Hugh Freeze: “Thou shalt not call an escort service…” on your school’s cellphone.
It has always been easy – and trite – to compare Sports and Politics.
Both are highly competitive… involving large emotionally-charged partisan “fan bases”… who will immediately gravitate to whichever version of TRUTH fits their agenda… steadfastly defending that convenient TRUTH against vicious assault by their scurrilous opponents armed with their own fantasied version of unassailable TRUTH.
There are only Two Types of Big Time College coaches and/or “politicians”…
(1) Yours… and
(2) All those no-count, lyin’, cheatin’ sons o’ bitches,
Into this TRUTH arena today we have former Ol’ Miss Football Coach Hugh Freeze… and US Senator John McCain.
I grabbed that juicy story on Dimple The Nitwit in Charlotte; so I am graciously letting AgentPierce discuss John McCain. He is going to later this week.
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How closely have you followed the tabloidy soap opera involving Ol’ Miss Football? I suspect not all that closely.
“We” have that gloriously raging dumpster fire not-so-affectionately labeled UNCCH’s The Great Unpleasantness (TGU), a.k.a “Greatest Eligibility Scam in NCAA History”. It is difficult to muster interest in anyone else’s “raging dumpster fires” be it Louisville, Ol’ Miss or whoever.
“Raging dumpster fires” involving Power Five Football / Basketball programs are like “grandchildren”. Everyone has them, but no one else’s are quite as “special” as yours.
I pride myself on nicknames and obtuse analogies. This one “dumpster fires” to “grandchildren” is an immediate all-time favorite.
Quick Summation of Ol’ Miss Mess… Ol’ Miss Football emerged out of decades old SEC mediocrity 5-6 years ago when an unknown former high school coach – Hugh Freeze – had a couple of OMG recruiting classes. “Overnight” Freeze’s Rebels were beating Alabama.
No way THAT happens without “rampant cheating” of course…. Booster slush funds et al all the standard SEC “it ain’t cheating unless you get caught” crap.
EVERYBODY knew Hugh was cheating. It was only a matter of times before it would go KABOOM.
Hugh got caught when one of his NFL-bound 5-star recruits bragged on national TV about “his sweet deal” at Ol’ Miss. Uh Oh!
One of Hugh’s weak defenses was “I’m not cheating but the guy here before me did…” Uh Oh. That guy – Houston Nutt – took offense at that. He hired lawyers to dig up dirt on Hugh. They did pretty quickly.
Hugh Freeze had been Michael Oher’s coach at Briercrest Christian Academy in Memphis. Michael Oher of The Blind Side movie fame where Sandra Bullock was the hottie blond soccer mom and Tim NcGraw was her hubby who owned a bunch of Taco Bells.
Hugh Freeze built his reputation as a scripture-quoting Super Christian. That worked well for him with recruits’ mammas… until he got under the “take no prisoners” microscope of SEC Football.
Will these goobers EVER learn how computer / cellphone data can be traced? No. They will never learn.
Hugh’s “oops, it was a misdial” excuse lasted less than hour before Ol’Miss fired him.
The immediate supposition being that there were A LOT of “oops misdials” and worse about to be revealed that Ol’ Miss officials knew about but hid; because, as we note above, Hugh was beating Alabama with some regularity
Universities not releasing supposedly public information on naughty coaches is akin to mobsters “taking the 5th”.
“Damn right, I’m guilty as I can be; but you can’t prove it… Ha Ha Ha!”
The world now has two camps.
(1) Oh Goody… another sex scandal at a Power Five sports program. With all the usual references and jokes about all of Rick Pitino’s sordid sex scandals… and, of course, Bobby Petrino crap too.
(2) Hugh Freeze is THE MOST Godly Man I Know camp. The Blind Side family – the Touhys – stand steadfastly by Hugh despite reports coming out about some kinky stuff Hugh was doing at Briercrest Christian Academy prior to Ol’ Miss.
(Both Houston Nutt and Bobby Petrino coached at Arkansas for those of you keeping score.)
Are you thinking…. “BobLee, doesn’t pretty EVERY college coach grab a Bible and start quoting scripture when “the video” / “call records” / “madam / pimp “ goes public? Yes… pretty much all of’em do.
It is the first ploy their lawyer recommends after “Coach, you probably oughta wipe the lipstick stain off your shirt collar”.
Does it matter what scripture? Not at all. No one pays attention knowing it is always the first ploy.
While the caught coach is quoting scripture, his lawyers are working feverishly to convince his very angry former-cheerleader -now mid-40-ish wife to “stand by him” in exchange for an iron-clad deal that she GETS EVERYTHING including the Lake House and all the jet skis.
Every SEC FB/MBB coach, and most ACC ones, all have “Lake Houses” with lots of jet skis. … Don’t know why. “Famous rappers” have lots of watches and gold chains with their initials in diamonds.
Why do dey do dat…quote scripture when they get caught? Because it always works with a segment of their obscenely naïve fan base.
It NEVER works with anyone outside their own fan base even when/if the guy actually is innocent and truly IS “a Godly man”. THAT will happen some day… maybe.
