Last week Hugh Freeze resigned as the head football coach at Ole Miss. This was coming for awhile, and everyone that knows and watches college football sensed it. He had been on the hot seat for a myriad of reasons, mainly his illegal recruiting tactics that were starting to leak out.

I became immediately suspicious of Hugh Freeze and the Ole Miss program a few years back when they pulled in a monster recruiting class. Ole Miss hadn't been good since Eli Manning was there, and they weren't even that good when he was the QB. So I was questioning why guys like the Nkemdiche brothers and Laquon Treadwell committed to going there. I was also suspicious of them taking on the much maligned Chad Kelly from East Mississippi Community College. Speaking of EMCC, everyone should be watching "Last chance U" on Netflix. I wrote about the first season and I am currently watching the second season and I will have a review as soon as I finish. It's a great show. Anyway, after taking on a guy with Kelly's baggage, getting the Nkemdiche brothers, Laquon Treadwell and guys like Laremy Tunsil, I was not surprised, I was suspicious. There is no way that guys like that would want to go play in the SEC for a team like Ole Miss. They were blue chip recruits. If they wanted to stay in the SEC, why not go to Alabama, LSU or Auburn. Those are the cream of the crop. And before someone says, they get every recruit, stop. They get every recruit because they are the best teams, and the best players want to play for the best teams. Even looking outside of the SEC, why not teams like Oregon, Ohio State, Michigan, Clemson, FSU, any number of big time teams that would have these kids playing important games late into the season and getting into big time bowl games? It didn't all add up to me as to why they would choose Ole Miss. Hell, at the time, Mississippi State was a much better team, so if these kids wanted to stay in Mississippi, why not go there? Like I keep saying, it all confounded me.

I also loathed all the religious and Jesus talk coming from Hugh Freeze after hauling in this class. It was all "god's will", or "the good lord gave us all this talent". That is downright nonsense. God didn't will any of these kids to go play football at Ole Miss. The "good lord" didn't hand you all this talent. I hate, and yes I want to use the word hate here, when coaches and players give all praise to the lord. That needs to stop. It is annoying and gobbledygook. Just stop with all the praise lord stuff. I'm so god damn sick of it. If there even is a god, I have some serious doubts, I guarantee one of the last things on his or her mind is where some 18 year old goes to play football. That is absurd.

After having one good year, reaching number 9 in the major polls, Ole Miss crashed back down to Earth and finished the next season with a losing record. Robert Nkemdiche, Laquon Treadwell and Laremy Tunsil all declared for the draft. Before the draft, we got the Nkemdiche falling out of the second story of a hotel room debacle. He ended being okay, but apparently he was intoxicated, either drugs or alcohol, and that caused him to fall. Hugh Freeze said nothing about this. Then, we got the Laremy Tunsil gas mask bong photo a day or two before the draft. Again, Freeze was silent. This caused Tunsil to slip a bit, and when he was questioned about other stuff, he claimed that he was given money to go play at Ole Miss by some assistant coaches. This was the moment Hugh Freeze decided to speak up. Instead of squashing the rumors of giving out money, he attacked Tunsil's character. He called the kid everything. He was a liar, and he stated that he and his assistants only played by the rules. What a cowardly thing to do to a player that was on his way out. He blamed the kid. It was not his fault.

All of the sudden though, Ole Miss started to get hit with sanctions from the NCAA. The NCAA is corrupt, but when they come at you, you better be ready to get hammered. In January of last year, the NCAA sanctioned Ole Miss for illegal recruiting tactics and for giving out impermissible benefits, i.e., giving out cars and cash to current players. So, the "good, god fearing" Hugh Freeze and his staff was hit with the exact sanctions that Tunsil had accused them of doing.

It only got worse for Freeze and Ole Miss from there. About 2 and a half weeks ago, with rumors swirling everywhere, Houston Nutt, former Ole Miss coach, sued the University and Hugh Freeze for defamation of character. Nutt said that Freeze and his staff went to radio and publications and TV and said that Nutt, not Freeze, was the one doing all the illegal stuff. They tried to pass the blame on to Nutt. Houston Nutt is not saint, but for Freeze and his staff to do this, that is childish bull shit. How dare they. Who do they think they are? That's how much of a liar and a cheater Hugh Freeze is, he has me defending Houston Nutt. I never would have thought that was possible. Nutt eventually won the suit

That was not the end of the Hugh Freeze crap show. Apparently, Freeze had been calling escort services, possibly for himself. He claimed it was a "misdial". But, during further investigation, the University found a "pattern of similar calls" on "multiple occasions". So the god fearing, deeply religious man that claims to have never done anything wrong was supposedly calling escorts, most likely for himself. What a crock. Hugh Freeze is an absolute phony.

Hugh Freeze, of course, resigned after all this came out last week. This was a long time coming, and I would bet a lot of money that Ole Miss is going to get hit harder and harder with sanctions now. I wonder who Freeze will pray to during this dark period in his life. Hugh Freeze is a creep, and I'm glad he is out of a job.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. He one time "misdialed" a local Arby's. His reputation is just now recovering from people thinking that he likes Arby's. 

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