Cheating on wife? Between him, God, and family. Fine, I'll leave it alone.
Skirt NCAA rules? We expect the same from our guys to at least be on a level field. Fine, I'll leave it alone.
Lie to the face of other people's kids to get them to fall in line to advance your career, never acknowledge it, and then preach love along they way?
17 off, you POS hypocrite. People expect others to mess up. People don't expect to get pissed on and then told it's raining. Freeze is the kind of person that is causing the church to have declining numbers yet somehow he's continually praised for being a godly man. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing and I hope the parent's of kids he tries to swindle see through it.
Exactly.
People don't hate him because he made a mistake. People dislike Freeze because anyone who has lived in the Bible Belt long enough have met a Hugh Freeze before. The self aggrandizing, slimy preacher who talks of godliness and lives completely differently. People like this are narcissists and never view themselves as truly being wrong and always victims.
And even taking his private issues in his marriage out of the equation, he is a man who has never shown remorse for his professional conduct that lead to Ole Miss essentially being irrelevant in football for the next decade. As much as I dislike the Bear Sharks, Freeze and his staff deliberately mislead many of those players regarding the NCAA investigation, lied to fans and cast blame on anyone but himself... still to this day he has never apologized for these actions.
Hugh has made his money, he's coached in the big leagues of college football, he's out coached the best college football coach possibly of all time, yet that's not enough for him. He put his family though so much because of his arrogance and selfishness but he's not ready to stop. Not because he loves coaching, he could be a head coach or a coordinator for a community college or high school, somewhere with less exposure, but because it's his chance to be in the spot light, to give that sermon, to have all eyes on him as the amazing Godly Hugh Freeze.
He can't do that as the head coach of Jonesboro High School or even as the offensive coordinator at Tennessee but he sure can at Liberty. The student body and alumni will eat up the Christian redemption arc, the administration gets their wins and no one cares as long as he occasionally has long winded speeches about love and raising young Christian men.