Before Hugh Freeze, Kevin Steele was the last Auburn football coach to visit a high school with recruits on the Tigers' roster (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
Kevin Steele, not the man that spent two seasons taking over $5 million in salary from Auburn football to recruit before being fired for not doing so, Bryan Harsin, was the last Tigers coach before Hugh Freeze to contact the coaches at Jackson High School in Jackson, Alabama according to AL.com’s Ainslie Lee.
“Despite Auburn having one of its former players on the roster, when Bryan Harsin was the head coach of the Tigers, Jackson didn’t get much love from Auburn,” Lee prefaced before saying, “Up until Hugh Freeze and his staff took over, current Alabama defensive coordinator Kevin Steele, who previously held the same title on The Plains from 2016-20, was the last Auburn coach to contact Flournoy and Jackson.