Should Cadillac Williams have been hired as Auburn’s coach instead of Hugh Freeze?

Amidst a winless streak in the SEC during his first season at the helm of Auburn football, Hugh Freeze is now facing backlash for the first time; this is as his offense convinces some that select opponents look like the most dominant teams the sport has ever seen at any level.

With that said, the uncomfortable question has to be asked…

Should Auburn have hired Cadillac Williams, who gained momentum on the recruiting trail and had spirits high after his four-game interim head coaching stint, instead of Freeze during the latest coaching hire cycle?

Auburn football made the right call with Hugh Freeze’s hiring, but should elevate Cadillac Williams to offensive coordinator immediately

Hiring Freeze will ultimately age well for Auburn, which has had a tough time seeing the forest through the trees as the program has looked overmatched in every SEC game, ironically, besides the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry matchup against Georgia. But a hiring that has immediately aged like milk since happening was Philip Montgomery’s at the offensive coordinator spot.

Unable to produce an offense with a 100-yard passer during most games when it matters — Payton Thorne was able to reach that benchmark during garbage time minutes in blowout losses to LSU and Ole Miss — Montgomery has had a tenure running the show thus far that Opelika-Auburn News editor Justin Lee has already deemed irredeemable.

The offseason should welcome a replacement no matter what; possibly of the big-name variety. Gus Malzahn may be out of a job in Central Florida if the Knights continue to lose in ways that infuriate the fanbase and indicate internal strife. Ditto, times ten, for Dabo Swinney in Clemson if the Tigers continue their free-fall from perennial ACC kings to also-rans.

But maybe it doesn’t need to get to such a polarizing hiring cycle with those two names, and countless others, on the offensive coordinator market at the end of November. Perhaps the answer at offensive coordinator is obvious: Williams, a man who has already reinvigorated an Auburn offense that was sputtering into bottom-third territory.