Posted on 07/20/2017 7:23:14 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
The Ole Miss Rebels announced Thursday that head football coach Hugh Freeze "resigned effective immediately" before elaborating on the details in a press conference.
Dan Wolken of USA Today reported Thursday Freeze made a one-minute call from a school-issued phone "to a number associated with a female escort service." The call came to light as part of a federal lawsuit former Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt filed against the school alleging it violated his severance agreement.
Athletics director Ross Bjork said during the presser, "We proactively looked into the rest of (Hugh Freeze's) phone records & found a concerning pattern," per Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports.
According to reporter Brett McMurphy, Bjork said Freeze "admitted the (personal) misconduct" before resigning.
This all came after Pat Forde of Yahoo Sports reported Thursday, per sources, Freeze's position was "in immediate jeopardy" after "explosive new information" came to light.
"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 explain,'" Wolken wrote.
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Dang! Another forty years of suck.
This guy had turned the whole team around, or maybe these gals on the other end of the phone did.
I always hate it when my reputation gets gldajshed.
Me neither.
I plead convefe. It should have been “damaging.”
Here’s the irony of the ole miss/hugh freeze situation:
Freeze accused of calling an escort service in a one minute call.
Freeze & ole miss would never had this problem if University of Arkansas would have fired nutt years earlier for moral turpitude.
Nutt was caught in an FOI request to the UofA that showed he made thousands of calls & text (including texting from the side lines during a razorback game to his young bimbo tv personality. (Who incidentally looked exactly like nutt’s wife, but 20 years younger)
Here’s an excerpt from a new article published at the time:
Nutt’s lawyer explained why Houston Nutt had so much contact with Donna Bragg.” Nutt’s lawyer is Byron Freeland of Little Rock. Bragg is a news anchor for Fort Smith television station KHBS, channels 40/29. The phone records show Nutt sent and received more than one thousand e-mails and text messages to and from Bragg,
I’m not saying what freeze did was right or wrong, but there is not doubt that HDN made more money through clever buy outs in his employment contracts with both UofA & OM than he earned from coaching on the field.
The nutt legacy is he left two good NCAA/SEC football programs in shambles.
Now he’s doubling back for more litigation bucks with OM
POS
My reputation is so low I needn’t worry.
That’s awesome. Something to temporarily deflect attention from the SJW bs that’s been causing hate and discontent at Mizzou for the last year and a half. LOL
Ha!!...........
If they were? Come on Chauncey. If?
Let’s see if CBS Sports retains him on its CFB show
We are good...
Just jacking with you....
FRegards,
Might become some sort of FReeper speak...............
I guess if I have added to the lexicon, then my work here is done.
These are hugh and series accusations.
The administration decided to Freeze him out of a job.
Well, they have to recruit against Baylor. “Do you like white women? Because we have a lot of them at Baylor. And they LOVE football players.”
Clinton got to stay, but the Coach has to go?
Ha!!
Didn’t know CBS threw him a life line.
Imo, he’ll never have another job coaching on the sidelines.
All he has going for him now is an out of court settlement in his current litigation vs ole miss
Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting that.
In his defense he was calling the escort for his new quarterback.
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