Ole Miss Head Coach Hugh Freeze Resigned, But Not Before Getting Busted For Calling An Escort Service From His Work Phone

Y sources: Explosive new information has put Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze's job in immediate jeopardy. A decision should come soon.

— Pat Forde (@YahooForde) July 20, 2017

ANNOUNCEMENT | Hugh Freeze has resigned effective immediately. Matt Luke interim head coach. Press conference live at 7:30 PM CT on ESPNews.

— Ole Miss Football (@OleMissFB) July 20, 2017

Yahoo- In a stunning turn of events, Hugh Freeze has resigned from Ole Miss. The move comes after the school found at least one call from the coach to an escort service on his school-issued cell phone.

Athletic director Ross Bjork said the initial phone call originally was “attributed to a misdial.” But further vetting of Freeze’s phone records disclosed a “pattern of conduct” that led the school administration to confront Freeze this week. Bjork said he and school administrators spoke to Freeze Wednesday night.

“Coach Freeze was very transparent, open, honest and admitted the conduct,” Bjork said, without specifying what that conduct was.

Freeze met again with the Ole Miss administration Thursday morning and offered his resignation, which was immediately accepted. Bjork said that if Freeze had not offered his resignation he would have been fired for cause, citing the “moral turpitude” clause in Freeze’s contract. Bjork said there was no buyout of the contract and no settlement.

“He admitted that conduct to us,” Bjork said. “None of us are perfect. Nobody in this room is perfect. I think we need to respect how he resigned and respect his privacy.”
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​I can't be the only one that finds it hilarious that a short, preliminary call to an escort service is what ultimately got Hugh Freeze to resign from a tenure that was littered with transgressions that were exponentially more detrimental to the organization that employed him, right? There's no doubt he had to step down, because if you have the balls to use the company landline to get laid then there's no shortage of problematic behavior that's yet to be uncovered. If you feel you've got the authority to have your dick out at your work desk then you certainly have a looseness in understanding of  "there's a time and a place" that your lack of common courtesy would surely allow you to shamelessly sweep a few hundred skeletons in your closet. 

Still, the fact that calling an actual hooker got him "mutually" canned is laughable when he's long assumed the role of the college football's equivalent of a hooker in getting Ole Miss back to SEC respectability. We are talking about a guy that's been offering universally frowned upon services to recruits/players for years, but being willing to pay for a quick nut is what served as his last straw. It makes sense since breaking damn near every NCAA regulation technically/apparently only tested his "moral turpitude" clause, but I'll be damned if it's not funny/fitting that a guy that engaged in just about every professional violation his insanely public job had to offer was inevitably brought down by the perils of having an erect penis. 

P.S. Considering Ole Miss held on to Hugh Freeze far longer than was socially acceptable, what would be a more interesting view, those phone records or his office under a  black light?