Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze abruptly resigns, investigated for calling escort service on school phone
Source: MassLive
In five seasons at Ole Miss, head coach Hugh Freeze has brought a new level of success for a football program that's been stuck behind powerhouses like Alabama and LSU. He also brought a string of scandals, particularly when it came to alleged violations for landing top-ranked recruits.
Ultimately, it looks like it's a scandal that did him in. Tuesday night, the school announced that Freeze has resigned as football coach. The news came as a shock, with the school later citing a "pattern of personal misconduct."
Co-offensive coordinator Matt Luke has been named interim head coach for the Rebels.
According to the Associated Press, an "outside Freedom of Information" request led to the revelation that Freeze had used his school-issued cell phone to call an escort service.
Read more: http://www.masslive.com/sports/2017/07/ole_miss_coach_hugh_freeze_abr.html
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)A national foundation that seeks to separate church and state has complained to Ole Miss that head football coach Hugh Freeze and an assistant football coach are wrongly using Twitter to promote religious beliefs.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent a letter this week to Ole Miss Chancellor Jeff Vitter questioning what it calls overly religious social media postings of football coaches at the University of Mississippi.
A concerned citizen reported to FFRF that University of Mississippi head football coach Hugh Freeze regularly promotes religion on his Twitter page, the foundation attorney wrote in a letter sent to Chancellor Vitter.
Recently, Freeze has tweeted statements such as Lead us by your truth and teach us 2day, for you are the God who saves us! All day long I put my hope in you. Ps 25:5 be a blessing 2day and Heres the best news ever, your eternal standing with God doesnt depend on your goodness, but on Gods unshakable faithfulness via his twitter handle @CoachHughFreeze.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)and to express it outside the confines of his position. The important point is that is an official Ole Miss Twitter account.
I don't understand why he didn't set up a personal account.
DK504
(3,847 posts)Skittles
(153,212 posts)sounds like a typical republican to me
He still can't get laid.
Sgent
(5,857 posts)but for recruits.
Full disclosure, I'm an olemiss grad.
alwaysinflux
(149 posts)It was the most overtly religious display I'd seen in a long time. That needs to stop if we are truly a nation that separates church and state. We're sending mixed messages.
Grins
(7,239 posts)That the Orange-headed Red Menace hasn't been anywhere near a church since then?
Much like Reagan.
(A state visit to the Vatican doesn't count.)
MattP
(3,304 posts)They are still paying his contract when he violated a clause has to be for some reason
videohead5
(2,181 posts)Has to resign for just making a call to a immoral escort service and we still have a pu$$ygrabber in the white house.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)MineralMan
(146,336 posts)What is it about college football programs that generates this kind of crap? Just cancel the entire damned thing!
brooklynite
(94,782 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,190 posts)He should have been fired, and the school should have issued a press release saying he was fired for "being a dumbass".
Midwestern Democrat
(806 posts)hadn't resigned, so they're not exactly trying to help him save face - either way, the outcome was the same: they don't have to pay him one cent of the millions of dollars remaining on his contract.
pepperbear
(5,648 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,372 posts)It's probably all about recruiting and retaining football talent.