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SEC Country: Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze on Mississippi State rivalry: ‘It has gone too far’
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Coach Hugh Freeze
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Rivalries are supposed to good-natured and fun. But sometimes, especially in college football, these rivalries go a little too far.
On Saturday, Clarion-Ledger columnist Hugh Kellenberger weighed in on the state of the Ole Miss-Mississippi State rivalry, and it how it has become fueled by hate. Whether it be Ole Miss fans going after the Jeffrey Simmons suspension or Mississippi State fans reacting to Robert Nkemdiche falling out of a window.
Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze saw the column and took to Twitter to give his take on the state of the rivalry
Totally agree. It has gone to far. Both sides should rejoice that we are relevant in college football. https://t.co/SZALLatYyC
— Hugh Freeze (@CoachHughFreeze) July 3, 2016
Both Mississippi State and Ole Miss are on one of the more successful runs in school history. The Rebels are coming off a Sugar Bowl victory, while the Bulldogs went to the Orange Bowl after the 2014-15 season. Ole Miss has won three of the four Egg Bowls since Freeze has gotten to Oxford.
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MURRAY WILLIAMS
July 3, 2016 at 6:25 pm
Freeze should have NO COMMENT. The mind set should be as Ole Miss vs Mswho under Coach Vaught from 1947 to 1970, 18 wins, 2 loses & 3 ties. Set your standards.
Buell Dagg
July 3, 2016 at 7:53 pm
The embarrassment of losing to State in such humiliating ways…(back up QBs taking a knee to end the games) 2 star QB, Chris Relf running 214 yards), caused the powers of Ole Miss to start buying players and cheating in ways never before conceived, just to level the field. Now that Ole Miss has been caught, it hardly seems worth it. Now they’re staring down the barrel of the NCAA Howitzer and being put back at the bottom of the heap. #keepupthehate
anonymous
July 4, 2016 at 8:25 am
The state of Mississippi has enough problems with her image without the hate that has been fostered between the two schools. I blame some of it on Coach Mullens. He started it with the hate of the School Up North. I now joke that his school is the School Beneath Us. Most of the rest of the country do not know the difference between the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State. We should keep the rivalry to the day of the game and get over hating our fellow Mississippians. Anything that is good for any of our universities and colleges, is good for the state of Mississippi.
Anonymous
July 4, 2016 at 9:07 am
I think the media fans the fire…Msu Is not thought about nearly as much as they’d like to think they are by most Ole Miss fans. Coach Mullen looks like the most unhappy man on earth. Maybe when he gets through throwing people under the bus and looks in the mirror at his own back yard, things will simmer down.
Louis Brandt
July 4, 2016 at 6:41 pm
I totally agree with Coach Freeze and the person who said the schools need to support each other for the sake of improving the reputation of our state. Drop the hate and keep the rivalry to game day.
JW
July 5, 2016 at 11:47 am
I agree with Coach Freeze. Coming from a family with house divided issues, I can see the merits and faults of both schools. I graduated from Ole Miss, I love Ole Miss, but I can support MSU in most things if we aren’t playing each other. I certainly do not hate State or it’s fans. I wish the hatred would die down. I think this is a good time to promote that…we certainly can’t after we have lost the Egg Bowl, or the haters would say we are groveling….