Are there ANY truly “Godly men” in Big Time College Sports (or politics?) ? Probably… maybe… who knows? Diogenes might wear out a lot of sandals looking for one.
Are there favorite scriptures they all use when caught literally and figuratively “with their pants down”?
Pretty much anything containing the words “forgiveness”… “remorse” … and “I swear she said she was 18”.
Will anything ever change with this crap?
Just as soon as human nature changes. That hasn’t happened in 5,000 years of recorded history but nothing last forever… does it?
When YOUR COACH gets caught and starts quoting scripture, YOU will believe him and aggressively defend him too. That is human nature too.
Which is why it is so much fun to write about it…
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Coach… you might be misinterpreting BK’s opinion of “The Songbird”. McCain is quite the hero to BK’s crowd these days. I loathed the lying sumbitch long before we knew Sarah Palin and 2008. Without Palin that fraud would never have even carried Arizona.
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Jocks and “troubled young ladies” seem forever linked ….. ????
Good for you! Art and Luther Bradley, a multi year Consensus AA DB were the outstanding players of the rapists and they were cowardly rapists. Both were dropped from school and then brought back to lead Dan’s team to a NC. Disgusting! Disgraceful! Heretical! Jesus wept…Our Lady wept…Non-cafeteria Catholic Christian, both alumni and lay wept. ND Aluni Clubs from around the world inundated the PO at ND with mail addressed to the secularist Theodore Hesburgh, CSC. Today, ND is full of rapists. The path to St Mary of the Lake College is nicknamed “Rape Lane” or something similar. Kelly is… Read more »
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I’m very grateful for your reply Coach..
I used to be in the dealership finance business. I had one rule…if the dealer had a picture of Jesus on the wall..we need to watch them like a hawk.
A sad commentary on the overt display of religiosity. Wonder if that skepticism applies to copies of The Koran et al.
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Rambling here….Apparently college football coaches are the modern version of King David. They get ‘special’ privileges of instant forgiveness for whatever they do. Commit adultery with Bathsheba? No problem. God has special plans for football coaches that us the unwashed don’t understand.
With the common association of University of Arkansas and Bill Clinton, Petrino, and the Nutt, there must be something in the water there. With my advancing age maybe I need to go there and research that.
What did Sandra Bullock know and when did she know it?
Speaking of “Arkansas”… I hesitate to tell you where Mary Willingham is now running an adult Literacy Program.
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I thought Sandra Bullock as a blond in The Blind Side was rather fetching.
We wore the short shorts back then but, as I recall, the unitard was form fitting spandex. Probably too personal. I remember that they ended up wearing shorts over the unitard for the one game.
By the way, USC put out a press release stating that OJ will not be invited to football practice or games when he gets out. In 2002, when the Trojans were playing in the Orange Bowl, he showed up at practice and was embraced by Pete Carroll.
There was an urban legend that Corchiani’s date card filled up very quickly after he modeled the Unitard.
A key to a person’s character is to know their friends and heroes. Your example is pure Pete.
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I have an appt with my Duke Doc tomorrow. I’ll ask if he knows that guy. Concerns about one’s surgeon’s fitness is a stress factor off-the-chart.
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Paul, you see the comments about The Unitard. That was a decade or so after your Era. Any thoughts???
Paul Coder in a unitard would have drawn the media from all over. Paul didn’t exactly have a girly physique in those days. BUt I sure enjoyed watching him play!!
Paul… Dirty Dan… and Lovisa would have been quite a Unitard Trio for sure. 🙂 … Jeff Crompton over at UNC would have filled out one too.
I disagree with Sally. The Money Line in this one is : “I swear she said she was 18”. “…all the jet skis” was great but #2.
We are fortunate to have a community here where differing opinions are always encouraged. May it always be so.
The Money Line: “…including The Lake House and all the jet skis.”
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BL; why are all these coaches so easy to stereotype? You’re right. Pretty much everyone of these train wrecks go down the very same way.
Think about it. To be successful in their business requires fooling two groups of people – (1) semi-literate 17 y/os who go ga-ga over bling and b***s***, and (2) arrogant deep-pocket fat cat boosters who think you are a God if you give them bragging rights over other arrogant deep-pocket fat cats.
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If THAT is your world for 20 years, it ain’t exactly scaling Mt Everest or doing brain surgery. When the Fit hits the Shan, they fall back to the same cheap parlor tricks they use with the above two groups. It’s all they know.
BL; you OK if I send that quote to John Skipper (UNC’75) at ESPN suggesting he have you as special guest on College FB GameDay?
Absolutely. I’ve always wanted to meet “Herbie” and “Coach”. 🙂
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Probably fit better as a goofball caller on Finebaum’s Circus of Crazies.
Finebaum can make you a cult hero. Just hire a food taster and a ‘cleaner’ once you get famous. Scandals are sure to follow. I’ve already forgiven you.
Imagine Finebum’s sideshow freaks going up against a batch of Howard Stern loonies !!!
– He was just trying to recruit some talent for the Ole Miss pom squad and save some ladies from the world of human trafficking. Nothing to see here.
