Freeze Hoping For “Buy In” From Rebels
February 8th, 2012 12:05 PM║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink
║ Schools: Ole Miss
Tags: Arkansas State, Ole Miss
Hugh Freeze is hoping to avoid the cold-shoulder from the Ole Miss football team. The new Rebel coach tells The Jackson Clarion-Ledger that he knows he won’t win over everybody, but he hopes to reach the vast majority of players:
“At the end of the day, you hope 80% of your team has chosen to buy in. that’s the buy-in principle. And your 20%, you hope they’re not negative influences. If you can ever get a team that’s about 90% or so to buy in, I think you got a special group. But that’s always a challenge.”
Freeze was a head coach for one season at Arkansas State. He’ll be asking his team to buy-in on faith, not on a long, distinguished resume. His players, therefore, will likely want to see some early positive results before they buy-in completely.
