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does anyone know if caddy got a temp pay raise or a bonus for being head coach for four games? i hope so.

By hiring Hugh Freeze, Auburn football embraces a new creed: Just win, baby | Toppmeyer Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY NETWORK 6–7 minutes The Auburn Creed consists of 179 words written by an alumnus who founded the university’s football program. George Petrie’s 1943 writing, embraced by the university as a sacred doctrine, touches on such virtues as hard work, lawfulness and truthfulness. With apology to Petrie, a revision is in order. Auburn’s creed can be succinctly restated in three words, as the Tigers enter the Hugh Freeze era: Just win, baby. Auburn now employs a football coach, Freeze, who resigned from his last SEC job while embroiled in scandals, and a basketball coach, Bruce Pearl, who was fired from his previous job following NCAA investigation and served a three-year show-cause penalty for lying to investigators about improper recruiting tactics. What’s all this about truthfulness? Just win, baby. Pearl wins. Freeze wins. Each found a home in Auburn. As a football coach, as a recruiter, as a personality, I believe Freeze will be a hit at Auburn, and I’ve believed that since the day this job opened. Freeze is everything Bryan Harsin isn’t. He’s a proven winner inside and outside the SEC. He’s armed with Southern charm. He’ll recruit his tail off, he’ll upgrade the roster and he’ll cozy up to boosters who fund NIL collectives. TOPPMEYER: If Hugh Freeze becomes Auburn football coach, his first task is obvious MORE ON THE HIRE: Why Hugh Freeze left Ole Miss, and what it means for Auburn football WHO IS HUGH FREEZE?: That depends on who you ask I will not defend Freeze’s moral character. That’s for Freeze and the people who hired him to do. Auburn athletics director John Cohen described this search as “well-vetted.” It better have been, because Freeze will arrive with enough baggage to fill a church van. Freeze took Ole Miss on a shooting-star ride of success before he resigned in 2017 while juggling a professional scandal in one hand and a personal one in the other. Freeze will tell you he’s a humbled man who learned from his mistakes. I do not know whether that is true. I do know he’s a successful coach, and successful coaches usually find a home in the SEC, where the first rule resembles Auburn’s new creed: Just. Win. More. Freeze beat Nick Saban twice at Ole Miss, and he coached the Rebels to consecutive New Year’s Six bowl appearances. His innovative offense made the Rebels so disruptive in the SEC West that he inspired Saban to modernize Alabama’s approach. Freeze’s conduct off the field became his downfall. He failed to monitor an Ole Miss staff that flouted NCAA rules, resulting in a two-year bowl ban, and he called escorts with his university-provided cell phone. Following his resignation, a 2017 USA TODAY report quoted women who said that, while they were students at Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis, where Freeze worked in the 1990s and early 2000s, Freeze’s behavior while carrying out disciplinary action made them feel uncomfortable. Freeze denied those allegations and described his behavior at Briarcrest as professional. Freeze is a loose cannon on Twitter, joining Pearl in that regard. Earlier this year, Liberty reportedly settled a Title IX lawsuit that alleged the university mishandled sexual assault cases. The lawsuit did not involve Freeze. But after one of the plaintiffs tweeted criticism of Liberty's employment of Freeze and athletics director Ian McCaw, who resigned from Baylor amid its own university sexual assault scandal, Freeze sent the woman a message defending McCaw. HIRING BACKLASH:How some Auburn football fans tried to derail Hugh Freeze hire Freeze is allowed to support his boss, but messaging the woman points to his reputation for being thin-skinned. Sports Illustrated, citing sources, reported that Freeze will surrender control of his social media after becoming Auburn's coach. Smart move. A smarter move would be deleting his Twitter account. If your moral compass tells you Auburn should not do business with Freeze, I won’t argue, but I have not seen enough evidence to consider him unhireable within an industry that is not known for restricting its hires to individuals of impeccable moral fiber. As Auburn legend Charles Barkley once declared, not everyone in athletics should be your role model. Freeze’s Ole Miss conduct earned him a timeout. He spent two seasons out of coaching, then the last four seasons at Liberty. I do not believe calling escort services should mandate a lifetime ban from the SEC. As for Ole Miss’ NCAA misconduct under Freeze, we’re now in era in which players are openly compensated by booster-funded collectives. Considering Ole Miss’ recruiting transgressions an irreparable black eye for Freeze in this free-wheeling NIL frontier would be akin to thinking a coach who runs the wing-T is suited for modern-day college football. Plus, shall I remind you once more that Auburn also employs Pearl? When you live in Auburn’s glass house, you don’t get to throw stones. Do not confuse this as a hall pass for Freeze’s future conduct. Freeze will be under a more powerful microscope at Auburn than he was at either Ole Miss or Liberty. At Auburn, Freeze must win, and he must not get caught with his pants down. And he must win some more. Auburn’s revised creed demands it. Blake Toppmeyer is an SEC Columnist for the USA TODAY Network. Email him at BToppmeyer@gannett.com and follow him on Twitter @btoppmeyer.

