Auburn Tigers football coach Hugh Freeze is continuing to pour a seemingly unlimited amount of fuel into the fire -- specifically, the "fire Freeze" fire.
His play-calling strategy, which varies who the play-caller is, depending on what down it is, and carves out autonomous veto power for the head coach over Derrick Nix and Kent Austin, is the latest offseason narrative that's painting Freeze in...we'll say, not the greatest light.
KSR's Nick Roush had a colorful explanation for how absurd it all sounded to him upon hearing the strategy spoken aloud.
Roush also labeled put the "JABA" label on the situation.
"They say if you have two quarterbacks, you have none. Does the same apply to play-callers? If so, Auburn still might be in good hands because it sounds like they have three," Roush wrote.
"There has never been a more appropriately used phrase than 'only at Auburn.' This situations is so mystifying that I initially thought it was fake. Nope, Hugh Freeze really is letting it fly in his third season on The Plains."
By contrast, USA Today's Matt Hayes believes what Freeze did was actually a fire-able offense.
"Frankly, Freeze should be fired for this specific debacle, and this alone — much less the product on the field," Hayes wrote.
Freeze shouldn't be fired for this alone. Who knows, it may actually work with a quarterback in Jackson Arnold who can scramble well like Payton Thorne, but who's a lot tougher to take down.
Freeze's hot seat gets hotter every time he misspeaks at press scrums, which is seemingly often. It seems the only time he says something popular, it's an innuendo of some kind.