Reports I get re: Oxford MI says he would not have to leave campus to do that. Ol’ Miss coeds are legendary for pulchritude if Southern Sorority is one’s style of choice.
Politicians, doctors, lawyers, preachers, the next door neighbor, professors, mill workers, athletes, reporters, librarians, astronauts, judges, teachers, traveling salesmen, undertakers etc. and it’s suddenly news and people get surprised when it’s a Big 5 coach? Everybody is doing it except for BLS readers of course.
We have a few lakers I’m not so sure of…
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I think the difference is if one is in a high profile position and goes out of his way to portray a certain false image. Big Time Coaches seem to do that more than mill workers and undertakers.
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Roy, for all his harrumphing bloviation about the piety of his program, never, to my recollection claims any personal paragon status. He certainly touts St. Dean as the 4th member of The Holy Trinity but not himself.
True. Admittedly it is more titillating when a high profile mega-church preacher, a family values politician or coach gets stung. In every case it’s self inflicted as best as I can tell.
“Human weakness to vice” has no partisan preference. Even at the height of Monica-gate I knew it could just as easily be one of WJC’s political opponents.
How did Sweet Carolines get into this…..never trusted Neil Diamond
Back in the mid 70s… A LOT of Big Time FB Programs began “coed hostesses squads” to “help show recruits all the advantages of their incredible school”. It was a coincidence that they were all “winsome” and fine of face and form. UNC coed hostess squad was called The Sweet Carolines. This phenomenon lasted about a decade MAYBE before the double entendre absurdity of the ridiculous idea finally dawned on someone in a senior administrative capacity. . Like NC State’s “unitard” which had a MUCH shorter lifespan (one game I believe); the Sweet Carolines will live on forever within the… Read more »
Actually,the unitard lasted all season. They were covered with shorts for concealment purposes. The first photo op did them in, I believe.
Corchiani was the model as I recall. What other website offers this variety of information?
So Bible Thumping Hugh was calling the hookers for himself or for recruits?
THAT question has been raised by more than a few… including likely Mrs Freeze. I suppose BOTH is also a possible answer. I have not seen a definitive answer.
Maybe Hugh was the Quality Control guy… you know, testing the new equipment before using it to grow the bidniss.
That mighta been a better first answer than “Oops, I misdialed”.
ORW’s verses somehow included ‘Dagged jim’ or some other minor curse variation. Not sure which translation he uses. The New Swanannoa Revised, I guess.
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But why has Coach K’s been able to sidestep responding to Mickey’s whorehouse?
I haven’t checked with the folks over at Hope Valley CC in a few years. Their tennis pro shop used to be on the Official Durham Visitors Tour. Everyone wanted to see where Madam Miki worked… I never tire of telling that story. 🙂
YEP, Did not see THAT coming. Did not know Hugh….he must have been “setup” like Ricky Pinto or Bobby Pretrino was. Obviously a rival Power5 school with computer geeks that altered the “Phone Records”. TGU is probably getting MORE headlines…. . In Hugh’s defense, I or maybe a friend misdialed the Hertz Gold tollfree number circa the late 90’s. We got a recording from a “Gold Digger” club in Texas where the girls were available for Lap Dances OR other intimate encounters in their 5 Star Private, On SITE, rooms. That was a hoot…. . So, maybe there was titilating… Read more »
Mooch was simply a diversion to move the media weasels off “DT Jr. & The Russians Are Coming”. Once they (media weasels) start chasing a new butterfly they never can find their way back to wherever they were. I have Mooch running against Maxine in South Central LA.
I wonder what scripture good Ol’ Roy is gonna quote? You could start a pretty good office pool on that one, BL.
ORW’s Theological Opinions would surely be EPIC. I’m sure the Pope would want an audience with him ASAP.
I’ll put my money on Ecclesiastes 1:9 : “That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.”
True that!
plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
I can only imagine if Larry or Dave were caught in similar circumstances, we would see ample examples of all the personalities you describe…
And yes, I don’t know why, but it shocks me every time something like this is found on an official cell phone. Seriously?
Larry has been pretty outspoken re: his faith. I don’t recall DD as doing so but maybe I missed it. Gottfried, bless his heart, knew better than to “go there”. ORW is as much an expert on Theology as he is on Politics.
Au Contre, Amigo Mark Gottfried is an “Honorary” BOD member of Athletes in Action Ministry. This is organization has morphed from the original 1966 “Campus Crusades for Christ”… I will NOT go there as to HOW MG got involved to such an extent with such a fine and upstanding Christian Ministry….and then appeared to have lost the way home to his marital bed… Maybe he joined it because there were recovering sex addicted female groupies that were being rehabilitated from their stint in “The Sweet Carolines”. Some folks do so say that if you want to find wild divorcees, go… Read more »
What will be “forgotten” first: Sweet Carolines or The Unitard. Smart money says NEITHER ONE.
Many on here and on other sites that speak of this TGU wonder what Roy’s reaction will be when the FIT finally his the SHAN.
I am planning a pre-NCAA TGU Decision column next week where all options can be aired.