Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze needs to hold players accountable for insensitive behavior

[kydo]

Pat Forde wrote this and it is all over the sports section on yahoo Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze needs to hold players accountable for insensitive behavior

OK, Hugh Freeze. Time to lead.

Lead your football players at Mississippi out of ignorance and into understanding. Lead your young men toward accountability. Show that the remarkably, distressingly resilient track record for intolerance at Ole Miss can be changed for the better.

Because if ever a situation cries out for a coach to set the tone of team behavior, and to firmly establish what is acceptable and unacceptable, it's the situation at Ole Miss today. This is no time for soft-peddling it. There is a reputation at stake for a team, a university and a state.
And a coach.

If you're unaware, here is the situation as described in the Daily Mississippian, the student paper at Ole Miss:

"Many members of an audience of mostly Ole Miss students, including an estimated 20 Ole Miss football players, openly disrespected and disrupted the Ole Miss theater department's production of 'The Laramie Project' Tuesday night at the Meek Auditorium.

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At least some in sports are calling out this behavior

[LuvNewcastle]

1. Ole Miss has its own culture. The social life there is run by the fraternities

and sororities and lots of them aren't even from Miss., but they like Ole Miss's RW reputation and that's why they choose the school in the first place. Changing the culture there and building a better image has been the goal of the last few chancellors of the school, but they've met with strong opposition every time they try to bring them into the current century.

I'm sure those homophobic football players are getting a lot of support from the student body right now. I'm actually surprised that the coach has even done anything to them. At the very least, I think he should suspend them for the rest of the season and take away their scholarships for a year, but I really don't see that happening.

[kydo]

4. I know Ole Miss is still stuck in the 1850's but the point of the article

is the sports community is calling them out. Pat Forte ripped Ole Miss in this piece and its not some little internet sports blog. This piece is on yahoo sports. If I'm Ole Miss this might not be something they can sweep under the rug. These players should be kicked off the team and the only way that is going to happen is with outside pressure from the sports community.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. I'm glad the sports community is calling them out. You're right that

they won't do anything without outside pressure. Trying to appeal to Ole Miss's sense of morality never works. They have to basically be forced to change.

[hootinholler]

2. Isn't that some freeper superhero?

Hugh Freeze to the rescue.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. It sounds like he picked a name to rhyme with Drew Brees.