Bo Wallace is no longer a fan of Hugh Freeze. While the ex-Ole Miss QB was celebrating the Auburn football head coach as recently as 2023, Wallace has taken a sharp turn since and more often than not criticizes Freeze.
It speaks volumes that Wallace had nothing but good things to say about Freeze's major QB splash in the transfer portal this cycle, Jackson Arnold. Wallace believes Arnold is as good of a fit as possible in Freeze's offense.
“A Hugh Freeze offense with a guy that can run the football, like they just signed in Jackson Arnold, they can now play 11 on 11 instead of 10 on 11 all the time with the quarterback run game,” Wallace said, per The Montgomery Advertiser. “I think he's a perfect fit for what Coach Freeze really wants to do.”
Wallace praised Freeze for reviving Ole Miss when he arrived in 2012.
“When I got to Ole Miss, we were terrible, dude. We were so bad,” Wallace said. “The only thing that saved us was his (Freeze’s) offense, and that offense always having answers.
“It was one drive, where all he did was call the same play over, and over, and over, and over with tempo and that ball went to five different places.”
Wallace has always been consistent in saying he likes Freeze's offense even when attacking his character.
"We’re approaching the point that he’s thrown so many QBs under the bus, that maybe no one wants to play for him?? His offense helped me tremendously put numbers up when I blew my shoulder out…. But why is it someone else’s fault every time there’s a loss ?? … but when there’s a win I watch the press conferences just to count how many times the word 'I' is used… appreciate what he did for me, my son wouldn’t be playing for him tho," Wallace wrote.
Freeze is winning over his biggest critics. Now he just needs to win on the field to justify these conversations year after year.