We're uhhh back..? Except I'm not Jay. Anyways, we've got a preview of Auburn and the fighting Lane Kiffin's. It's a home game so we're live. Let's ride.
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HUGH FREEZE IS HERE. He gives a War Eagle
ANDY points out that Auburn will be back at home: "I just hope it's loud and juiced." He used the word lit.
NOT ANDY asks about practice emphasis: "Just really trying to put the mistakes from the LSU game behind us. Having a passionate, hard working Tuesday, Wednesday, which we did... I think the focus has been really good... Keynote Scott changes our team. He's been back around us this week and he really picks up everyone's spirit... Offensively, obviously just continuing to work on consistency in the passing game."
ANDY asks about the quarterbacks: "We try to judge things based on what we see in practice... there's things that one does really well in practice and there's things that other's do well in practice... I do feel like me made progress, but I feel like we started that last week, but that game got away from us so fast."
JULIE FROM ARIZONA IS HERE! She asks about the most challenging environment he's every coached in: "We were the first to play in A&M's expanded stadium on a night game... it was quite loud. Death Valley on Saturday night at the beginning of the night was really loud." Mentioned that Jordan Hare will top that on Saturday.
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NOT ANDY asks about Brandon Frazier: "It's always good to see guys that we depend upon for a lot of the dirty get in on the action. Our tight ends are critical to what we do."
ANDY asks about Caleb Burton: "Caleb's going to be a rally good player. He's picking up on things. He's one of the better route runners we have... you'll see him in action on Saturday.
MICHAEL FLOYD IS 23! He asks about coaches at Auburn and what sport he would coach. He says it'd be girls basketball because that's what he coached at the high school level. Mentions he'd like to coach golf so he could go play with them.
BROCK asks about if this game is personal for Hugh: "I don't even think about it like that because we played them at Liberty. Now that I've done that, it feels like another SEC game... I think me already doing that removed all of that from me."
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BILL asks why Auburn doesn't run diggs and slants: "We've struggled to win on slants. We do run some diggs. We haven't won on a lot of those. Slants, we hit two of those to Camden Brown. They started to press so we changed them to fades... I love slants. We've just got to get to where we can win on those consistently against SEC DBs."
REID asks if coaching at home or away against Ole Miss would make him more nervous: "I'd feel the same. So glad it's Jordan Hare. Already coached in Oxford from Liberty, it kind of loses its nervousness. Been there done that."
NOT ANDY asks about when he will be locked in to the game: "This year I have been so busy recruiting that I don't get to think about the game until literally -- I get out there with about 30 minutes left in warm ups and it's go time then. I have to recruit so hard right now. There's so many good players coming to our games and I feel like I have meet with them. And it's working, we got another big commitment from one of the top players in the nation. I think that's two this week. I don't have a lot of time. I leave the hotel as soon as we get through with our last meeting. I get to the stadium and I'm locked in a room meeting with families until Tiger Walk. And then I come back and meet again until I just can't. We've got another big group this week... I've said since I got here -- the '24 and '25 class will really tell the story of how fast we can close the gap on the upper echelon in this conference. I think we're off to a good start."
ANDY asks if recruiting is different this year compared to years prior: “So truthfully, when I was the head coach at Ole Miss you didn’t have the number of top guys showing up… you didn’t feel as pressed — there wasn’t many I felt I had to be in a room with. And Liberty was nothing like that… this is quite different.”
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BUSTER HAS BEEN WAITING! SO MANY BIRTHDAYS: “I love the passion. I know we’re going to get it there. I know how some will feel about the growing pains. If you look at the graphic on social media where Auburn recruiting has been the last five years compared to the teams we’re playing, it tells a scary story. It doesn’t mean we can’t beat them… it will take a couple years, but that doesn’t mean can’t get better.”
TIM is from MOBILE. He asks what his prototypical receiver would look like: “Size/strength I’d go with Donte Moncrieff or Laquan Treadwell. Change of direction, Demario Douglass from Liberty. Hands: AJ Brown.” Mentioned that he’s got to get some of those dudes. Yeah.
KEN is thankful to have him apart of the Auburn fambly <3 and asks about Ole Miss’ offense: “I wish we could snap our fingers and give you absolutely everything you deserve. Man they, present a lot of challenges. Tempo first, they’re probably as fast as anyone in the nation. Typically when you see teams like that, they don’t really present a physical running game, but that’s not the case with them… we’ve got to try and win first down because when they get to second and short, they’re dangerous… the best weapon would be take the opening kickoff, go eight minutes and score.
ANDY says that Ole Miss goes for it a lot: “They’re very aggressive with fourth downs. Don’t expect that to change. That’s kind of been how they’ve been since Lane has been there.”
CHARLIE has the final question. He asks about Hugh playing his former team: “I think when we take these jobs, we immediately become all in with [insert school here]. We take so much pride in trying to deliver a product that pleases the 89,000 in Jordan Hare plus the alumni.”
NOT ANDY asks for keys: “I’d say time of possession. I’d love for us to get into halftime and have about 2:1 time of possession… then I think we’ve got to look at third downs on both sides. Can we have success on both of those downs? It’ll be critical.
That’s all for Hugh Freeze.
Have a good one, folks.
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