College coaching color barrier firmly entrenched

Hugh Freeze returns to the Southeastern Conference with enough baggage to fill a jumbo jet.

He turned his last SEC job into “Freeze Gone Wild,” using a university-issued cell phone to call an escort service while presiding over enough scandalous behavior to land Ole Miss on NCAA probation.

Even now, as Freeze takes over at Auburn, there are questions about him bullying a Liberty student on social media when she called out his most recent employer.

But Freeze had one big edge when the Tigers came looking for a new head football coach. He’s white.

As we jump aboard another carousel of coaching fires and hires, an all-too- familiar pattern remains firmly intact at the highest level of college football.

Black coaches — with the exception, it seems, of Deion Sanders — need not apply.

Chances are, they’re not even going to get a call back.

The past few days have demonstrated just how much the lack of opportunity for minority