We’ve poked and prodded at Hugh Freeze, and it has been quite easy. A Mississippi team rises from the ashes without a Manning, and they just got to be cheating. Well, yeah, they were. Of course they were cheating. How bad were they cheating though?
The lack of solid evidence involving any of Freeze’s staff in academic fraud has left room for debate between the “well everybody does the same thing” and the “no way in hell Ole Miss got those recruits without MAJOR violations” arguments. That argument tends to go hand in hand in with the “Freeze is a good man, he didn’t know” versus the “Freeze is a phony putting on a show” argument.