at least had some double digit win seasons due to us having a good defense that year
This post was edited on 11/2/25 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 11/2/25 at 7:59 pm to TheFourHorsemen
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Outside of Vandy is Harsin and Freeze the worst back to back hires in SEC history?
Don’t know about back to back but Mike Price at Alabama was a pretty bad hire.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 8:24 pm to BamaELCo
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Mike Price
He was a good hire on paper.
Then, you know, titties.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 8:26 pm to TheFourHorsemen
Derek Dooley - Butch Jones
Posted on 11/2/25 at 8:31 pm to TheFourHorsemen
Post Stallings at Bama was pretty damn bad.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 8:37 pm to CrimsonTideMD
Pussy STILL undefeated.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 8:50 pm to SpotCheckBilly
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Harsin was by far the worst. At least Freeze recruited and left us with a fairly decent roster.
Well, he wasn't provided much incentive to stay in the hell hole created from the onset. Maybe, the man just said frick it and rode it out to a paycheck because of the incompetence and interference.
And, by your logic, Freeze produced similar results with huge NIL and recruiting investments. So, is Harsin a genius to stick it to the man while Hugh was incompetent with a better roster and investment of resources?
Posted on 11/2/25 at 9:03 pm to RoscoeSanCarlos
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Post Stallings at Bama was pretty damn bad.
I'd bet the # of 10 win seasons, Division Titles and SEC CG wins are pretty close to AU from 1996-2006, which is the worst period since the 50s for Alabama.
It would be like someone in 1975 saying, well those Ears Whitworth years sucked for Bama.
Simple fact is the Mike years did suck, but in aggregate they were still what a lot of SEC programs would settle for.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 9:07 pm to AlterDWI
Butch was a good hire until the wheels just completely fell off in 2017.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 9:10 pm to weagle1999
A better LSU team softened them up for the IB. 
Posted on 11/2/25 at 9:12 pm to TheFourHorsemen
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Tommy Tuberville 1995-1998 25-20-0
David Cutcliffe 1998-2004 44-29
Ed Orgeron 2005-2007 10-25
Houston Nutt 2008-2011 24-26
Hugh Freeze 2012-2016 35-19
I've underlined the coaches with special needs. Hell Tubberville was in Oxford while we were on probation.
Nutt was 18-8 after two years
Posted on 11/2/25 at 9:13 pm to SpotCheckBilly
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At least Freeze recruited and left us with a fairly decent roster.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 9:14 pm to AlterDWI
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Derek Dooley - Butch Jones
Orange pants and Game of Life. Those were some weird years in Knoxville.
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