Ole Miss Football Head Coach Hugh Freeze Resigns

[DMan5000]

Ole Miss Football Head Coach Hugh Freeze resigns after it was discovered he used his university issued cellphone to make calls to escort service.

http://www.espn.com/college-football...ce-calls-cited

[Libertine]

Brain Freeze -

he's a total dumb ass for not using a separate personal cell phone or a burner phone.

failure to use the nickel defense cost him $12.15 million.



Freeze, who had about $2 million left on his contract for this year, $5 million next year and $5.15 million for the 2019 season, will not be paid going forward. Bjork said Freeze would have been fired had he not resigned.

Bjork separately told ESPN that once university officials dived deeper into Freeze's phone records on a university-provided cellphone, going back as far as shortly after he was hired in 2012, they started finding more of a pattern with phone calls of the nature USA Today earlier reported after an open-records request.

"Once we looked at the rest of the phone records we found a pattern," Bjork told ESPN. "It was troubling."

Bjork wouldn't say how many phone calls were made to numbers similar to the one made to the female escort service, or how far back the phone calls went. He also said that not all of them were connected to different escort services but that they were similar in nature.

USA Today reported Thursday that Freeze made a one-minute call from a university-issued phone to a number associated with a female escort service. The number was found during preparation related to former Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt's civil lawsuit against Ole Miss and Freeze, which was filed in federal court last week.

Bjork said six days of Freeze's phone records from early January 2016 were turned over to Nutt's attorney, and Freeze was allowed to redact personal phone calls before the records were released. Freeze failed to redact the 313 area code number in question, according to Bjork.

ESPN asked Freeze about the alleged phone call last week, and he denied purposely calling an escort service.

"We call the wrong numbers all the time," Freeze said.

According to emails obtained by USA Today, Nutt's attorney, Thomas Mars, sent an email to Ole Miss general counsel Lee Tyner, which referenced a "phone call Coach Freeze made that would be highly embarrassing for all of you and extremely difficult to explain."

USA Today reported Freeze resigned hours after the university said it would provide a statement regarding the phone call. The report said the call was made on Jan. 19, 2016, to a Detroit 313 area code number and lasted only one minute. The USA Today report said the number is associated with websites that advertise a female escort business based in Tampa, Florida.

[peecee]

I agree, Libertine. Either he is really dumb or wanted out.