TUSCALOOSA — As soon as Hugh Freeze gets back to Auburn, he should be scouting potential portal prospects.
He should be looking over all the quarterbacks who seem leveraged to go into the portal in the next few weeks, and he should be scrounging for footage of them and figuring out what he likes and what he doesn’t like about all of them. He should turn over every stone — and he should do it like his job depends on it.
Far be it for anyone to get career advice here, but that’s just the expectation that’s been set for Hugh Freeze now after his first two seasons at Auburn. Payton Thorne has played his last game. Many of Auburn’s problems were his fault, Freeze must have thought for at least part of the season, namely the part where he benched him. He lamented early in the season in press conferences and on Tiger Talk that the offense was close to turning a …