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It’s time to right wrongs, but does Hugh Freeze even care.
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Let’s make it clear, Hugh Freeze is a liar and negatively impacted many lives, some of which will never be the same.
On top of all the violations, what did Freeze in was calling over a dozen escort services on his university-issued phone. Freeze resigned because of the findings. Yet, Freeze was recently interviewed by Alabama for a spot on their staff. It seems highly unfair in an astonishing way Freeze has less weight on his shoulders than his transfer-seeking players, as their futures hang in the balance.
There’s no doubt for players such as Patterson and his former teammates the hard days won’t be gone until they know whether they are granted immediate eligibility or not. This in itself is a shame that they must await their fate while Freeze can coach anywhere he pleases, IMMEDIATELY.
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Freeze spoke at Liberty University last week, with his wife by his side, saying “I had to say to people that I loved, ‘I am sorry, please forgive me. And today is really the first day I can tell the faith family, ‘I am sorry, please forgive me.’”
That all sounds nice on paper, but paper can have holes in it, we can read between the lines, and words can be hollow.
While Freeze indirectly spoke about his transgressions there in terms of his desires that led him to be unfaithful, he damaged lives of many people beyond his own family.
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Freeze should be apologizing to people he had close relationships with, such as former players and coaches on his staff, not just people attending a faith event at Liberty University.
While God may have forgiven Mr. Freeze, I don’t believe he’s been forgiven by Ole Miss fans, players, and staff.
What would change the narrative, what would give him redemption in the eyes of this writer, what would make him a real man, is owning up to all the wrongs and making them right the best way he can.
To date, Freeze has made no statements in support of his former players immediate eligibility appeals, to date he hasn’t apologized publicly to Shea Patterson and the others.
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It’s time for Hugh Freeze to do the right thing, but he probably won’t.
SOURCE: Woods, Trevor. "It’s time for Hugh Freeze to do the right thing for Shea Patterson.", SB Nation - Maize and Brew, 2 February 2018,
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I’m no Freeze fan, but that is the biggest homer column for the maize and blue ever written. Pure bull hockey
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Shea should follow the transfer rules like all of the other players out there. Are you telling me that he is the first player lied to? I'm not even sure he was really lied to considering that NOBODY knew what was coming until way after Freeze was gone, and beyond that Ole Miss received a bowl ban for next year. Everything else was self imposed.