japantiger

Sure...you keep thinking that. If you defend hiring Freeze then you excuse his behaviors. You can't separate the two.

If I were her lawyer, I could easily make the case that the highest paid employee of Liberty DM'ing me telling me I shouldn't be saying these things is an act of intimidation by him on behalf of Liberty. He's a representative of the university. He's minimally guilty of stupidity...big league stupidity. This type of thing would have gotten one my leaders removed. I don't know a corporate executive that would touch this guy. You can't claim to have any set of standards when you hire a guy with this background. There's a standard used in the corporate world and in auditing that tests if the executive leadership is setting the right tone for the organization. It's even written into the Sarbane-Oxley laws. It's part of the executive teams evaluation in audits and when signing the quarterly/annual company reports. I don't think the Auburn leadership team could pass that evaluation.

I haven't heard any lies...everything being said about the guy is true. Hookers, true. Misuse of business/government property, true. Lying about it, true. NCAA cheating, true. Infidelity, true. Being too damn stupid to know when not to take the bait from someone suing your institution, true....spending time trying to defend the indefensible is a s***ty use of Auburn PR when it wasn't necessary.

Dude, I'm not the AD at Auburn because I made a lot more money running global businesses for 30 years...and everyone of them bigger than the Auburn athletic and infrastructure budget. Try again.

Your actual words...defend... That I can live with. I think the more we learn about him, the easier it will be to defend though

Unify behind the team; sure. This players and the staff didn't do what Freeze did. But you expect me to "defend" this guy? Really? That's the standard here. I have to defend cheating, infidelity, lying, misuse of government property, hookers and having so little maturity he doesn't understand the risk he runs by engaging in a conversion of legal adversaries of his institution when that is not his role; and can only further damage, damaged goods; or his institution...if I don't defend this, then I am divisive? Seriously dude.... I can't "forgive" Freeze; that's not my place as he didn't do anything to me. That's for his family. It looks like they have. Fine. I am glad he was making over $4m a year at Liberty and was happy there apparently. He should be very thankful he had that gig and his family stuck by him. That doesn't mean I need to feel some compunction to hire the guy or have him associate with the Auburn athletic program. Why would I wish him on some other parents kids when I wouldn't want him hanging around my own...he's not a role model. What really chaps my ass is we've been lied to. This whole thing around we're going big game hunting was BS. He said we'd been talking to him for weeks. There was no search. Cohen is no different than the last cast of clown administrators. You don't conduct a thorough search of all the available talent and land here. We're going to hear about this every time Auburn is mentioned on every sports network in perpetuity....we're playing the opening game next year and the 1st thing you will hear from the commentators is not; "it's a new day on the plains"...it will be all about Auburn's disgraced head coach.....embroiled in sex assault case against the university...hookers...scandal...NCAA violations...they'll have a field day with it. Get used to it. It ain't going away just because it makes some of you uncomfortable. I'm not going to defend this.

Nah. What you do in a big company is send the people you want to talk to the public thru social media to your social media school and teach them how to interact with your base the way you want it done and in the "voice" you want them to use. You only take away social media privelidges from those that have no need of communicating with the "market place" or those you don't trust.

This .... he's a representative of the University and his actions/words can bind/obligate the university. He had no business weighing in on this at all. Just another instance of half-assed judgement. When your new contract says "we're gonna take away your Twitter account because we don't trust you" should tell you all you need to know about his level of maturity. This whole thing has been a s***-show. All I heard was how this was going to be different; we had big $$ ready; we had complete alignment on who the right type of hire for Auburn was and who would finally reverse a decade of mediocrity and erase the stench of Green and Harsin hiring debacle. Instead, we make a predictable hasty bargain hire (per Freeze "been talking for weeks") for damaged goods ... damaged goods that learned nothing from his time in the wilderness. There was no search. The representation of this whole thing has been a scam. You don't do a serious search and land here.

25 degree mornings when we started in South Africa to temps over 100 during the peak of the day by the time we finished in Zambia.

Spent most of August and September in South Africa, Namibia and Zambia....hell of a hunt

Last 3 actually. You're working overtime to find the pony here

So let me see if I have this straight...if he signs a contract that would make him one of the wealthiest people on the planet for doing what he does, his career is over....HaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....deep breath....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...tears rolling down my cheeks....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

So Kiffin only survives 4 years? That's some optimism...but that would be a year longer than he usually stays anywhere

This...while we're at it, let's rehire Doug Barfield and Jack Crowe.

How does the SEC allow a metal club into a game anyway?...it's a big piece of metal with a handle you could beat hell out of someone with...If I tried to put that in a clear bag in any other stadium they'd arrest me.

This is what my son have been screaming for all year...limit his throws, run the 2013 offense, use tempo to keep the defense vanilla....We actually had some rythm in the 2nd half

2 bad coaching decisions cost the game

Crap call

You could take any TX high school 6A QB put them out on this field with 0 preparation and they would beat this performance