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Fake Video Résumé for UM Job Is a Must-See

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Still reeling from the sudden resignation of head coach Hugh Freeze, the University of Mississippi chose Matt Luke as the interim head coach. Luke might end up with the job next season, but there will be plenty of people gunning for the head coaching position at an SEC school. Even with potential NCAA sanctions looming, an opening in one of the top conferences will attract a lot of attention. Not all the candidates for the UM job will turn out to be winners, though—especially the one that you’re about to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvCSzeZbdw

 

This week’s “Friday Funny” might not be super funny right now to University of Mississippi fans. Continue Reading

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Kiffin is a Bad Idea for the Rebels

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It was stunning to see how quickly University of Mississippi head football coach Hugh

Freeze ended up out the door. The team will go with interim head coach Matt Luke, who spent the last five seasons as co-offensive coordinator. Unless Luke is able to go undefeated this season, it seems highly unlikely that he will get the head coaching job. The university will probably want to go in a direction that is as far as possible from anything Freeze related. The fact that Luke has been a part of the university since his playing days as a walk-on offensive lineman is in his favor, however. Continue Reading

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Phone Records Force Freeze to Resign

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University of Mississippi head football coach Hugh Freeze looked like he was going to survive an NCAA investigation and a lawsuit from his predecessor. What he couldn’t

survive was “a pattern of personal conduct inconsistent with the standard of expectations for the leader of our football team,” according to athletic director Ross Bjork. That pattern was first brought to the university’s attention because of the lawsuit that former head coach Houston Nutt filed recently. A one-minute phone call that Freeze made to a number associated with a female escort service led the university to look deeper into his phone records. What Bjork found in those phone records then led to a meeting with Freeze on Wednesday night and then again on Thursday morning. Continue Reading

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The Internet Believes Hugh Freeze is on the Hot Seat

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Note: This post was written before the lawsuit filed by former UM head coach Houston Nutt. University of Mississippi Head Coach Hugh Freeze will face the media for SEC Media

Days on Thursday, July 13, and someone is surely going to ask him about his program’s trouble with the NCAA at some point. It seems that the Rebels have been under investigation for breaking rules forever. At some point, the program will have a date with the Committee on Infractions, and it will have to face the music. The University has stood solidly behind Freeze and is fighting the NCAA’s finding that the program has a lack of institutional control. Continue Reading

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2017 SEC Media Day Participants

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SEC Media Days, which mark the unofficial start to the college-football season, are upon

us once again. The 14-member conference with the media will head to the Hyatt Regency Birmingham-Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, Ala., from July 10-13. After an offseason discussing nearly every topic that comes up since the season ended, the media and coaches sometimes go off-script. A few major examples are Florida Gators quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow being asked if he was a virgin and former Vanderbilt University coach Robbie Caldwell discussing turkey insemination. Mostly the questions are safe, and the coach’s answers are even safer. Continue Reading