Auburn’s head coach believes that he has the offensive pieces to make Payton Thorne and all Auburn quarterbacks successful.

Every coach and program has to have a philosophy about how they’re going to go about this new era in college athletics, whether in regards to the transfer portal, NIL, or both. For example, those are all things that at times can make Auburn’s Hugh Freeze uneasy.

“The options that you’re presented with: develop Payton, develop Holden, develop Hank, develop Walker or go spend a million dollars on this guy, I just couldn’t bring myself to doing that, because I wanted to put all the pieces together,” Freeze said on McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning.