Back to the Mississippi Rebels Newsfeed

The ironic bookends to Hugh Freeze’s time at Ole Miss begin and end with Houston Nutt

Related Topics: Houston Nutt

Houston Nutt sure as hell got his.

Houston Nutt got axed at Ole Miss after the 2011 season, a campaign that saw Ole Miss submit double-digit losses to Vanderbilt, Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, Louisiana Tech, LSU, and Mississippi State. That’s a veritable skid row of early-aughts college football awfulness, and it doesn’t even include a single-digit loss to BYU to begin the season.

Houston Nutt found himself out of work in 2007 after Arkansas fans and news outlets filed FOIA requests for his university-provided cell phone, which later turned up to have exchanged over 2,000 text messages with a local news anchor.