Hugh Freeze mega thread and poll [merged]

[BowlBrother85]

There’s a breakfast trip to the Shoney’s on Rutledge Pike in UT’s past that completely debunks this whole statement.
And then we rehired the damn guy...

Great story. We aren't going to hire Hugh Freeze.

 

[m1al]

Saban tried to hire Freeze into his rehab program for wayward coaches and Sankey said no! If SEC will not approve hire then Freeze will never be an SEC coach. Move on.

That was only for the period of time Ole Miss was on probation due to Freeze's shenanigans... Which, correct me if I'm wrong, ends this year...

There is a VERY GOOD chance he is back in the SEC next year.. Probably Auburn or USCjr... Could definitely be us if the admin and boosters had a set of balls between them....

 

[m1al]

What some people call "balls", others would call "principles". We won't consider Hugh Freeze, and I like that we have standards and that we won't compromise our values for a coach who hasn't proven that he can win within the rules which govern the NCAA.

Hope you like being mediocre from now on then.....

 

[VaBornVol]

Great story. We aren't going to hire Hugh Freeze.

You’re 100% correct, and it’s not because of our “principles.”

 

[m1al]

Saban wasn’t the only one that had interest in Freeze for OC. There was a lot of smoke that Tennessee kicked the tires on Freeze too prior to hiring Chaney.

 

[orangealways]

Freeze just inked a new deal with Liberty an hour ago. Details unknown, but speculated to be around $3 million a year.

God forbid we act quickly and decisively to grab something important and make it happen . I know ...let’s piddle around til no one decent is available and then start to look.......
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

 

[Vols1891]

I'm surprised it's not more, Liberty is flush with cash. Their endowment is larger than UT's.

If I'm him, I'd maybe stay at Liberty forever. They just built him a new house overlooking campus, their facilities rival a lot of P5 schools and he has a cakewalk schedule.

I don’t think you can use your endowment to pay coaches.

 

[VolArmy74]

To the NCAA moaners, we are in the post NCAA enforcement era now. Their failure to do anything serious to multiple blue blood basketball programs has neutered them. We stupidly bumbled Bruce Pearl's situation and let the NCAA run roughshod over us, we should have basically given the NCAA the middle finger. Missouri and Frank Haith did it the very next season. He was giving recruits strippers and yacht parties to the tune of over 150,000 dollars and they both told the NCAA he was coaching and they could stick it, he got an 8 game suspension. It was also documented that he lied to NCAA investigators multiple times, like Pearl did, but it didn't matter. The NCAA then let Jim Boeheim, K, and North Carolina skate after a variety of frauds, cons, schemes and pay for play came to light.

Freeze went down like he did for one reason, he was beating Alabama on the field and for recruits. Anything that was happening at Ole Miss happens at Bama x 5, but big daddy called in the leg breakers when Freeze took his candy.

 

[1725gatorhater]

Tennessee would have never hired him anyway. I don't understand the interest in this guy. Even if you put aside the phone calls to the escort service, Hugh Freeze didn't prove that he could win at Ole Miss, without cheating. The NCAA Committee on Infractions concluded that Freeze had provided impermissible benefits to several Ole Miss players, including Laremy Tunsil.

On top of that, let's look at his records at Ole Miss:

2012: 7-6, 3-5
2013: 8-5, 3-5
2014: 9-4, 5-3
2015: 10-3, 6-2
2016: 5-7, 2-6

TOTAL: 39-25, 19-21

What is the obsession with this guy? Is it just because you consider him to be attainable because he coaches at Liberty? This is not the type of coach the University of Tennessee would ever hire. Nor should they. Get real.

Very good for Ole Miss
1. He beat Bama 2 times in a row and nearly beat them the 3rd year.
2. 2014 Ole Miss was number 1
3. They went to the Sugar Bowl a bowl for 2015 season.

That’s good enough for me.

 

[VolDave53]

 

[GameTime]

Freeze just got an extension with Liberty through 2026....

 

[GVol1966]

hell, Auburn would take Satan and not even flinch

Alabama won’t give him up

 

[m1al]

Freeze just got an extension with Liberty through 2026....

