Given what we now know about Hugh Freeze and his cell phone habits, it’s amazing in hindsight that it took this long for an irrefutably fireable offense to emerge from the dark.
Until recently, that’s where we were, as even the pile of NCAA charges didn’t form enough concrete evidence that led directly to him. On top of that, he had brought so much success to the program that getting rid of him would have been an objectively bad move. New information can change one’s outlook dramatically, and the facts surrounding Thursday’s announcement present a powerful example of that.