Joe Judge went to the Calhoun County courthouse in Pittsboro, Miss, to testify for Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss.
Instead, he found himself in the 1954.
Judge said many things during the nearly 12 minutes he spoke in the courtroom on Thursday. But one answer in particular on how sleep affects players during the season instantly turned him into a villain.
Judge might be sharing his experience of handling players who just became parents during the season, but the QB coach's answer ended up being a total public faceplant.
The one that made him the laughingstock
"We would have to educate," Judge said of the conversations he would have with the baby's mother. "This is always a tough conversation to have. It's not even popular.
He said how it was a "tough conversation to have, and it's not even popular."
"We would have to educate significant others who may have been pregnant during the season or have a baby during the season, and you have to educate them on, ‘You have this baby in the middle of season, that father has to play good football,'" Judge said.
NEW: Ole Miss coach Joe Judge tells pregnant partners of players during the season that the father has to play good football.
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“He needs to be in another room, detached… he ain’t waking up for midnight feedings.” pic.twitter.com/LQG7t0fQtX
"It’s a day-by-day production business. He has to be ready to perform and go out there and play. And when I say that is, you need to let him sleep, he needs to be in another room detached. You have to explain to the mother like, ‘Hey, listen, he ain’t waking up for midnight feedings."
"After the season, he’s full metal jacket. You do whatever you want with him. He can change every diaper. But in season, he’s got to have different priorities.’"
Yeah, trying to coach 2026 athletes with a 1954 mentality is not going to work. In fact, it's a total embarrassment.
Clearly, Judge has been living in a vacuum if he thinks that’s how fatherhood works now.
Social media already has plenty of scathing posts calling him out for his Stone Age comments, and they are continuing to pour in.
He jumped on a grenade for Chambliss's injunction, but the explosion left his reputation in a PR dumpster fire.