Auburn Tigers football coach Hugh Freeze got yet another prediction that he won't make it to the 2026 season. This time, it was Saturday Down South's David Wasson claiming Freeze will be officially fired before the 2025 calendar year ends.
Wasson berated Freeze for a lack of recruiting chops, despite numerous top-10 finishes on the Plains during the NIL era.
He also insinuated the program is broke.
"It isn’t so much that Freeze is an awful coach, though there could certainly be a capable case made for Freeze’s relative lack of Xs and Os chops, too. But we all know that success in intercollegiate American tackle football revolves around recruiting… and Freeze hasn’t managed to be very good at that since the NCAA practically set up a field office in Oxford," Wasson wrote.
"The potential reasons for Auburn’s impending recruiting nose-dive are legion, but chief among them is that there is a distinct sense the Tigers don’t have the kind of cold, hard cash necessary to keep up with the rest of the SEC. Of course, the naïve among us would offer that the House vs. NCAA settlement guidelines mean that every program theoretically has the same revenue-sharing budget to play with – but if you believe that, then you probably often wonder why some NASCAR teams are consistently faster than others even though they are presumably adhering to the same technical specs."
Relative to the biggest spenders from the B1G, the Michigan Wolverines and Oregon Ducks of the world having Oracle and Nike funding them, respectively, Auburn doesn't have the most spending money to play with.
Still, Freeze is not scheming up the right stuff to maximize his talent. And after continued inflated expectations, he is running out of time to turn things around drastically, with 9-3 being the bar set for them.
Another day, another publication that's lost faith in Freeze completely.