Hugh Freeze jokingly protests having to face Diego Pavia: 'I'm sick of seeing that quarterback'
Hugh Freeze finally got a win last week after 4 straight losses, so what does Auburn’s head coach get as a reward in Week 10?
How about a visit to The Plains by old friend Diego Pavia, the pesky Vanderbilt quarterback who has helped the Commodores to a 5-3 record that includes a shocking upset of then-top-ranked Alabama earlier this month? Pavia has 1,534 yards passing with 13 touchdown passes and just 3 interceptions in 2024. He also has 537 yards rushing and 4 TDs on the ground, so he can hurt defenses with his legs, too.
Don’t remind Freeze, who still has visions of Pavia walking into Jordan-Hare Stadium last November while he played at New Mexico State, leaving with a 31-10 victory. Pavia also got the best of Freeze in 2022, leading New Mexico State to a 49-14 blowout win during Freeze’s last season at Liberty. Both of Freeze’s previous matchups against Pavia came in the month of November.
“I’m sick of seeing that quarterback,” a laughing Freeze said of Pavia on Monday.
"I'm sick of seeing that quarterback," a laughing Hugh Freeze said of Diego Pavia, a quarterback who beat him twice at New Mexico State.
— Michael Casagrande (@ByCasagrande) October 28, 2024
Freeze hopes the 3rd November in a row of facing Pavia will be the charm, as the 3-5 Tigers look to claw their way back toward bowl eligibility.
ESPN’s FPI matchup predictor thinks Freeze has a good shot to finally beat Pavia, giving Auburn a 63.3% chance to beat Vanderbilt in the 12:45 p.m. ET kickoff on SEC Network.
Serious question – why didn’t Freeze go after Pavia in the off season when it was obvious that AU needed to upgrade the QB room?
Before coming to AU and after his 1st season at AU, Freeze had the reputation of being an offensive genius and a really good QB coach.
I wonder what the 2024 season does to that reputation?
Just asking for a friend who follows an AU recruiting rival.
“why didn’t Freeze go after Pavia in the off season when it was obvious that AU needed to upgrade the QB room?”
Because he followed the NM coaching staff to Vandy.
“Freeze had the reputation of being an offensive genius ”
How is Freeze an offensive genius? To most AU fans/grads he was a much lesser version of Gus Malzahn.
Despite what he has shown this year, he wasn’t even the prized QB out of the portal at Vandy. That was Nate Johnson from Utah. Pavia tagged along with Kill and company. Dude just has an intangible quality. He wants to win more than anybody on any football field any given Saturday. Let’s be fair, if Freeze went out and picked up a 5-9 195 pound dude from New Mexico State (his roster height/weight are both funny), proclaiming him to be the savior of the Auburn program, the fanbase would have wanted him fired before opening day. He just doesn’t look like a guy that should be playing QB in the SEC… Even for a habitual cellar-dweller in Vanderbilt. Vandy is one of the few programs where Pavia had a chance to play high-major ball… Maybe the only program, to be fair.
” the fanbase would have wanted him fired before opening day.”
I know you’re new to this “football” thing, but that statement is flat out ridiculous.
No one cares about the height/weight of a QB as long as they can play the game. Kyler Murray is 5′ 11″, won the Heisman and is the starting QB of Arizona.
Absolutely no one cares where a QB comes from whether it’s NM State or Michigan State.
Hugh Freeze is on his second losing season at AU. The problem isn’t the QB. The problem is coaching.
“‘I’m sick of seeing that quarterback'”
Then maybe come up with a game plan to beat him. AU has vastly more talent than Vandy.
Coach, coach.
“Don’t remind Freeze, who still has visions of Pavia walking into Jordan-Hare Stadium last November while he played at New Mexico State, leaving with a 31-10 victory. ”
Freeze has visions because he can’t coach.
This what Trump means about closing the border. Hugh Freeze down with the border plan.
These people come and took all the good jobs my hard working black brothers. Now they are taking QB jobs.
We must bands as brothers and take back this country from the woke left and Diego and Catamite Sesame Street and the teletubbies been brainwashing us and Kamala be Willie browns side girl cause she got no self respect and aitn even sure she is a sister. then along comes Prilosec. The ZOG knows us brothers eat a lot of spicy food and we need to take Prilosec so they load it with stuff to make us sterile.
But Hugh the man to fix things. He got right with the Lord. He gonna fix it. Genius what he is.