re: Lane Kiffin is today’s version of Hugh Freeze

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and the funniest part was all they had to do was issue an apology and they never get sued and Freeze's phone records never see the light of day. Dude kept his job after NCAA sanctions yet couldn't survive Houston Dale Nutt

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Wrong. His phone records were requested by a Mississippi State blogger who cross referenced all the phone numbers listed. This would’ve happened regardless, because that blogger was out for blood.

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In an effort to prove that, Mars recently filed an open records request for Freeze’s phone records for one week in January 2016. That led to the discovery of what Bjork called a “concerning pattern” of personal misconduct by Freeze with his university-issued cell phone, which ultimately led to his resignation on July 20.

Mars has since requested Freeze’s phone logs that cover nearly his entire five-year tenure. Mars said the expanded request was made strictly for the purpose of his client’s case rather than an attempt to air any possible embarrassing laundry for Freeze or Ole Miss.

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Yahoo Sports obtained Freeze's phone records from Mars, whose client is suing Ole Miss for breach of contract. The call lasted only one minute, raising the possibility that it was a wrong number.

Freeze said he had the opportunity to redact numbers from his phone logs after a freedom of information request was made by Mars for his cell record. He said if there were anything nefarious about the call, he would have redacted it.

"If I was trying to hide something, I would have," Freeze said. "That call shows up nowhere else on my records. There is no story to that one."

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.

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Freeze was a better coach than Lane. No question.

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Steve Robertson — a sports blogger and one of the investigative players in unearthing Ole Miss’ alleged NCAA improprieties — has worked with Thomas Mars, the lawyer representing former Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt in his federal lawsuit against the school, throughout the process. Nutt is suing the school, in part, for crediting his tenure for the bulk of NCAA infractions in the football program. As Mars was looking for more to boost his case against Ole Miss, Robertson said he suggested the attorney request the phone records for the weekend of Jan. 20-22, the weekend in which news of Ole Miss’ notice of allegations from the NCAA was expected.

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