Contract details emerge for Auburn’s new head coach Taylor Jones ~2 minutes After a 28-day search, Auburn athletics director John Cohen has found his guy. Auburn University officially announced the hiring of Hugh Freeze on Monday, replacing Bryan Harsin, who went 9-12 during a season and a half on the Plains. Now that the hire has been made, one of the many questions that cross Auburn fans’ minds is “how much will Freeze make?” That question appears to have been answered by ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Thamel reports that Freeze is set to make $6.5 million per season over six years, which is an increase from what his predecessor, Bryan Harsin made for the same contract length, which was $5.3 million per season. Due to Liberty being a private institution, his contract details with his previous program are not open for public knowledge. However, Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated reports that Freeze’s buyout from Liberty will only set Auburn back $3 million. As for Harsin, Auburn is set to play 70% of his remaining contract, which is approximately $15.8 million. Half of that is set to be paid before Nov. 30, and the remainder will be paid in four installments according to Brandon Marcello of 247Sports. Marcello also says that Auburn is still paying Gus Malzahn’s $21.5 million buyout following his dismissal in 2020. List

let him get his thirty and then sit? i bet caddy would allow it. but i am confused. i thought i saw a headline where the team was split down the middle on playing or not playing? granted i just woke up and feel a little sickish. i guess a coach can make them play even tho some kids get to sit?

man i am so happy for mr'Lac! i have his rookie auto! i would bet my butt they sat down and told caddy to keep a close eye on things.

