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Mississippi coach Hugh Freeze

(Associated Press)

Five SEC coaches have banded together to try to fight off the proposed 10-second rule that would slow college football's no-huddle offenses.

That's according to

, who talked at length with Mississippi coach Hugh Freeze. Read Kellenberger's full story, and here are the pertinent excerpts:

On which SEC coaches are involved and why: "

Gus (Malzahn) and I were talking (Tuesday); it’s actually taken our time,” Freeze said. “It’s our livelihood. We care about what happens with our sport. Our sport’s at one of the highest peaks of interest from the public opinion that it’s ever been. People are enjoying the games. We’ve kind of structured a nationwide attack of how we’ll go about voices heard before this is final. From our conference, coach (Kevin) Sumlin, Gus, myself and coach (Butch) Jones have led the way the most and coach (Steve) Spurrier. We divided up names that we were going to call that we felt like had an interest in this. It’s kind of been nationwide. It has taken time. We’ve tried to find if there was any documentation out there. We have routinely had a group of us calling the rules committee pretty regularly to continue to stress our opinion of where this is headed.”

On when the rules committee considers the proposal:

“If they get together and decide this is going to move forward then we hope and pray that the prop committee sees that there’s no adequate evidence under the umbrella of player safety to push that rule through in a non-rule change year,” Freeze said. “I know we’ve made our voice heard. To me, there are a lot of issues with it. What do you tell a basketball coach that may not get a sub for four minutes that has a kid or a soccer coach? All sports have issues. We all know we coach a dangerous sport. I don’t know a coach who doesn’t want their kids to be safe.