Comments from insiders here about TR and MF not seeing eye to eye.
Comments from II that Tommy felt like he deserved more of an opportunity to be head coach over Freeman.
Comments from Mike Frank about tension between MF and TR last season.
It points to two young, aggressive coaches attempting to establish themselves as the alpha. MF was the alpha and Tommy wanted to be.
That sounds like Tommy’s dad talking.
I’ve always been a Rees fan but I don’t know how anyone could look objectively at the situation in Dec. 2021 and think they should’ve made Rees the head coach over Freeman. Rees may well have a better football mind but from a personality/face of the program and recruiting perspective it’s not even close.
And while I’m sure they had their philosophical differences, Tommy also did the program, and Freeman, a massive solid by staying here when he did. But, like Freeman, Rees is young, smart and ambitious and moving on at some point was probably inevitable, even healthy.
Freeman (and Swarbrick) should have been better prepared when he did.