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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I’d bet his contract has a morals clause. If so, nuff said. What I’d really like to know, however, is if was calling for himself or a player...
If Freeze made these calls on a school issued phone, he’s not only a degenerate, he’s criminally stupid.
Escort service for himself? One of his players? Or for one of his donors?
Maybe his dog needed an escort to the vet.......
I had class with Brother Hugh back in the eighties at the junior college in Senatobia. He we the big man on campus then. My how the mighty have fallen. People unfamiliar with Freeze have never read his Twitter feed. Everyday was Binle verses and prayers, all along having a pattern of serious misconduct.
How did this start? Ole Miss was caught paying players. Freeze and Ole Miss went to reporters blaming Nutt the former coach. Nutt had clause in his departure that his reputation could not be challenged. So Freeze college phone was checked. Freeze was able to redact all personal phone calls. He forgot this number to the hookers.
“Clinton got to stay, but the Coach has to go?”
Great point. The press goes all out moral preening against a football coach but ignore the president and governor and doesn’t see their hypocrisy.
Possible candidate for Western Kentucky head coaching job? Now that Boy Blunder, Mike Sanford, has been fired?
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