It wasn’t until I got home—around 12:30 am—that I realized how tired I was, from the two hours on 280 (like Talladega, but with two thousand headlights), and the walk across campus, and the almost four hours of hope elevated, eroded, and evaporated, and the first walk across campus, and the day’s first two hours on 280. It was when I leaned back in my chair that I felt all the tiredness in my head. It always takes a toll, but it’s easy to pay when you win—or, I think I remember it being that way. Another thing I remember is thinking Auburn could start the 2022 season 5–0.
We opened the season with five home games in five weeks, and lost two of them. Bryan Harsin has likely coached his last game at Jordan-Hare Stadium. He will get whipped in Athens, and then they will send him home, and his home is not Auburn. That part, at least, is not his fault.
Harsin was hired for a job he had no business doing by a man formerly in a position he had no business holding. Greene was the first non-Auburn man trying to run the athletic department in a long time. He understood Auburn so little that he thought the athletic director runs the football program. Greene was hired under Steven Leath. It goes up the line. It starts at the top, and now Auburn appears destined for the bottom. Who will get us back on the ascent?
Forget about Lane Kiffin. He’s in the role he was born to play. He won’t leave there until both parties are tired of each other, and right now, the party is just getting started.
I like to think our next head coach will be Hugh Freeze. Liberty affords him flavors of independence and freedom that Auburn cannot, but, coach knows what it’s like in the arena. Maybe he wants to be there again. Some folks won’t like the idea of Freeze, and that’s part of his appeal to me. That crowd is getting enough wins as it is these day. Besides, they seem to like basketball pretty well.
I’ve had an eye on Freeze’s twitter the last couple weeks. Something about his personality makes a connection for me, makes me think he’s the right guy at the right time for Auburn. It already feels like he’s our coach. The only thing to do now is bring him home.