AUBURN, AL Auburn Tigers On SI is monitoring the Auburn Tigers’ arrivals and departures through the transfer portal as the 2024 season draws to a close and the portal’s launch draws near.
The Tigers had a rough 2024 season, finishing 5-7. Head coach Hugh Freeze and his staff are anticipated to be active in the portal to attract players that will compliment Auburn’s top 10 recruiting class.
According to new NCAA regulations, a club may have 105 players on its roster, 85 of whom must be on scholarship.
This is a summary of every Auburn addition and departure. Everybody
No additions have been made by Auburn through the portal. Five days after Early National Signing on December 9, the gateway opens.
On the website’s recruitment page, you may read the day’s transfer portal news. As further announcements are made, this article will be updated.
Hugh Freeze is “clearly on hot seat,” and Paul Finebaum is not impressed with Auburn’s recruiting efforts.
Paul Finebaum, a seasoned commentator, almost always launches into full-on cobra attack mode when he reflects on the tumultuous tenure of Auburn Tigers head coach Hugh Freeze.
Attacking the beleaguered Freeze has appeared to weary Finebaum in recent years, but following his second Iron Bowl defeat, blood is in the water once more.
“I kind of felt hollow after leaving Auburn. On the McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning Show, Finebaum stated, “I really have to wonder about the future of this program.” “I know the hype machine is going crazy there, but recruiting is another matter.
“However, we’ll examine the portal and recruiting [environment] more closely in two or three weeks and attempt to determine what Hugh Freeze has accomplish in order to keep his job next year. due to the fact that he is obviously on the hot seat.
In actuality, Finebaum is only spewing the same type of hate speech that many oppressed Tigers supporters are currently expressing on campus over the divisive Freeze.
Even among the supporters who are well aware of how cunningly Freeze has manipulated the recruitment process, playing winning football tends to become their top priority.
The Tigers manager has put a lot more strain on his well-honed recruiting abilities after immediately doubling down on his rebuilding plan following the disappointing but very inevitable 28-14 defeat to Bama.
Freeze produced another class of top-10 recruits, but the transfer portal must also produce a quarterback who can start immediately, such as Jackson Arnold of Oklahoma or Miller Moss of USC.
Now that five-star quarterback prospect Deuce Knight has joined the Tigers, things may calm down considerably, and the Auburn administration may decide to take a much more comprehensive approach.
Planning farther forward and assembling a new club with vigor for the upcoming season will almost probably be necessary to do that, but Freeze’s vision must remain unclouded by the growing losses on the field.
Freeze really hopes that he will be in a position of relative strength when he eventually has to sit down and face the music in front of the key decision makers who write the checks, something that Knight’s arrival in 2025 most likely won’t give.
The grace period is up since he orchestrated some disjointed-losing football for the second consecutive season. The third-year recruiting prowess must be followed by the outcomes.
As a result, Finebaum’s claim that coach Freeze has a hot seat in waiting appears to be accurate. Rankings in recruiting won’t keep Freeze from losing for the third straight season.
As Hugh Freeze begins his third season as Auburn Tigers coach, high recruiting rankings won’t be enough to get him to the fourth season.
