At his Thursday press conference, Hugh Freeze discussed his decision making process.
But things change quickly in a competition that hadn’t been shut.
“I felt like it was Payton going into the scrimmage and then in the scrimmage,” Freeze said. “I thought he pressed too much and I didn’t like that.” If Freeze had wound up deciding on Thorne before the scrimmage, it happened behind the scenes. He didn’t have any availability to be asked about his process between his fall camp opener and the scrimmage. Neither players nor assistant coaches provided any clarity on how Auburn’s three top options — Throne, Robby Ashford and Holden Geriner — stacked up.But that scrimmage changed things. At least briefly.
“I want to see now what he does now ‘I’m the guy and I can go back to relaxing and playing within the system,’” Freeze said.
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