Hugh Freeze Joins Josh Pate - Pate State Speaker Series

Hugh Freeze and Auburn are in spring practice and eventually the 2024 College Football season will arrive with a ton of new faces and big expectations. Recently Josh welcomed Coach Freeze as the latest guest on the Pate State Speaker Series. What are the biggest challenges facing not only Auburn but the sport in general? What are the biggest hurdles and lessons to learn heading into year two at Auburn? Let us know what you think in the comments below and be sure to SUBSCRIBE to the channel and CLICK THE BELL for notifications as we bring you multiple live shows per week!
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[@JoshPateCFB]

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[@packersauburneric3625]

War eagle 🦅 hope we make the playoffs and surprise everyone and hope Holden gernier plays

[@Berley_1234]

josh pate you have the best posture sitting in a chair i've seen... 😁

[@tomsnead415]

Really, really good interview. Good questions and frank answers. War Eagle.

[@jonathanbolton2636]

Y’all are delusional

[@Lance_and_vance]

Coach Hugh is a Genuine dude. He keeps it real. A really good coach.

[@jonathanbolton2636]

😂

[@packersauburneric3625]

​@@jonathanbolton2636war eagle 🦅 I'll see offensive line

[@seanakima50515e]

1 transfer window, and it needs to be May, June, July. You can only transfer 1 time if you decide to transfer again, you lose 1 year of elgibilty regardless of if you played at the former school or not. (Only exception is a HEAD coaching change) Move all recruting activities national signing day, early signing day to Jan, Feb, March. Spring ball in April

[@wksweat71]

Great Interview 😎. I’ve really enjoyed these interviews over the Spring

[@kevinm552]

I live in Nashville, and it ain’t changing for the better.

[@jakepadgett5569]

I believe you on that. I went to the Vanderbilt game last year for the football game and it was terrible. Huge anti isreal protests going on. Having to walk through that mess to get back to my truck was nerve racking . I hated not having my gun and having wading through tons of folks with so much hatred and hostility.

[@spacecoast4890]

It’s a liberal tourist city now

[@Joe-d3t1t]

Yankees & Liberals ruined it.

[@calebjosephcountry]

Glad you did this! Love our coach and love that he loves country music

[@CUSE315SYR]

Hey josh big fan of your podcast… was wondering if you could interview Fran Brown the new Syracuse coach they bring back alot of starters pair that with the sec kids and new recruits with that schedule playoff bound if they stay focused ….Syracuse used to be a power this is the year they rise 🍊🍊🍊🍊 keep up the good work josh🍊🔥🥶

[@auburnman6969]

I love how all these Bama fans are all tuned in big time to Auburn podcasts. Shows how worried they are and they should be. Their days are gone and they know it. It’s gonna be a long decade for all those Harvey Updykes.😂

[@jeremycagle3890]

WDE

[@vidpie]

He mentioned Chiefs on Broadway in Nashville. I know of it because Haley Reinhart plays there June 10th.

[@heatherhavenhall8839]

War Eagle 🦅

[@chippin32]

WDE

[@brooksgorman3285]

I am worried Hugh freeze doubts himself more than a head coach should😅.

[@packersauburneric3625]

We will be fine just need to play Holden gernier since he probably had PTSD from Harsin more talent than Thorne and Caleb Burton

[@MajinBuusha]

I forgot he was at Auburn. I was thinking about Ole Miss for the first minute and a half LOL

[@StoicJason]

As an Alabama fan, I love this interview and I love that he’s coach at little sister. He has the energy of a 90 year old man and is open about not having a clue. Not a good look for him or AU.

[@mattbrown942]

He’s going to curbstomp deboer lol keep that energy when he does

[@olliehays3206]

Womp womp womp

[@jakepadgett5569]

I love auburn and will root hard for freeze as long as he’s our coach but I think he overthinks things way too much. Can we teach our qb to stay in the pocket and go through his progression and not fold up like a lawn chair at the first hint of pressure and then worry about the lockers and training tables. If we have a crappy year again he can’t blame it on his staff again.

[@RockonRain22]

If l hear Culture or Culture Council once more from HF l will scream. Let's talk football!🦅War Eagle.

[@packersauburneric3625]

​@@RockonRain22 we need Georgia offensive line classes and think the fact he beat Saban with 2 non NFL QBs and almost Thorne that should have credibility more wins vs Saban than Kirby lmao

[@RockonRain22]

You asked HF about how he would coach different from 15 years ago. 15 years ago he was coaching at Lambuth University which lost accreditation and closed. Freeze only has 6 years experience in D1 schools. 🎉1 year at Arkansas State and 5 years at Ole Miss prior to being hired at Auburn. Lambuth and Liberty U are not relevant

[@JDJ616]

Liberty U not relevant?!? First, HF made them relevant. 2nd, if there had been a college football playoff last year, they would have been in. And they are predicted to be that team this year. Lastly, Liberty beat BYU, Arkansas, Va Tech, Baylor among others. They are most certainly relevant and his fine efforts there led him to Auburn.

[@Proganaut1989]

Scary how he is letting players set standards and accountability....players come and go...standards come from AUBURN UNIVERSITY..you are just a part of that.

