SI on Freezus Distancing Himself from TUNS

[121Josey]

Check out the background image of HF at :30 and another one later

Video: http://sports.yahoo.com/video/hugh-freeze-trying-distance-himself-220936298.html?nhp=1

ETA: http://www.campusrush.com/hugh-free...-sec-media-days-1922793363.html?xid=si_social

 

[messageboardsuperhero]

There it is again. "There's nothing that directly mentions Freeze (in the NOA)."

Have these people even read the damn thing before they run their mouths like they're experts about it?

 

[hatfieldms]

I asked staples about that last night

He admitted he overlooked that and changed it in his article

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Nice.

 

[ShrubDog]

Every single OM fan I know absolutely whorships this guy and thinks he has done no wrong. If he was our coach I would not support him at all. It really is mind boggling how stupid this makes them all look.

 

[patdog]

I'd be surprised if any of them have actually read the NOA. All they do is go off of what they've been told. UM's strategy for a long time has been if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.

 

[gptdawg]

Every single OM fan I know absolutely whorships this guy and thinks he has done no wrong. If he was our coach I would not support him at all. It really is mind boggling how stupid this makes them all look.

But when reality hits,the meltdown will be epic. Hell hath no fury like a fan scorned.

 

[fishwater99]

I'd be surprised if any of them have actually read the NOA. All they do is go off of what they've been told. UM's strategy for a long time has been if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.

Exactly...

 

[drt7891]

If he was 2010-2011 Nutt, he'd be long gone. Freeze has sold them some unbelievable "faith-based" Koolaid and winning football (and recruiting) has made him what he is to them.

quite frankly, I feel like God has better things to do than bless OM (or anyone else for that matter) with wins and five star croots. And the fact freeze sells that message makes me sick, because it also communicates that everyone else is not in "good enough standing" with God to win big games or reel in big croots like they have/do.

 

[RightOfCenter]

Can someone with nimble fingers point me in the direction of the NOA, specifically the booster and coach part, along the sections involving Hugh? Im arguing with a bear this morning.

 

[aTotal360]

^^^Andy Staples^^^

 

[121Josey]

Just search "CEO" or "Never cut corners"** https://www.scribd.com/doc/314010068/Allegations-Redacted-5-26-15

 

[121Josey]

You would think that some national reporter would say to him: "You say that you can't stop everything. I believe that because you can't stop your staff from leaking information to ESPN. How can anyone expect you to stop any major NCAA violations?"

 

[Xenomorph]

Oh.. I know... well, let's say.. entire groups of people who honestly believe..

Two things:

A. God has been rewarding Ole Miss football for having a "true" Christian as its head coach by putting it in the hearts of recruits to sign with them.

B. Hugh Freeze is being <strike>persecuted</strike> investigated by the NCAA solely because he is a Christian and stands for values they are trying to wipe clean from their ranks.

 

[Xenomorph]

It's a really good strategy and is serving them well. During the JWS years....

...what killed us was not the eventual group of penalties. Those were minor. It was the 3 year cloud over the program leading up to the committee on infraction's judgement that did JWS in. He couldn't recruit in the atmosphere created in the media. Every time a journalist asked for documents, we grabbed our ankles and complied...

Papers like the Clarion Ledger were digging for new info every week for years. Opposing coaches were taking what they printed and making sure it was in the hands of every recruit in the southeast.

By the time scholarship reductions rolled around we were already dead.

Fast forward to a MUCH wider and organized cheating network the Bears have created. Whether or not the NCAA has the goods against them is immaterial right now. They are denying, deflecting, suppressing and outright lying their way out of it. They've got the media under control and are sculpting their public relations message with great care. They are creating the perception that they're about to skate..

They might get USC level penalties, but they still won't be dead in the water like we were in '03 because they've understood from the get-go that public perception is everything.

 

[Drebin]

Two things:

A. God has been rewarding Ole Miss football for having a "true" Christian as its head coach by putting it in the hearts of recruits to sign with them.

B. Hugh Freeze is being <strike>persecuted</strike> investigated by the NCAA solely because he is a Christian and stands for values they are trying to wipe clean from their ranks.

Freeze has actually said both things.

1. They have done so well because God has shown favor on them
2. This has been a four year colonoscopy but morality, charity, missions, yadda yadda yadda - other schools don't like us because we don't belong, yadda yadda yadda

 

[archdog]

Every single OM fan I know absolutely whorships this guy and thinks he has done no wrong. If he was our coach I would not support him at all. It really is mind boggling how stupid this makes them all look.

You wouldn't support him after he beat Alabama twice in a row? Come on now.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

Freeze and Ole Miss are sort of using the O.J. Simpson and Johnny Cochran approach----make the "narrative" about YOU and your persecution and NOT about the facts / findings of the Investigation.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Freeze and Ole Miss are sort of using the O.J. Simpson and Johnny Cochran approach----make the "narrative" about YOU and your persecution and NOT about the facts / findings of the Investigation.

Wow. Interesting analogy. Not to make light of murder by comparing it to football, but I think you hit the nail on the head.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

I would ask....

"Coach Freeze, I know that Ole Miss has profited greatly from owning The Clarion Ledger thus preventing any pesky investigative reporter from uncovering your paying of Mississippi and Memphis recruits---plus these Mississippi and Memphis recruits don't really register on the National radar, thus no media investigations."

However, now Ole miss is getting / paying WRs from Chicago and Texas, QBs from Florida, and basically elite recruits from places outside the state of Mississippi and you cannot control the media outside of the Magnolia State."

"So I would like to put myself and my (fictitious) paper on your payroll to NOT investigate your recruiting transgressions and to give you and Ole Miss a positive spin. Is there a Media Opportunity Fund for that?"

(drop microphone and walk away)