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Will new Alabama hire Dan Werner turn tables on former boss Hugh Freeze?

OXFORD, Miss. – When you’ve been charged with failure to monitor your football program in an active NCAA investigation, it takes a lot to move the needle of concern. Even more than having your lead offensive assistant of five years take a job with your most dominant SEC rival.

That’s the new wrinkle in a long relationship between Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze and former Ole Miss offensive coordinator Dan Werner, who was hired this week as an offensive analyst at Alabama.

Freeze not only isn’t concerned with Werner’s new employment opportunity, he says he helped him get it.