Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze is going through some things. His program is awaiting NCAA sanctions and has already bowl-banned itself, and he’s been named in a lawsuit complaint by predecessor Houston Nutt, who alleges the Rebels misled the public about who was to blame for the NCAA stuff.
Hugh Freeze just dropped a 16-minute filibuster packed with long snapper facts
Plagued by scandals, the Ole Miss head coach has decided to just talk until the noise dies down.
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That lawsuit dropped the day before Freeze’s time at SEC Media Days. Freeze was gonna be asked about NCAA crap anyway, but Nutt’s timing made things even heavier.
One tactic often used by people who have to speak in public during times of turmoil: Just keep talking to cut down on the amount of time during which you can be asked questions. Each coach gets an opening statement, and Freeze’s have gotten longer and longer during his time as an SEC head coach.
His intro word count from each year, per ASAP Sports (coincidentally — wink! — his program has had scandal business three years in a row):
- 2012: 295 words
- 2013: 915
- 2014: 888
- 2015: 1,248
- 2016: 1,124
- Pre-2017 average: 894
- 2017: 2,753
This year, he ambled through his entire depth chart (something Will Muschamp does every year, but with maximum pace and intensity), including all throughout special teams.
Special teams-wise, I believe Gary Wunderlich is one of the better in the country, and Will Gleeson has been a solid punter for us. Excited about Mac Brown, who is a punter that we redshirted last year out of Minnesota, that really has a strong leg and can flip the field. Chadwick Lamar and Jack Propst will battle it out for long snapper duties.
It just kept going. He might’ve read from Faulkner. It was a masterful waste of time.
Reporters still got in a few questions, but he managed to end his session without saying much of anything we haven’t heard from him before.
He also didn’t do this again:
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