All that will do is ensure Liberty gets a bigger buyout when he leaves.. Not that big of a deal...

 

[Nationdom]

Lol. Why would they want Freeze over Meyer?

South carolina

 

[MurphyVol]

I don’t think you can use your endowment to pay coaches.

No, but I think it's a surprising example (to most people anyway) of the resources that school has. Counting their vast online offerings, total enrollment is around 100k

 

[Vols1891]

No, but I think it's a surprising example (to most people anyway) of the resources that school has. Counting their vast online offerings, total enrollment is around 100k

Yeah I didn’t realize it until I saw the post on here and looked it up.

 

[northknoxvol]

Put the blankets on the flowers ladies their is a FREEZE warning!

 

[whodeycin85]

Or, just a thought, maybe it should be your favorite team?

Pulaski that you???

 

[Arclight]

We have a coach.

 

[MaTaLa]

Urban Meyer passes your test, but Freeze doesn't......

Meyer is the Lance Armstrong of CFB. Teflon till the end.
I followed his last investigation pretty closely.
If you want him just make sure winning, at any compromise necessary, is your primary ethic.

 

[preacherwebb]

We have a coach.

Do we have a coach, or someone with the title "Head Coach?"
Some would argue the latter.
Just sayin' ...

 

[VOL_Lyfe]

Freeze just got an extension with Liberty through 2026....

Not an insurmountable obstacle. Doubtful Liberty can pay what a P5 school would pay, even if they hocked every couch in the dormitories.

Smart of Liberty to try and lock him down now, though, since they know other, bigger schools will be a-callin'

 

[De La Cloobs]

I think it's a long shot that Pruitt gets fired this year. A VERY LONG SHOT. However, if Tennessee gets pub stomped in the majority of our games the rest of this season... I'm not sure he is still here. It's not just losing to teams like Kentucky BADLY, its losing to teams like Arkansas, GA State, and BYU. You can't blame talent and players for all of those games. We also have not been anywhere close to beating teams we need to be competing with. Florida and Georgia have destroyed Tennessee every year since Pruitt got here. He was hired to beat them and he has failed miserably in this aspect. I have defended Pruitt, but lets be honest, if Tennessee looks BAD the rest of the season, I could see him being shown the door.

IF Freeze isn't hired by an SEC school this year, he will be next year and he knows this. He is going to wait for an SEC school HC job because he knows he's coming back here. Both Tennessee and SC have big buyouts for their head coaches and these are the two schools most likely to hire Freeze. I still don't see it happening this year because of this.

I DO NOT want to see Hugh Freeze at South Carolina. That's bad for us. If we don't hire him soon, we will start losing to him later.

 

[GoVols64]

His Christian values, good or bad, are not the reason he is a no go for most programs. Not everyone wants a win at all cost type coach. He was shut down by the NCAA and SEC because he cheated at football not because he cheated on his wife if he indeed did. Cheating is a hard habit to break for coaches like that. The argument gets old really, with reports of 40+ million in losses to the University, 15+ million in contract buyouts if you were to fire Pruitt plus the 30+ million commitment to the Freeze and his staff make it highly unlikely financially. Freeze's will demand his next contract protect him and not the University, I just can't see it happening coming off historic losses financially to the University.

I completely agree with you. It isn't happening anytime soon, if ever given the $s. The cheating thing ties into the infidelity IMO; it was in his nature and it showed personally and professionally. I would hope, for his and his families sake, he has cleaned up both aspects.

I would also add that there had to be others aware of his "activities" at Ole Miss and allowed it to happen. Nothing that deep can go without the major players having at least a suspicion. I would hope that the expectation at UT would be everything is above board but I'm not naive enough to think ANY major program doesn't have its skeletons.....

 

[Purple Tiger]

It will most likely be Vandy but USCjr will make a run at him. It won't be Auburn because he doesn't want to go back to the west.

Don't kid yourself. Vanderbilt is too PC to hire a coach who f'ed prostitutes. Every woman on campus would protest. They also wouldn't want a coach who got caught cheating.

Most of the VU fans I know want Franklin to get fired at PSU so he could be their football coach again.