Freeze: Tigers need better 'connection' heading into Iron Bowl week

Hugh Freeze believes that creating true connection within the team can be can be difficult in this era of college football.

After the Tigers' 31-10 loss to New Mexico State, Freeze met with the media and described the shock that still lingered around the team following the game.

Freeze said it was disappointing, embarrassing, and it's frustrated him.

"About as disappointing as I’ve been in coaching with Saturday’s effort," Freeze said. "It’s an embarrassment, it can’t happen like that. I starts with me… it’s frustrating and sickening to watch… I’m ticked off. I hope they’re ticked off. We’ve got to learn from that."

One of the issues Freeze discussed during the presser was the connection the team had. The staff, the coaches, the players, everyone.

It's difficult to create the environment that was once had in college football.

"The greatest challenge we probably have now in these college football rooms, team rooms, staffings, is true connection," Freeze said. "To where ‘man, I’m playing for you, and I’m playing for the school,’ when we have that true connection and relationship, you can really hold each other accountable. That’s something I’ve got to work on for us to feel more connected."

The Tigers only have a week left to try and create some of that connection before they take on the Alabama Crimson Tide.

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