Auburn Tigers head coach Hugh Freeze would appear to be taking the approach that degrees of flattery might help him get one over his old friend Eli Drinkwitz.
“I know everybody has their rankings of coaches, and the better talent you have, the better coach you are, for sure. To me, some of the better coaching jobs are done with some of those lesser rosters in recruiting,” Freeze declared during the week.
“And you look at people like Eli (Drinkwitz) and (Mark) Stoops, and Clark Lea now, too, that I think are doing incredible jobs at their respective programs with the kids they’ve had. They’ve had some time to develop their culture and get their players in. But Eli, I think he does one of the better jobs in the country in all aspects in managing the new world that we’re facing.”…