Quote Originally Posted by msbulldog View Post
As I understand the rules, it is indeed possible. Mississippi would have to go before the NCAA and make the case for him staying.
Freeze would be radioactive for any other school, though Auburn did hire Bruce Pearl.
It's not quite that simple. Receiving a show cause is more or less an automatic termination requirement for your coach if they haven't been terminated already. The "show cause" language simply means that any school who attempts to hire said coach must show cause to the NCAA that the candidate in question has fully rehabilitated his past actions in regards to skirting the rules (which is of course impossible if you haven't been employed at a member institution), and the NCAA has to accept the plea. It is a diplomatically worded so that schools can have some formal channel to TRY to hire individuals under restriction, but the reality is that everyone knows what the NCAA's response is going to be so nobody even tries it.

To my knowledge, no coach who has ever received a show cause has ever been successfully hired by their previous school or another school during the show cause period, and to my knowledge no one has ever even attempted it. Pearl was hired by Auburn after his show cause period had expired, so it is not really a valid comparison.

Long story short, if Freeze receives a show cause of any length, he is done at OM permanently unless they just want a satellite office to be set up by the NCAA in the square.