It’s been more than a decade since the Auburn Tigers were real national title contenders, but head coach Hugh Freeze believes the team can return to that level.
Hugh Freeze stated in a news conference this week that he is hopeful and confident about the team’s future prospects.
“We’re incredibly blessed to be at Auburn, incredibly blessed by our administration and fans, and it hurts like heck to let them down and not compete on given days,” Freeze said in an interview with On3. “But my takeaway is that I’m still as confident as ever that this can be an elite football program again.”
The Tigers ended the regular season with six wins, which is a long way from competing for national championships and becoming as a “elite football program,” as Freeze described. But Freeze appears sure that given the personnel and culture that the club is developing, they can turn the program around.
“It takes great recruiting, but it also takes player-led teams that put team first and the standard of the team every single day first,” Freeze said. “We’re still learning that, and we’ve got to demand it as coaches, and we can’t waver from it when we get back in January, and I’m looking forward to the leadership of our team doing that.”
We’ll have to see how Auburn progresses next season.
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