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Thank goodness Gators didn't hire shady Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze

Running off at the typewriter. …

The three best personnel decisions of Jeremy Foley’s long and illustrious career as Florida Gators Athletics Director: (1) Hiring Billy Donovan. (2) Hiring Urban Meyer. (3) Not hiring Hugh Freeze.

There was an immense clamoring in Gator Nation for Foley, the recently retired AD, to hire the visor-wearing, offensive-minded Freeze three years ago after Freeze had miraculously turned perennially pathetic Ole Miss into a contender in the SEC West. But Foley obviously knew something was awry.