… give it to him, for chrissakes.
In a stunning turn of events, Hugh Freeze has resigned from Ole Miss on Thursday. The move comes after the school found at least one call from the coach to an escort service on his school-issued cell phone.
Yahoo Sports inquired with Freeze and athletic director Ross Bjork about a call at 8:34 p.m. on Jan. 21, 2016, to a Detroit number that is linked via various websites to a Florida-based escort service. Freeze told Yahoo last Friday that the call had been brought to Ole Miss administrators’ attention by former coach Houston Nutt’s attorney, Thomas Mars, and that they had questioned him about it. Freeze told Yahoo he had no idea why the call was on his phone records.
“I’ve got no idea, to be honest,” Freeze said. “I was in an 813 area code and that was a 313 number, I think that might have been a misdial. I don’t think there was even a conversation. There’s nothing to it.”
Yahoo Sports obtained Freeze’s phone records from Mars, whose client is suing Ole Miss for breach of contract. The call only lasted one minute, raising the possibility that it was a wrong number.
I cannot even begin to wrap my head around the level of irony it takes to fully appreciate that Houston Nutt brought down Hugh Freeze — something the NCAA hadn’t done — with his friggin’ cellphone records.
And you thought the football gods didn’t have a sense of humor.
By the way, I don’t think his dismissal has anything to do with a one-minute wrong number to an escort service. That’s just the bridge to some deep, deep shit that’s being dredged up.
Bjork told Yahoo on Friday that after receiving the information from Mars, the school had pulled records of Freeze’s cell calls and plowed through 39,000 calls without finding another instance of a call to the 313 number. However, the school kept digging through the records and must have found additional troubling information.
Now there’s an understatement. Speaking of the NCAA, think anybody there has spoken with Mars yet?
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UPDATE: Looks like the dismissal isn’t over NCAA compliance stuff.
The blind sided jokes write themselves, don’t they?
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UPDATE #2: Aaaand, the topper is:
Freeze had and used a second non-university phone, paid for privately, a source told Godfrey.
It also sounds like Ole Miss was bracing for the worst for a while.
As far as Matt Luke is concerned, multiple sources told SB Nation that he entertained an offer from South Carolina to take the vacant OL position in the offseason. Ole Miss officials retained Luke with an aggressive offer specifically as a fallback interim coach if Freeze didn’t survive.
Damn, I hate it when I accidentally call an escort service. This shit happens all the time. Just the other day I wanted to google “macroeconomics” and inadvertently typed in “naked celebrities”.
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So if it’s a misdial, was the next call the correct number off by a couple of digits right below it? If not then it’s gotta be bullshit, or the hooker in his room just had to make call on his phone to check in while she was there.
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Blatently cheat in recruiting for years and everything is cool, but call a hooker and you’re gone.
That’s the SEC for ya.
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Yep. Still, it’s hilarious the preacher man is brought down by “moral turpitude”.
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Wow. This shitstorm is now a full on Hurricane of poo named Houston.
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Houston, we have a problem.
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The joker wears Houston Nutt pajamas.
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+1000 sir
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Now that Freeze is gone I expect the Tunsil shit to hit the fan next
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Bobby Petrino is shaking his head ruefully. Or maybe forwarding his resume to Ole Miss.
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No way! Bobby says this time he is never leaving Louisville!
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Hell hath no fury as a Nutt scorned.
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Did Nutt email the Ole Miss compliance office this info in keeping with the Freeze gauntlet tweet a la 2013?
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“It” is undefeated, folks.
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Always has been, always will be.
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Mike Price is available
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all that’s left is to hire Lane Kiffin to replace him.
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The sound of one hand golf clapping is from Pork Rind Jimmy
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Could this be karma from trying to bust a nutt?
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One should never try to bust a Nutt in public, am I right?
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Yeah that’s pretty much it, in a Nuttshell.
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Les Miles needs a job. Jes sayin.
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And how typically UGA – coming on the heels of a year in which they blew us off the field. After having not beat us in what – 100 tries? Sure am glad this drama is coming out now and not this time last year…ugh…
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Why turn this against UGA?
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So true.
This could have happened a year ago and saved us some humiliation. But no, stuff like this never happens in time for us to benefit. 😦
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Mehhh. (a) who cares ? (b) we probably would have just had our skull drug by an interim coach. It wasn’t like Freeze made a few genius calls to outwit Kirby down the stretch. We got torched by a QB with a pretty devastating combo of scrambling and arm talent throwing to a platoon of receivers we haven’t seen in Athens since the David Greene era, if ever.
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Any chance the whores were for recruits and not himself?
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He was supposedly visiting a recruit in Tampa at the same time… that is the big underlying question.
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I’m going to buy Orville Redenbacher stock!!
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Rumor has it coach nutt and morris Dees of the southern poverty law center worked together on this…Dees nutts can’t be beat
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When you bait a trap with pussy…its gonna catch something!
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you got that right BigD…a coach can bend the rules all over the place but he can’t even think about nookie…why that might send a signal to players and students that a little sex is acceptable…the hypocrisy has no limit
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Holy crap…only in the south. As they say, the truth is stranger than fiction.
Somewhere in a dimly lit room with cheesy 80’s hair band music blasting with a crystal ball overhead, Mike Price is smiling.
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Somewhere in a well lit room, with plenty of good whiskey pouring. Nutt and Mars are rockin’ to Springsteen’s
10th Ave. Freeze Out.
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Man, Faulkner himself couldn’t have written this. Sex, drugs, money, religion, power, privilege, hypocrisy, cheating, and football. And it’s fitting that it all took place in Oxford.
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Kinda like Capone getting busted over tax records. Murder, Bribery, Theft, Smuggling, Criminal Conspiracy- nope. Taxes.
I may have to buy this book in 5 years when all the details come out. Clearly, a call to a escort service is just .001% of what is going on. And, to all those Rebels that told all of us we were full of it – jokes on you jack.
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Ole Miss claims it made an extensive internal investigation in response to the NCAA and only just NOW looked at Freeze’s university issued phone records?
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An excellent point. So either they did check his phone records previously and didn’t care about the hookers or they didn’t do anything resembling an extensive internal investigation. I’m shocked aren’t you? Only a few weeks ago Ole Miss was 110% behind Freeze and trying to pin everything on an assistant. Sounds like maybe the NCAA was finally beginning to make them realize the hammer was about to come down. Enter the Nuttster. He gives them the out they need and presto chango Freeze is fired. In the blink of an eye we’ve gone from the NCAA blowing up a program and issuing a show cause penalty against Freeze to garden variety NCAA sanctions.
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This is the theory that makes the most sense. Nutt’s attorney gets his hands on a very limited number of cell phone calls and finds one call. The powers that be at Ole Miss knew that the game was now over since the press was furnished with the info. Apparently the rumor of this stuff had been around Oxford for sometime.
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I did not realize that Freeze was on Ed Ogeron’s staff at Ole Miss and was not retained by the Nuttster when he took the Ole Miss job. What did Faulkner say about the past? Nutt basically got Freeze fired from Ole Miss twice!
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CD’s….pass the Cheetos please…
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What you wanna bet Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw were behind all this shit?
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