Hugh Freeze

Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze responded to Jim Harbaugh's comments Wednesday.

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ANN ARBOR -- Jim Harbaugh ripped more than a few people Tuesday in an interview with Sports Illustrated.

Speaking on the satellite camp ban for the first time since it was announced late last week, Michigan's head coach slammed the SEC, the ACC and the NCAA for a "knee-jerk" decision to remove the camps. A decision, in his opinion, that will hurt "thousands and thousands" of prospective student-athletes.

He also went after Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze, who had commented earlier in the week that he was in part against satellite camps because he valued his vacation time.

"You've got a guy sitting in a big house, making $5 million a year, saying he does not want to sacrifice his time," Harbaugh said. "That is not a kindred spirit to me. What most of these coaches are saying is they don't want to work harder."

On Wednesday morning, Freeze -- speaking with ESPN's Mike & Mike -- took the chance to respond.

He says he works plenty hard, and he's not on board with Harbaugh's decision to blast other college football coaches publicly.

"I probably should've said that a little differently, but I'll never apologize for wanting to be a father and a husband," Freeze said when asked about vacation time. "I miss enough volleyball games (and other things), that is a priority for me. ... I think we work very hard, I don't think working hard is an issue. If you're asking me if I want to add more nights away from my wife and kids, I do not. That window is closing for me to be a husband and a father and I think the kids that play in our system need to see me in that role an awful lot.

"I've been very complimentary of coach Harbaugh and him thinking out of the box. But we're probably not a kindred spirit in regards to making comments toward other coaches in our great profession in public forums like he has done. We're not real kindred in that regard. But I have great respect for the way he challenges and thinks outside the box. He's done some neat things."

Freeze, of course, isn't the only SEC coach Harbaugh's ripped directly.

He's gone after both Georgia coach Kirby Smart and Tennessee coach Butch Jones via Twitter in recent months.

On the topic of the satellite camps, though, Freeze said he believes the SEC's pushback against it came for two reasons: Coaches did want to protect their free time and they valued relationships with other coaches in the region too much to intrude on their territory.

Freeze also said he believed that schools who came down south for satellite camps "are really only coming down for one or two kids."

Additionally, he said regional bias plays a factor.

"Your view is skewed by your region, your location, your circumstances and your conference. That's the truth of it," Freeze says. "I value the relationships I have with coaches in this profession and the last thing that I would want to do is for us to start trying to setup camps in each other's backyards. ... We're still going to offer the same scholarship numbers. No one is talking about the current recruiting calendar, which is setup where we're getting ready to enter a six-week evaluation period and coaches can go anywhere they want to evaluate kids.

"I was a high school coach and I've talked to many high school coaches and there are many that are in favor of us not doing this because of the saturation it would take. ... And the pressure it would put on a kid to specialize. What about summer baseball? What about kids that want to do other things? ... I understand the argument from the other side, but there's also the argument where a high school coach would say 'you've got six weeks to evaluate my kids in the spring and another period in the fall ...' in most cases, coaches are going to bring kids to a campus."

Freeze says the one issue he has with the camp ban is that it now prohibits non-power five schools from visiting other major conference camps, something he said he has practiced during his time at Ole Miss.

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