Auburn football head coach Hugh Freeze and his former Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace had a wholesome Twitter exchange on June 28 following an interview conducted by the Montgomery Advertiser’s Richard Silva in which the latter praised the culture set by the former in Oxford, Mississippi.
Freeze told the world he loved Wallace, and the QB fired back that he’d always appreciate the coach.
Love @bowallace14 …. He’s always been very candid and transparent… and he let me be who I am and trusted the process !! #WarEagle https://t.co/dtMMDJVGKt
— Hugh Freeze (@CoachHughFreeze) June 28, 2023
Always going to appreciate you. @CoachHughFreeze https://t.co/mUf2ZUjqA6
— Bo Wallace (@bowallace14) June 28, 2023
“I really believed that he could change the program,” Wallace told the Montgomery Advertiser this week. “Just the culture that he sets. He’s one of the best I’ve been around in creating buy-in with his roster and his coaches. I think he can get people to believe. The buy-in that he creates is something I knew was going to happen at Ole Miss, and I think you can see it in the other places he’s been since Ole Miss. I think that’s one of his best qualities.”
Bo Wallace describes how Auburn football head coach Hugh Freeze is in practice
Wallace gave Silva intimate details of how Freeze operates; revealing that the man that put the Liberty Flames on the map is as dogged as a leader as one can expect from an old-school Southerner.
“Here’s how Hugh is,” Wallace prefaced before saying, “He kind of throws you in the fire in the practice. There were some days where I felt like he just picked the day and I couldn’t do anything right that day. Just to throw some adversity at me. But I think he’s very different in the game. He’s your biggest fan during the game. But during practice, he definitely throws you in the heat and tries to create adversity and really stays on you. There were a ton of times where I was like, ‘Man, this guy has got to get off my back.’ But I think it was all in the plan. I think there was a method to the madness in that. Just trying to create adversity in practice so that when it hit during the game, I was used to it.”
From the sounds of it, Auburn football players will be getting tough love from Freeze, but that could lead to more love from national pundits — and potentially, more NFL paydays for the program’s alumni.