Freeze to pitch spring games vs. another team at spring meeetings

OXFORD -- Hugh Freeze is not a fan of spring games.

At least, not the traditional, intra-squad scrimmage like the one the Rebels held last Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. He made that plenty clear this spring.

There is, however, a type of spring game that would pique the interest of Ole Miss' head coach – a spring scrimmage against another school.

"I would love to see us be able to scrimmage another team. That way you can go ones on ones, twos on twos, threes on threes – really get something out of it," Freeze recently told A to Z Sports on ESPN radio Nashville. "Maybe even adopt a charity. Maybe it's a 1-AA opponent that you don't play in the regular season. I think there would be a lot of interest in something like that. I wish we could do something like that."

Freeze, who said before the Grove Bowl that he'd vote to get rid of spring games in a "heartbeat," hopes to bring up his idea during the Southeastern Conference's spring meetings in Destin, Florida.

"I'm going to bring it up in our meetings... and feel out how our coaches feel about it," Freeze told host Austin Stanley. "… I think it would be a really fun event for everybody.

"… I'm just not a fan of the public spring game that we're currently doing. The kids want you to divide up. The fans want you to divide up. Really, I'm not sure how much we get out of it. I know we don't get as much out of it if we just had another practice against each other. That's not really what everyone wants to see. So I kind of give into that."

You can listen to Freeze's full interview here.