NCAA: Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze's job in jeopardy

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[John Price]

He probably gone. Why it take this long

 

[John Price]

ANNOUNCEMENT | Hugh Freeze has resigned effective immediately. Matt Luke interim head coach. Press conference live at 7:30 PM CT on ESPNews.

 

[John Price]

 

[spintheblackcircle]

That escalated quickly

 

[John Price]

That escalated quickly

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-called-number-tied-escort-service/498056001/

A one-minute call made from the University-issued phone of Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze to a number associated with a female escort service was raised as a potential issue in the back-and-forth between the university’s legal counsel and the attorney for former Rebels football coach Houston Nutt, according to records and correspondence obtained by USA TODAY Sports.

Freeze resigned Thursday evening, hours after Ole Miss said it would provide a written statement to USA TODAY Sports regarding the phone call.

On July 13  one day after Nutt filed a federal lawsuit against Ole Miss alleging that the school violated the terms of its severance agreement  Nutt’s attorney, Thomas Mars, sent an e-mail to Lee Tyner, the school’s general counsel, referencing a “phone call Coach Freeze made that would be highly embarrassing for all of you and extremely difficult to xplain.â€Â

 

[John Price]

 

[hockeykicker]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-called-number-tied-escort-service/498056001/

A one minute phone call? Oops sorry wrong number unless they tapped the phone who can get a whole conversation in a minute?

 

[GKJ]

A one minute phone call? Oops sorry wrong number unless they tapped the phone who can get a whole conversation in a minute?

Somebody who didn't need much time to convince Freeze that he was in deep ****.

 

[Falco Lombardi]

Wow that moved quickly

 

[spintheblackcircle]

A good Christian man like Hugh?

 

[Gene Parmesan]

He sure was blindsided.

 

[John Price]

He sure was blindsided.

ROFLa

 

[hockeykicker]

There has to be more right? Or are they basing this whole thing oh the one minute phone call?

 

[Gene Parmesan]

He probably paid for escorts.

 

[hockeykicker]

The investigation went through 39,000 phone calls according to reports

 

[HisIceness]

He sure was blindsided.

 

[EvilCoop]

Finebaum will be sure to point out that the escort had a Michigan area code.

 

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[John Price]

 

[jkrdevil]

Important to remember this came out tied to a defemation lawsuit. If that suit continues (will likely settle at this point) Freeze would have had to been disposed and likely would have had to answers questions regarding the sanctions under oath.

My guess is besides the hooker call (which gives Ole Miss cover to fire with cause), Nutt and his legal team found enough to survive a motion to dismiss the lawsuit and get to discovery

 

[Halladay]

What a hypocrite. Sucks that this happened to close to the start of the season.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Hugh Freeze always struck me as like a toned down slightly modified (less funny) college football version of Eastbound and Down's Stevie Janowski. An amoral Southern goofball.

I first came across him when reading Meat Market, the book about Ed Orgeron's time at Ole Miss as head coach. Freeze was portrayed as kind of his eager beaver helper. Ambitious but a bit of a rube. The book among other things discussed their attempts to get illiterate kids enrolled at the university. The book wasn't a hit piece and was *very* subtle about the obvious corruption taking place there, but it was still obvious that the Deep South is an anything goes place for recruiting.

And that's kinda the heart of the matter. Freeze's corruption isn't unique or special or what brought him down. Even the Christian preacher act is a Deep South staple, not just in football but for every sleazeball from the guys running for state Senate to the car salesmen. Coach O is at LSU and hell if anything Freeze learned from him all about recruiting. So honestly, what do people think happens at LSU? Or any of those other places?

Freeze's trouble was that he was too successful, too good at the racket. Like SMU's run ruffled too many feathers, so did the recruiting success of Ole Miss. It didn't add up and that always draws heat.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

amazing details

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...tt-attorney-mississippi-state-bulldogs-writer

"If they had just apologized to Houston Nutt, I don't even know who Thomas Mars is and I never have the phone records," Robertson said. "I never find that call."

 

[hockeykicker]

What the heck? So a Mississippi state die hard fan somehow got a hold of the Mississippi head coach phone records and calls the attorney and tells him the info?