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Info On Why Nick Saban Couldn’t Hire Hugh Freeze In January
by Larry Leo
April 16, 20186 Comments
© Adam Hagy-USA TODAY Sports
A new report says Alabama head coach Nick Saban wanted to hire former Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze as a co-offensive coordinator and position coach earlier this year, but SEC commissioner Greg Sankey kind of blocked that idea due to Freeze's recent troubles. Per Al.com...
(TheSpun)
quote:According to the report, five schools including Bama, LSU and Missouri reached out to Freeze.
“It was only a few days after Saban’s mid-January meeting with Freeze that he learned he couldn’t make the hire. Sankey informed both Freeze and Alabama that it would look bad for the SEC for Freeze to be back coaching in the league while Ole Miss suffered from NCAA penalties incurred under his watch.
The SEC preferred that Freeze, who resigned in July following a “pattern of personal misconduct,” go off the radar for at least a little while before trying to return to work at one of its schools.”
(TheSpun)
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