After an especially challenging 2023, Auburn Tigers head coach Hugh Freeze finds some sanity in delegating.
After all, coaching a major college football program can be exhausting. Being the CEO of a program like Auburn includes recruiting, glad-handing boosters, and oh yeah... coaching.
"It was absolutely necessary for me to do that, for my sanity and for my help," Freeze said this week about making changes to the coaching staff. "I have to have some help with that. DJ , Charles and NIx really have helped me with that. I think it is going to become contagious. The kids see it. It breeds over even some confidence into them, and so I couldn't be more pleased with the chemistry of the staff right now.
to his hand picked assistants. Now that he's put offensive coordinator Derrick Nix in a position of authority, he figures it's best to let him get firmly on the same page with starting quarterback Payton Thorne. Given the trials and tribulations of last season, it could easily have been the case that Freeze might have opted to take things off Thorne's plat. In fact it's been the opposite with Nix, Austin and others dialing straight into the collaborative process with their signal caller.
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