Orlando Sentinel

Thank goodness Gators didn't hire Freeze.

- Mike Bianchi:

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.

Many Ole Miss fans objected when I originally wrote why Foley didn’t pursue Freeze after he fired

Will Muschamp and before he hired Jim McElwain. Rebels fans were actually delusional enough to believe Freeze turned down the

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