After months of speculation and innuendo, Hugh Freeze finally removed himself from his coaching duties at Ole Miss. The bizarre scene Thursday night in Oxford likely would shock many casual observers, but SEC historians know this is simply the latest in a long history of surprising coaching tales to come out of the conference.

Here’s a list of some of the other most surprising announcements from SEC coaches in recent history:

Steve Spurrier: Florida, Jan. 4, 2002

Two days after completing a 10-2 season, which was capped with the destruction of Maryland 56-23 in the Orange Bowl, the Steve Spurrier era ended in Gainesville after 12 seasons. Perhaps even more bizarre than his exit, Spurrier left the college ranks to try his hand at NFL coaching with the Redskins. Washington owner Daniel Snyder extended Spurrier a five-year, $25 million contract, the largest coaching deal in NFL history at that point, to leave Gainesville.

Spurrier lasted only two seasons before returning to college football.

There’s no telling how or if Spurrier would have made the decision to jump the NFL after the 2001 season had the Gators not been upset 34-32 at home by Tennessee in the regular season finale. Considering Florida entered the game ranked No. 2, the Gators would have likely played for the national title against Miami in the Rose Bowl at the end of the season.

Lane Kiffin: Tennessee, Jan. 13, 2010

After Lane Kiffin bolted town in the middle of the night, former Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton needed only one word to describe the coach’s Rocky Top tenure — brief. Just like the myth of The Usual Suspects antagonist Keyser Soze, Kiffin disappeared into the night, never to be seen again — at least until he returned as an assistant for hated SEC rival Alabama.

When Tennessee made Kiffin the youngest head coach at the Division I level, no one could have anticipated him leaving after a single 7-6 campaign. How Kiffin’s one year coaching Tennessee proved to be enough to land him the USC job also remains a mystery; no one from Southern Cal burned any furniture when it was announced Kiffin was heading to town. Volunteer fans, not so much. It just truly does mean more in the SEC.

Making matters worse, the Volunteers program quickly went from the most stable in the conference under Phillip Fulmer to naming its fourth coach in a six-year span upon the hiring of Butch Jones.

Urban Meyer: Florida, Dec. 27, 2009

Heading into the 2009 SEC Championship Game, Florida was the heavy favorite to repeat as national champions with a star-loaded team led by QB Tim Tebow, TE Aaron Hernandez, WR Riley Cooper, OL Maurkice Pouncey and Mike Pouncey and a defense featuring a future NFL player at nearly every starting position. Florida was undefeated and ranked No. 1 heading into Atlanta but soon found out the actual No. 1 team that season hailed from Tuscaloosa.

Following a 32-13 pounding, Meyer had to go to the hospital after suffering chest pains. Weeks later, Meyer announced he would take a leave of absence. The Gators coach didn’t stay away for long, however, as he announced in the spring he would return to coach for the 2010 season.

Urban Meyer: Florida, Dec. 8, 2010

Meyer’s last season in Gainesville resulted in the team’s poorest record under his watch as the Gators went 8-5 and 4-4 in conference play. Citing the need to spend more time with his family and to focus on his health, Meyer left Florida for good.

Less than a year later of quality family time, Meyer was introduced as Ohio State head coach.

Bobby Petrino: Arkansas, April 10, 2012

When you play with fire, you are bound to get burned. Arkansas learned that lesson the hard way with Bobby Petrino when the Razorback coach crashed his motorcycle and lied about having his mistress/employee and former Arkansas volleyball player Jessica Dorrell with him at the time of the accident. Once you’ve seen the video of Petrino sporting his neck brace, you simply can’t un-see it.

As bizarre as crashing a motorcycle with his mistress in tow and lying to your employer about the whole situation can be, that’s what happened. Even more bizarre, a good segment of the Arkansas fan base wanted Petrino to return. Fresh off an 11-2 season, Petrino had earned a ton of good faith.

Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long made the right decision and fired Petrino soon after learning all the sordid details.

Steve Spurrier: South Carolina, Oct. 12, 2015

Even more shocking than his exit from Florida, Steve Spurrier up and quit midway into the 2015 season following South Carolina’s 2-4 start. The Gamecocks won the first game under interim coach Shawn Elliott before dropping the final five games.

The end of the Spurrier era in Columbia could have been predicted; Spurrier even made comments that his time was nearing an end before backtracking before the 2015 season in order to curb any negative recruiting surrounding his program. The Gamecocks were never able to recapture the magic of the Connor Shaw-Jadeveon Clowney-Marcus Lattimore era following the 2013 season and Spurrier simply decided to walk away.

“It’s time for me to get out of the way and give somebody else a go at it,” Spurrier said during his resignation press conference.

Les Miles: LSU, Nov. 29, 2015

The only segment of this list not to feature a dismissal, Les Miles’ final game of the 2015 regular season was so memorable for the fact that everyone assumed it was a foregone conclusion he would be fired after the conclusion of the Texas A&M game.

When Miles walked into Death Valley with his children, the LSU crowd erupted in cheers. By the end of the game, LSU won 19-7 and the team carried Miles off the field on their shoulders. LSU administration reportedly called a mid-game meeting and decided to keep Miles, even though the A&M contest was still in doubt at that time.

The incredibly awkward moment emasculated the program’s athletic director Joe Alleva and gave Miles all the power in the relationship — which might have been Miles’ ultimate demise after falling to adjust his offense the following offseason. Of course, four games into the next season Alleva flipped the script and dismissed Miles and named Ed Orgeron interim coach.