Hugh Freeze was sitting at SEC Media Days when he was still at Ole Miss when Steve Spurrier — still the head coach at South Carolina at the time — asked him, “Who’s sitting here, visor guy?”

Freeze replied back that former Georgia head coach Mark Richt was sitting there and had briefly left to either run to the restroom or grab something to drink.

But Spurrier, best known for his time leading the Florida Gators, didn’t seem too concerned about the Bulldogs’ head coach and replied to Freeze, “not anymore” and plopped down beside him.

Anyone who knows a thing or two about Spurrier knows that him calling Freeze “visor guy” comes with a bit of irony. While it’s not like Spurrier invented the visor by any means, the former Florida and South Carolina head coach did help the headgear grow in popularity in the game of football.

Former Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn said in a 2014 interview that he too traded a typical ball cap for a visor around the year 2000 after Spurrier popularized the accessory.

In the case of Freeze, he was still in the high school ranks when he was watching Spurrier help revolutionize the game of college football.

“He was the first one that I thought kinda played football at a fast tempo somewhat and kinda threw it around,” Freeze said Thursday night during his segment on Auburn’s “Tiger Talk”. “I was a high school coach then and he and I are still close to this day. He calls me ‘visor guy’.”

When Spurrier was at Florida, he helped pilot the Gators to their first national championship in 1996, much in part to Spurrier’s pass-heavy “fun ‘n gun” offense that saw Florida’s Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Danny Wuerffel pass for 3,625 yards and 39 touchdowns.

Surely, Auburn fans wouldn’t mind seeing some of Spurrier’s inspiration shine through in this year’s Auburn offense, which has seen its fair share of struggles through four games.