Hugh Freeze in position to succeed quickly at Auburn amid modern college football landscape Dennis Dodd 5–7 minutes Hugh Freeze didn't so much return to college football's biggest stage Monday as big-time college football came around to Hugh Freeze. After five years away from the Power Five, the best to ever to coach a game in person from a hospital bed is back in the SEC at a familiar, highly resourced landing spot known for doing whatever it takes to win. This one just happens to be named Auburn. It could have been any number of schools that brought Freeze back in this age of NIL rights and the transfer portal. Most of what led to NCAA rules violations during Freeze's time at Ole Miss are now easily worked around either through regulations the NCAA has implemented or practices it is unwilling to prosecute. Freeze's Ole Miss program was put on probation in 2017 and received a two-year bowl ban in the process. At the time, the NCAA said Ole Miss "fostered an unconstrained culture of booster involvement." Well, that will win you a national championship these days. While that's not to diminish the fact that NCAA rules existed and Freeze blatantly broke them -- creating a major scandal in the process -- it does show how far college football has shifted in the time since he's been away from the SEC. In taking over Auburn, it starts with the Tigers' NIL war chest. Auburn collective On to Victory has reportedly raised $13 million in first few months of operation to help compensate players. That makes it one of the strongest in the nation. It's all legal until the NCAA or Congress says it is not. Don't hold your breath that either will hand down such a decision. The NCAA is deregulating and slinking into the background as an enforcer Congress has far bigger fish to fry. As such, Freeze becomes an asset in talent acquisition. We know he can coach. Just watch him procure recruits and transfers with a cash howitzer. It's one of the reasons Freeze makes perfect sense as the Tigers' Plan B after Plan A (Lane Kiffin) didn't work out. With players this close to unionizing or engaging in collective bargaining, the first conference to break off a piece of its massive media rights revenues for the work force will own the recruiting landscape. Try to bet against the SEC being the first. Don't be surprised if Freeze isn't among the first to creatively weaponize player acquisition. College football coaches everywhere are whining about how hard it is to do their jobs these days. Freeze was willing to crawl to Auburn over broken shards of glass. This was a comeback that might never have been if college athletics didn't move right into Freeze's wheelhouse. In other words: Modern college football has been tailored to him. About 3 ½ months before the NCAA hammer came down on the Ole Miss program for violations under Freeze's watch, the coach resigned from his position after it was discovered he had made inappropriate calls on a school-issued mobile device to a phone number "associated with a female escort service." While that was "totally unrelated to the NCAA matter," as an Ole Miss lawyer said at the time, it moved standing by Freeze from difficult to impossible when those missteps were combined with the skirting of NCAA rules. More than five years later, it's left up to the consumer to decide where to draw the line. For a while, college administrators drew that line at Hugh Freeze. On Monday, Auburn erased it. What's changed is not Freeze as a coach. Not after serving some sort of de facto deportation at Liberty where he went a respectable 34-15 in four seasons and sent quarterback Malik Willis to the NFL. When the time was right, Freeze was always going to find another Power Five job. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has obviously cleared Freeze's return to his conference. This after Sankey reportedly "encouraged" Alabama not to hire Freeze for a coordinator position a couple years ago. Freeze previously said he had resolved his personal misdeeds. He still needs some coaching on his self-destructive habit of starting online spats over perceived slights -- at least one of which has been made public -- but that's for Auburn's HR department to handle. Perhaps Freeze as Plan B isn't as desirable as the clear Plan A, but Kiffin flatly turned down Auburn. It was time to move on, and there wasn't an obvious Plan C. The last thing Auburn needed was more dysfunction that an elongated coaching search would have created. The Tigers got a proven winner and recruiter. The only other active coach walking the planet to have beaten Nick Saban at least twice (Gus Malzahn) also did it at Auburn. Malzahn also returns to the Power Five next year with UCF in the Big 12. Freeze now becomes part of a coaching armada seeking to take over post-Saban when the great Alabama coach eventually retires. Maybe they can outlast him, starting in the SEC West with Kiffin, Texas A&M's Jimbo Fisher and LSU's Brian Kelly. At 53, Freeze becomes the second-youngest of those Saban challengers in the West behind Kiffin (47). The rules are new and dripping with potential. Some schools have been forced to make a choice in the NIL era: put money into facilities or or players. Auburn has the resources to do both. It is painfully aware it remains the other program in the state scratching hard 24/7/365 against the behemoth in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. On Monday, for one day at least, Auburn and Freeze stole the headlines. That's a start.

Auburn to introduce Hugh Freeze as head coach Tuesday morning: How to watch Updated: Nov. 29, 2022, 7:45 a.m.|Published: Nov. 28, 2022, 10:23 p.m. ~3 minutes BREAKING: Auburn expected to hire Hugh Freeze as head coach Hugh Freeze’s first public appearance as Auburn’s head coach will come less than 24 hours after he accepted the job. Freeze will be introduced at Auburn on Tuesday at 10 a.m. during an introductory press conference held inside the program’s new Woltosz Football Performance Center. Freeze’s introductory press conference will be the first official event held in the new $91.9 million complex, which was recently completed and will see the team move in to in the near future. Read more Auburn football: Alabama HS coaches hope to build relationship with Hugh Freeze, Auburn Goodman: Auburn signals win at all costs with hiring of Hugh Freeze Chelsea Andrews: Auburn never asked about Hugh Freeze messages defending Liberty’s Ian McCaw The press conference will be streamed live on the official Facebook page of Auburn athletics as well as on ESPN platforms. AL.com will also carry a live stream of Freeze’s remarks, live updates from his press conference, and full coverage from his introduction on the Plains, so be sure to stay tuned to AL.com/auburnfootball for all the latest stories and analysis. Auburn announced the hiring of Freeze on Monday evening, tabbing him to become the 28th full-time head coach in program history. He comes to Auburn after spending the last four seasons at Liberty, where he went 34-15 and won at least eight games in each of his four seasons in Lynchburg, Va. This will be Freeze’s third stint in the SEC and his second as a coach in the league. He previously served as head coach at Ole Miss from 2012-16 before resigning in July 2017 amid scandal after then-Rebels athletics director Ross Bjork said the university found a “concerning pattern” of behavior that was “not consistent with our expectations as the leader of our football program.” Freeze brings with him an 83-43 record (not accounting for wins vacated by the NCAA) in 10 seasons as an FBS coach at Arkansas State, Ole Miss and Liberty as he replaces Bryan Harsin, who was fired on Oct. 31, after less than two seasons on the Plains. Freeze also brings with him the baggage of a complicated coaching career on and off the field as he tries to revive Auburn’s football program. Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

