Hugh Freeze amped up the pressure on his coaching staff’s recruiting efforts over the next year with his claim on July 18 that his Auburn football tenure will be defined by his 2024 and 2025 recruiting classes.
“I do think that the ’24 and ’25 recruiting cycle will tell a large portion of the story of my tenure there,” Freeze said (h/t Opelika-Auburn News’ Adam Cole). “I believe that. Maybe ‘26 we might get three cycles, but we’ve got to start closing the gap on the elite programs in this conference. And when you add Texas and Oklahoma, that only increases the competition, also.