![]() And here is where things get insanely good. Just weeks ago, Nutt sued Ole Miss for what he says was its dishonest effort to scapegoat him for the football program’s breaking-the-rules-all-the-time problem.Among them: That a store owned by a booster had given recruits $2,800 in free merchandise and that boosters had given one recruit more than $10,000 in cash. The investigation into Ole Miss’s conduct was reopened, and more alleged violations were uncovered. The hacker (who has never been publicly identified, although a disgruntled “former financial adviser” of Tunsil’s is suspected) posted a video on Twitter of Tunsil smoking marijuana out of a gas-mask bong, then posted screenshots on Instagram of text exchanges in which Ole Miss employees arranged payments to Tunsil. Minutes before the NFL Draft began in April 2016, the Twitter and Instagram accounts of Ole Miss star and NFL prospect Laremy Tunsil-who played under Freeze- were hacked.Ole Miss responded-both formally and via anonymous leaks-that most of the misbehavior that had taken place could be blamed not on the Freeze regime but on previous Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt (the one who also appeared in The Blind Side before getting fired and replaced by Freeze). The NCAA alleged that university employees and/or affiliated “boosters” had arranged sweetheart car loans for players, distributed cash and other “impermissible benefits” of value, and in one case helped recruits cheat on their ACTs. ![]() An investigation into rule-breaking by college football’s governing body, the NCAA, was completed in early 2016.Freeze reportedly once compared the suggestion that he paid players to the crucifixion of Jesus.) But it’s sleazy and counterproductive to the cause of fair compensation for coaches like Freeze to give out cash via unenforceable under-the-table agreements while sanctimoniously denying that they’ve done so. (To be clear, I am not suggesting that college football players don’t deserve payment above and beyond their scholarships. Ole Miss’s typically mediocre football team became a national contender under Freeze’s leadership, recruiting top players from across the country in such a way that it was extremely obvious to anyone with a brain that someone/everyone at Ole Miss was paying under the table for top talent.From there, he became an assistant coach at the University of Mississippi (aka Ole Miss), a head coach at Arkansas State, and ultimately the head coach at Ole Miss. Freeze coached Oher-who ended up playing in the NFL he’s currently a free agent-at Briarcrest Christian School, a high school in Memphis.
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