Hugh Freeze doesn't want to talk under oath
They will eventually move on from "we don't pay our players" to "what's wrong with paying players"?
Hopefully this type of blatant rule breaking eventually opens things up so that Michigan can aim its money cannon.
This is the political move.
I think, if you're Freeze, you know you're fucked unless you do something. So I think he needs to take a risky gamble like this to blow the whole thing up. Were I him, I'd say something like:
"Okay. You know what, we did it. We paid a kid's light bill. I knew it was against the rules and we did it anyway, because the rule's aren't moral and we're trying to do what's right. Everyone else does this too, by the way, but they're all throwing stones at me in an attempt to take down a emerging program. We did this, I knew about it, we'll keep doing this, and that's a promise."
Regardless of whether any of those words are true or genuine, it completely reframes the NCAA's investigation. He's been transformed from the bad guy to the good guy, and now the NCAA needs to decide whether to double down or ease off.
Ironically, he could emerge from this the "hero" of a new era in college football.
You're right, in a Robinhood sense, but, man, light bill? Ole Miss is paying a lot more than the utilities.
That's just part of reframing the investigation. Acknowledge some minor infraction, then pretend that's what the entire investigation is about. Swamp the press with it.
People around here seem to have forgotten how this works. We should invite Gene Smith onto the blog to do an in-service.
i think its way worse if they are actually paying the kids families bills. Its one thing to give the kid some money to survive while on campus, but if were gonna start running around supporting athletes families now, then sorry, its time for strict enforcement and no hand outs whatsoever again.
Ole Miss is paying a lot more than the utilities.
True. They are paying for more than Light. They are also paying for Sunshine and for Amber and for Tiffany . . .
A "hero" who carries a show cause restriction.
if you think this is really how it would unfold, I'm assuming you don't work in communications or PR.
It's how it will eventually unfold.
Public opinion is turning against the prohibition on player compensation. In a world where college sports is as big as it presently is, it's tough to defend an artificial restraint on trade.
Eventually, a coach will speak out against this. It's no skin off his nose, especially to the extent that he can benefit from a few years of not being part of the camp that doesn't pay players and getting the top talent. In fifty years, there will be a statute of that coach no matter how bad his teams were or how slimy his previous reputation was.
Did you know, for example, that in the early forties there was a debate about whether it was unethical to provide college football players with scholarships? Do you know which coaches were for it? Do you know which were against it?
I also assert that he has no other choice. He's a dead man walking unless this works. So yes, it's exactly what I'd recommend for him.
he take the Eric Stratton approach in his defense:
As a source of the ammunition for the "money cannon," I'd prefer not to get into that battle.
Let's lay off of Freeze. The man has to actually work some camps this summer, so he's really going through a rough time right now.
The camps are cutting into his family and bear riding time.
Not sure why he wouldn't want to talk under oath. I am fairly certain that wouldn't stop him from lying.
You are a loverboy!
Apparently, Freeze has become so arrogant about paying players that he decided he no longer needs plausible deniability.
touche
Hey, this is all way out of line. Hugh Freeze is a good, moral, religious man who loves his family and his players more than anything, and would never cheat or lie under any.....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, just kidding.
Great message to send to kids who played for you. Hey you ran through a wall for me but when it comes time for me to have your back I’m too busy covering my own ass.
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I am not sure the university needs its ass covered one way or the other. Even if they do get some sort of watered down punishment they will just go back to being who they always were. Yet another irrelevant SEC school, with a history of disgusting racial prejudice and some connection to the Mannings.
Freeze doesn’t care about the school, Freeze cares about Freeze. If he gets fired with cause form this gig it’s back to coaching high school for him and away go all the perks and the bagmen who passed off the golden egg with it.
He does have their back, making sure those illegal payments keep flowing.
I've always been the type who believes if you have nothing to hide, you have no problem talking. Obviously he's hiding something.
talk to the police voluntarily without a lawyer about an investigation even if you don't have anything to hide and/or had no involvement with criminal activity. Nothing good can come of it.
I've given that advice to my kids too. I work with several former LEO's (federal) and they tell their kids the same thing.
always have things that they want to hide. Even when they have no involvement in the event that is being investigated, they inevitably will be asked about something that makes them uncomfortable and they often give partial truths or flat-out lie. In their mind, they are not doing anything wrong because the issue they are addressing has nothing to do with the investigation, but inevitably the "little white lies" are found out and can actually turn somebody into a suspect when they otherwise would not be.
Technically, lying to a federal LEO is a felony, although the charge is usually used more as a threat to gain information.
Rule #1 - Never speak to the police. Lawyer up and stay silent. Let you lawyer figure out what to say to the police.
Rule #2 - Don't believe a word the police/LEO says because most of it is false. They're just trying to get you to incriminate yourself or someone else. Don't do their job for them. Let the fuckers do it themselves.
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your list of 'hideables' might be longer than some others', so make sure you take your own advice, and don't forget to invoke your rights under the 5th (miranda, right to silence) and 6th (right to counsel) amendments.
just blog here when you make bail and we'll swap emails....
I talk a good game but I'm on the right side of the law for the most part. Although I do speed pretty much all the time.
Are you saying you'd be up to help a fellow MGoBlogger in need? Or just Hatter?
Not that I need it, or will in the future, per se . . . . but you know how we toxicologists party.
i just think you aren't as likely to need it as secret agent hatter.
Although I agree with you about the Hatter. That cat seems to always be up to something.
Nobody would pay attention to that though. Same thing with a class on taxes and personal finance. Everybody says we need these things in high school, but a vast majority of high school kids wouldn't pay attention and not learn from it.