AU FOOTBALL: Coaches want more from McNeil, Freeman
Coaches want the bull seeing red.
While ambiguous and sometimes puzzling, Gene Chizik’s player interview policy typically doesn’t exclude players who have impressed him with on-field accolades.
So when he was asked Monday if the opposite conclusion should be drawn regarding safety Mike McNeil and linebacker Eltoro Freeman — both of whom haven’t been made available after all 12 of Auburn’s spring practices to date — Chizik delivered a somewhat telling, but still-ambiguous response.
“I don’t know what you want to read into,” Chizik said. “I don’t know if you should or shouldn’t, but they both need to step it up.”
McNeil is coming off a lost season, the result of a broken leg he suffered last spring. Freeman is one year removed from an up-and-down debut season that had as many highlights as headaches.
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