re: Sooooooooooooo fire Freeze?

Not wanting to fire him over this statement. Its a combination of our on the field product, NCAA investigation, lack of recruiting positional needs, and his questionable play calling. That is taking what I said out of context. There is no way we can fire him right now, but it will have to be done in a year or two if I had to guess. I am disgusted with the state of our program right now, and I know the NCAA investigation has a lot to do with that. However, I put the blame on him for us being in the situation we are in. In no way do I want him fired over the statement today that was probably worded to sound worse than it was, but I do want him fired once we go 6-6 or worse the next 2 years

Call me crazy, but I didn't read the comments as a comparison to Jesus or a claim of religious persecution. It just seeemed like a generic haters gonna hate analogy, but because freeze is most familiar with religious subjects he chose something biblical.

I certainly would have chosen a different comparison, but I'm not gonna freak out

Hugh Freeze, when investigations are not in full effect, is the best coach Ole Miss has had in my lifetime. They would be stupid to get rid of him if they don't have to.

You people need to calm the frick down.

You sound like a State fan. I think you are.

LOL I want everyone to rewind to 2012. I went to every game that year. Really? Fire Freeze? Y'all have lost your minds.

We shall see. I think he is gone withing 3 years max, but I hope im wrong

What is the concensus opinion on Bjork? He is obviously the best AD that we've ever had as far as fundraising, coaching hires, being an overall competent individual at his job; but he has handled this NCAA situation horribly at best.

Do we want to fire him only to risky falling back into the good ole boys that we were used to?

Matt Insell, Mike Smith... he's 2/2 in that department.

Of course he should not be fired. But it's not hard to see a confluence of factors that could put him on the hot seat in the near future.

1. OM had the chance to make a statement with both coordinator jobs open. They ended up with someone who has virtually no experience running a defense and a small college guy. I hope both hires are home runs, but we could also be looking back and saying they were in over their heads.

2. Our offense should be strong the next couple of years, even without Akers. But OM badly needed a talent infusion on defense in this class to take advantage of its window with Patterson, and that ain't happening.

3. Freeze set himself up by responding so aggressively to the trolls who said OM could only get top talent by paying for it. If it turns out that a bunch of shady stuff happened on his watch, it's gonna be embarrassing for him and the university.

Imagine this - OM is OK the next two years, but does not compete for a West title. The offense is good (despite occasionally head scratching play calling), but the defense is not SEC caliber. Several of the studs from the 2016 class leave early for the NFL, and OM drops off a cliff in 2019. Meanwhile, Freeze's and the program's reputation have taken a hit because violations that happened while he was coach are worse than we expect.

I think all that is unlikely to happen, for a number of reasons. But there is food for thought.