Auburn’s Hugh Freeze agrees to ‘relinquish control’ of social media accounts, per report Updated: Nov. 29, 2022, 7:45 a.m.|Published: Nov. 28, 2022, 9:12 p.m. ~3 minutes BREAKING: Auburn expected to hire Hugh Freeze as head coach New Auburn coach Hugh Freeze has agreed to relinquish control of his social media accounts, according to an SI report. Citing multiple sources, Pat Forde reports the background check on Freeze was extensive. In addition, Auburn hired a P.R. consultant to handle any expected blowback in hiring Freeze. Per the report: They are jumping through a lot of hoops for Freeze. As one source with Auburn ties said Sunday, “If he’s contractually obligated to stay off social media and they had to hire an ‘Oh S---’ firm before he even started, is hiring him really a good idea?” The negative feedback has already begun. Auburn football’s official Facebook page posted the hiring of Freeze and was met with some nasty comments aimed at Freeze. As of late Monday night, Freeze’s Twitter was active. The account re-tweeted Auburn’s official announcement and re-tweeted former Auburn coach Gus Malzahn’s congratulations. Earlier in the evening, though, it was tweeted that he wasn’t on the account. Freeze’s past has become a hot topic in the hours following his hiring at Auburn. Freeze resigned from Ole Miss in 2017 after it was found he had made at least 12 phone calls to escort services using a university phone, a detail raised as a potential issue in a discussion between the university’s legal counsel and the attorney for former Ole Miss football coach Houston Nutt, who was suing the school. Freeze told ESPN that he denies making such a call. In addition, a week after Freeze resigned from Ole Miss, former students at Briarcrest Christian - where he started his coaching career - shared stories of inappropriate behavior. On Monday, Auburn athletic director John Cohen announced the move after what he called a “well-vetted search.” Freeze went 34-15 in four seasons at Liberty. Former Liberty student Chelsea Andrews was not part of that vetting process. Andrews is a sexual assault survivor. She tweeted in July about Freeze, the former Liberty head football coach, sending her an unsolicited direct message defending his boss, Liberty athletic director Ian McCaw. Mark Heim is a sports reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.

Hugh Freeze addresses questions about the Auburn head coaching job Jack Singley ~2 minutes Auburn has been searching for a head coach since Halloween, and one of many constant names mentioned has been Hugh Freeze. Freeze mentioned these rumors in his postgame press conference after a blowout loss to New Mexico State. Freeze, when asked about if the swirling rumors about his candidacy for the Auburn Head Coach position caused a distraction for the team provided the following answer. "For that to come out, and I haven't been offered a job, but it was certainly hard to refute that report. It was bothering some people, and I just hate it." "I was asked directly by them (Liberty players) and whether or not that had to do, if it had anything to do with our flatness for sure" Freeze was later asked if he could reveal any more information on the status of his tenure at Liberty. "I've communicated with Ian (Liberty AD) if someone ever wanted to talk to us that interest us I would always tell them. Is the job everyone is talking about one that I would have an interest in talking with? Sure. That doesn't mean they have offered me a job... The part that is false is that there has been no offer made to me, nor have I accepted anything" Freeze reiterates throughout the press conference that he has been that there has not been an offer extended to him from anyone. He also does not indicate whether he would stay or leave for a bigger opportunity.

