Hugh Freeze asked about well-documented past on College GameDay, how it will impact Auburn future
Hugh Freeze has been the talk of the SEC over the last week since Auburn University announced his hiring. Freeze comes to Auburn from Liberty — the job he took after resigning from Ole Miss, and he replaces Bryan Harsin.
Freeze’s past in Oxford has been well-documented and it’s been very public. However, the Tigers head coach rehabbed his image at Liberty — and kept winning, and now, he’s returning to college football’s top conference at a program that can win it all.
Auburn’s new head coach made the trip to Texas to be live on the set of College GameDay Saturday morning. Rece Davis first asked Freeze about his past missteps and how that will impact his future decisions at Auburn.
“Well, obviously, I think the best learning tool in life is probably when you didn’t get things right and had any type of failures. If you handled them in the right way with integrity of owning it and making the necessary changes and then, playing the next play,” Freeze said. “I think over the last 7 seven years that’s what it led to with me is to being a guy that wants to lead a passionate discipline life that has faith and family and friends as the forefront. Your commitment to those being evident in every action and in every decision. I think that leads into the team room with a coach that’s very transparent in saying, ‘Look, let me tell you when coach got it right. Let me tell you when he got it wrong.’ And I really liked it a lot better when I got it right, which has been most of my life.
“Obviously, the other times when we probably learned the most from, because the fruit is really grown in the valley, I think kids have responded to that in this day in time and the transparency.”
No doubt Freeze is a really good head coach and quarterback developer. His hiring caught some backlash from fans around the country, not just in Auburn.
With his winning history and recruiting prowess, Freeze will likely get Auburn turned around sooner rather than later.