Originally Posted By: straycat
We all know some recruiting violations and some illegal benefits occurred by boosters and lower level coaching staff. No doubt and punishment fitting the violations is appropriate.

But the sentiment that Ole Miss couldn't get high level recruits without paying high school players to sign or some top secret cash system in place once they enrolled is in my opinion, unfounded, and seems like pride getting in the way of facts. Some school other than the expected schools doing well...some people can't stand.

Freeze and his staff were excellent recruiters. Ole Miss has a lot to offer as far as school and campus life. Play in SEC west against best competition in the nation, play early, path to NFL, etc... And that has nothing to do with cheating. We've all seen schools make coaching changes and see immediate huge upswings in recruiting. Some people have it.

Ole Miss rule breaking: Stupid, wrong and unnecessary. We'll get punished severely. Did Freeze really promote this culture or turn a blind eye? None of us really actually know. More truth will eventually come out on this.

Freeze and the escorts...well I'll be honest-I'm very very disappointed. I don't know what is true or speculation but the truth will eventually come out too. If any of the allegations are true, he damaged his family, players and the University...and he needed to leave.

Freeze is a Christian. Freeze is also a sinner, like we all are. His dark secrets are his sin nature left unchecked and unchanged. Simply wrong on many levels. Some people though are loving, seriously giddy, that a professed Christian rival coach who publicly shares his faith has stumbled and fallen. I think that is shameful and wrong thinking. Don't get me wrong...no excuse for the wrongdoing by Freeze, but enjoying someone's downfall is 100% pathetic.

One truth in this: Light ALWAYS exposes the darkness; the message of Christ is still true and valid even if delivered by imperfect messenger.


Straycat. I agree with a lot of what you have to say however I think you are missing a big part of what bothers people about his situation. Freeze used God and Christianity in furtherance of his own personal ambitions and wanted others to live a life he was unwilling to live himself. Furthermore, it is well known he would call reporters behind the scenes and admonish them for challenging him or his alleged "faith" in public. The man is a false prophet in every sense, and this is why some people are reveling in his downfall.

True believers are easily identified by their actions, not their words. In my experience, people who feel the need to tell others what a good Christian they are, are the people who are running a con.

Dying ain't much of a living boy...Josey Wales

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