Buyers remorse for Freeze?

[Probius]

As someone who has lived in Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, and Alabama, Georgia fans have been by far the worst in my experience.

UGA fans are more thuggish and threatening to opposing fans, they are the closest thing we have to hooligans like they have in England. Auburn fans are the worst at supporting their team. They hire a coach and expect him to do a miracle and turn everything around in the first season. Midway through season one, they want their new coach fired. They turned on Harsin so fast and now Freeze is getting the same treatment. I don't know why anyone in their right mind would take the Auburn job.

 

[AUDub]

I think it depends if the hogs are mailing it in for the season. But after 5 straight heartbreaking losses, I believe they will get up for a home game, especially with an opportunity to beat an SEC West team. Auburn lost 4 straight and was energized to play another SEC West team at home. I see the same thing happening for Arky. Furthermore, they're coming off a bye week.

Depends qb play for both teams. We have a better secondary and O line, they have a better playmaker at QB.

 

[BamaMoon]

Never seen worse fans than what I witnessed in LSU fans in NOLA in 2012.

Of course, after the game they were pretty quiet!

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Auburn - and I don't mean this good or bad or as an Alabama partisan (as I've noted, I don't have the Pavlovian disgust for Auburn a lot of our fans do, but to each his or her own, too) - but Auburn is one of those teams that is REALLY difficult to project - most all the time. It is unlike any team of which I'm aware, although I'd have to go deeper into analysis to more thoroughly base that conclusion. (Note: I'm referring to their HISTORY, not week-to-week, although that can get interesting at times, too).

-Auburn has been unranked at the start of the season and finished ranked 13 times, three of those finishing in the Top 5 (including a #2 finish in 2013)

- on no less than 16 occasions, Auburn has been ranked in the first poll but unranked at the end of the season. More tellingly, they have started the season in the TOP TEN and fallen out of the rankings by the final poll on 7 occasions, two of which were preseason rankings of #3 (1959) and #2 (1985). Alabama, by contrast (and not even a fair comparison), has been ranked in the first poll but unranked in the last on 8 occasions. For the record, Auburn has been ranked 602 times, Alabama 867 times. In fact, Alabama has ten more weeks at #1 than Auburn has in the Top Ten.

But that's not to impugn Auburn, either. If we'll be honest, the "reputation" programs - the Blue Bloods plus Texas, Nebraska, Michigan, and a few others - automatically get spots because of that reputation, at the start of the year by assumption, when you lose simply because you began higher, and at the end by reputation.

Auburn's highest finishes in the poll - obviously - were #1 in 1957 and 2010. In 1957, they began the year at #15 and in 2010, they began at #22. They've finished #2 twice and began the year at 17 (2004) and unranked (2013).

My point is that almost everything where it concerns Auburn is sort of extreme, and I include their home field advantage in that discussion. When we think they'll be good - they usually aren't, and when we think they won't, they usually are. As I've said ad nauseum, they're an 8-4 every year team, but they get to that average of 8-4 by the most extreme seasons imaginable more often than others do.


Freeze is an upgrade from Harsin, but then again, Mike DuBose would have been an upgrade from Mr. Potato Head. I question whether he's really an upgrade from Malzahn tbh with you.