While they've struggled on the field, Hugh Freeze and the Auburn Tigers are excelling at the Blame Game.
Quite often the bye week can leave fans going hungry for juicy-tid-bits and gossip, but that's certainly not been the case over the last few days.
You would have to suggest that it's really the only course of action the increasingly under-fire Tigers boss could realistically take, but it comes with a caveat that he feels he's still calling the right plays. He's mastered the art of talking out of both sides of his mouth when diagnosing Auburn's struggles -- in essence saying "It's my fault the players don't execute the plays I call.
While it's all very true that this youthful Tigers team should be framed more as a longer-term development process, the brutal fact is, Freeze is now two years into delivering lackluster results. Simply expecting his team, and principally Thorne, to successfully carry out his game plan has been a huge coaching overestimation, which Freeze simply must own.
Dusting themselves off and making some badly needed adjustments is perfectly ok in theory, particularly because they now have some time to go back through things. In practice however, the massively fractured relationship between Freeze and Thorne is playing havoc within a program that always badly needed a shared direction.
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