[@mattbrown942]

how dare he involve the players with steering the culture of the program lmao

[@Proganaut1989]

@mattbrown942 Yeah, great, now what does he do when those guys aren't there anymore? Do the same thing with the next batch? Maybe the next batch doesn't cut it...then what? Your template of conducting your program is not the participant it's the institution. You follow standards the program elevated, not the whim of the student. This is a business that is already successful and you are letting workers who have been there a couple of years dictate the formula. Head coach makes the rules and standards, and if he doesn't win... he is fired, and another is hired to find the bottom line, which is to win. This is being too submissive to try to fit in.

[@mattbrown942]

@@Proganaut1989 they don’t all leave at the same time lol. The players pass down the culture to the younger players and so on and so forth. Freeze still has to approve of everything

[@captnjim44smith74]

When at Ole Miss, beating Alabama at their stadium lead to losing the next game to Memphis in Memphis, so he has faults.

[@rogermiller1900]

I thought he would have been a good hire 5 years ago but the other SEC programs feel like they are years ahead and AU will never catch them.

[@TJordanWDE]

I thought this was good, right up until he said Peyton was the starter and blamed last year on "the pieces around him." Maybe he is great at practice, but so far he has not performed on the field and AU will have another lackluster season if he is our QB.

[@ard2756]

I think when Hugh says that he's not just talking about WR/players. Our OC last year was not doing him any favors.

[@danielboggan2479]

Thorne isn’t great. But our receivers last year couldn’t get open and when they found holes on zone coverage, they dropped easy passes. Thorne is good enough to start. We just have to hope the new guys can make early impacts

[@TJordanWDE]

@danielboggan2479 Go back and watch the fil on the aTm game. Wide open receivers with bad passes and poor decision making g

[@odasmith1215]

I mean we averaged 12 drops a game so

[@TJordanWDE]

@@odasmith1215 no way. that means in some games we dropped 90% of the balls thrown. The only way that makes any sense is if you say if Thorne let go of it and it wasn't a catch, it was a drop.

[@MJC__]

Of course Hugh was in Nashville....plenty of strip clubs! A tiger doesn't change it's stripes.

[@charlesholloman1565]

Just like your coach you don't have a clue. Bama will always be the standard that others only dream of. Roll Tide !!! P.S This is a Josh Pate , not aubarn podcast.

[@mattbrown942]

ignorant ignorant comment lmao how easily you forget Saban got hired because Auburn beat that ass 6 years in a row. You should thank Auburn for that

[@GeneC1968]

Just like Bama graduates have no clue how to earn a decent paycheck. Lowest paid in the SEC.

[@charlesholloman1565]

Not a good look for any coach to admit to not having a clue.

[@mattbrown942]

none of them do he’s just the only one that’ll say it instead of a bunch of bs lmao

[@mattbrown942]

Also, why you think all these programs are hiring players and personnel managers? Coaches coach ball, they don’t know how to manage who gets what amount of money and who gets what sponsorships etc etc..

[@buddyskinner1633]

It’s called being accountable and he’s owning it. He’s only been here a year. Future is bright

[@yfkam]

Pooh freeze lil bro

[@kennysponto6568]

it's mexican now nashville invasion

[@capstonereview5419]

Snake Oil anyone?

[@jaesunsturkie7674]

Bama fan here. I think he's a good coach and the one I didn't want the cows to get.

[@austindailey8746]

Freeze needs to be more honest with us. Nobody likes Thorne! He sucks! He'd fit more into a classroom on how to be a qb. Please get rid of all the trash players! We won't win any games if we can't have a decent offense and defense! Same exact team as last year. No change.

[@PrenticeJones-fh2ew]

Sure because you can coach a qb better than this guy? Gth out of here with your "he owes us this and that." He's a football coach not your personal assistant.

[@TipoftheSip]

Should have asked if he has a burner phone now

[@kevinm552]

It’s been over 60 years since Ole Miss has won or even played in any kind of championship in football. Thanks for stopping by though.

[@skipgumphrey9579]

A little tongue in cheek ribbing from a Rebel fan shouldn’t bother you when Coach Freeze used to be their head coach Kevin… RTR

[@kevinm552]

@@skipgumphrey9579 not sure what that has to do with the overall success of the two programs. Should we judge Bama on the Dubose. Francione, Shula era? So, he’s allowed to rib me, and yet you give me crap for ribbing him? Stay in your lane.

[@DonovanGG__]

Bro ifs been 7 years give it up already😂

[@runyunhyde4373]

Lane Kiffen has more skeletons than Hugh ever will. Sit down

[@nickpreston9794]

He rambles and doesn’t sound confident at all.

[@SpreadAU]

Never heard a coach sound so unsure of himself. I think he always built a scapegoat

[@hunterbelue4346]

Wrong. Sounds like a man that knows his team isn’t quite there yet and he’s not sugarcoating anything.

[@WBOMBS1232]

I’ve watched plenty of Hugh Freeze interviews, this is the way he always sounds

[@skipgumphrey9579]

Sounds the same here as well. Coach Freeze seems like a zero BS kinda guy. We know he recruits well and will get talent in. If they struggle again this season, the rest of the conference should enjoy it because it usually doesn’t take him long to get rolling good. RTR

[@kourtlandperry1061]

@@skipgumphrey9579 as an auburn fan, this is the most sensible response I’ve read from an Alabama fan in a long time. much respect, my friend! 🤝🏾

[@mikehubbard9617]

Excuses, Excuses! Same old crap! Do your jobs ! It all comes down to you! Quit crying and do your job!

[@stevenkerr95]

This ain't the politician Mike Hubbard is it?

[@mattbrown942]

Mike, do you need me to explain to you the difference between an excuse and a reason? Is this politician mike hubbard??