THE RISE & FALL OF HUGH FREEZE

[Music] I'm a glass-half-full guy always I'm the ultimate optimist and I just think in this profession you better stay positive every day and I'm blessed the good Lord has given me great health or a wonderful family and a tremendous place to go to work every day I can't tell you how indebted I am and I don't take that lightly it is a burden that I will carry with me daily and I will carry this flag of this University with energy passion and a positive attitude every single day that I get up because I understand the Ole Miss people and the love that you have for this university the love you have for each other the love you have for family here and and obviously I have that love this is a destination place for me but I've taken them all around the nation to get back to one place and that is the University of Mississippi December 5th 2011 Ole Miss alum and Mississippi native Hugh Freeze is hired as the new rebel head football coach try to make our practices as chaotic as possible following a previous two and 10 season freezes excited to bring some positivity back into the program but knows this is a tall order throughout the next six years of his tenure Hugh Freeze would take Ole Miss fans on a wild roller coaster of wins and losses both on and off the field the 2012 season brings a winning record for the rebels and an improvement in morale but this is nothing compared to what comes next 2013 Signing Day rolls around and by the end of it freeze and the rest of the rebel staff have put together the eighth best rated national class with names like laQuan Treadwell Laremy Tunsil and Robert Kim DG Ole Miss once an easily overlooked program is quickly becoming an SEC powerhouse rebels start off the 2014 season four-and-oh earning them a long-awaited spot hosting ESPN College GameDay against perennial powerhouse Alabama [Music] the most anticipated game of the season quickly brings all eyes to Oxford for a game that would go down in illness history upsetting Alabama 23 to 17 something that hasn't been done since Eli Manning's senior year over a decade ago puts coach Frese on a steady uphill climb to the peak of his career as a rebel carrying this momentum into the following season Ole Miss completes their 2015 season 10 and 3 and are headed to New Orleans for their first BCS Sugar Bowl since 1970 rebel head coach brings triumph home to Oxford once again with a phenomenal win against Oklahoma State little did freeze or the rebels know that they would be holding on to this win for for quite some time as the NCAA was getting ready to drop a bomb on Ole Miss the Friday before 2016 signing day it becomes public knowledge that the NCAA has charged Ole Miss with 30 violations 21 of them are football related the following 2016 season continues this Avalanche first Laremy Tunsil admits to accepting money from his old coach in a press conference on NFL draft day and then the rebel football team bottoms out with a 5 and 7 record the first losing record for the team since Hugh Freeze became head coach just February of 2017 the university releases a video of Chancellor bitter Ross Bjork and coach Hugh Freeze announcing a self-imposed bull ban for the 2017 season the university is self imposing a one-year postseason ban on the football program for the 2017 season in addition to the already self-imposed penalties the University shows no signs of cutting ties with their current head coach despite these scandalous allegations just a couple months later in July ex rebel coach Houston Nutt files a lawsuit against Ole Miss athletics foundation as well as the University and its Board of Trustees for puttin the allegation blamed primarily on him and his coaching staff during his dispute nutz attorney uncovers questionable phone records of the current coach Hugh Freeze - an escort service in Miami these phone records would eventually lead Hugh Freeze and his rebel following done a very dark path July 20th 2017 Hugh Freeze resigns from his position as head football coach at the University of Mississippi in a scandal that had nothing to do with the NCAA allegations and everything to do with the fact that freeze was leading a very different life behind closed doors than what he portrayed to the public as much success as Hugh Freeze brought to Ole Miss in his short time as head coach any possibility of leaving a positive lasting legacy on the university has vanished Courtney cam news watch Ole Miss

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Length: 5min 11sec (311 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 28 2017