Meet the newest edition to the Mount Rushmore of all-time boneheaded moves by college football head coaches. On Thursday, USA-Today was first to report that Hugh Freeze has resigned effective immediately from Ole Miss after school officials found a "pattern" of phone calls allegedly made by Freeze to a female escort service. The calls to the escort service made on Freeze's phone which was provided by the University (AKA his work phone) date all the way back to 2012 (the year he was hired).
Whether or not these phone calls had anything to do with Freeze attempting to hire or having hired escorts for himself, his assistants, or his players remains unknown, but oh my is this a bad look and a damning setback for Ole Miss or what?
Naturally, SEC Twitter had themselves a blast following the release of the news that Hughes was out....
Kyle makes a solid point
The Hugh Freeze signs at College Gameday this season are going to be epic— Kyle Dawson (@ItsKyleDawson) July 21, 2017
So does this guy
Michael Oher is released and Hugh Freeze resigns, both on the same day.— Andrew. #FootballSZN (@LatiNo_Chill) July 20, 2017
Ole Miss is getting blindsided.
!!!!!!!
Houston Nutt is burning the whole building down. And Hugh Freeze?!! Your work phone?! Next time just borrow Chad Kelly's...— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) July 21, 2017
Hate when this happens
Don't you hate it when you're ordering a pizza, and you get an escort service instead? Hugh Freeze is a victim. https://t.co/N5trt8ZGZZ— John U. Bacon (@Johnubacon) July 21, 2017
Pitino is shaking his head somewhere
Hugh Freeze busted for calling an escort service. If Rick Pitino taught us anything, its that you ALWAYS let the assistants make those calls— Aaron Torres (@Aaron_Torres) July 20, 2017
SEC >
Lane Kiffin causing riots at Tennessee. Bobby Petrino's motorcycle. Hugh Freeze today. Nobody does coaching departures quite like the SEC— Aaron Torres (@Aaron_Torres) July 20, 2017
Leo Lewis of Mississippi State had a pretty solid one but deleted it, so here's the basic gist of it
— Clemson Tom (@ClemsonTom) July 21, 2017
Not only is Ole Miss still trying to recover from the Leremy Tunsil disaster which led to a NCAA probe, but the departure of Freeze comes a little more than six weeks before the Rebels kick off their season against Southern Alabama. Should be a fun and awkward as all hell training camp.
It's also being reported that Houston Nutt may have been the one who leaked the information about the phone calls in an absolutely diabolical turn of events. The downfall of Hugh Freeze is probably Nutt's biggest win at Ole Miss. Stay tuned because there is no way this thing is over.
Now, who out there has experience of coaching under all the pressure in the SEC, is currently unemployed, and would be a perfect fit for a program trying to change its culture?
Yeah, I have no clue either. Guys like that don't just come and go from LSU every 10 years or anything.
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