Five potential defensive coordinator candidates for Auburn Lance Dawe ~3 minutes Now that Auburn has officially hired Hugh Freeze as their next head coach, it's time to turn our attention to the rest of the staff. The Tigers will be looking for a new defensive coordinator to coach underneath Freeze. There are quite a number of names out there that could fit the staff well, but we've got five names to throw out here before things get serious over the next couple of weeks. Here are five potential candidates for DC. Zach Arnett - Mississippi State Austin Perryman, Mississippi State Athletics Arnett has piloted one of the most successful SEC defenses over the last three seasons for the Bulldogs. His 2019 defense at San Diego State was a top ten unit nationally. Although he is probably looking to make a move up as a head coach in the near future, Arnett would be a solid choice. Gary Patterson - Texas Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports Patterson spent over 20 years at TCU and had ten different defenses finish inside the top 35 (yards per play) nationally from 2009 to 2021. He is currently the special assistant to head coach Steve Sarkisian at Texas. Charles Kelly - Alabama © Mickey Welsh via Imagn Content Services, LLC Kelly is the current assistant defensive coordinator/safeties coach for the Crimson Tide. He's a former defensive back for Auburn was a GA on the Plains in 1993. We have had multiple sources tell us before Freeze was hired that Kelly would be a name to watch for DC. Jim Leonhard - Wisconsin © MARK HOFFMAN/MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL / USA TODAY NETWORK Leonhard was expected to be the next man up at Wisconsin after taking the interim role earlier this season. Now, that ship has sailed with the hiring of Luke Fickell. Leonhard has a purely Wisconsin background. He played there and he's coached nowhere else since leaving the NFL as a player in 2014. He's an excellent defensive mind that may elect to stay in the Badgers' region. Travis Williams - UCF Orlando Sentinel Former player? Check. Former position coach? Check. Former Co-DC? Check. Experience as a true DC? Also check. Auburn fans would likely be thrilled with this hire. Auburn hires Hugh Freeze to become next head football coach Hugh Freeze talks about the Auburn job Auburn basketball defeats St. Louis 65-60 WATCH: Robby Ashford throws a touchdown in the Iron Bowl Auburn falls in the Iron Bowl

Hugh Freeze named Auburn head football coach Liberty head coach Hugh Freeze looks towards his team during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. Mississippi won 27-14. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)(Rogelio V. Solis | AP) By WSFA 12 News Staff Published: Nov. 28, 2022 at 3:29 PM CST|Updated: 2 hours ago AUBURN, Ala. (WSFA) - Hugh Freeze has been hired as the 31st head coach of the Auburn University football program. The university made the official announcement Monday afternoon. “After a thoughtful, thorough, and well-vetted search, we ended where we started, with Hugh Freeze,” Auburn Athletics Director John Cohen said. “Of all the candidates we considered, Hugh was the best fit. Fit has several meanings, but the most important factors were student-athlete development, football strategy, recruiting and SEC experience.” Freeze called Auburn a special place that he’s ready to join. “First, I want to acknowledge Cadillac Williams for the incredible job he did as interim head coach. The impact he made is immeasurable and cannot be overstated,” Freeze said. “Secondly, Auburn is one of the preeminent programs in college football and I’m very appreciative of President Roberts and John Cohen for this opportunity at Auburn. I’ve been fortunate to witness first-hand how special Auburn is during my time as a head coach in the SEC and while visiting my daughter Jordan who attended Auburn and currently lives in the community. I can’t wait to work with our student-athletes and the Auburn family to bring championships back to the Plains.” Freeze joins Auburn from Liberty University, where he’d served in the same capacity since Dec. 2018. He led the Liberty Flames to their first bowl game as an FBS program in the 2019 season. Under his leadership, the team made the AP Top 25 Poll in 2020 for the first time ever. He leaves with a record of 34-15, according to WDBJ, a station in Roanoke, VA. “I’m pleased that our Athletics Director John Cohen conducted a detailed and thorough national search process, and I look forward to welcoming Hugh and Jill Freeze to the Plains. I am impressed with Coach Freeze’s focus on player development and his on-the-field success at multiple universities and at multiple levels.” At least one member of the team, Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford, has already publicly welcomed Freeze to the Plains. The 53-year-old is no stranger to the SEC. He served as an assistant athletic director for external affairs at Ole Miss from 2005 until 2007 before becoming head coach in 2011. He resigned amid multiple misconduct allegations in 2017. Freeze is also a former offensive coordinator at Arkansas State. Freeze replaces Bryan Harsin, who was fired on Oct. 31 midway through his second season with the Tigers. The team finished out the season under interim coach Carnell “Cadillac” Williams, who went 2-2 while bringing renewed passion to the team and fanbase. The Tigers ended the 2022 regular season with a 5-7 record. Not reading this story on the WSFA News App? Get news alerts FASTER and FREE in the Apple App Store and the Google

