Hugh Freeze reveals what he hopes to accomplish during Auburn's spring football

Going into Auburn‘s spring football practice, new coach Hugh Freeze isn’t looking to put in complex schemes that will help the Tigers take the SEC by storm.

If that happens, great. But Freeze is first focused on making sure Auburn is sound fundamentally.

“I really want us to get in spring ball and get good at something, particularly offensively,” Freeze said. “What can our quarterbacks do? And how can we make that look different and what different things can we do with what they can do?”

So don’t be surprised if you don’t see a lot of complex looks in Auburn’s spring football practices.

That stuff is likely to come at a later date.

“We’ve got plenty of time in fall camp and the week for a gameplan to add some of this auxiliary stuff in if we think that’s going to help us win a game, but truthfully what can we do on offense that we feel like our personnel can do that we currently have?” Freeze said. “Then defensively, man, we must play hard and we must be physical and we must tackle well.”

Auburn spring football about the fundamentals

Like on offense and figuring out what the quarterbacks can do before trying to get complex, the defense will also be focused on the fundamentals.

What exactly Auburn will run remains to be seen, but Freeze wants to make sure the basics are in order first.

There will be an emphasis on forcing takeaways, too.

“I don’t care if we get two fronts in, let’s get all of those things down and go get the ball and take the ball away,” Freeze said. “Those will be my focus. I’m not real caught up. I told them this morning in staff I don’t care if we have just three install days and the rest are just us getting better at those three things that we installed on those days. I really could care less how much we get in.”