What a helldoozy of a week, and it’s only Tuesday. Last Thursday, of course, Hugh Freeze suddenly resigned amid reports that he had contacted a Tampa-based escort service on multiple, patterned occasions, and the fallout has been every bit as strident as Egg Bowl Twitter should expect. We’re probably only at the beginning, as more and more ancillary parties to this great grand shitstorm get looked into by journalists, lawyers, and investigators.
Well, yesterday ESPN told the sordid tale of how Ole Miss recruiting guru Steve Robertson — through a FOIA and public records request — came across Hugh Freeze’s university-issued cell phone records, records that included the usual mundata of calls to recruits, players, and coaches, with the notable exception of a call lasting less than a minute made on Jan.