Central Florida head coach Gus Malzahn knows what it’s like down on the Plains. The former Auburn Tigers head coach, along with former head coaches including Gene Chizik and Tommy Tuberville, to this day still own homes inside or just outside Auburn’s city limits.
Clearly, he and the other former coaches still have a lot of love for Auburn. Malzahn still supports his former school and new head coach Hugh Freeze.
Nick Saban and Hugh Freeze are friends. Saban tried to hire him at least twice. They even vacationed together at Lake Burton in Georgia.
“It'll take just one Iron Bowl,” cautions Gus Malzahn. “That'll change everything, let's put it that way.”
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“I love Auburn. I want them to do well and the fact one of my friends is the head coach, any help he needs, I want to give,” says Malzahn, who still owns a home at nearby Lake Martin. “It’s just an unbelievable place. It’s kind of hard to explain, but if you go on the campus, you just feel it. The good thing about Hugh is he’s coached against Auburn numerous times, so he has a good feel from the outside.”
Malzahn coached the Tigers for eight years before he was let go. Bryan Harsin of Boise State replaced Malzahn as the Auburn coach. Harsin only lasted in Auburn for two years before Freeze replaced him.
Freeze says that he and Alabama head coach Nick Saban are good friends too but Malzahn cautioned that won’t last after his first Iron Bowl.
“It’ll take just one Iron Bowl,” said Malzahn. “That’ll change everything, let’s put it that way.”
All is fair in love and war, until the Iron Bowl.
