Hugh Freeze responds to HS coach saying Ole Miss would get 'skull-drug' by overlooked players
An angry high school football coach gave the entire SEC a good laugh on Wednesday.
Following one of his players receiving an offer from Mississippi State earlier in the day, Bill Conides Tweeted at the Ole Miss football Twitter account to vent his frustration about his program’s lack of attention from the other in-state SEC program.
You can read up on Wednesday’s event here, but here’s a look at the since-deleted Tweet in question:
On Thursday, Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze was giving a chance to respond while at a pro-am golf event.
Now, keep in mind that he is not able to mention any high school coaches or athletes specifically, per NCAA rules.
According to The Sun Herald, this was Freeze’s response to the situation:
“I can’t comment on recruiting publicly about a school or coach,” Freeze said. “We haven’t even gone out for the evaluations yet. That starts April 15 or so and then we’ll have our camps. A lot of times in recruiting it’s not only how good a player is, it’s how many did you sign at that position last year.
“Evaluation of prospects is ongoing always.”
According to the newspaper report, Conides’ St. Stanislaus program in South Mississippi does have four rising seniors that have scholarship offers. Just none from Ole Miss.
Chase Rogers, the player whose Mississippi State offer seems to have brought this drama on, is committed to play TE at Tennessee.
QB Myles Brennan has SEC offers from Arkansas, Kentucky and Vanderbilt among many other FBS programs, and WR Corbin Blanchard and TE Darius Pittman also have offers.
So he didn’t respond to it whatsoever…very misleading headline
What else do you want him to say? There really isn’t much else he can really say because of ncaa rules. Plus Freeze is always going to be classy with his responses, even though he probably thinks that coach is an idiot.
I’m not accusing Freeze of anything… I’m just saying he didn’t really say anything directly about the topic (obviously because recruiting rules prohibit it) so the headline was misleading. This isn’t newsworthy.
“A lot of times in recruiting it’s not only how good a player is, it’s how many did you sign at that position last year.”
We just signed 3 stud TE’s, a 5 star QB, & Do we really need another receiver?
I’m not arguing that… just saying the headline is misleading. This whole story was stupid from the start. Nobody cares about some HS coach b*tching about his kids not getting recruited by the big in-state schools. If I had to guess, this guy is probably an MSU fan and was looking for a reason to make OM look bad. His player is already committed to UT, so why would it really matter if OM/MSU offered him.
Your right AnchorDown.
Ole Miss is stacked at QB, TE, and WR. St. Stan doesn’t really have SEC caliber dudes at positions of need for Ole Miss.
I’m sure that’s true, but I think there’s also a relationship building aspect of recruiting that has clearly gone wrong in this case. You don’t wait until a school has a player you want to have the relationships in place. How this incident looks to fans (IE, silly butt hurt) isn’t necessarily how it looks to other high school coaches.
St. Stan is in LSU country down on the coast as it is. They produce SECw caliber kids once in a blue moon too. It’d be like if the coach at St. James in Montgomery called out Saban for not giving his program enough looks because his kids are getting offers at UAB, and his best kid, who plays at like RB or somewhere where Bama has its pick of the litter nationally and already has depth, got an offer from Auburn and committed to Tennessee. It’s silly, and I definitely think it says more about St. Stan’s coach than it does about Freeze’s relationship with MS HS coaches.
I think you’re missing the point. It’s not just about the offers. Saban and most of his peers still pay respect to coaches like that. Invites them to coach at camps, etc. That way, when that Blue Moon happens, the relationship is already there. Believe me, this is how it’s commonly done. It’s surprising a coach like Freeze with strong local high school roots is making mistakes where it’s so easy to get it right. He doesn’t need to kiss this guy’s ring. He just needs to tell the assistant whose territory this is to do his job better.
SupremeGump- I hear what u are saying but St Stanislaus is on the MS coast and it’s just not possible for Freeze or Kiffin to get to every school in the state, especially one that is so far away and one that OM doesn’t recruit very often. Plus that school is in LSU territory.
Skull dragging is what’s happening to your chitty baseball team in Starkvegas right now….. get out the broom!