Founder and CEO of Great Southern Wood Preserving Jimmy Rane, the “YellaFella” and the most infamous Auburn football booster, is not always a popular figure due to his meddling in program affairs — but there’s no denying he loves AU and invests much of his resources to produce a winning product on the field.
That’s why when you hear that Rane likes new Tigers HC Hugh Freeze, you can’t help but be thrilled to hear that the ever-elusive “alignment” that was missing during the Bryan Harsin era is now seemingly present.
“We’ve always had the Auburn football coach here going back to Pat Dye,” Rane prefaced before saying, “We’ve had every Auburn coach except for the last one.