Hugh Freeze fired Is Auburn’s history of firing footbal coaches really that much different than the rest of the SEC?

Shortly after Auburn’s Hugh Freeze was fired on Sunday, I wrote this piece examining the Tigers’ half-century trend of cycling through football coaches.

It is absolutely true that every Auburn football coach since Shug Jordan’s retirement in 1975 has either been fired or resigned under pressure. I got some pushback on this from readers, who accused me of bending the truth in some sort of anti-Auburn agenda.

The biggest dispute came in the case of Pat Dye, who won 99 games and four SEC championships and took the Iron Bowl to Auburn for the first time before resigning at the end of his 12 th season. While Dye was unquestionably dealing with health issues at the time, the ongoing NCAA investigation into the case of Eric Ramsey — who had accused Auburn coaches of arranging for him to b