I don't want to turn this into a religious thread but...if Freeze is the guy he's portrayed himself as he needs to:
a) come completely clean
b) tell the WHOLE truth, not use confession to stop the inquiries
c) concede publicly how what he's done is inconsistent with his message
"I lied, I cheated, I stole, I did it because I just wanted to win so badly" is a far cry from "Mistakes were made" and the always irritating use of the passive voice. His 'repentance' is more along the lines of a leader giving a petulant speech about how leaders, too, have private lives and "this investigation has gone on longer than it should have."
Rather than letting us guess, come right out and say what you did. Of course, the problem is that now there's a lawsuit, and this is what makes me suspicious. Freeze was continuing the strategy of deny, delay, deflect right up until the point the phone call info got released and he was caught red-handed. Now, the argument will be he can't do that because he'll lose the court case/they'll hold him accountable for it, something.
For those who don't know the story - when the Jimmy Swaggart exposure happened in 1988, he literally knew about it for FOUR months. It didn't suddenly blow up on a Thursday afternoon with a bombshell - Swaggart knew he'd been caught in October and decided that the man who was blackmailing him didn't have the stones to actually go to the Assemblies of God with the evidence. That's why I always considered his tearful confession little more than drama queen damage control rather than sincere sorrow; if he'd been sorry, he would have confessed back in October and not only when the board found out.
I'll drop that part now since it could deviate from the intent of the thread.
Freeze needs to actually come clean if he wants to be taken sincerely. "Yes, I knew boosters had paid Player X, but I didn't care, I wanted to win so badly."
a) come completely clean
b) tell the WHOLE truth, not use confession to stop the inquiries
c) concede publicly how what he's done is inconsistent with his message
"I lied, I cheated, I stole, I did it because I just wanted to win so badly" is a far cry from "Mistakes were made" and the always irritating use of the passive voice. His 'repentance' is more along the lines of a leader giving a petulant speech about how leaders, too, have private lives and "this investigation has gone on longer than it should have."
Rather than letting us guess, come right out and say what you did. Of course, the problem is that now there's a lawsuit, and this is what makes me suspicious. Freeze was continuing the strategy of deny, delay, deflect right up until the point the phone call info got released and he was caught red-handed. Now, the argument will be he can't do that because he'll lose the court case/they'll hold him accountable for it, something.
For those who don't know the story - when the Jimmy Swaggart exposure happened in 1988, he literally knew about it for FOUR months. It didn't suddenly blow up on a Thursday afternoon with a bombshell - Swaggart knew he'd been caught in October and decided that the man who was blackmailing him didn't have the stones to actually go to the Assemblies of God with the evidence. That's why I always considered his tearful confession little more than drama queen damage control rather than sincere sorrow; if he'd been sorry, he would have confessed back in October and not only when the board found out.
I'll drop that part now since it could deviate from the intent of the thread.
Freeze needs to actually come clean if he wants to be taken sincerely. "Yes, I knew boosters had paid Player X, but I didn't care, I wanted to win so badly."
