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The best part about it, the absolute best part about this small town, cutthroat bubble of a world, is Auburn really is The Loveliest Village on the Plains.
But slithering beneath that bucolic setting of genuine community and cooperation, that Norman Rockwell painting of Americana, lies the beast of envy.
Always feeding, never satiated.
“You can feel it every single day,” former Auburn coach Terry Bowden once told me.
Hugh Freeze is feeling it now. Just like Bryan Harsin and Gus Malzahn and Gene Chizik and Tommy Tuberville and, do I really need to continue?
There’s a reason envy is one of the seven deadly sins.
Whatever Alabama can do, we can and should do better. Money is no object, nor are self-humiliation and degradation.
Wasn’t that long ago that Auburn ran off Harsin because tailback Tank Bigsby forgot to stay inbounds to help run out the clock on an upset of You Know Who. In Harsin’s first year.
Not long after that self-inflicted and painful loss, Harsin suddenly wasn’t “a fit” – and vicious rumors about off-field improprieties sprung up on the cesspool of Twitter months before Year 2 began.
Wasn’t that long ago that Auburn ran off the one guy who beat Alabama coach Nick Saban more than any other. Now Malzahn is living the good life in Florida as coach at UCF, or as he says, “living where you vacation.”
Chizik was fired two years after winning a national championship.
Tuberville was fired a year after beating Alabama – the source of Auburn’s never-ending and destructive envy – in six consecutive games.
So if you think Auburn won’t pull the trigger on Freeze after two seasons – or in the middle of Year 2 – you obviously haven’t been following along.
Auburn coach Hugh Freeze watches his team warm up before their game against California at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
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Publish date : 2024-10-02 11:04:27
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