Hugh Freeze named Auburn head coach | Lindy's Sports ~2 minutes Grant Foree November 28, 2022 at 5:37 pm. Former Ole Miss and Liberty head coach, Hugh Freeze, was named the new head coach at Auburn in a press release on Monday. “After a thoughtful, thorough, and well-vetted search, we ended where we started, with Hugh Freeze,” said Athletics Director John Cohen. “Of all the candidates we considered, Hugh was the best fit. Fit has several meanings, but the most important factors were student-athlete development, football strategy, recruiting and SEC experience.” Freeze, 53, was the head coach at Ole Miss from 2012-2016, where he had moderate success, including two wins over Alabama. Surprisingly, Freeze resigned from his position at Ole Miss in July 2017, amid an investigation into his personal conduct by the university. In addition to the investigation, Freeze left Ole Miss months after the school received a notice of 21 NCAA allegations within the football program, including 15 Level I violations, though the school said those were not connected to Freeze’s resignation. In 2019, Freeze was hired by Liberty University to be the head coach. During his tenure, Freeze led the Flames to a 34-15 record with four bowl appearances. “I’ve been fortunate to witness first-hand how special Auburn is during my time as a head coach in the SEC and while visiting my daughter Jordan, who attended Auburn and currently lives in the community,” said Freeze. “I can’t wait to work with our student-athletes and the Auburn family to bring championships back to the Plains.”

reddit has a huge auburn section and many are auburn students or people who live in auburn and they usually know what is going on.

yessir i know i was just bragging lol

every single thing i posted from reddit today came true.

have you heard the word of Buddha lately? i could care less if you worship the urinal of a crack house. i stand up for your right to be an athiest as well. more power to you. this football board is about human interaction and religion is part of it. what YOU miss is ichy is showing you love in his own way and you insult him. now do you understand? and trust me if someone jumped you and told you to shut up because of your beliefs i would be on them like a rat on a cheeto. you have that right as an american and i stand by that right.

quit being a richard. i have yet to see any rule stating none can share the love of religion here. you were crying a day or two ago because your post got ignored or you weren't included in something. for the record jesus was brought up several times so he was posting in the context of the thread. why is that so hard to understand. and seeing as how this board is mostly religious do you really want to push that?

the man wanted it bad and he said years ago when buddying with gus he loved or liked auburn. he is in a position to show the power of redemption. i think it is a chance because of the unknowns but if he is legit i believe he probably leaves auburn better than he found it.

man bad so he does not deserve to coach? because he has a gift and he can use that gift to mentor kids. it is his life. you think he is not super grateful for a second chance? all i know is it is done and we should be lifting him up and supporting him up. man bad so he does not deserve to coach? he can preach to the kids about being among the fallen and with the grace of the good lord he could be a super remodel for those that maybe screwed up so bad they do not deserve a second chance.

i did not see it with the board being flooded with threads and posts. i can delete it if it is a problem.