Freeze vs Bill MacCartney

The only similarities you can draw here is that they're both radical Christians who happen to be players coaches and good recruiters. What McCartney did would be the equivalent of someone turning the Kansas Jaywhawks into a national power within the next five years. Colorado won just 6 games in the three year stretch before the hire and had the fortitude to stick with Mac after he won just 5 in his first three years. That's a program winning just 11 games in 6 years for anyone saying Colorado wouldn't be comparable to today's KU Jayhawks. Ole Miss was in much better shape in 2012 than Colorado was in 1982

The point I'm trying to make here is that Bill McCartney was an excellent coach. Huge Freeze will never be anything more than an average gameday coach with exceptional recruiting capabilities

And that Hugh Freeze took a team with less talent than Arkansas State and got them bowl eligible in one season. (When Malzahn and McElwain got to their respective schools at least they had some talent on their rosters.)
Freeze has only been coaching for 4 years and brought more success than any other coach has done at Ole Miss in almost 50 years. He does need more money so he can hire better assistant coaches. He also needs to grow some balls and fire people when they don't perform. Other than that I have no fricking idea what you are talking about.

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and brought more success than any other coach has done at Ole Miss in almost 50 years

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FIFTY heh heh

I like Grant Heard but yeah, I agree with you. That's the thing though, Freeze doesn't have the mental ineptitude to tell these guys to pack their shite and gtfo because after all, here at Ole Miss we're a family and families stick together (or whatever else type of cornball shite he's previously said). A team is an embodiment of the head coach and we're super soft

That's the first thing that you've ever posted that I've seriously agreed with.

Then CHF needs to pull his Coordinators aside and say your respective staffs have to perform better. Give them measurable goals to attain and give them the leash to make changes if they think they should (ie. personnel decisions). If they make changes on their staffs great. If not and they don't accomplish the agreed upon goals then he has grounds to move in a different direction. Personally think he should have done this last year.

That was the point of my post....essentially Freeze has a below average coaching pedigree and needs above average coordinators in order to aid him and protect him from himself. So I do believe that he can succeed if he hires the right people and only handles program building and recruiting. If Colorado can win big then so can Ole Miss with a little good fortune.

It's not like we can scour America for the best coordinators in all of the land. Ole Miss will for the the most part always be Ole Miss. You should just accept it. If you have delusions of grandeur about winning championships, get to know me personally and cut my brake lines or put a hit out on me. The year after I pass away Ole Miss will most certainly win the SEC and probably go on to with a national championship

If I was an Ole Miss assistant on the hot seat and skeptical that Hugh was looking to make a change, all I'd do was show him a wallet picture of my kid. Freeze would say "look at that lil Rebel, ain't he sumn!" and reconsider.

No delusions of grandeur here...........the point of fandom is to have some type of hope. Anything is possible, maybe not realistic, but possible none the less.