The Auburn BSS Twitter account does not want to hear any comparisons between what Auburn football head coach Hugh Freeze did to get fired from Ole Miss involving escorts for him and/or his players and Alabama basketball star Brandon Miller’s involvement in the murder of a 23-year-old woman in Tuscaloosa.
Miller is in the news for having brought Darius Miles’ weapon to the crime scene in which a friend of Miles shot and killed Jamea Harris. Miles and Michael Lynn Davis are both facing charges of capital murder.
In response to a Tide fan who questioned how an Auburn fan could comment on the situation considering the past transgressions of the head Auburn football coach, the Auburn BSS account said that making the false equivalency is wild:
Comparing hiring escorts and eventually working it all out with your family and now employing your own daughter to work for you with your wife by your side to aiding in the murder of a mother of a 5 year old is WIILLLLDDD https://t.co/0uogy232i3
— Auburn Barstool (@WarDamnStool) February 24, 2023
Auburn football culture not defined by Hugh Freeze’s actions at Ole Miss
Freeze’s transgressions at Ole Miss are being used for fodder by Alabama fans, but in truth, what the coach did in Oxford over seven years ago has little to do with the Auburn football program in the current day.
By comparison, you don’t have to go back too far to find obvious culture issues in both the Alabama football and basketball programs. Nick Saban defended Jermaine Burton after he slapped a female Tennessee fan following the Tide’s 52-49 loss in Knoxville on October 15, 2022. Nate Oats claimed that Miller was merely in the wrong place at the wrong time and has yet to discipline the projected NBA lottery pick at all.
What Freeze did at Ole Miss doesn’t define the culture on the Plains. In fact, if he stays out of trouble and continues to do his job well, that should be the takeaway from John Cohen’s first major hire.