{"id":1162442,"date":"2025-05-19T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1162442"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:48:20","slug":"freeze-on-if-he-feels-increased-pressure-to-win-im-not-a-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/freeze-on-if-he-feels-increased-pressure-to-win-im-not-a-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeze on if He Feels Increased Pressure to Win: &#8216;I&#8217;m Not a Fool&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Auburn Tigers are entering the third season of the Hugh Freeze era and hope to turn things around after the first two did not get off to a great start.<\/p>\n<p>Things went disastrously last year and Freeze\u2019s feet were held to the fire coming off a 5-7 season in which his team did not even qualify for a bowl game.<\/p>\n<p>Two full recruiting classes in and seemingly with the quarterback personnel issues now solved, Freeze knows there is an incredible amount of pressure on him going into the third season.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he is not quite aware just how much however, telling the Next Round that he knows his team needs to get a bowl game, when in reality they need to do much more than that to satisfy fans:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not a fool. I think we&#8217;ve got to go to a bowl game.&#8221; &#8211; Hugh Freeze on the pressure to win going into his third season at Auburn <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xrOcGuqzRM\">pic.twitter.com\/xrOcGuqzRM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Next Round (@NextRoundLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NextRoundLive\/status\/1923436773989888209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a fool, I think we\u2019ve got to go to a bowl game,\u201d Freeze said. \u201cLook, I inherited a program that didn\u2019t have a top-25 recruiting class for four years, you\u2019re not gonna win in this league [like that].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freeze needs to understand that headed into year three, just a bowl game is not likely to be satisfactory. Bowl eligibility begins at 6-6, and if Auburn goes 6-6, Freeze is going to be in some serious trouble.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of both him and the fans, the Tigers must do much more than just go to a bowl game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Auburn Tigers are entering the third season of the Hugh Freeze era and hope to turn things around after the first two did not <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/freeze-on-if-he-feels-increased-pressure-to-win-im-not-a-fool\/\" title=\"Freeze on if He Feels Increased Pressure to Win: &#8216;I&#8217;m Not a Fool&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1046873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,145,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1162442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tigers-plains-war-eagle","8":"category-auburn","9":"category-featured-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dhh23110440van_vs_aub.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162443,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162442\/revisions\/1162443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}